- (may 2008)
Summarizing Putin.
Officially, Vladimir Putin had handed over power to the new Russian president,
Dmitry Medvedev. Medvedev promptly gave him the job of prime minister, and
everybody things that Putin is still the de facto ruler of Russia, i.e. a
de facto czar. Many are afraid that this authoritarian regime is nothing but
the old communist praxis updated to the age of globalization.
When Westerners accuse Vladimir Putin of having persecuted liberals, democrats, journalists, and so forth, they forget to add the main victim of his
eight years in power: Putin mainly managed to finish communism. If
communist nostalgics could hope for a reveral of fortunes under his precedessor
Yeltsin, there was no such possibility after Putin annihilated the very
concept of communism by making it, quite simply, obsolete.
After Putin there could certainly be another totalitarian age, but it is
unthinkable that it would any form of communism.
Putin's appointed successor, Dmitri Medvedev, will have to deal with a lot of
pressing problems (the high rate of suicides, the suicidal passion for vodka,
the eternal plague of corruption, the declining population, the pull for
independence by the non-Russian republics) but not with the
threat of a resurgence of communism.
TM, ®, Copyright © 2007 Piero Scaruffi All rights reserved.
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