Loser

You have to be an incredibly talented person in order to lose all that had developed for two decades at a young age at the peak of a political career and far from at a young age. Vladimir Putin, however, did it. Something was not enough for him-either smartness, or conscience, or courage to tell the people the truth. For more than a year now, as we have heard continuous fables from him, one is cleaner than the other. It's not even about the "green men" in the Crimea, but in general about Putin’s position almost on any issue. In the best traditions of the Chekists, he pretends to be white, stubbornly improving the idea that there are only “enemies” around Russia, but that we will defeat everyone and win!

In my youth, I passionately wanted to see my country without the Secretary General of the Central Committee of the CPSU Leonid Brezhnev. In 1982, this finally happened, but Brezhnev was replaced by an even more odious communist and Chekist Yuri Andropov, and after him-the decrepit partaginer Konstantin Chernenko. Both did not rule for long, only for the year - and only then in the country began to understand that the system was doomed. In today's Russia, few still realized that a light stench of the decomposing corpse of the “vertical of power” was already hanging in the air.

Russian journalists suddenly and immediately started talking about patriotism. Here the good saying of the English philosopher Thomas Payne comes to mind: "The duty of the patriot is to protect his country from her government." In Russia, it seems that there are not so many patriots. Over two decades, more than one and a half trillions of dollars were taken from the country, for which it was possible to build not only the Babylonian tower to the moon, but also the network of highways than in the United States, cities without communal services, organize the latest medicine and high -quality education. Instead, oligarchic capitalism was built, sucking all juices from the state. Moscow began to spend the remnants of the "fat deposits" of its economy. In the Kremlin, no one even occurred to anyone - is this weapons at all?

It all ends someday. Not so long ago, Vladimir Putin uttered a "brilliant" phrase : at the price of oil at the level of $ 80 per barrel, the world economy will collapse. The world has been living for a long time with the price of oil is much lower than $ 80 per barrel, but in terms of "ruins of the economy" so far all the chances are - only Russia. In 2013, Russian GDP growth amounted to 1.3%; Last year, he "moved out" up to 0.6% and the current year will go into a negative plane. In 2014, inflation in Russia exceeded 12%, and this is not the limit. The ruble has almost doubled, gold and foreign exchange reserves were reduced by $ 111 billion.

Western politicians, predicting the sad end of Russia, do not believe, as Ronald Reagan, who called the Soviet Union "Empire of Evil" and promised the Politburo of the CPSU, did not believe in the time of the invasion of Afghanistan

However, these “little things” are nothing in comparison with the fact that, according to polls by public opinion by Gallup , in different countries the fall of the Russian rating of Russia over the past year turned out to be a record and amounted to an average of 22%. To restore the reputation of the "most influential person" of the planet and the peacekeeper after thousands of Ukrainians died in the Donbass from Russian bullets and shells, including many children, women and the elderly.

To make any forecasts about the future fate of our "main character" does not make sense. Waiting, hoping and believing is also not worth it. You just need to turn off the TV and never turn it on again - until they call on the street. All this will happen by itself. Western politicians, predicting the sad end of Russia, do not believe, as Ronald Reagan, who called the Soviet Union "Empire of Evil" and promised the Politburo of the CPSU, did not believe in the time of the invasion of Afghanistan. In which country do we live today - in the Soviet Union?

German Obukhov - coordinator of the International Antiputine Coalition "Stop Fascism in Russia"