When this collapses, it will be ugly. Russians tend to be very passive..until they are not.

This is why people have their doubts.

There is also a deep anarchist tradition in Russian history. This is one reason the Romanovs had the Ohrana, which might have been a tad effective than the KGB, or todays FSB, but that is a matter of degree.

Some of the people in the resistance, from the Republican Army Statement I posted, are coming from precisely this tradition.