Disease of Power

But their alumni remain in power.

We always repeat that what is needed is a change of generations: look, Moses led his people in the wilderness for decades, while we want everything all at once. Sorry, what kind of Moses are you talking about, if you can learn the biographies of today's leaders from a time-battered Propagandist's Reference Book - and these will be true biographies and not what they tell us about themselves today. One such person went to an international forum and, in order not to disgrace himself in front of the Rockefellers, wrote in his resume: "Was engaged in political activity before being elected."

What kind of activity, Comrade? Did you run a section at a district Party committee? Then at a city Committee? Then in the Central Committee? Shall I remind you of the Politburo?

No doubt, there are extremely gifted and strong personalities among these people. Yeltsin, after all, is one. But these are old men with an old style of thinking and ruling and who have their own problems. They suffer from their own maladies, lust for power being the most dangerous.

They do not want to become historical figures just yet. However, before they make their way into the history books, the latter will also feature us, post-Soviet people, as the best example of the whole nations once so arduously experimented upon by those invincible Politburo members.