Comment by skybrian
5 years ago
How do we know that people from formerly communist countries are any better at media consumption? From what little I’ve read about Russia, people seem to be pretty pro-Putin and there are lots of conspiracy theories.
It doesn’t seem like people there are obviously better at media consumption, let alone inoculated?
People who have gained that skill in USSR have left ex-USSR for US, Europe and Israel a long time ago.
>From what little I’ve read about Russia, people seem to be pretty pro-Putin
Presiding over steadily improving living standards tends to give leaders staying power in every country. Putin was there for Russia's bounceback from the 90s.