Worm, sausage, fish

The food chain in the highest echelons of power

Once the devil pulled Governor Zelenin at a reception in the Kremlin to take a picture of a salad with a worm. What for?

Could eat; probably wouldn't die. I could silently take other food (the tables in the Kremlin are bursting with delicacies). No, he not only took a picture, but also posted it on the Internet. What for?

A scandal began. Assistant to President Putin, the curator of international affairs Prikhodko then said directly and rudely: they say, idiots should not be governors. In official reports, this wording has not been softened too much.

Prikhodko’s words were quoted as follows: “I deal with foreign policy issues, but I must recommend to my lawyer colleagues to introduce such an article as “dismissal due to dementia” into the formulations for evaluating the performance of governors.

In addition, Prikhodko advised: "To all those who would like to invite Mr. Zelenin to visit their home, I would recommend to seriously think before doing this."

Zelenin soon left the post of governor. In the most general terms, this plot is described by Shakespeare:

HAMLET. You can pull the fish onto the worm that dined on the king, and dine on the fish that swallowed this worm.

KING. What do you mean by this?

HAMLET. Nothing, except that the king can make round trips through the intestines of a beggar.

The reason why we recalled the Kremlin worm in such detail is that his capture happened in 2010. More recent cases are on everyone's mind. The Minister of the Russian Federation was tempted by the sausage, and the Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation tasted the fish. Experienced fishermen know what to fish for. Pike, for example, are caught on live bait (a small live fish), and hefty catfish are attracted to rotten meat.

Finishing these modern variations of Hamlet's buffoon episode, we would offer officials Prikhodko's old recommendation in this generalized and abbreviated form: "Anyone who wants to visit someone should seriously think before doing this."