Mikhail Fishman: "The reserved world of his dreams"

“Here it is - the illusion of success. How easily people adapt to it. After the castling, but even before the elections to the Duma, not realizing the full extent of dissatisfaction with his return and not realizing that everything had changed, Putin came out and simply declared stagnation. Which will be just like Brezhnevsky, but a little better in direct text - in an interview with TV channel directors in October 2011:

“They say that Brezhnev’s stagnant times will soon return. Firstly, in Soviet times, and even in the early 1990s - I don’t want this to look like sweeping criticism - there was a lot of positive things, but I don’t I remember that the post-war Soviet leadership, the post-war Soviet leaders, worked as intensively as I do."