here’s an eye-opening quote about Putin’s malicious influence on Russian society and science -
“Konstantin Sonin, a Russian-born political economist from the University of Chicago, in a post on X, formerly Twitter, described the mission as Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “vanity project amid constant repression of intellectuals, a war on science and education that has government waged, a war on international cooperation that they waged even before they started an actual war.”
“In Soviet times, vanity was there, and military goals were there. Yet it was also a wealth of genuine enthusiasm of scientists and engineers...They used the state’s vanity and desire to have missiles to fulfill their space dreams,” he added on Sunday. “Putin’s people, besides vanity, put the money into the space project for one single reason, to have these money stolen. It would be a miracle if Luna-25 mission was successful - Putin’s people did everything to have it failed.”
Stuff like this is what causes revolutions to happen.
And I think a Second Russian Revolution is inevitable. The only question is, who will be in charge after it?