When the USSR collapsed gorbachev He did nothing other than record that the system did not work. As my friend told me Amadeu Cuito, the USSR, lack of freedoms apart, was “an immense Renfe & rdquor ;. The USSR without him CPSU disappeared and Yeltsin failed to stabilize the system. Unlike the China of Deng Xiaoping Russian post-communism did not know how to “hunt mice & rdquor ;, satisfy the minimum needs of the population. Neither evolve towards something similar to a market economy.
For years it was believed that Vladimir Putin, a spymaster from the previous regime would know how to control the situation. A kind of Pinochet, but with some elections and more corruption. But Putin’s ideological food has been a exclusive and far-fetched nationalism which has ended up leading him, due to lack of information, to the invasion of Ukraine. And it has been visualized that, just as the communism of Brezhnev it was inefficient, the military power of post-Soviet Russia was a bluff. And in order not to lose in the Ukraine, he has had to resort to an army of mercenaries, recruited many times with convicted criminals, assembled by a man like Prigozhin. But a state cannot have two opposing military powers. And this is what has been seen over the weekend with wagner’s rebellion against the Defense Minister.
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The State has exploited and as it has said Kasparov, the great chess player“Putin has already lost the aura of invincibility and the end of the regime is inevitable & rdquor ;. Russian communism, unlike Chinese, collapsed by not knowing how to evolve. Putin’s military power was also a bluff as Ukraine’s big mistake has shown. And now the State has been shaken by the rebellion of a mercenary structure encouraged from power.
Russia is a big failure, but it has a nuclear tinderbox, a great threat to humanity. And the risks of this runaway powder keg are even more serious than the war in Ukraine. Ultranationalist dictators are today the great danger and Putin is the worst.