Sharu said:
Maybe because people start living much better WITH Putin then it was before him? )) Think simple! If you'd have a politician who rules you for 16 years and your life gets better all this years, would you vote for him again? P.S. And Crimea is just an icing on the cake. Nobody expected that present, but the more pleasure from thet we got! )) |
Or maybe because the russian people have a collective trauma from living under the of control tyrannic despotes for almost a century, all the while they were being formed to conform to a dictatorship which opressed every single little critical or otherwise deviant voice and systematically spied on it's own people.
And when that system finally broke down they never had the chance to truly learn what freedom actually means, and how to deal with it and so choose to go the familiar way of being dominated by a 'strong man' at the top at any cost.
This is not some revolutionary new concept. It happens all the time. Dictatoships form insecure, paranoid people who are desperate to hold on to strucktures. Freedom means resposibility, it's something that has to be taought and learned continuously to actually work and that includes the ability to think critically.
I know he gets idolized by russians ans ethnic russians alike, but Putin is not some good guy. He has been systematically stripping away freedom of press and russian peoples rights and got himself into a prime position to assume the position of next dictator. Very similar to what Erdogan has been doing in Turkey too.
