Why were other nations aftraid of Russia?

Answer 1

The first reason : Russian -European appointed bogey . In the XV century. To whom was scaring whom to fear and whom to blame for their troubles . Sit there somewhere in the east Russian . Scary as!

Reason Two : Russian big. Quite big . The biggest . So that even scary . Funny, that Russia became so big due to the fact that she was trying to protect against external attacks .

The third reason: to fight with Russia uncomfortable . Even when she loses, "winner" carries such losses that sickening . Not to mention the fact that Russia does not pay attention to the laurels of " invincible generals ." Who is it thrashed Napoleon and Hitler destroyed ? Terrible thing .

The fourth reason : Russian differ . Strictly speaking, all differ from each other , but somehow Russian too scary.

You can still be a long list different reasons , but the main , in my opinion , the desire to be frightened .