There is something in the Russian mentality that make them want an absolute ruler. They had a shot at freedom and tossed it in the Round File for another absolute ruler, Putin.
Putin in the Czar even they don’t call him Czar. It is rare in Russian history for them to overthrow their Monarch for anything other than a different one.
....”There is something in the Russian mentality that make them want an absolute ruler”.....
Familiarity.
Russian people are like abused wives who leave their husbands brutality.......once they are free they have no clue what to do “with” that freedom as they’ve lived under a “ruler” who sets what they can and should do.
How would they know what choice is if all is determined for them. Let alone passion and critical thinking to rise above their circumstances under their own strength.
In reality our nation people are quickly adapting to a government that “takes care of them”....though here there is a push back because we can identify when our freedom is being taken away.