The Russo-phobic Google Experiment

So according to the opinions stated in this poll the creepypasta story titled "The Russian Sleep Experiment" is reality in the eyes of over half the participants, just because Russia?

www.debate.org/opinions/could-…

People are just so stupid, and so Russo-phobic nowadays.

I remember when I first read that story years ago, on the Creepypasta Wiki, and I already thought it was kinda lacking quality-wise, and I of course didn't believe it for one second, it was a work of fiction right off the bat.
(I must say though the main theme, that we have a monsters living inside out heads that will slowly creep out unless regularly sedated by sleep, is fairly interesting.) 

Now you're telling it's become a largely believed urban legend? Just because it's supposedly Russian? are Russians that big of monsters inside the foreign psyche? I mean a lot of the opinions stated in that poll pretty much boiled down to "I think the Russian sleep experiment is true because I expect such horrible acts from Russians.".

This is like the next Slenderman phase or something, a stupid Russo-phobic Slenderman phase.