That's not an excuse. Many of those displayed have been living comfortably numb under petro-dollar funded consumerism for the past decade or so while being 'non-political' and not caring enough about what their new czar was up to. Don't get me wrong, there are still dissidents, but putin managed to beat out any trace of viable opposition while people not only allowed it, most were jacking off in front of the television watching OMON beat in some skulls.

And speaking of that opposition, I urge people to check out Alexei Navalny's opinion on Crimea..

I'm tired of the 'innocent Russians' narrative shat around the internet. Nobody forced them to do jack shit. There's just an epidemic of cowardice mixed with a dash of imperial nostalgia going rampant in Russia, that is all.