"People" in an authoritarian police state are not going to get organized until a) they have no other choice and b) the elites have no will left to fight them.

It's the same pattern everywhere. Russia is worse than usual because its economy is lopsided towards exporting raw materials so the elite class is smaller/less diverse than usual.

[–] matcha_addict@lemy.lol 4 points 8 months ago

It's not as hard to organize as you make it seem in Russia. The problem is that opposition is fractured, and unfortunately much of the opposition is the right wing kind, accusing putin of being some type of left wing guy. Their platforms have become less convincing now that the west has completely cut off Russia.

The left opposition is unfortunately not that motivated as they're not big enough, and fear that their movement might lead to someone worse then putin from the right wing.

[–] chayleaf@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

as much as I wish it were spontaneous, it seems organized (many cases happened right on the first day of elections; (nearly?) all of the perpetrators were women across like 5-10 cases that I've read about; they all immediately started taking photos as if to show proof to someone), it seems like either Russia or Ukraine is behind that (the former would want it to discredit the opposition, the latter to discredit the Russian state, either option sounds plausible to me). Of course, the Russian police says Ukraine-linked scammers promised money for doing it.

honestly with how much some scammers can achieve at times (I'd rather not say, I've seen some abhorrent cases in the news) I tend to believe the official Russian version

[–] tiredturtle@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago

False flag theory could also hinder actual people's uprising, interesting point!