Ahh, now I understand, Putin has failed to make Russians apologize and prostrate themselves to Western Millennials for what Marx and Stalin (a Prussian and a Georgian) did to them.
How dare they.
He’s also refused to participate in the “international system” ;p of credit whereby the ptb enslave other countries, slowing their material growth, but saving their way of life.
Putin has made it so Stalin and his WWII victory over Hitler is the reference point by which millenials trace their national pride and identity.
The grandparents and parents of people my age continue to live under the weight of their traumas, secrets, and unresolved histories. Archives to things related to the Gulag and other records that were burst open shortly following Glasnost/Perestroika era are locked shut under Putin.
Lenin’s body remains unburied and lies in open display in Red Square in the manner of a saint.
The traumas of the Soviet era are not always as obvious as Gulag imprisonment. For example, did you know that at certain points in the 60s and 70s, there were five to seven abortions for every birth among Russian women? (The Soviet Union was the first country of the modern era to legalize the practice in the 1920s give or take a few phases of restrictions.) Those realities leave scars.
And abortion culture is just one of the major hurdles Russians must get over especially to address their demographic crisis.