DCSIs this view popular amongst Russians or is it just young folks thinking like this?
Putin is completely despised by younger people, his biggest sympathizers are people in their 40/50s, who support him only because they are afraid of returning of 1990s Russia (hard time, but way more democratic than now). Putin exploits this fear to the fullest extent, blaming all his fuckups on 'the hard post-soviet legacy' (although he was a mayor deputy in the St. Petersburg administration at the very same time and responsible for many failures back then).