As a matter of fact, there are some effective and
relevant rough measures of how much worse the Putin mafia is with respect to
Western standards/oligarchy. These are:
1) the ratio between Russian basic wages versus
Western basic wages, which are now $100-200 to some $2000, that is, 1:10. The
Putin mafia is roughly ten times worse. That'show much more the Putin mafia is
robbing the people and the country and just extracting and destroying wealth
and resources. By the time of the Moscow Olympics, the living standards were
lagging behind those of the West, but the lag was not dramatic and not a
multiple as it is now. Back then the USSR did not have and did not know poverty.
But in 1980 (plus minus few years earlier), the "communist" Soviet
leadership started putting the country to the rest--"putting it on a
drip."
2) the difference between technological achievements
and productivity in the West and in Russia: Russia as a scientific and
technological power all but disappeared. Under Putin Skolkovo was to be his
answer to the Silicon Valley. Skolkovo became another pit of theft.
3) the difference with respect to infrastructure.
Under Putin, Russia's infrastructure is much worse and in worse disrepair than
it was in the late USSR.
4) What the Western elites created versus what the
Putin elite created. A lot versus the negative.
5) Western elites are at times and can be in fact
very patriotic. The Putin command has been selected and filtered by Russia's
most devoted enemies.
6) Putin himself is a concentrated symptom and
symbol of the mafia, oligarchic, comprador regime to which he also gave
justifiably his own name since he is its highest figurehead and certainly one
of its principal stakeholders and thieving oligarchs. He is also one of its
causes. Therefore, to change the system, its key symbol and official head has
to go for that to happen or for Russia to have at least some chance and some
future. But Putin's removal is not enough. It is necessary, but insufficient.
The whole system deserves and needs to be replaced.
PS: Natalia Poklonskaya is anti-Soviet fanatic with
very limited intellect, but with an assumed resemblance with Japanese cartoon
sex symbols
