Actually Switzerland has had several civil wars (partial list):
Second War of Kappel - Wikipedia
Swiss peasant war of 1653 - Wikipedia
First War of Villmergen - Wikipedia
Sonderbund War - Wikipedia
Maybe if you stayed out of Alberta or Quebec.
This thread reminded me of a book I read years ago. A translation of Marquis de Custine’s book about Russia in 1839. So it probably goes back even further than that.
It was an interesting read of how people may have thought of Russia back then. Backwater, backwoods and only kind of European. I wonder if this kind of attitude and isolation let the Russian government(s) get more corrupt and awful, which has kept being passed down and coloring later attempts to reform or change the government and systems.
I was going to mention Canada as well. Given the right circumstances we could easily have had that sort of violence and resentment from the Battle of the Plains of Abraham that we’re talking about. But, 99% of the time we don’t.
I work in a few thousand person business in Montreal and as one work buddy (he’s Franco and I’m Anglo) says, it’s like the United Nations in there.
And my wife often goes to the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal and she sees the whole gamut of cultures there, including Moslems in hajibs and the like.
Generally, we all seem to get along, and I assume that the US is the same, notwithstanding recent political schisms.
There are probably some questions only the asker can answer. It can be hard to accurately generalize about an enormous, very diverse and highly populated place. It is also important to separate a people from politics outside of their control. Stereotypes are not always accurate. I suspect Moscow, Yakutsk and Kamchatka are very different places.
A few of the nicest people I know are Russian, though they no longer live there. Perhaps your opinion is influenced by decades of Cold War thinking or the actions of a few individuals. Certainly this conflict, these war crimes, in The Ukraine seem exceedingly hard to justify.
Hate speech has always been acceptable if the targets are carefully chosen.
Isn’t that the reason they have some of the finest novelists?
I think it is a combination of endless often self-inflicted tragedy on a massive scale, the bizarro political system–that unique blend of feudalism and Orwellian mind-dictatorship–and the particular quality of spirituality that is also inherent in that culture. Tolstoy to Bulgakov they are all necessary ingredients.
I’m not sure how much the sufferings of Tchaikovsky (especially as a closeted homosexual in the late 19th century) should really be attributed to any alleged “drab, gray, pessimistic hopelessness” in “Russian culture” specifically. I mean, it’s not as though no non-Russian composers have ever been insecure, melancholic and depressed.
But he had the news. And got it out there before it was too late. 
I’m not even a parent, but: Go to your room and think of what you’ve done.
Maybe be proud of it, I don’t know, I’m not a parent. Listen to some more Chuck Berry and engage in heavy petting.
I always think of Tchaikovsky’s violin concerto as a joyful and uplifting piece of music anyway.
So is Tarkovsky’s film The Sacrifice.
You know, “parents” like you is why kids end up getting gooped up on the pot!
Ahhhh, my work is done here.