I don't think it has much to do with that. Before the collapse of the Soviet Union, bootleg tapes copied from friend to friend was the only way my parents had to share banned music. After the collapse, we were priced out of Western content by a weak economy so that black market morphed into a state-tolerated industry selling pirated tapes and eventually CDs and DVDs. Any time I'd go back to visit in the last few decades, I'd buy movies, entire discographies, and video games for a few dollars a piece from market stalls and specialized stores that sold nothing but pirated content.
Ignoring foreign copyright was a survival mechanism and by this point, it's almost culturally ingrained.
Sure it does; Russian police do nothing about credit card theft because (and to the point that) that money is ultimately coming out of Western pockets (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Chp12sEnWk).
Same as the North Koreans with their industrial-level counterfeiting of USD (to name one example), for the same reasons.
Ignoring foreign copyright was a survival mechanism and by this point, it's almost culturally ingrained.