They’ve had the open internet in Russia for a while and yet they’re still committed to dear leader, as witnessed by Russians lack of effort to depose him.
This statement should really target Russia for the same thing, so yeah it’s troll bait. It’s propaganda to instigate “ooh the poor Russian victims of their own indifference.” discourse.
We can see in this thread it worked.
Circle around logical propositions all you want, theorizing has little value when the behavior is concrete.