My Russian friend tells me that he & almost everyone he knows would rather have the lives they had before the wall fell. Morality is in the toilet since western values invaded their country. Even porn was very hard to come by before 1990, now it’s rampant there.
“My Russian friend tells me that he & almost everyone he knows would rather have the lives they had before the wall fell. Morality is in the toilet since western values invaded...”
Well, I kinda agree with them. I visited Poland and Hungary in 1978 and found the people to be solid and sincere and the societies to be cleaner that the US. However, the System at the time was untenable both economically and socially. People wanted more opportunity and they blamed the state for restricting them. Both were right. The world had changed and it was their time to change with it.
But now it is hard to square invading Ukraine with the moral security of the Soviet Union rather than the state oppression of the Soviet Union. So which Russia is resurgent, the moral or oppressive one? Anyone can see the answer.