• buttfarts@lemy.lol
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    23 hours ago

    The problem fundamentally is that the Russian people crave autocracy, maybe not on an individual level but certainly on a collective level.

    Rural, uneducated, poor, hyperreligious, xenophobic bumpkins are always the foundation of support for every single autocrat in the last century.