Oh yeah, as if Russians were very very different before the TV box was invented. They always home brew despotic tsars. E.g Ivan Grozny aka The Terrible [1] was

Oh yeah, as if Russians were very very different before the TV box was invented. They always home brew despotic tsars. E.g Ivan Grozny aka The Terrible [1] was long before the TV, and it’s not the one and the only example, just the famous one. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_the_Terrible https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_the_Terrible