Stephen Kotkin has a good talk on this. TLDR is the Russian culture has a tendency towards supporting strong autocratic rulers, especially those “in defiance of” something (capitalism, the west, etc)
I’m kidding?
I guess you might say that Russians are kind of collective anarchists. Principled— I mean fairly not based on ethnohistorical pride like say the occasional defiance of the Chinese.
Life is not cheap, only too willing to pay the price. Vodka loosens up the psychic joints..
Here, to the defiance of the soi disant curious of the orange site )
(In Finish but with english subtitles)