Message #48309

[mccoy]

Steve, I don't know if your concerns about the population are justified after all.

As far as I know, from Italians living in Russia, most Russians who fled just after the war went back to their Russian homeland. Most Russians do not complain; they are stoics. They withstand the inflation and the high prices of groceries and goods. Very few are like Navalny and Kara Murzi—very, very few. The regime is, of course, repressive, so the citizens are compelled to stay quiet, and many just don't mind. Some are nationalists and support the war. Putin employs volunteers or troops from other countries, so citizens won't worry about their sons at the front.

So, maybe, going back to your point, if now I grasp it, unfortunately the heroic actions of Navalny and Kara murzi have been little to no effective, if not useless, in their home country. Surely they showed us again something we already knew. The dictator is not a benevolent one. Not at all...