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elizabeth · 3005 days ago · link · · parent · post: "...Russia can’t be Athens. It must be Sparta..."
It probably won't anytime soon :( Russians are good at bottling things in and being serviant for the longest of times. Serfdom in Russia was pretty terrible: it was pretty much slavery without the race component and it dragged on for ages. Then there were the horrors of the soviet union and Russians just took it. It sometimes feels to me like being fucked by the government is the main component of Russia's National Identity and it creates a sense of community in a way... I read Russian forums from time to time and stuff like "Things are crappy but we're Russians and we can take it until it gets better" is very common rhetoric. The majority thinks it's the West sabotaging Russia and protesting the government is giving in to the West. :(Yet.