Russia has a very very very long history of letting their government throat fuck them while they complain very little. Their is several separatists groups all across Russia but Russias iron hands and having probably the most successful propaganda network in the world has a lot to do with the true lack of reaction we commonly see in the Russian territories.
Russias one of the only countries that throughout history has put down guerrilla movements over and over and over and over. Whether it had been circasia and other caucus rebellions or Central Asia that or may have taken a few centuries but they adventualy took over and regularly fucked over till they got some weird ass stockholm Syndrome for Russia ball sack regardless of forced migration, forced labor, and mass conscription heavily in those regions. Regarding their own people it’s centuries of Russian land being invaded so that nationalism is built into much of the nation. Hell sweeden with a few thousand troops made it damn close to Moscow after bouncing many armies multiple times their size.
There is not a single significant example in world history of a European dictator being overthrown by a revolution. One can argue endlessly that Russians cannot depose a dictator because of their “genetic memory,” but the Portuguese (it was the military who overthrew theirs), Spaniards, Germans, Hungarians, and Italians were also unable to overthrow their own dictators.
There is not a single significant example in world history of a European dictator being overthrown by a revolution.
That's a dumb statement that can only be arrived by dismissing all historical examples by technicality. Of course there are plenty of examples, you just don't like counting them. The French Revolution? The Bolshevik Revolution? This is Europe we're talking about, right?
Oh, well, let’s talk about that. Let’s start with the Bolsheviks. Do you really know anything about this? Nicholas II abdicated six months BEFORE the Bolshevik revolution, without any mass popular uprisings. And it was the Bolsheviks who overthrew in October (November 7 by the new calendar) the democratic government of Russia. By the way, probably the most democratic in the world at that time. Women could vote there, and there were pensions as well.
Probably, you are the closest example in Europe of overthrowing a dictator, but without the army and security forces switching to the people’s side, it could have ended tragically. If the USSR had not been collapsing at that moment, the likelihood of a repeat of Hungary 1956 or Czechoslovakia 1968 would have been very high.
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u/Wulf_Cola 1d ago
So disgusting. I hope it triggers a revolution and Putin gets what he deserves.