Originally Posted by kaur
kaur--a really good article on Russian internal polling---these two paragraphs stand out and maybe the author mirhond should respond to them in his own way.
But while they may be pleased with the idea that annexing Crimea returns to Russia the status of a great power, the majority, Gudkov continues, are “not ready to pay for what is taking place.” They are willing to see force used – but only on condition that no one will respond to Russia’s use of force with its own.
Other scholars, Vlasenko says, agree with Gudkov’s assessment. Sociologist Boris Dubin says that the Kremlin has managed to convince Russians that what is going in Ukraine is “’not about us.’” Historian Nikita Sokolov says that the Russian regime now is playing on the old idea of “Orthodoxy, Autocracy and Nationality,” something that contributes to a loss of a sense of reality.
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