Back in 2000, Putin defeated Chechen separatism. Instead of sovereign Ichkeria, separated from Russia by a triple barbed-wire fence, we have the beautiful Kadyrov's Chechnya, where, without trial or investigation, dozens of people are strangled in basements where the laws of the Russian Federation do not apply, and to which we regularly pay tribute.
Then Putin with the help of poisonous gas in 2002 defeated 40 terrorists who seized the Theater Center on Dubrovka. Apparently, he really needed this victory, because 174 people died, including 10 children.
On this he decided not to stop, or, rather, got a taste and already in 2004 defeated the terrorists who seized the school in Beslan. This time there were fewer terrorists - 32, and the number of deaths was more - 333 (including 186 children), plus 783 wounded. So what? The forest is being cut - the chips are flying.
As a snack, to round off the Chechen theme, in 2004, Putin defeated Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev by blowing him up in Doha (Qatar) in a car. Together with the guards and 13-year-old son. Arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment for this murder of employees of the Russian embassy Anatoly Vladimirovich Belashkov and Vasily Anatolyevich Bogachev were redeemed and returned to the Russian Federation. In Vnukovo, the infanticide was greeted with military honors, officially opening the era of demonstrative political assassinations.
How many such victories Putin won is difficult to say: we can only say for certain that he succeeded with Litvinenko in 2006 and Nemtsov in 2015, but not with the Skripals and Navalny.
In the meantime, Putin defeated the oligarchs - Berezovsky, Gusinsky and Khodorkovsky, and a little later - Yevtushenkov. From the first two, he took away the country's largest media assets - ONT, NTV and, in addition to them, a huge number of printed publications, radio stations and smaller channels, putting an end to freedom of speech in the Russian Federation.
From the third and fourth, he took Yukos and Bashneft, from the wreckage of which the corporation-monster Rosneft was built, which literally wasted $ 143.18 billion.
Berezovsky later beat himself up and hanged himself, while Khodorkovsky served 10 years in a colony. From that moment on, oligarchs ceased to "become", they began to be appointed.
Roman Abramovich understood everything correctly and did not hold on to Sibneft, which became Gazprom Neft under the leadership of another Putin appointee, Miller. Let me remind you that over the past 10 years, Gazprom's capitalization has dropped by 7 times.
Not so noticeably and effectively, but very effectively, Putin first defeated the Federation Council in 2000, making it a body consisting of appointees, then in 2004 governors, canceling their elections, and then in 2013 took control of the entire judicial system, making possible the “Basmanny justice".
This elegant multi-move - without irony or exaggeration - is the highest of Putin's achievements, which opened the way for him to concentrate all power in the Russian Federation in his hands and build a developed authoritarianism in a single country.
In 2012, Putin, with the help of a "castling" and a manual Constitutional Court, defeated arithmetic, being elected for the third and fourth terms, despite the clear and unambiguous prohibition contained in it for more than two presidential terms. So we have lost the turnover of power.
In 2020, Putin consolidated this victory by performing a "zeroing" on stumps and benches. At that moment it became finally clear that the Constitution is not worth the paper on which it is printed.
Putin's sports victories are also impressive: what is only the 2014 Winter Olympics in subtropical Sochi, where Russia took first place in the team event in gold medals!
This Olympics turned out to be the most expensive in history, not only in monetary terms: so far, no country in the world has experienced such humiliation as Russia, convicted of a massive and state-organized doping scam: the Russian Federation was barred from international sports competitions (including the Olympic Games) , and Russian athletes have lost the opportunity to compete under the flag of their country.
In the theaters of military operations, Putin also won recklessly. First, in 2008, he defeated Georgia, tearing South Ossetia and Abkhazia away from it, and hanging outside the international legal field.
Medvedev was listed as president at that moment, but Putin specifically said that even during his second presidential term, he personally approved the action plan for Georgia prepared by the General Staff of the Russian Federation. Putin then got away with it, and he decided to play geopolitics in an adult way.
Having defeated Ukraine, which was weakened during the change of power, Putin took Crimea away from it in 2014 and created two bandit enclaves on its territory - the DPR and LPR.
These victories probably cost the peoples of Ukraine and Russia the most: 13 thousand dead, multibillion-dollar, but fruitless infusions into Crimea, 40 million Ukrainians who suddenly turned from brothers into sworn enemies, international sanctions that slowed down the development of the country for decades, and in as the cherry on the cake - the downed Malaysian Boeing: 283 dead, including 80 children.
Putin failed to win the sanctions, so in revenge he defeated parmesan, jamon and other tasty inexpensive food, instead of which the Russians were offered to eat their native import-substituted surrogate from a primordially Russian product - imported palm oil.
In Syria, Putin defeated rebels trying to topple the bloody dictator Assad by bombarding them with banned cluster bombs. For the sake of this case, it was necessary to completely defeat ISIS, and at least five times at least - judging by the official announcements.
The military space troops of the Russian Federation cheerfully crushed bearded men on rusty pickups with welded machine guns with rockets worth several million dollars, the missile carrier Kuzya sank our planes one by one, and everything was quite fun until our warriors flew into Turkey, where the Turks immediately shot them down. Well, then the Wagnerians climbed into the American zone near Hasham, where they were rolled into meat by artillery and drones.
Putin's revenge was terrible - he immediately defeated the Turkish tomatoes and was already going to defeat the Turkish all-inclusive, but he relented in time.
With the Americans, he acted completely ruthlessly: he dropped a nuclear warhead that has no analogues in the world on Florida and launched a cruise missile with an unlimited flight range and a nuclear engine.
He did this, however, in a poorly drawn cartoon, although there was a cruise missile - only in life it banged not across the United States, but during tests in the Arkhangelsk region, sending five test scientists to the next world and dirtiening the adjacent territory.
But these are all small things compared to how Putin learned to win elections. Since 2011, when 146% of voters voted in the elections to the State Duma and falsifications became the norm, he won one victory after another and achieved such skill in this matter that voters at this celebration of life, in general, are not needed.
The last thread connecting the state and society broke, and freed from the need to somehow represent the interests of the people, the State Duma began to stamp out laws, the whole meaning of which was to prohibit or tighten something.
Likes and reposts turned into extremism, rallies were outlawed, human rights and public organizations became foreign agents, and the most intelligent, honest and educated people in Russia were national traitors.
Using the Law of Yarovaya adopted on this wave, Putin in 2016 to warm up defeated LinkedIn, the most harmless and politically neutral social network of the existing ones, and with joy decided to defeat Telegram in 2018, but then the scythe found a stone: despite the blocking of more than 18 million addresses in a week and the number of Russian Telegram users, lying in ruins, has only doubled from this.
Nevertheless, freedom in Runet came to an end, sites began to massively block, and careless Vkontakte users were imprisoned.
Along the way, Putin apparently defeated old age and in 2019 literally ordered the old people to live long, raising their retirement age. For some reason, stupid old people did not obey, and continued to die as before.
Putin and COVID won in order to still celebrate June 24 on May 9, but the damned old people let them down here too, dying out like dinosaurs in poorly equipped covidariums without ventilators, medicines and oxygen. Nobody knows exactly how many of them were killed, according to estimates of excess mortality - at least 330 thousand people.
Putin won the last landmark victory over the brave souls, who were not allowed by their conscience to sit out at home, and who took to the streets of Russian cities to support Navalny, who was not finished by Putin, and for this was thrown into prison, despite all imaginable and inconceivable bans.
The streets of the cities were filled with hordes of orcs in black, who beat and screwed everyone in a row, without discerning gender and age behind their foggy visors. Stupid and uneducated parasites beat those on whose money they live, those who are smarter than them, those who cannot put up with injustice - literally the flower of the nation. And there is no doubt that as soon as the borders are slightly opened, a significant part of these people will leave Russia, as many others have already left, in order to use their abilities for the benefit of other, more hospitable countries.
Look what an interesting picture is emerging: each of these victories caused colossal damage to the economy, human potential, civil liberties or international relations of Russia, and we have not even started talking about Putin's defeats yet!
And after all, you know, he has not finished yet, he plans many more victories: over Twitter, YouTube and Facebook, over FBK and the last sprouts of legal opposition, over extremists, in which zealous opera will record your loved ones who confessed under torture, over scraps of the free press, on which Kadyrov's dogs are now being set, and so on.
Each victory of Putin brings closer the inevitable - the destruction of the Russian Federation in its current form. In this, by the way, we are partly allies with him - this state must irreversibly change.
The problem is that normal people deliberately strive to dismantle the vicious and ineffective system of state administration as quickly and accurately as possible, as quickly as possible, without shocks, while preserving everything of value that is still left in society in order to give it an impetus for development and return to civilization.
Putin, on the other hand, instinctively seeks to preserve the system, killing all living things in it and, in fact, forcing it to devour itself. The longer it lasts, the worse it will end. The best will flee from here, the rest will degrade, resources will be depleted, technological lagging will grow. The country will slowly plunge into poverty and lawlessness, from which there is no and will not be a simple and painless way out.
Therefore, we really need a victory. Not a lot, like Putin's, but only one, but for all. What this victory will be, I do not see yet. But two things are already obvious.
The first is that it is necessary to fight for the future of the country without playing with the security officials in their field, where they currently have an advantage in equipment and training, but using their strengths - intelligence, education, creativity, perseverance, initiative, and the ability to unite.
And the second - that the main goal of the struggle is to turn the gray, apathetic and apolitical mass of people into a people who want to live in every sense with dignity and are ready to fight for it.
Author Vadim Zhartun
