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Putin’s Crackdown on Dissent Inside Russia

The FRONTLINE Dispatch

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How Did Russia's Crackdown on Dissent Affect the Russians?

Gesh: The story obviously started on the 24th of February when Russia attacked Ukraine. But what quickly happened after that was that it just all went silent, and that showed essentially that Putin's sort of domestic control had reached an authoritarian level similar to China's. Gesh: We wanted to explore what was actually happening inside Russia, and was the image that Putin was trying to portray that all Russians support the war? Accurate, or was it just the illusion that he had created over that time period?

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