Yea, I sometimes give my fellow mankind too much credit and forget the truth that the majority are a bunch of sheep, I concede that was a badly worded question. I was asking the question think of Russian like; Ayn Rand, Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. It is true that the non-English speaking counties may be fed propaganda by their leaders but any true Bitcoiner knows that math is a universal language understood throughout the world. When it comes to Russia claiming that there are Nazis in Ukraine;

Give them a read there are plenty more. But getting back to Bitcoin, yes Russia the state could buy btc while telling the Russian people it is bad but there is always a shepherd among the herd of sheep.