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A chat on subreddit /r/NoStupidQuestions
human
It's just a shitty brutal culture of people being hurt and then hurting others. A system that promotes the biggest scumbags to high ranks. Before the invasion on Ukraine, Russia has been known in western internet as some kind of meme country where drunk people do funny stuff. But imagine, how shitty life must be if alchoholism becomes the only joy in life for so many people.  
The law and order exists, but it's as corrupt as everything else in this country.
gpt
Seems like Russian society is the same as the society within a maximum security prison. There's no one to protect you from being beaten up or having your stuff stolen, and if you complain you're seen as weak/a potential victim, even though everyone hates it and everyone's miserable. So with no top-down law and order you basically have the law of the jungle inside: every man for himself, or join a gang/tribe for protection via honour culture.

Russia isn't unique in this sense. Plenty of countries (e.g. Afghanistan, Somalia, many more) lack credible law enforcement so they sink to this rock bottom state of civilisation based on violence and honour. Maybe this is the default/starting place for all human societies from prehistory onwards. The only people who get to feel happy and secure are the tough dudes in charge of gangs and cartels and people under their protection. When we can get law and order set up with proper, reliable and impartial enforcement to protect regular people, the constant fear goes away and people have space to build happy lives.