Before the trial of history. The nineties became a scandalous theme

Alexander Petrikov specifically for "Kashin"

This is not to say that they still have not argued about the nineties - they argue for many years. The super -presidential constitution, collateral auctions, the Chechen war - yes, much, endless scope for worldview, value conversations. Whether there was another way out, whether it was worth the one who achieved what and whether it achieved - and this is only the nineties political, but after all, there are still folk ones, which are also recalled both gloomy and nostalgically, and as you like. The era is the era, to remember and argue about it.

But now there are some new notes, so far they have not been. After all, it is clear to everyone how the value dispute differs from the criminal investigation, and here it is more likely - so far a Ponaroshka and so far in tacks, but the intonation of memoirs and the intonation of indications are two fundamentally different intonations. Suddenly now they began to testify. Nobody asks anyone about democracy, the market and historical choice - and correctly; It would be possible to seriously talk about the historical correctness of the ruling class of Russia of the nineties only if Russia in 2020 was a full -fledged developed democracy with a strong competitive economy. If people built democracy and the market, and the authoritarianism and the oligarchy were obtained - it means that there is no historical rightness for them, and we can seriously argue only about whether they did it on purpose or simply could not cope. That is, in principle, there is no longer the option “They are great”, and the space for clarifying historical truth literally before our eyes narrowed to a small clearance between conscious scoundrel and stupidity. In itself, the categoricality of this kind is not very interesting-in the end, all great people are accused of something, and specifically these, especially Chubais, as soon as they have not been called directly in the nineties. But then the defense is penetrated; Whether there was an alternative to democracy in general and the collateral auctions in particular - this is no longer interested and does not seriously worry anyone. The questions are different now-where have you been such and such a month? What amount and from whose hands did you get? What was said? Where did you spend the money?

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