One of the most rotten arguments of the defenders of the regime is that Putin has raised Russia from its knees. Yes. He lifted him up, hit him on the liver, shut his mouth, twisted his arm and threw him down, so that it would be more convenient to rape him. If earlier the country was waist-deep in shit, now it is up to its neck in shit with blood and guts.
“Oh, how can I remember the damned nineties – the counters are empty, for any nonsense you had to stand in line for hours. And now the shops are packed, and Russia exports grain. It used to take ten years to save up for a car. And now almost every family has a car. For a pair of jeans they gave a monthly salary. And now they cost pennies. And all this happened under Putin.”
In fact, Russia was dragged into the 21st century not by a bunker grandfather, but by Western civilization.
It was her efforts that increased the yield of grain and the milk yield of cows (under Stalin, in general, the yield did not exceed the pre-revolutionary level). And we export grain also because the number of livestock, for which a lot of grain was fed, has more than halved in modern Russia.
You drink normal beer today only because Western companies have invested billions of dollars in the beer industry and pulled it out of its 19th century state. And drive normal cars because the Japanese, Koreans and Americans have built huge factories in the country. And Putin all this time invested billions in Zhiguli. Feel the difference?
You can buy a good computer or TV only because the best scientists and manufacturers of the West have made a scientific and technological revolution and dropped the cost of hardware and software dozens of times. Fuck you would buy a computer for a child today if it cost, as in the early 90s. And Putin has spent all this time investing billions in nanotechnology and the Sputnik search engine. Feel the difference?
You can eat normal yoghurts for breakfast only because international concerns built dozens of farms around the country that pulled our animal husbandry out of the 19th century. And then IKEA came to Russia and pulled the Russian furniture industry out of the 19th century. And McDonald’s taught the Russians that you can eat fast, tasty and inexpensive. And go to a clean toilet. So do not talk about Putin.
Developing for any normal country is completely natural. But Putin took over a country that in 2000 was developing at a rate of 10% per year and first dropped this rate to zero, and now completely smashed the economy against a wall. An additional almost two trillion dollars came to Russia from the rise in energy prices, and all this money was plundered or lowered to curbs or pathos projects such as the Olympics or a bridge to Russky Island. Putin took the country with Rostropovich and left it with Roldugin.
But all this is already in the past. Food cards will be introduced very soon, and a salary of one hundred dollars will be considered very decent. Do not believe the false dollar exchange rate – this is the same fiction as in the USSR the dollar exchange rate is 67 kopecks. For some goods, the price has already tripled. You didn’t want to take to the streets for freedom (I’m above this policy) – soon you will see demonstrations of “empty pots” and mourning processions of mothers with portraits of dead children. You will start buying cigarettes from grandmothers near the metro by the piece, terpils. Who there yearned for the Soviet Union? Your cherished dream has come true.
We will wash the bags again and dry the used diapers on a rope. If we get them on the black market. Sphagnum is a great replacement for women’s pads! We will get up at five in the morning to get in line for milk for the baby. Look through the old files of “Science and Life”. Come in handy.
But there is also another way.
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