And Putin is so young

The main message that Putin sent at Valdai: he is in an excellent mood. Life is good. He has, of course.

Last week, Vladimir Putin gave a three-hour speech at the Valdai Forum. Dmitry Peskov promised that this performance would be historic. Putin is generally a historical figure, and in this sense, yes, his speech was historical. The fact that he is young and healthy also obviously has some historical significance. It seems to me that the main message he sent, and quite sincerely: he is in an excellent mood. Life is good. He has, of course.

Political scientist Karaganov tried to catch this mood at the forum and directly said that by the time the SVO began, life had become more fun. Putin even had to correct him: “Who cares.”

Who was sad at Valdai was a communist from Sri Lanka, who asked to moderate his criticism of Lenin, but Putin hushed up this issue. Actually, Vladimir Vladimirovich has several painful topics - Jews, Ukraine and Lenin. By the way, Putin will soon have to make the most difficult decision in his life: January 2024 will mark the 100th anniversary of the construction of the mausoleum. So what to do? It is included in the UNESCO World Heritage List. It is not necessary to leave UNESCO for this, as Pyotr Tolstoy recently suggested. There is another option, a working hypothesis: to dismantle the mausoleum and send it to the headquarters of this organization. Do you need a mausoleum? Receive, together with Lenin. We don’t need this demon who created Ukraine! This is his main crime. He did well by creating the USSR, but Ukraine entered it and destroyed it. So take it.

We also heard a new version of the death of Yevgeny Prigozhin: he was playing with grenades. There's nothing you can do about it: if you're a fool, then your death is a fool. He juggled grenades, and even pulled out the pin. Here Valery Solovey* suggested that Prigozhin was alive and would show up soon. This, of course, is the problem of Nightingale* and Prigozhin, but it would be funny if, during these fabrications of Putin, the doors of the forum opened and Prigozhin entered there, embracing Utkin...

But, I repeat, the point of this forum was to show that life is good. And the president fulfills his duties: unites the people, improves the level and quality of life. After all, for some people they have definitely increased. Some people don’t – but it happens. Some people grow it, while others play with pomegranates...

* The Russian authorities consider him a foreign agent.