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    1. ArugulaElectronic478 on

      One look at history will show you Russians don’t really have a sense of self, individual freedom and rights is not part of their philosophy.

      It’s part of the reason no one wants to live under Russian rule, it’s terrible for the average person.

    2. Russian people are mentally brainwashed to believe that the state is everything that matters, individual life is irrelevant and dying for the state whims is the best a Russian can do. Virtually a human ant colony.

      The shocking thing is that Russian people massively accept this belief as if they had no sense of individuality. And this is the real east-west border: western people are individuals, eastern are those with Russian mentality. In this sense Ukraine is a western nation.

    3. redit_Dictators1961 on

      I dont give a shit about russians. All I want is to Ukraine to keep fucking the terrorists

    4. Thehippikilla on

      And yet, ruzzia has to crack down on any sort of dissent…

      That certainly isn’t because it doesn’t exist…. hahaha!

    5. From the article, the actual TL;DR: A lot of Russians have their whole identity tied up in being Anti-West. So if Europe and the US support Ukraine, then to them it’s automatically bad and it’s their Russian duty to destroy it.

      So essentially Conservatives vs Liberals team sports, but on a global deadly scale.

    6. Mindless_Way3704 on

      Simple, in socialist regimes people are taught to and come to believe everything their government tells them. This is what happens when one faction of the ruling class has no opposition ans is able to control education from kindergarten up and through university, media and all other forms of information.

      After a while, even when the population sees something different with their own eyes, they dismiss it as false if it goes against what the political leaders tell them. You can see it all over reddit, whit the absolute hate for anybody that disagrees with the left’s narrative.

    7. Suspicious_Place1270 on

      when the duma is there to think for you, you stop thinking for yourself

      it’s always the same: neutral education is unwanted when the state is a tyrant

    8. Intelligent-Major492 on

      Because it’s poor people from rural areas being sent to the front lines with the promise of good money. Very few from Moscow or St Petersburg if any are being sent.

    9. Electrical-Ad5881 on

      Long history without a real democracy for more than 1000 years…tsars…some half-crazy (Ivan the Terrible..killing his own son), Mongol invasion, civil wars, endless persecutions, serfdom was abolished only in 1861, autocratic regime, disastrous wars, Bolshevism, Stalin..what can we hope ?

    10. borschtzanetti on

      They long ago gave up their lives, inherent freedom and love of society to Oligarchs, and economic survival.

      Reclaim your community and care for all. We live in a society, not an economy.

    11. Constantly telling people that they’re victims (of western oppression in this case) is an irresistible drug – people are irresistibly drawn to the idea that their problems are caused by some evil actor victimizing them.

      The maga addiction to trump and fox news is a perfect example that’s closer to home.

    12. Who cares why, they need to take resposibility and they will. Its not new that people who have no say rather follow or leave.

    13. Lumpy_Version_7479 on

      If this article is supposed to foster understanding of the Muscovy populace, well, more than some of us will understand they too are the monsters that would destroy and devour Ukraine. All this to make them more proud of their abjectly psychopathic „Russianness.“

    14. >No longer. Nearly four years of war has profoundly transformed Russia. Fostered by state propaganda, many ordinary Russians have developed a sense of pride that Russia has survived in the face of Western hostility. This feeling has been fed by Western expressions of contempt toward the Russian people and Russian culture – insults that are assiduously quoted by the state-controlled Russian media.

      The eternal victims feel victimized, no wonder.

    15. Infamous_Ad_7672 on

      I know many Russians opposed to it and they are doing their bit in their own way. Have met Russians who gave up their full time job to ferry aid across Europe. I met one dude, whose brother went to one of the initial protests in Feb 2022 in St. Petersburg. His brother was beaten to a pulp by the police and then he was arrested and beaten too just for good measure.

      Of course, I’ve also met the draft dodgers too. Russians who wholly support the war, as long as someone else is fighting it for them. Weirdly, it’s the ones who have been settled in Europe for a long time before the war started. You would think they are the least likely to support the propaganda.

    16. opinionated7onion on

      Probably for the same reason US citizens haven’t rised up againt their government

    17. Russians only know the whip. Tsar, Communists, Tsar again. Once a serf, always a serf.

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