Russians aren't de-politized, they are hellbent, politically hellbent to keep being a country not ruled from outside, just like the rest of Europe is, if we take Serbia apart. That is their ideology.
Western democratic systems, the ones I like to live in, are only one form of politics.
The vast majority of the world don't live by western democratic standars, but that doesn't mean for a second that they don't care about politics.
And ukrainians aren't hiper-pro-Zelensky politized, neither. Many of them were opossed to the Maidan coup and regime, but they were killed, like burnung alive in Odessa's trade union building, or hunted across the country and beyond. Hundreds of thousands of ukrainian lefties, Russian speakers and others were prosecuted and outlawed.
All the media have told us the misery (very real and human misery) of the ukrainian refugees in Poland, but no media will tell you about their fellow countrymen who became refugess in Russia, running away from Kiev's army and milita; even more: if western media fancy to talk about these ukrainians who went to Russia, they like to tell us that they were kidnapped!!