Konstantin Sonin: "Losses of the nineties of the Nashmark"

“The other day I wrote “ analytics ”about Moscow protests, and now I want to write that it is most infuriated in this story in this story. And the younger comrades will not understand me,” the economist on Facebook shares my opinion.

"The very end of the 80s with their elongating bursts, disappearing products (oil and sausage!), Psychics on TV, manipulations with savings and the 90s with their bandits, devastation, jumping prices, tanks and miners on the streets, associate professors trading socks by the subway-this was all a very expensive price paid for the same as such as such as such as such as the same July 27 and August 3, 2019 was not in Moscow.

It was the price paid to the whole country - and outside Moscow even higher than in Moscow - to leave, among other things, from night searches and falsified criminal cases under political articles. And now, it turns out, all this was paid in vain ...

I had the same feeling in 2014. It doesn’t matter whose Crimea, but twenty years after the collapse of the USSR, something began, finally, to drag on. After 1991, the civil wars broke out throughout the Russian periphery - and some of them, that the Chechen, Transnistrian or Tajik, occupied a decade and more. But they at least somehow began to drag on by 2010. They would not turn the Ossetian conflict, and he was already delayed. And in 2014, as there was nothing to do, they rewinded a quarter of a century ago - that is, all this time spent on scarring and delaying the wounds, has been in vain. Old conflicts were transmitted to the new generation, the wound was raised.

And now in Moscow in 2019 - all these losses of the nineties. The same fee, for returning to normality, was quite real - if the country has several million extra people in security, then when an economic decline comes, they, left without work, replenish the ranks of the bandits. And now they have been hired back - that is, at the next return to the normality, there will again be a criminal wave and devastation, again you will have to pay for the same thing. And those who saw the 90s and understand, and those who do not yet understand. "