We are apathetic. People attribute this to fear, and I do think fear comes into it. In Russia, the state is all-seeing and it can harm you anytime it wants to. But there is more. Russia is very big and very difficult to control. Because of of that, it has an ideal of statehood that other modern countries left in their feudal pasts. In Russia, ideas of central power, the great nation, the large state, are much more important that individual happiness or achievement.