• resipsaloquitur@lemm.ee
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    4 days ago

    How can he be against the war? There is no war. Only special military operation, tavarish.

    • JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org
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      4 days ago

      I don’t think that narrative survived what with how many people they’ve needed to draft for service. That illusion fell away pretty quickly I bet.

      • IndustryStandard@lemmy.world
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        4 days ago

        I thought nobody would be stupid enough to follow for this obvious propaganda, but in the the last one year and a half, I have changed my opinion.

        • TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world
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          Then you just found out about the Russian mindset. Fact of the matter is, Russians developed learned helplessness and rely on authority figures because they have gotten used to it since tsardom. They will only complain if their means for livelihoods and pensions are touched. The only times Russians had seriously challenged the authority was Imperial Russia losing World War 1 causing inflation, and Putin tried to implement pension reform. It is general rule that people only rise up if their means of livelihood become affected.