Question about "poprushing" unhappiness

To cut a long story short...Near the end of my campaign against the Egyptians I decided, for speed, to capture a few size six towns (to keep pushing on the cultural borders without expending setters). When done with the towns, I abandoned them. I am aware that this results in unhappiness being transferred to my nearest town but what I don't understand is this:
The "unhappiness causes" shows "cruel oppression" but the Egyptians were in Anarchy and prior to that Democracy so they shouldn't have been able to poprush. So (and I guess the story was still quite long) my questions is...what, besides poprushing, causes "cruel oppression" unhappiness?

Cruel oppression is only poprushing. It is either from way before or an unknown bug in the game.

Thanks, watorrey.

edit: I guess if poprushing unhappines wears off consecutively rather than concurrently, it could last long enough for me to be seeing it.

Bartleby said:

I guess if poprushing unhappines wears off consecutively rather than concurrently, it could last long enough for me to be seeing it.

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Correct. It wears off by 1 citizen each 20 turns. So if they, for instance, pop-rushed something costing 4 citizens, the cruel oppresion unhappiness would be present, although descending, for the next 80 turns.

isn't drafting "cruel oppression" too?

and yes, unhappiness caused by multiple pop-rushes wears off serially rather than in parallel. so for example if you pop rush a 5-citizen improvement then it will indeed take 100 turns for the unhappiness to fully wear off. draft unhappiness uses a separate counter but the same concept.

rysingsun said:

isn't drafting "cruel oppression" too?

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No, drafting unhappiness is identified as "No more draft! Hell no, we won't go!"