Boris Akunin: "Postal"

“We are all (including me) constantly frightened by 1917. So, they say, then the beautiful liberals let the genie out of the bottle, and then they themselves were not happy. Ladies and gentlemen, today we are in a fundamentally different social situation. In the seventeenth year, three quarters of Russians were peasants, and in the capital the “revolutionary element” (proletarians and soldiers of the reserve regiments) constituted the most significant segment of the population. Today, do you know which classes are the main ones in the Russian Federation? State employees and representatives of small business in percentage terms. , not much, because we have little left of production. Let’s not even remember how many peasants there are in the country today, otherwise we’ll cry... There won’t be any October.”