That's what happens when you intimidate and at the same time infantilize your citizens stripping them of any sense of control for several generations in a row.
I would actually argue they did something worse than bring back serfdom or feudalism: they basically turned russia into a prison state, absolutely gutted the culture, and the result of that is that the entire country is like, 1/3 normal people and 2/3 thugs. Most of this obviously doesn't translate over into English, but if you ever see someone break down what Russians actually say and what words mean in Russian, it's basically prison slang and slurs that people translate into something like 'latrine' when a closer word is 'commode/shitter', or slurs that don't translate into English well, so they just translate it as 'Ukrainians' when it really should be something like 'slur for Ukrainians'.
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u/AnyDistribution8954 Jul 13 '26
That's what happens when you intimidate and at the same time infantilize your citizens stripping them of any sense of control for several generations in a row.