Second oil

“Sometimes it’s better to chew than to talk,” as one television advertisement rightly said. This absolutely applies to Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov, for whom the first process is proceeding incomparably more successfully than the second. Discussing investments and the economy, the former Minister of Defense said with soldierly frankness: “People are our second oil, which, in the context of the emergence of a knowledge economy, will soon take the well-deserved first place in its importance,” reports Ekho Moskvy with reference to RIA Novosti. .

What the authorities have on their minds is on Ivanov’s tongue. “People are our second oil” - this should become the slogan of the day for the Kremlin, the program of their party, the moral code of vertical builders. This slogan contains all their contemptuous and consumerist attitude towards the people and the country. This slogan contains all their irrepressible passion and meaning of life - to squeeze maximum revenue out of everything valuable that is in Russia; sell, steal and invest in a safe place. They developed oil first, and now they are developing people. “What a wonderful capital,” they realized and decided to engage in pre-sale preparation of Russian society - to weed out the obstinate, intimidate the meek, buy up the greedy. They understand that they need to hurry - oil is getting cheaper, and people are about to become free and lose their marketability. What to do with substandard goods?

Now it is clear why the elderly Soviet leaders were always silent or spoke in meaningless cliches. They have learned well the saying “keep quiet and you’ll pass for smart.” Sergei Ivanov will no longer get away.