Madness of the vertical

Talking with a long -standing acquaintance - the owner of a large grocery company. It is lamented: the crop this year is good, but the peasants cannot sell it: buyers have no funds. And they can’t sow either - banks do not give loans to purchase seeds, fertilizer, etc. And at the shops that are small, that hypermarkets, the problem is the same - money.

He says: “Cash - using all sorts of gray and black schemes - it is possible at best to get at 20%, at worst - at 45% minus the rollback of the bank. “Dear” money will have to be laid in the price of products - that milk, that cottage cheese, ”says.

I ask: “Well, how did it seem to have a meeting with the First Deputy Prime Minister I. Shuvalov-about the support of grocery networks?”

“It was,” answers. - Money gave a particular number of banks, mainly to their and loved ones. Those money was immediately transferred to currency - they never went down. ”

And what can be done if it is more profitable for banks to take into dollars and thereby pay for their debts and laid shares?

“Manual management,” the interlocutor replies. “We must wipe these nodes on the interbank, force those who received the money, let them go further along the banking system.”

And the main thing adds: "Only one person can make a decision."

"Putin?" - I ask. Nods. “But he does not make a decision,” he says. - Why? It is clear to him that they are reporting that everything is fine, there are no problems, the nodes are untied. ”

I ask: “And that there are problems, Dvorkovich or Shuvalov know or also think that everything is fine?” “They know,” he answers. - But Dvorkovich will not say superfluous. And besides, he is an assistant to the president. ” - "Does the president make a decision?" - I'm interested. “Separate,” replies. And he repeats: "Only one person can make a decision here." And I no longer ask who this "one person" is. “Good,” I say, “and Shuvalov can tell Putin that the situation is ahovy?” I asked about the asthma situation because my interlocutor said before that in the stores the products could be abused and then he was convinced that millions of people will go out to the streets with pitchfork. And the police will go ahead of the crowd.

So what is the first Deputy Prime Minister Shuvalov? My interlocutor replies: “Everyone is afraid. They are afraid to say what will not like. ” And I do not ask - who is the person who may not like the bad news from the country's subordinate to him. "And that Igor Ivanovich, that -" real ", Sechin?" “He cannot make a decision without him.” - "And Zubkov, who held a meeting here in agriculture?" - I do not sleep. “He knows everything, he said:“ Who will untie my knots will receive rewards. ” "And he, too, can not say Putin about problems?" And the interlocutor again: "Everyone is afraid." -"What are they afraid of?" - I'm interested. “Well, why? Get agitated. It has recently, if angry, it can be very sharp. ”

“Do you think Putin really believes that there is no crisis in the country or only the population is trying to convince that?” - I ask my interlocutor’s high offices. "Don't know. I did not talk to him. I can’t reach him. ” And again: "But only one person can make a decision."

Doesn't it remind you? That's right - Comrade Stalin, who knew one and how Martin to kindle it, and how and what to rearm the army, and that a friend Adolf would not start a war, also knew better than anyone. And he also believed that everyone around the conspiracies would weave - well, of course, America. And that by the power of his conviction, words, boundless love for him, the entire Soviet people is able to increase the crops and increase the indicators for the smelting of steel. And that only he knows the truth alone. At the end of those who wanted to object. Some - rotted, others - everyone was afraid.

But - what are everyone "afraid" now?