|| -----Original Message-----
|| From: ChrisD(RJ)
|| But nevertheless I think that this person represents a new
|| generation. Over
|| the past three years he grew into a mature politician. He is
|| understood by
|| ordinary people. His rating remains very high. This is his
|| biggest resource
|| and this is why he succeeds. Before we didn't have a
|| federation, we had a
|| feudal regionalism. Now the constitution begins to work - the mechanisms
|| begin to work - everything is just beginning. Time is needed -
|| I think that
|| he'll have time.
Yes but time to do what? That is the burning question in my mind. I have this secret hope that Putin is a commie and that the ex-SU is _now_ ripe for communism. Seems to me the peoples of the ex-SU are the only ones who've known both worlds, and what's more are educated enough to form an opinion about them - viz that under capitalism a handful make a killing while the masses get demolished. Putin brought Russia back from turning into a mafia state, stopped capital flight, increased exports, reduced poverty, showed that Russia could be a strategic player again, and is pulling together the federation, I keep asking myself what this disciplined and sharp KGB officer is aiming at? He doesn't look like an oligarch or a cult of personality type. Even less is he the confiding, outspoken type, but nevertheless you must have an idea by now. So what do you think?
Hakki