Contrary to the claim in the article, I suspect people are much more gullible coming through a social upheaval such as that in 1990's USSR. "Yurchak says that

Contrary to the claim in the article, I suspect people are much more gullible coming through a social upheaval such as that in 1990's USSR. "Yurchak says that it wasn’t that the viewing audience was any more or less gullible than they are today, it’s just that people, everywhere in the world, have a tendency to believe what the TV says"