I am not astonished at all that ordinary russians support their government. The percentage of people living below the poverty line, without education, without prospects, without dreams and opportunities, is huge in russia.
And they also throw people in jail for not supporting Russia.
Nobody deny it. I never said that all russians are like that. But they also let much more people out of jail if they agree to go for the war and kill innocent people. And besides, some of the people they eventually threw in jail, were the ones who fully understood the consequences of their disagreement and not-supporting the regime. Those people deserve respect. And they made this decision precisely because they understand that there is no place for educated, developed people striving for a better life in the version of russia that exists now. And perhaps the fact that such people are imprisoned will make at least those who are outside of russia think about what is happening there, and that the situation has long gone beyond the internal upheavals of a particular state.