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Older people grew up believing in religion, in fact they could be beaten mercilessly if they expressed doubt.

They also grew up during one of the most intense ideological struggles in political history.

And on top of that they were the first generation exposed to mass media, in an era where there were still relatively few alternative information sources.

Basically they were ill prepared to think critically, and still are.

Sorry. I love my dad but he came out a Putin fan a while back. He also thought he'd won the lottery which he'd never entered.



So, does being a Putin fan imply one has 'gone off the deep end'?


It does if you're also in exile from your birthplace due to it having become an authoritarian state.


Maybe some people just prefer the authoritarian model.

It is not an objective truth that non-authoritarianism > authoritarianism. That's just, like, an opinion, man.

Further: when has Russia not been an authoritarian state?


Point is if you like authoritarian, why would you leave paradise?

> It is not an objective truth that non-authoritarianism > authoritarianism. That's just, like, an opinion, man.

Shakespeare > Marlowe is just an opinion.


> when has Russia not been an authoritarian state

For a brief time during the Yeltsin years where citizens could elect their own state governors, and not have one appointed by the Kremlin.




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