It happened many times during World War II, but only when the country was under enemy power and dictatorship. I have never seen a system diagram with a level of freedom that is linked with the flow of force in a positive loop. There should be a negative loop, but with significant delay. Milosevic is usually used as an explanation. Most older people in European countries remember by sweat on the skin what the noise of falling bombs means it is a collective historical experience.
Experience is impossible to forget.
So we remember. But still there is some information that I guess we are missing in Russia. People just do not understand each other, was a saying of the modern philosopher Aron Brudny. That makes our expectation worse. In Russia we have a view of the other side of the moon.