Actor Gerard Depardieu had harsh words for Americans in an interview with Russian journalists in Moscow yesterday, according to Yahoo News.

One of France's most famous actors, but probably best-known in America for his star turn in the 1990 movie Green Card, Depardieu had been given Russian citizenship in 2013 by President Vladimir Putin after publicly criticizing France's high taxes and taking up residence abroad. His Moscow interview was broadcast on French radio today.

Exhibiting a rather skewed and shortsighted perspective on history and current events, Depardieu ranted,

"The U.S.? They're a people who have constantly destroyed others. They fought each other, destroyed the Indians, after that they perpetrated slavery, then there was the civil war. After that, they were the first to use the atomic bomb... No, I prefer being Russian."

Apparently Depardieu has forgotten that if it hadn't been for the Americans, the 66-year-old would have grown up speaking German in occupied France. Not to mention the fact that the French have engaged in many wars since before the United States was even a country, including against Native Americans. Not to mention the fact that we used the atomic bomb to stop a war. But leftists see history the way they want to see it.

He added: "If the Europeans stopped listening to the Americans, well, I'd be a lot happier," says the wine-besotted man who loves Russia and who openly urinated on a plane carpet a few years ago.

Yahoo News reported that the contrarian Depardieu enjoys backing causes unpopular in France, especially pro-Russian ones. Voted France's third most irritating celebrity in a 2010 poll (behind First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy and film star Alain Delon), he said he is now living in Italy and moving soon to "Belarus, with the peasants, because it's beautiful and the president [strongman Alexander Lukashenko] is a nice guy."