Russians saying they are from Sweden on Steam

[GreneN^]

How come so many russians I play with have Sweden set on their profiles, swedish flags on their pictures and when I ask them where they are from they say "Sweden". I think this is really strange and I wonder if they have all formed a pact or something. During the last couple of weeks I have been matched up with people like that pretty much every single game.
What are your thoughts on this, fellow CS:GO players?

[Kurum]

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[Mavensane]

Knowing this community, they're probably afraid to say they're russian because they may get kicked due to sterotypes.

[tekk]

Same to germans, polands and frenchs...

[Arassii]

Because those silly Russians want a country as Sweden.

[GreneN^]

Well, Doctor, it doesn´t take very long to understand that they in fact are russians when they speak their native language and occasionally also type their mother tounge ^^
Flamongo, I have not experienced that yet, but maybe in due time!
And sir Uncle, that might be true, but I don´t think that lying about one´s nationality online is the best way to achieve that goal..

[mortal]

Originally posted by Onizuka-Sensei #kurum:

...and I wonder if they have all formed a pact or something.

what

[K1d_A]

Its because the russian csgo server is in sweden.

[GreneN^]

Originally posted by y tho:

Originally posted by Onizuka-Sensei #kurum:

...and I wonder if they have all formed a pact or something.

what

What what? It definitely feels that way since there are so many doing it ^^