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Its legit scary as fuck. Its no surprise that people are stupid. But that stupid? And that many?
Despite the brain drain, they are a fairly advanced civilization. If North Korea can occasionally hack stuff with their 386 processors via 1300 baud modem, bet your ass the husk of what was once Russia will still be able to hack stuff with their 486 processors via 2600 baud modem. >

They've also ramped up disinformation. 2022 was the worst year in modern Swedish history in terms of misinformation being circulated that originated from russia and the ilk.
It fucking blows my mind that no country is immune to that bannon/trump/facebook/idiot style of shitty .jpg's and "every fallacy in the book"-'arguments'. 
I have a 1year old doggo and talk with a lot of people when walking it. Lo and behold I actually found a climate-deniar who instantly started spewing shit I recognized both from 4chan-meme's and other shit. What used to be literal jokes about how mentally handicapped some of the deniers were, only to actually be weaponized and adopted by the idiots who couldn't tell satire from truth.