On Having A Freedom Heritage

So, without getting into the nitty-gritty details, it sounds like the people of Kyrgyzstan (or at least some of the people of Bishkek, the capital city) have gotten tired of their local head-honcho tyrant overlord, fought the local fascist police and threw the jerk out. Burned his family's houses down, for good measure, too (not that I condone that type of thing... rather senseless waste of perfectly good property, methinks).

Reflecting on this, I decided that this is one for the libertarian scholars amongst us to munch on a bit-- why is it that small nations (Kyrgyzstan population: ~5M) routinely experience both:

• Outright, brazen pillaging of the populace by central socialist authorities as if they were literally just mafia guys with nice suits and publicly-funded palaces?
• Extremely restive populaces who always at first simply put up with the open-secret of their routine political molesting, but who also always have the common decency to rise off and get a few of their number killed in the name of getting rid of the schmucks at the end of the day?

Seriously, let's think about this one for a second. The people of America, god's great freedom gift to mankind, fought a "freedom war" (ha!) 200+ yrs ago and since then have just sat around on their asses and grown extremely complacent while the raping of their wallets and their liberties has gone on unabated and in an increasingly not-even-going-to-try-to-hide-what-it-is manner.

Meanwhile, the Soviet slave-people has-beens of yesteryear, who come from a long, proud tradition of being repeatedly subjugated by whatever warmongering tyrant-du-jour happens to come galloping across their property, get up and say, "Uh UH! NIMBY (Not In My BackYard), brother!" and full on riot on their local clowns after eventually tiring of the clowns' bread and circus routine.

What's going on here?