[trymas]

> They had changed form of government twice in less than a century.

IMHO ruzzia hasn't changed in ~450-500 years since Ivan the Terrible. No matter how they sell their way of governing to international scene - it's always a tzar rulling with iron fist. There were optimistic glimpses that they will grow out of it, but it always returns back to tzar.

[pointlessone]

It doesn’t change the fact that people took political action on a massive scale. Both times mostly motivated by unsatisfactory personal circumstance.