Watching Russia deteriorate to what it is today makes me extremely sad. When people openly start to remember the 90's as the "bad" years it makes me realize that a country that was made for slavery just can not step over it's genetic shortcomings.
During the "wild" we all had dreams, we all had friends, and most important of all we honestly felt it was going to get better. I was young ambitious, idealistic and i felt free in that wild insane country.
Putin turned into a jail for anyone with intellectual potential, unless you are a bureaucrat,cop, a friend of the system , or just a dude who has a high tolerance for risk like Mr Chhodorkovsky used to have you are living there on borrowed time. Some people do it for money others hate silently.
I do not hate i just feel extreme sadness when i think what could of been.
When Putin he came to power i said it will take him 20 years to destroy the country completely. I think was overly optimistic in my assessment.
Lev Shneur
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