>This submission is just mindless bashing. There's no point in attacking the russian people like this. You should look at how stupid and degenerated your own pe

>This submission is just mindless bashing. There's no point in attacking the russian people like this. You should look at how stupid and degenerated your own people are. I can assure you that, without knowing where you're from, you're living in a massive blob of them. I can't speak to the USSR or Europe but having lived and worked in about half a dozen US states I assure you the authoritarianism is not evenly distributed. In my observation it seems to track with government ability to enforce whatever its whims are (which correlates strongly with wealth), ability of people to cater to those whims and jump through those hoops (also wealth correlated) and inability of the people to affect said government whims they disagree with or are hurting them without the blessing of those currently holding power.