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If they don't well, it's on their own. But if they invade other countries and subjugate other nations to this misery then it's a tragedy - just recall that USSR was not a voluntary union and there are still over 100 different nations oppressed in Russia by this senseless system (see for example Russian Federal republics to get the idea).
Russians tend to forget that and try to excuse the misery they have caused to others by claiming that they too suffered. That excuse is invalid.
PS. All of this was actually explained in the following sentence.
Majority of Russians actually do this, that's why they try to drown their sorrows in vodka
Something to lighten up your day. The good thing about being a Russian is that you can only blame yourself for this fate. This means that it is up to you to stand against this, it is really you who can change it for better by not allowing the crooks and criminals to lead the country. This means that there is hope.
The same is not true about other nations that were (and still are, mind you) oppressed by Russia. They had/have to first overcome the foreign oppressor with a huge army and state intelligence system to have a change.
I just wish that Russia will become a normal country one day (again). I had very high hopes for Russia in 90s. Really high. Now this all has faded and considering what is going on in the minds of Russians, I don't have much hope for the future. It's sad.
Skip a few years, my grandfather was the youngest doctor of science (in Russia that's next level from PhD) in his city in the field of Nuclear Physics and during his life was a dean in 3 different universities and a head of another one.
My 2nd grandfather was born in a village and had to tend for his younger sisters because his two older brothers were fighting in WW2 (and died there).
Skip a few years and he taught himself engineering and later became a head of a department in a big spaceship construction factory that employeed 10s of thousands of people, was doing research, travelled whole of soviet union overseeing testing of spaceship componponents.
Both died in poverty a few years ago: doing any government jobs in Russia is extremely unrewarding if you are an honest man.
(and here I am doing stupid crap in Javascript and Ruby earning 50 times what they did).