Igor Aidman: "Dictature 3%"

"From the news: 3% of the richest Russians own 89% of all financial assets, 92% of all urgent deposits and 89% of all available savings," the sociologist writes on his Facebook page.

"Russia is divided into two unequal parts. One of them (97% of the population) supports morally:" There is no money, but you hold on. "And the other (3%) is financially. These 3% are the power itself: officials, Chekists and a large business (including" oligarchs ").

It was in their favor that state property was redistributed. It was they who were given the opportunity to steal from the budget with impunity and directly from citizens, as well as various benefits and privileges.

These 3% are a real rating of power. These people are rationally motivated to support it. The rest do this in spite of their own interests, under the influence of manipulative propaganda. It is they who are fed by fairy tales about the enemies surrounding the country, attempting to be unheard of wealth and crystal moral purity. It is for them that cartoons are drawn about mythical overturning. It is they who are reassured daily from television screens, they say, "it’s not easy for us, but Ukrainians are even worse, rejoice at you one cow died down, and the Ukrainian neighbor has two." The saddest thing is that many rejoice at ...

And at this time, all the same 3% of the beneficiaries of the Putin regime continue to rob them. "