I understand what you're saying about the nihilism. Dr. Zhivago was just a few years ago. That's what was so weird about Prigozhin and his rebellion - He was the worst sadistic fuck of them all, but then he yin/yang-ed. He flipped. What exactly did he think was going to happen? Daddy Putin would forgive all? When a society is very repressive, then when it all pops, it's not very nice. They're not going to "win" in Ukraine. I don't know what the collapse of Czar Putin is going to look like, but it's not going to be pretty.