Lower cognitive functions correlate with support for autoritharian leaders.
Alcohol abuse correlate with lower cognitive functions.
Being Russian correlate with alcohol abuse.
Conclusion: Vodka causes the dictator-mania of Russia.
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Being Russian correlate with alcohol abuse.
'Fun' fact! This stems in large part from the Russian Tsars making liquor a state monopoly in the late 19th century, ostensibly to control liquor consumption...
... but by making it a state monopoly, the Imperial Russian government found out it was profitable to sell as much of it as possible.
It's just stupid to think of the Russians civilians as any less wise or decent of any other population in history. If anything they had to suffer countless crisis and turmoils. Let's also not forget that in Europe the transition from monarchy to democracy was everything but a smooth process. Did the names Napoleon, Francisco Franco, Hitler and Mussolini ring any bell??
Plus also, it does gloss over the Russian population and those under Russian occupation that did oppose these things. Russian Nihilism, Tolstoyan movement, anarcho-communism (Kropotkin), anarchism in general (Bakunin), Chernoe Znamia, the Ukrainian Black Army, Kronstadt Rebellion, portions of the Green Army, and I am sure more. Many major anarchist figures were Russian or a part of the Russian empire (like Ukrainians like Nestor Makhno), like Emma Goldman, Maria Nikiforova, and the above mentioned Kropotkin and Bakunin.
I play online games in europe for over 25 years. If i ever meet a Russian who doesn't want to rape my family and hopes i die, i'm willing to agree.
That’s just gamerz
That's probably half of military age russians.
It’s just stupid to think of the Russians civilians as any less wise or decent of any other population in history.
There's no intrinsic difference. But all societies have different cultures, and cultures affect the way individuals - and thus collectives - both think and act. Societies don't differ in kind in their core, human problems. But societies do differ in the scale to which such problems are combated - or exacerbated.
I wouldn't be willing to hazard any guesses as to whether Russian culture is 'more' or 'less' prone to this sort of problem than the median major culture of the modern world, or whether it's circumstance that has screwed them into their reputation for the past 200 years. Russian culture is not my core field of interest. But the argument that there's been a cultural fuckup somewhere is not an inherently incorrect one.
As an American, for example, I can attest to any number of cultural problems of my own nation that I can trace to many of our... exceptionally scaled problems.
Humanity is depraved. And unfortunately not in the fun, sexy way here. 😔
I'll never understand why people line up to follow evil fucking morons promising to destroy their lives and the lives of everyone else for no gain.
But I'm sitting here living through it any-fucking-way.
Opportunity, greed, fear, hate. Take your pick, they're all relevant.
I lived in Russia as a child and later as a teenager. Life in many places there can be hard. Politicians and officials have often taken advantage of that.
Propaganda aside, dictators who promise reliable food water shelter and security tend to do well in places where life is hard.
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Oh well, fuck Tankies. There's a clear difference between civilian who want to live and let live and dictatorship Simps. Fuck them as well as fuck the Nazy and MAGAs.
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