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Young Russians get to experience Iron Curtain 2.0 under Putin.
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Yes. 90% of Russians approve of Putin. I don’t doubt they all voted for him.
Why would you believe polling out of Russia? Seems folks have a lot of incentive to lie. I'm sure he has plenty of brain dead supporters, but we know how that goes.
All those famously free elections in Russia.
None of the ones I've met liked him, but I've only met ones who fled Russia.
Why do you suppose Russians might support him in 2026? In the 2000s/2010s, its understandable given how bad the 90s were, but now living standards are getting worse again.
Because I’ve been close friends with Russians who left Russia as adults and they absolutely love Putin for “standing up” to the west. Whatever that means.
And polls repeatedly show 90% of Russians support him. For “standing up” to the west.
Why would I doubt polls and the evidence of my own eyes and the sincerely held beliefs of people I’ve talked to?
I met a Russian in China. Said his opinion: Ukraine should be part of Russia. Strong, fit, young lad.
He's still in China enjoying the good life.
Before Putin took power, the west's guy, Yeltsin, was in power, selling the copper from the walls. People remember conditions going from slightly behind the west to a third world country being ravaged by famine, alcoholism overnight as soviet industry was eviscerated by Russia's new national bourgeois, working with the west.
While Putin was one of those oligarchs, people saw him slow the bleeding by stopping the very worst excesses; standing up to the west.
But that was 25 years ago.