When Comies and Marxist came they said that Kulag - a wealthy peasant is a enemy of proletariat, because he steals from it,
and by this an enemy of state. And who was a Kulag in reality? Kulag was a humble man, working hard on his farm, making savings,
and investing in it. He was not drinking, he was good for his wife, he was a normal person. He was not a degenerate who did not want to work.
And Marxist came, and told to those who never worked a day in their life, that Kulag is an enemy, that he got his cash not from hard work,
but because he steals from them. And then they purged Kulags, they killed millions of normal, hard working Russians.
This is what equality in USSR was about, all people where equally poor, and those who got something, ended with bullet in head.
Times passed, but this syndrome is still present in many people born in post soviet block, i know it from Poland.
You often see people who when spot someone who is doing better than them, they will not admire his hard work, his ethics, or his good ideas.
They will point him out and say: thief! He must have stolen this. If they can, they will make his life harder.
SJW shit i read about in US, sound familiar? White man is wealthy because he stole from niggers, not because he is more hard working.
This is the shit we need to fight, this is the real danger for western civilization.
Going back to Russia, they are tolerant for the corruption,they still got plenty of Soviet ideology in their country.
They can become something better, Russians got it deep within them, this national spirit, this ability to survive everything.
But recovering from Marxism gone take them some time, and Putin is not a good leader to achieve this.