[wruza]

USSR controlled all of the available media, but that didn't help, and 200..300k (unofficial: 1m) of working class went to Moscow streets in 1990. Meetings of modern russian opposition counts up to few thousands, mostly consisting of bored bohemians. Also, the opposition seems to lose the generic idea, chasing the wrong issues.

- When do we get vodka?

- The Center holds it. It is necessary to take away the vodka and the Kremlin.

(Boris Eltzin meeting with real people)

I'm not claiming that what we have now is the best vector of evolution, but the opposite forces are simply weak and up in the clouds by their nature.