Agreed. It's the same for Russia or Ukraine as it is for Afghanistan or Libya. These people have been under a totally different form of government where they

Agreed. It's the same for Russia or Ukraine as it is for Afghanistan or Libya. These people have been under a totally different form of government where they had very little agency. The hubris of thinking, yeah, the CPSU (or Bath, etc.) is dissolved, democracy will take over, it's people's destiny! When you've known nothing of democracy, it's a foreign concept. You need the culture around democracy to form for it to be successful.