The russians are creating a sort of fake to taletarian. They may think that just doing that kind of veneer of propaganda will be enough to scare people. It may be that they don't want to motivate people to do anything, you know, they just want them to shut up. And these people are just stay home and are silent because, particularly as if economic sanctions do kick in, they'll want that. So in my view, this is a problem that the russians themselves haven't solved,. You know, now that they ar abandoning this kind of managed democracy... What replaces it? And what's the point of it?

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