We also have a huge chunk of population that eat all that MSM bullshit. However, f.e. even if Putin personally will promise that there will be no any problems with, say, wheat noodles, even most faithful supporters will run to buy it up.

Mafia is not the worst way of people organisation, if you take a look at the beginning, when it started as a person-to-person relations and support in occupied Sicilia. Some kind of leaderless resistance.