> which is far from representing the whole population.

They had parents, went to daycare, went to school, made life choices, went to university, worked a job... They didn't just materialize in KGB one day.

Putin's both parents worked at a factory which means no parents most of the time, the daycare was provided by the "criminal elements" [sic] on the streets, he stated that he wanted to join KGB during childhood, he didn't pass entry exams as he entered university as a sportsman and became KGB's agent (not an employee), his job was KGB then after the fall of Berlin Wall he worked for rector of his uni for a brief time and after that for a docent who went into politics and happened to become the mayor of now St. Petersburg in 1991...

Now that you've put it that way then yeah, I see how most Russian are absolved of guilt for this war.

It's very complicated topic which also could be simplified to "a slowly boiled frog with bandits controlling the heat".