| > ...They know exactly what is going on as far as the cost in human lives, and believe it's necessary to ensure their own survival. Given the propaganda and the extensive coverups by govt, it's not really clear what exactly the people know in terms of counts, but for sure the scale of the war is hard to cover up by now. However, knowing the actual facts is rather irrelevant for them. The pervious decades of "raising from their knees" in fact gave even more rise to the cynicism - another product of the "developed socialism". Thus lots of educated citizens of Russia would readily accept and justify any form of twisted falsehood as a given, kind of rules of engagement for their daily act of survival. Sadly, similar cyncism seems to have its place in lives of may people from the former Soviet republics, Ukraine included. Just in Ukraine, there happened to be a practical succession of government and presidents. This has been powering a hope for changes, better future, access to Europe. Meanwhile, the Russian Federation got clearly stuck "in-progress", same as Belarus, and the Central Asian republics. Sans alternative. How does one reconcile with such a reality? Well, if unable to leave, then adopting some cynical attitude to anything may perhaps become a choice. |