Even now people in England, the UK, Ireland, African countries South America also idealize and espouse synchophantic B.S about Russia and it’s democracy in such a way that whitewashes, greenwashes, communizes, socializes the nature of what type of democracy and country they so really really want Russia to be so it could be a lovely ideal for their now extinct communistic sentiments and therefore anti capitalism and therefore hatred of the US. It’s so easy to see the undeniable grovel.

Yes circumstances worked in such a way…. Biggest understatement in how KGB and later FSB and all collaborators such as oligarchs conspired to get him into power.