From the Mundane Luxury page.
Imagine believing soldiers would steal washing machines of all things lmao. Like just picture some guy lugging one around along with 30+ kg of gear or trying to stuff it into the crew compartment of a BTR-80 along with himself and his squadmates.
You could go earlier even. Western Europe has always been wicked chauvinstic towards the east. I was gonna say fuckimg napoleon made that mistake but really he wasn't even the first either. Thers midevsl examples cause orthodox church and not catholic. Russians and Eastern Europe in general has always been given shit.