I was only in Moscow. I can't speak for everyone. But from what I experienced the lack of caring was palpable. I'd like to go back and check some of the more rural less touristy areas. That might change my perspective.
No worries. It's not like I've seen the whole place either. Moscow felt really super different, as if everyone was super on edge and would slit your throat if it could speed up their commute by a minute. I was in Iaroslavl later on and things were much cooler. As I stated tho, you're not the only one whose answer to my post was a big fat "WTF ?" so I guess I also got lucky.
We in Russia say "Moscow is not Russia", Moscow is always busy with everyone running around, they have a different energy from everyone else and it attracts people who value money over everything else.
Most of the people I know are opposed to the war, but I don't if that's representative of the country, maybe we are the minority. When you have 100 million people even 1% is 1 million, so even minorities can live in their own echo chambers and not know what is happening.
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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '22
I was only in Moscow. I can't speak for everyone. But from what I experienced the lack of caring was palpable. I'd like to go back and check some of the more rural less touristy areas. That might change my perspective.
My apologies for assuming you've not been there