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Fuck russia
To be more precise, fuck the current Russian government. Its not like all Russians are evil, they just happen to be born in a country with oppressive governments for the past... 2000 years or so?
You mean like the Russian elections where really 80+% votes for Putin and totally not because they are standing next to a window? Uh huh, sure, uh huh
Like 20% of the population will always support whoever is in power, another 10% will unless everyone is actively dying where they live, and then 30%-40% don't care enough about politics to do wrongspeak. I don't know what poll you're looking at, but any additional percent is probably related to who's doing the polling. Maybe 2% is there that actually supports it out of genuine independent thought, and even that I doubt because it's just an objectively stupid war.
TL;DR we're all just humans, and your countrymen would too in the same situation.
Have you seen russian first aid? (Nsfl)
Russians are, lets say unique. Always has been. There are attitudes in the Russian population that are cultural conflicting with peaceful societies. Dont excuse this campaign by blaming it on one individual. He has support.
Oh I know. I was more talking in relation to what the guy above said. Just another example
I mean, past 1800 AD or so they were all degrees of shit everywhere agriculturalised. I don't have any reason to expect Feodor I was noticeably worse than Elizabeth I.
Serfdom proves otherwise, but it's not like it was a whole different ballgame.
Hmm. It had mostly died out in England by her time, apparently, which is interesting. It wasn't formally abolished until 1925, but obviously was in practice.
Elizabeth was the first pre-modern English monarch I thought of, but she was also one of the most repressive from what I've heard. She was also the first to adopt a policy of genocidal brutality in Ireland. Feodor... was apparently sickly and possibly intellectually disabled. I wonder if life was easier or harder at the time than it had been under the princes.