what about the Russian bar owners
Oh yeah, they were pretty damn silly as well. Gotta love bringing in national stereotypes when none of those nations even exist anymore
If there are Russian people/descendants in the game, that actually does make sense seeing as the Fallout Universe still uses pre-history 1950 that mirrors our world. Russian immigrants came in waves to the U.S. in the 19th and early 20th Century. More waves of immigration occurred during and after WW1 and WW2. Also immigrants that arrived after 1945 were victimized from the whole 'red-scare' nonsense even though many became prominent engineers, educators, government employees etc. (many were still stereotyped as being spies/agents of communism) - in the way that Japanese immigrants were victimized during WW2 (the U.S. goes through periods where one scapegoat is replaced with another to pick on). And the Boston area, today, is where 44% of Russian or Russian descendants reside. (I've met Russians before, they cool peoples). Anyways, they would obviously still be thriving like every other nationality.
However, if they made their interaction stereotyped - obnoxious mobsters bar owners with heavy accents or whatever, then that would be silly. It sounds like it was half-assed though in whatever they did it, like most things in this game. It sounds like it could have been a prime area to have had a cool companion in (like a wiz-engineer Russian), or real good in-depth quest for that area that talks about their family history tracing it all the way back before WW2 - or how their great-great-relatives saved a bunch of them in 2077 (anything really, literally).