I grew up in Russia. Here's why we're afraid of freedom

Thing is, young generation of Russians who never saw poverty - the country was doing just fine for the last 20 years at least - they are even more hard-right than the older gen.

People around 60 are perhaps the most reasonable - they remember enough of Communism to know it's shit, and they've been politically active when Russia had actual electoral politics during the Perestroika and the 1990s so they value freedoms they lost, and they had enough of experience with consuming competing manipulative narratives to understand how easy it is to bullshit people.