Because Russia is not a normal country.
Although Russia had a glorious culture in the past, it repeatedly hit a wall in the process of transforming into a modern civilization, overthrowing the Tsar and ushering in an even more brutal Red Soviet. finally survived the collapse of the Soviet Union, but failed to seize this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to break up with Europe and the United States, but went back to the old path of the tsar.
Obviously there is a framework for a modern democratic state, but he is still using the means of the KGB to kill the opposition, and Putin and his brother-in-law have been singing for 20 years. So Russia is still a semi-totalitarian state.
The privileged class of the CPSU no longer existed, but the oligarchs were ushered in, and a group of old oligarchs were eliminated and replaced with their own people as new oligarchs. Except for the two capitals of Moscow and Petersburg, there is basically no development in other areas, and there is no Han or Wei or Jin in the east of the Urals, as if they are still living in the time of Nikolai.
Russia is historically warlike but not good at war, and its only advantage is that it relies on the large amount of gray cattle to fight with others. Now it's nothing more than an imitation of Nikolai's old wisdom.
At the beginning of the war, Putin was full of confidence and wanted to take Kyiv with a thunderous blow, but he didn't expect to kick on the steel plate. As a result, the Emperor did not have a plan B at all, and the front line became a joke. The elite of the Russian army suffered a major **, most of which were people from the core area of the two capitals.
However, Russia is the floor of European countries after all, and coupled with the strong impact of the war, a large number of Russians in the two capitals took to the streets to express their anti-war will. Another objective reason is that many of the war losses in the early days of the war occurred to the relatives and friends of the Liangjing people, which suddenly shortened the distance between the war.
Therefore, later Russia only dared to fill in the line with the British buddies in the Far East, and did not dare to mobilize the Russians in the core area to go to war, so as to minimize the impact of the shadow of war and death on the core European part. I like to listen to the radio when I drive long distances, and the Russian-Ukrainian war is rarely talked about on the radio, and the Russian media is trying to create a situation where horses are running, dancing and dancing.
After the start of the war, Russia tightened its grip on society, a large number of dissidents were arrested, the opposition was forced, and ordinary people were silenced. But that doesn't mean that the naysayers don't exist, the more dangerous the situation becomes, and even the Russian authorities don't know the extent to which the undercurrents beneath the seemingly calm waters are going to be. The same is true in the Far East, where the bombing of a railway tunnel north of Lake Baikal at the beginning of the month was no small project, and it is unlikely that it would have been possible without the cooperation of the locals.
Most of the people who starved to death in the Soviet Holodomor were people from the frontiers and the countryside;
It is still the people on the frontiers and the countryside who Russia uses as cannon fodder.
Of course, there are also foreign cannon fodder like Zhao Rui who are specially recruited. In the eyes of the Russian army, foreign cannon fodder is not even as good as frontier cannon fodder. In the words of the foreign cannon fodder themselves, the Russian army did not treat them as human beings at all.
In short, as long as there are few deaths in big cities such as Moscow, Putin's rule will be basically stable and can be tolerated. Muscovites support Putin because they and their families are still safe.
If there is another rout on the scale of 2022, it is likely to fry the pan in an instant. Therefore, the Russian army has recently stormed Diivka, Marinka and other places regardless of the situation, and it must come up with some results to stabilize Putin's throne. But after all, it was to quench his thirst, and Putin launched a war that he could not end. If you continue to consume like this, there will be a day when your internal strength will be exhausted. But if the withdrawal admits defeat, death will be imminent. I can only drag it out like this. Nikolai did not survive the day of victory, and so did Putin. Search for topics