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They have a centuries-long history of extremely brutal and downright psychopathic rule. You really need to read up on Russian history if you think that Putin is the reason things are the way they are.
edit: just ran into this relevant article: https://thehill.com/opinion/international/4560963-is-the-problem-putins-russia-or-mother-russia/
They also had Gorbačёv. It's not like all their leaders were psychos, it's just that when they get one who isn't, they hate him.
Eeeeeeexactly. The few times Russians have managed to produce or acquire leaders who weren't sociopaths, they were fairly universally hated.
It's just incredibly short sighted of people to think that Putin is some kind of an anomaly and that he alone is the reason why Russians are so fucked up, when they have a centuries-long history of genocides, violent repressions by various secret police organizations, colonialism etc. Nobody seems to even understand that Russia is still a colonial empire, just one with contiguous borders
EDIT: Some Russian genocides and ethnic cleansings over the years
Just to drive the point home, here's a list I copied from an earlier comment of mine of just the easiest to find genocides and ethnic cleansings perpetrated by Russians that I found with a minimum of searching based on what I remember from history. Note that there's some overlap between these, so you can't just sum the "victims" column to get a total victim count.
Well I hope we are both differently wrong and we get a peaceful Russia some time soon. Doesn't seam possible with Putin and there doesn't seam much hope after him, but let's hope there is.
Oh yeah, I wouldn't mind being wrong, but unfucking Russia would be an absolutely monumental task and like you said it doesn't seem like there's much hope of it happening. Here's to hoping, I guess