yes .....all soviet countries were infected by that corruptioon disease ....Serbia for exmple is as bad as Ukraine ....though not as bad as russia
these , to use the term loosely , "people" choose a political postion and seek to manufacture a reason for believing it and veracity is not a big factor in that . Many go for the quadrella of stupidity and immorality ......trumpism , climate change denial , vaccination lies and putin support .
I don't know anyone with these attitudes in my life apart from HC .....one who has mild putin support because of distrust of the US but otherwise sane . Yet they are in plague proportions here .