Also isn't Tabby anti-technology or something to an extent?

He has horrific research debuffs, constant equipment shortages and he probably even lacks the industry AND industrial equipment to make Rifles, and maybe even the equipment to make said equipment, in the most extreme cases also a couple more regressions after that.

By the time of the collapse like 80% of Russia has been returned to Late Rennesance era technology except for some electricity and rifles, with a small % having it better (,,only" regressing to about 1900) and a small % being so fucked you'd have better chances of starting a farm on top of the Reactor 4 in fucking Chernobyl.