Скачать или смотреть Mentality of the complacent 80% or why Russia will never change. A soviet cartoon from 1979 explains

Почему нельзя жить в стране где 80% всегда за и почему ничего не изменится отвечает старый мультфильм.

Spoiler alert!!!

The people of Russia ignored the abolishment of their rights and freedoms during Putin's rule after the economic shock of the 90s, settled for some "worms" and, in due course, "adapted" to life in a fascist state, seeing the world through the distorted lens of their newly built aquarium. And same as in the cartoon - it was already too late to protest as early as 2012 when things started to turn sour on the back of the Gremlin's return to the Kremlin.

The same happened after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, WW2 victory in 1945 and the fall of the Russian Empire in 1917. Society never truly reset despite any external or internal shock and always reverted to its inherent history of slavery, obedience and idolatry, because neither of the 3 events were a military defeat. Even when the aquarium is broken it is rebuilt - often by the same people who broke it. The grain of salt here is that this cartoon was not banned or censored in 1979 and was produced in Ukraine.

Unprecedented stupidity and cowardice of the majority of the Russian population, inbred by their so-called "leader" Mr. Putin through the decades of his rule, has peaked in the acceptance of a genocidal war against close relatives in Ukraine.

Extermination of Russia's male population through self-mobilization on the back of economic collapse at later stages in the war is a true marvel to behold - achieved only in African civil wars. Thus, the shock after Russia's defeat will be far bigger than that of 1917 or 1991, because the vile nature of the motivational ideology behind the war has by far surpassed any previously seen Euro-Fascism, thankfully lacking in scale due to weakness and different rationale to cruelty.

The minute the war was started it was lost. But as Iran and Venezuela have shown, it takes economic hardship for dictatorships to collapse, so a little bit more patience is required as of today.

After 4 years it finally begins to crystalize why no one ever truly intervened in the conflict but let it fizzle. Putinism is much worse than classical Fascism because it is not a noticeable acute fever but a neglected chronic disease which dates back to the czarist era and is enrooted in communism and distorted WW2 remembrance. The pain and humiliation administered to the nation by military defeat in Ukraine, sanctions and internal repression must be felt in full to give society any chance of a permanent cure. You cannot treat a chronic disease with antibiotics; the patient has to overcome the disease without medical help.