> what caused these differences? rural forks usually don't get any tv at all or if they do it's the one/two tv channels paid by govt, in russia's case the propaganda ones most likely. with those being mostly the only sources of information + likely low tier of education + innate gullibility makes them believe everything they see on those media. happened in poland too but to a lesser extend, the last ruling party used the govt tv ('the first channel') to spread anti-opposition propaganda which swayed the rural side of poland to their cause because if it's on tv it has to be true
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