[nuker]

> When there’s a mass of people enough to fight the regime,

To get the mass to act together requires clean comms. Dirty comms result in eliminating (jailing) of activists before they organise.

And don't forget no free press for 22 years.

[walteweiss]

As if Russians cared.

[nuker]

Most don’t but neither would you if you had all your info from TV box for 20 years.

[walteweiss]

Oh yeah, as if Russians were very very different before the TV box was invented. They always home brew despotic tsars. E.g Ivan Grozny aka The Terrible [1] was long before the TV, and it’s not the one and the only example, just the famous one.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_the_Terrible