How Putin Corrupted The Russians and The Biggest Organizations in Russia?
Steven Seagal, who began his career as an aikido instructor in Japan, bows down in respect to Yakuza boss who grants him a passport for helping out with illegal activities.
Vladimir Putin had a job from hell in Saint Petersburg City Hall in the 1990s.
While his mentor mayor Anatoly Sobchak, a tall and charismatic professor, lorded over the second largest city like third-rate Slavic Viracocha, Putin did the dirty work of dealing with the organized crime groups in the most criminal city in Russia.
Mafia bosses paid Putin discreet visits in his office, and he had to ensure they don’t gun him down, don’t start a turf war and help them out with dividing spheres of interest for everybody to be happy.
Putin achieved this feat through conciliatory approach, by always being amicable and accommodating, but more importantly by letting the bandits have all the contracts and businesses he could get hold of.
Instead of keeping the crooks at bay as his job required, Putin gave them free reign by letting them loose while Sobchak was busy cosplaying a cool European mayor.
Actor turned priest turned propagandist Ivan Okhlobystin told the children during a televised meeting that “a woman is a mycelium that should only give birth and stand by the stove.” A Russian woman is a cooking and birthing mushroom? Can I have what you take, Ivan?
When Putin became Russian President through a series of false flag residential building explosions to start a second war in Chechnya which he “won” through negotiating an under the table deal with the Kadyrov family according to which they would run a de facto independent Islamic state while pretending on behalf of the gullible Russian citizens that Chechnya is still part of the Russian Federation, he turned the whole political system into an organized crime group.
Putin doled out positions and whole industries to his cronies, and ensured that not one group of crooks becomes too powerful to present any danger to him personally and destabilize his bizarre take on democratic system of checks and balances.
The whole of Russia soon became a carbon copy of criminal Saint Petersburg.
Not only did Putin hijack democracy , he basically corrupted and criminalized every institute of power by making it part and parcel of his organized crime system.
To individuals who are not Putin’s cronies everything is for sale - member of parliament placements, governor and mayor’s positions, officer and general ranks, while medal awards are nods from the mafia boss that the individual toes the line and his services to the organized crime group are appreciated.
Time literally stands still in Russia. The central children’s puppet theatre in Moscow that charges up to $100 for tickets, doesn’t have funds to fix its famous clock. In midday , only 3 windows out 12 work from which figurines of animals look out. Fun fact: there’s a figurine of wolf behind 11, in the Soviet Union it was the time of the day - 11am - dubbed Wolf’s Hour when stores began to sell liquor to take hair out of the dog.
Putin attached a FSB (former KGB) agent to every businessman in the country. They either organized their own little crime ring for mutual benefit , or the agent would be fleecing the businessman and if he balked sent Chechen strongmen to beat the crap out of him.
That soon became totally unnecessary as business owners brought cash in shoe boxes to FSB offices on designated days like good boys .
When Putin began to meet Western leaders he believed they were all soft touches.
Putin dealt with Tambov crime group boss who would visit him in the office after executing or torturing some poor sods, and here is a frog-eating soft-spoken French president married to his school teacher.
Putin just didn’t take them seriously and held in contempt most of them who pathetically got voted out faster than he could keep track of.
In the Kuban, municipal workers fixed an outhouse door for the mother of a mobilised soldier fighting in Ukraine. The planks form Latin letter Z, a symbol of the Special Military Operation, on the door so that mother could remember why her son is not with her.
Except Angela Merkel, ex leader and Our (Wo)man in Germany.
The guarantor of Gasprom natural gas exports, she accepted Putin’s mafia state simply because she couldn’t care less what was going on outside the German borders having learned the lessons of WW1 and WW2 defeat well - do not interfere in other countries affairs.
This whole charade is appalling and at the same time stunning - how one man has managed to pull it off , basically to corrupt fully the whole society and hook Europe up on cheap energy to dance to one little man’s tune.
And now the circus has begun to unravel , the yarn to unspool, and what’s going to happen after the war is hard to predict , but one thing is certain Russians will have to re-build the state from the ground up.
By QUORA
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