Rather, there are too many indifferent and/or supporters so no doubts that protests will be suppressed.
On the other hand, Russians show off a lot but when time comes to action they behave like pussies. Protests like „Let’s all be friends. War is bad”. What a joke. Look how brutal are French protests.
That’s due to decades of totalitarian terror which conditioned the populace to obey blindly. TBH, having grown up under Communist regime, I still sometimes notice in myself the remnants of deep fear of the state. This is a multi-generational trauma. Fortunately here in Ukraine we also have ancient democratic traditions.
Alternative title - nobody in Russia believes revolution is possible. At the beginning of the war literally every person protesting publicly was arrested. Every opposition leader is either dead or in jail.
Revolution doesn’t have to occur with polite protesting. When the resistance was happening in France it was done by targeting critical Nazi infrastructure and personnel.
It’s never easy, but if you are Russian and you value freedom, then you’re at war with your government, and currently your government has you in a choke hold. Your only option is to gouge out your opponents eye, even though you might die trying, because you’re never getting out of the choke hold without trying.
And there’s also a Belarusian example: people believed that they should just protest longer, but all of it just led to more people suffering at that point
As long as Russia continues to be an empire, there’s “Foucault’s boomerang” in action. The metropoly can’t be more free than the colonies it oppresses. Metropolitan libertarians will continue to be crushed by the loyal policing forces, recruited in deprived colonies.
I had to google that phrase. Interesting idea,
The imperial boomerang or Foucault’s boomerang is the thesis that governments that develop repressive techniques to control colonial territories will eventually deploy those same techniques domestically against their own citizens.
Including the “event” of joining the russian army, invading a neighbouring country and pillaging like a medieval force.
Poor russians. They have no saying in any of this.
