I am right now visiting my motherland, haven’t been here for a while. I talked with some of my friends/pals and we came to one interesting conversation. Somehow Russian population seems to have no interest in politics of their country and USSR has some part to play in the problem. In the USSR involvement in the politics by an average citizen was low compared to other countries, some just blindly trusted their leaders, while some were just not interested in politics. Those who blindly trusted their leaders were so sure that no one in the party would fumble something, that they simply became also not interested in the politics. In result we now have a population of people letting a guy to rule for 20+ years, basically allowing the same guy to hold power after the fall of USSR. In turn we now have a population whose interest in politics higher than the “that candidate bad cause he is X” is practically non existent. We as Russians should be blamed for our politic inactivity. While Americans are playing the two faced-same coin politics, they at least have something to choose and discuss. While Russians have only one faced plane of United Russia that holds the majority for whatever the fuck amount of time passed since it’s inception in the 90s(I guess??)
Yeah this is low quality rant from me while I was standing in a line for a museum. So please say if I am wrong in some parts. Which am probably am. I will be thankful and also interested in your replies.
Never lived in the country for long periods of time since 4.
“We as Russians…”
Makes conclusions based on personal experience as if it’s statistically relevant.
You’re right, this is a low quality post.
Edit: right, about the main point. Yes, CPSU did make a mistake of allowing the high level administrators detach from the workers instead of having something like what WPK practices with people on SPA having actual jobs in between sessions (whether it was an honest mistake is another matter). No, Russians aren’t “allowing the same guy to rule” out of apathy. Have you considered that, le gasp, Putin is the best game in town, considering the only other people close to power are even more liberal than him and definitely more pro-western? Not to mention that “letting” is a curious choice of words. Do you believe it’s always in people’s power to just overthrow a government? I’m afraid it needs to be a fair bit more unstable than it is for that to have any positive results. AND THEN we get to the political climate outside the country and inevitable interventions if people activly destabilize the place from within, which is obvious these days even for Russians that have been living under a proverbial rock.