Keith Gessen on how a group of sociologists found that few Russians were steadfast supporters of the war in Ukraine, and that most had something more complicated to say.
The researchers had been galvanized by Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine , in February, 2022. Marina had met the group’s founders before the war, at academic conferences. Aida had studied under several of them when she was in college, in western Siberia. For Masha, a friend of one of the P.S. Lab founders, the work represented a return to political engagement, after years of inaction.
The massage therapist, a war supporter, was happy to talk. She gave an interesting description of her media consumption. “On the Internet,” she explained, there are so many fakes: “You have to figure out that this is a fake, this is not a fake.” Whereas with the news on TV, “you watch it for the day and you’re done. No problem.” As for the war, it was hard for the massage therapist to say who started it and why. “But we started it,” Marina said. “Who’s we?” said the massage therapist.
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