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Egor Gaidar

December 21, 2009 Julia Latynina

2000 years ago, a tough reformer and a successful courtier Van Man (exactly two thousand years - he entered the throne in 9 AD), who proclaimed the foundation of the blue dynasty, ascended the throne in China.

He had every chance to go down in the history of China as the founder of the dynasty, but then the Juanhe river changed the current, moving over to the other side of the Santunsky Peninsula; Human victims were innumerable. The people realized that the new emperor was to blame. Van Man held new reforms, the people calmed down - and then the Juanhee returned to the old direction.

It was already the end. The Redborn uprising began, the rebels occupied the capital, and Van Man was stabbed.

Gaidar would hardly have liked the reforms of Van Man - like all Chinese reformers, the founder and only representative of the blue dynasty resembled Lenin’s cross with Bismarck. But I'm not talking about the essence of the reforms, but about the politics, whose fate was decided by the Huanghe River, over which he was, of course, was not powerful.

The fate of Yegor Gaidar is very similar to the fate of Van Mana. As Van Man, according to the Chinese, personally was responsible for the Huanghe river, so Yegor Gaidar and the “shit -offers”, according to Russians, personally are responsible for hyperinflation and the total collapse of the post -Soviet economy. That hyperinflation was caused by a cash canopy of 100%, and total collapse-the obvious fact that 90% of the Russian industry produced something with dynamic protection of the armor and thermal head heads and was not even adapted to produce a coffee maker-it does not matter. From the point of view of logic, it is as obvious as the fact that Van Man is not to blame for two floods. And from the point of view of the psychology of the people, it does not matter.

Is it good that Gaidar in Russia carried out reforms? I will say a terrible thing now: I think it was bad. Look at the two countries neighboring with us: Georgia and Ukraine. They had no reforms. For both countries, this turned out to be a disaster: in Tbilisi in 2002 there was no warmth or light. But on the other hand, both in Georgia and Ukraine, the economic collapse in the minds of the people was connected not with the reforms, but with their absence. What is an “orange revolution”? This is when the people who ruled the freaks, and not the reformers, says: "We want reforms."

Yegor Gaidar possessed a very bad line for politics - he did not like power. For some reason, it is hypocritical that the ruler should not love power: the dictators always sigh, that they plow like slaves on galleys exclusively for the good of the people. So: a politician must love power. Physiologically, to madness, like Barack Obama, who himself in his book sincerely tells how, being unknown to anyone, he personally went around almost every house with the words: "Hello, my name is Barack Obama." The politician must love power. This condition is necessary, although insufficient.

Due to the fact that Gaidar did not like power, he did not do simple things that any demagogue would do in his place. Gaidar did not consider it necessary to kick the defeated enemy and tell every day on TV that it was the Communists until 1985 built a country with a completely uncompetitive economy, and from 1985 to 1991 they simply plundered it to use foreign offshores opened under financing the world revolution to suck all the country's money into their own accounts.

His opponents were not so generous. Returning to power, they are happy to repeat that it was Gaidar stole everything. It is as if Gunvor and Rosucranergo belong to Gaidar. It was as if it was a Gaidar who distributed the country to Kovalchuk, Timchenkam, Chemezov and Rotenberg - his neighbors on the cooperative “Lake”. And now from the Kremlin, they are happy to explain to the people that it was Gaidar to plunder everything. It happens. Any thief experiences an almost physiological need to prove that everything around is even worse.

Due to the fact that Gaidar did not like power, he did not consider it necessary to explain that twice two to four. He believed that those who know this are not needed, and those who think that twice two to five would not help. As it turned out, this is the wrong strategy for the authorities. If you do not explain to the people that twice two to four, there will always be a lot of demagogues who want to explain to him that twice two - a pie with cabbage.

Due to the fact that Gaidar did not like power, he considered the main reform-the reform of the economy. As a result, both the reformers and Yeltsin became hostages of the security forces. Hostages of decomposed generals who started the war in Chechnya. Hostages of the institution, similar to the Prosecutor General, in which a person who looked like the prosecutor general worked. And that is why they had to look for the successor to Yeltsin in someone who could pacify the prosecutor-in the trick from the security forces V.V. Putin.

And Gaidar was a very brave man. He did not fly on fighters and did not pose on vacation with a naked courageous torso (in truth, Gaidar’s torso was not at all courageous), but in October 1993 it was he who distributed weapons to the people. Gaidar did not disappear from the TV three to four days after each attack. And if Gaidar flew to Nalchik, when Beslan happened nearby, I don’t think Gaidar would have launched his plane.

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