"If the belief that despots create slaves is true, then the opposite is no less true: despots are created by slaves."
Fanny Wright
Putin's Russia has already gone down in history as an international entity with very different characteristics. Instead of developing democracy in the country and support world peace, Putin's Russia is only concerned with curtailing internal rights and freedoms and inciting them military conflicts from outside.
Destruction of freedom of speech, repression against the opposition, usurpation authorities, external aggression, occupation and annexation of foreign territories, mass killings, ethnic cleansing and numerous war crimes - these are the same what Putin's Russia is associated with today.
Original painting by ukrainian artist Eugene Gorbachenko.