alt Hacker NewsRussia is bad as is. Currently, clearly worse than EU. But the problem is, the state of human rights and freedoms in the EU is deteriorating so fast, I'm not sure if it would still be better than Russia in ten years. And in 20 years, China may be the freedom benchmark for the EU.
Of course it will be worse. And EU will not have concentration camps or gulags. But boiling the frog of freedom slowly def is not best outcome. And will more people to anti eu camp. An in the end to east.