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> Oh, please, let's not start blaming most Russians. Any regime can only stay in power as long as it has the support, active or passive, of a majority of its p
by CRConrad 5y ago
> Oh, please, let's not start blaming most Russians.
Any regime can only stay in power as long as it has the support, active or passive, of a majority of its people. (That's why the German people was held collectively responsible for having abided the Nazi regime, and had to go through collective de-Nazification after WW2.) The fact that, with the exception of short periods of anarchy (most recently: the 1990s), Russia has had authoritarian-to-dictatorial regimes since... Well, since about forever, means that the Russian people has been condoning authoritarian-to-dictatorial regimes since about forever.
High time for a change in that, isn't it? And whom should that be up to... If not the Russian people?
> if Russians somehow manage to reinstate democracy in their country
I think you mean instate democracy, without the re-.
- Yoric 5y agoHave you ever been risked your life and that of your family by being part of a revolutionary movement? I haven't. I don't know that I would if I lived in a dictatorship. I'm not going to start blaming people because they haven't either.
- CRConrad 5y agoSure, they may have, from their viewpoint, valid reasons not to do anything about it. And sure, I couldn't swear that I would do any better in their situation. But: So what? Still doesn't mean it's not their fault, just like it would be mine in the same situation. The two are not logically related.