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And I assume it is easy to create and pass laws fitting for specific situations to illegalize or even criminalize certain activities and speech and suppress those.
>Western media often concentrates on "anti-Russian" opposition but there were plenty of "pro-Russian" people who were against government and also suppressed.
This is a thing, confusing the government/political leadership with the country or the people. Especially when the leaders repeating over and over that they are for the people/country and the interest of those. This modern democratic system "helps" too, because they get elected by the people to represent them, and enact their will. Despite this I can like a country, but despise the leaders. I can be a Hungarian who wants the best for my country and my people, and disagree with the parties in the parliament (the opposition too) and the government. I can have opinion that the leadership might find dangerous - for various reasons, eg. it undermines their authority, etc. - but still aligned with the interest of the country.
In fact rebels often grow to be fine conservatives as time passes. While rebels are dangerous for the current order, and even can be used by foreign powers to create disorder, most of them their rebellious intentions doesn't roots in malice but in love for the country and people, because they see or honestly think that the current order isn't actually in their best interest, that the current leadership only acts for its own selfish reasons.