The difference is that in Russia those who are willing to go to war have lived in poverty for decades already, those are not middle-class Muscovites who prefer to stay away from it (in terms of direct participation).

But another thing when a lot of middle-class citizens are plunged into poverty in the short term - that will look more dramatic and unpredictable.

> Churchill was a shameless genocidal racist.

Same as Modi.

Prove it.

Russians were the biggest Nazi collaborators in Europe during WWII. Check Andrey Vlasov and "Russian Liberation Army", so called "РОА".

Prove it.