Paul
Goble
Staunton, April 4 – A record 20
percent of all Russians and 44 percent of those in younger age groups say they
want to emigrate as soon as possible (rusmonitor.com/chego-dobilsya-putin-kazhdyjj-pyatyjj-rossiyanin-khochet-ehmigrirovat-iz-rf-pri-pervojj-vozmozhnosti.html
and thebell.io/rekordnye-44-molodyh-rossiyan-hotyat-emigrirovat-gallup-svyazal-eto-s-putinym/).
These figures are an indictment of
Vladimir Putin’s leadership, but they are far from the only dubious achievements
he has on his record over the last two decades, according to Russian blogger
Abrakham Mayvin who lists seven more reasons for “respecting but despising”
Putin (kasparov.ru/material.php?id=5CA505862F9CE).
These include:
1.
Putin
has “breathed new life” into NATO, the Western alliance that before the Kremlin
leader appeared has been on a course of “slow degradation.”
2.
“Putin
has revived the Ukrainian nation and its self-consciousness.” A few years ago,
Ukrainians protested against the presence of NATO vessels in the black sea. Now
they want them there “on a permanent basis.
3.
“As
a result of Putin’s efforts, Russia has thrown off the mask of a civilized
state and shown the world the bestial grin of a political impotent suffering
from resentment.”
4.
Putin
together with the Moscow patriarch have managed to alienate a “significant”
share of the population by their “propaganda” of obscurantism and medieval
ignorance.
5.
“Putin
has led the advanced Russian economy to such a point of development that it has
to fight off the overproduction of goods with the help of bulldozers,” a reference
to the destruction of Western foodstuffs banned by his counter-sanctions
regime.
6.
“Putin
has liquidated all unnecessary state institutions leaving only the department for
stealing and the handing out of loot.’‘
7.
But
when Putin destroys the Russian Empire, Mayvin says, then “no one will be interested
in why I despise him.”
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