for real. 1 week of "oh shit they invaded for real, wait to know if they win immediately", then 2-3 weeks of "lord zelensky is fighting for democracy" "russia is an evil country", and they were all brainwashed before a month, and convicned ukraine would win after putin secretly agreed to withdraw troops from kiev as part fo the peace agreement which ukriane broke again.
Which honestly shocks me a bit. We weren't as isolated and cut-off as DPRK just recently. Surely people had at least seen Moscow on the internet?
Russia really went from reasonably well known, if somewhat memised country into "Mordor (here be dragons)" in few weeks in 2022.
for real. 1 week of "oh shit they invaded for real, wait to know if they win immediately", then 2-3 weeks of "lord zelensky is fighting for democracy" "russia is an evil country", and they were all brainwashed before a month, and convicned ukraine would win after putin secretly agreed to withdraw troops from kiev as part fo the peace agreement which ukriane broke again.
Westerners genuinely believe that Russians haven’t evolved past the Stalinist Soviet Union.
If only