Is a politicized person an active liberal minority or a "passive" majority voting for power? You can answer this question in different ways in Russia. But we can say for sure that a significant part of the population already has experience of “political” discussions at least at the household level.
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In everyday life, it is believed that only a small part of the population, measured on average 5-7%, is actively interested in politics. Only emergencies take people to the streets. Even the collapse of the Soviet Union did not significantly increase interest in politics, except that there was a slight surge in activity in Moscow. The population was more interested in survival issues. Maybe because a politicized person was an almost endangered species.
If we take other countries, the question of a change of power will only politicize the population for a short time, and mainly in the capital of the country. So it was during the “Rose Revolution” in Georgia, when President A. Shevarnadze was overthrown, and last year’s “Candlelight Revolution” in South Korea, when, as a result of mass rallies, President Park Geun-hye was impeached. Events in Ukraine can be called one of the rare cases when interest in politics was popular. Probably, then for the first time in modern Russian history it could be said that a politicized person is practically every resident of the country. The interests of the authorities, which needed support and legitimation of their foreign policy, prompted a massive propaganda to attract the population to politics.
