dS - here’s the thing - you are right that they are sheeple. The Muscowites have been conditioned to ignore everything except what is fed to them. So people in Kursk didn’t know anything or care to know anything that was being done to Ukrainians across the border.
the Russians who would have objected have either left in droves or been eliminated by P
Sheeple-reminds me of those towns outside of the concentration camps in Nazi Germany. The ‘didn’t know’ what was going on.