What I mean is the attitude of the rulers toward their own people, not other countries, these are two separate things. In Russia, you basically have a long hist

What I mean is the attitude of the rulers toward their own people, not other countries, these are two separate things. In Russia, you basically have a long history of peasants and common folk trying to get free and the tsars suppressing them. Finally in 1917 they managed to overthrow their ruler only to discover they had been duped again, and the red tsardom was even worse than the white one. And it basically never ended: most Russians have never had a chance to live in a free country. And for some reason they stopped rebelling [0]. [0] Some people blame the spirits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK7l55ZOVIc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK7l55ZOVIc