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Over 60,000 passengers stranded in Russian airports due to drone attacks
(www.pravda.com.ua)
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You can't say whether Russians in Russia support the war, because it's illegal to not do it. It is inheritly impossible to get a real answer to a question "do you support the government position or do you want to go to jail"
I mean you can; you just have to do anonymous polling, which is probably what the people in the source did since 20% have consistently answered no since the start of the war.
No you can't. You absolutely can't, and every Russian knows that there is no such thing as an anonymous poll. Those 20% are the miracle and statistical wonder.
It is so ingrained in the Russian psyche, even in 2012 when the situation was way more clear and safe, 9 in 10 people straight up refused to talk with pollers about politics, and half of those who didn't responded only in yeses and were quite uncomfortable with the situation.
If you spend a second reading what the remaining social institutions in Russia are saying, you will be both horrified, and disillusioned with all those polls floating around. It's a nightmarish vacuum out there, they have zero fucking idea hoe many people are there, the estimations are "give or take 50 millions", the idea that there is a poll that can say anything definitive is laughable
Also knowing russian and playing on servers with russians.
But westerners would spend decades in psych wards after understanding what the most vocal russian gamers reply to slava ukraina.