>>16835517I think russia turned into authoritarian shithole because people were dissatisfied with "democratic" russia in 90s - high levels of organized crime, poverty, social inequality (the latter two are result of shock therapy which now everyone knows sucks), hurt national pride (see videos of jets being sawed apart and whatnot) and also yeltsin being a drunkard dumbfuck
You could draw parallels with weimar republic, but i wouldn't do that because that's not something you should say from a russian IP
