The problem is that Russians today — not all, but a significant number - see the USSR as a Russian empire that was “stabbed in the back”.
Putin has played that up, with his constant story that the fall of the USSR was the greatest tragedy (according to him) of the 20th century.
They didn’t see that it fell due to economic collapse - just as the Germans in the 1920s didn’t see that their cause in 1918 was lost.
The Germans needed to be kicked right to the doors of their houses to realize that was was NOT the way.
Russians need to lose badly to kill Putin’s narrative.
I look at the potential of Russia and how Putin has squandered it over the past 22 years of his despotic rule and I shake my head.
Shouldn’t you be out gathering wood for the winter Wojo?