So long as the police and the FSB and paramilitary organizations maintain their willingness to use all forms of violence, and so long as Kremlin propaganda is pumped out over every possible channel, ordinary Russians will continue to keep their heads down and let their young go off to die for sad little Putin's pointless fantasy. In Nazi Germany much worse was experienced, and no one said or did anything. Humans are herd animals and will always kowtow to dictators because that's always the easiest thing to do. Only the very unusual - the brave, those capable of exercising agency over their own lives - stand up and take purposeful action. Everyone else just makes excuses and shuffles along, head down.