This sounds quite specific for something you had to experience multiple times. Hope the people are ok and you found something better to work for.

Not really. Shrink is “schrumpfen”, so a full translation would be Schrumpflation.

Source? I only have anecdotal reference, but all the Russian people i know hate Putin for what he has done to their home country. Independent from where i know them, some via work, some via friends and family.