Not Brezhnev, but not Stalin

What was the value of Leonid Ilyich for his associates? The fact that they all got the opportunity to sit in their chairs to government funeral, well, in extreme cases, to gray hair. Not everyone who survived the leader managed to continue their work for the good of the Communist Party and the Soviet state. The Minister of Internal Affairs Shchelokov shot himself. The first secretary of the Krasnodar regional committee of the Medunov party was accused of corruption. Even the finally fermented Kunaev and Shcherbitsky were sent to retirement. But all this was done by other general secretaries. Live Leonid Ilyich several more happy years - and everyone would remain in positions and honors.

And Nikita Sergeevich was not such a good person. Actually, he was supported only because he saved the apparatchiks from fear that they would come for them tomorrow. Out of fear, Nikita Sergeyevich was able to save, but he did not add stability. All these industrial and rural party committees, all these Sovnarkhozs, all this constant personnel leapfrog - this means a constant change of special apartment, summer cottages and special lines. What is such a goal for?

Leonid Ilyich - it was stability. Position, apartments, a country house, medical care, special distributor, a hero of the hero (up to three), urn in the Kremlin wall, or in the worst case of Novodevichye. The same stability in the first period of his stay in the Kremlin was Vladimir Vladimirovich. Actually, for this he was invented. Many have already forgotten, but then the leaders of the regions changed so rarely that each resignation was an event. Shaimiev was actually like Shcherbitsky, Rakhimov - like Kunaev, and Straev - as a Straev. And even the resignation of the first person often did not mean the change of the ruling clan.

Now Medvedev is left from stability. After Crimea, Vladimir Vladimirovich went so sharply that the elite remains only to guess - is he still Khrushchev or already Stalin? Can you turn a little more or is it time to evacuate? Or is it better to evacuate somewhere closer to the predecessors of the leader himself?

Putin's survival today depends solely on how quickly he has time to slip the "Khrushchev" phase. For almost 14 years, he played with the elite in her beloved stagnation, providing his and alien associates with the unhindered plunder of territories and sectors of the economy. And then time unexpectedly sharply turned back - not to Gorbachev, but to Khrushchev. And now the nomenclature will fever almost as under Nikita Sergeevich and she cannot help but think about whether there are many Chekists to be heated places when to wait for the next “Caribbean crisis” and what is the point of maintaining the regime, not just that does not appreciate, but also destroying “his own”.

In order for these thoughts to not lead to Putin’s dangerous for Putin and his Lubyanskaya “oprichnina” to the outcome, the ruler needs to turn as soon as possible from Khrushchev into Stalin, to begin mass cleansing and planting of the elite, to change governors and ministers at such a speed that even their surnames can not remember their own secretaries. And, of course, the demonstrative processes over corrupt officials and traitors should replace oil, resorts and the joy of the possession of the former Crimean Federal District.

If Putin does not hurry, they will get rid of him much faster than he thinks.