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It, among other things, led to a drop in revenues to the treasury. And increased the shortage of goods. Well, drunkards began to love the Soviet government less.</p>
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Does a drinker need a lot? Pay him enough for a bottle of ink at ninety-six kopecks for half a liter and he will be satisfied. And along with the decline in alcohol consumption, drug addiction has increased.</p>
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Putin entered the body of Mikhail Gorbachev in March 1987, just at the age of fifty-six. You can still change everything and it's not too late to fix it. So far, Mikhail Gorbachev is firmly seated in the chair of the General Secretary and has even removed a number of old members from the opposition from the Politburo: Romanov, Grishin, Aliev, Tikhonov. He has not yet eliminated Yeltsin, a candidate member of the Politburo and head of Moscow State University.</p>
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But he's not going anywhere. Will be stubborn - they will plant!</p>
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In any case, Vladimir Putin has moved into Gorbachev's already middle-aged but still energetic body. He himself was already in his former life, too, far from being a young man and healthy. And also up to his ears in problems. One of them is, of course, the war with Ukraine, when the blitzkrieg calculation failed! And tens of thousands of Russian soldiers died: the bloodiest massacre since World War II.</p>
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And now solve new problems in Gorbachev's body. During these years, Putin himself served in the GDR, and those were relatively happy times. It's even better when you're young. And at seventy, life is no longer a joy for you. And sleep is not refreshing in a youthful way, it is difficult to get up in the morning, and endurance is no longer the same - you have to use stimulants. And you don't feel very well with women. Desire and energy are already dying. It would be good to move into Alexander the Great, who was only thirty-two years old when he died. And so you yourself are old, and did not move into the youngest, and not in too good physical shape.</p>
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Yes, even in a person who is mired up to his ears in problems.</p>
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There is already Chernobyl, and the consequences of the fight against drunkenness, and a shortage of goods, and the already slandered past - Stalin, and so on.</p>
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Well, Lenin has not yet had time to fuck up. So far, a series of velvet revolutions has not taken place in Eastern Europe. That is, there is a socialist camp. And the Soviet troops have not yet left Afghanistan in disgrace.</p>
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So it is still possible to turn back history and save the USSR. And General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev sits firmly in his chair. But what exactly is to be done?</p>
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Vladimir Putin, once in the body of the General Secretary, felt empty. The mechanism of perestroika has already been set in motion, and democratization and the anti-Stalinist campaign have begun. And you can't stop it just like that.</p>
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Putin-Gorbachev looked at himself in the mirror: he is not very pleasant. Already the hair is turning gray and an impressive bald head. Putin himself had less baldness at the age of seventy. And Gorbachev at fifty-six, as if at his birthday, seems to have a fourteen-year head start, but somehow loose, and his physiognomy is not charismatic.</p>
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And health problems - the memory of the old carrier suggests: there are, in particular, diabetes. However, in his former life, Vladimir Putin was not particularly healthy, although rumors spread about him. And they filmed staged how the President of Russia plays hockey great. But it’s clear what kind of hockey player you are at the age of seventy and practically without training.</p>
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There was also an attempt to play a role from himself - a kind of macho who does not seem to grow old, and expects to rule until the end of the world!</p>
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But indeed the war with Ukraine led the world to the third world war. Putin himself expected that it would not be long: well, a few days, or a maximum of two or three weeks. But the Ukrainians did not want to fall under Russia. And it turned out that the Russian army is not at all so invincible. And the Ukrainian generals are not so corrupt. Although Kherson managed to take by bribery. But these turned out to be a tiny minority.</p>
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Ukraine's resistance marked the end of Putin's period of phenomenal luck, when everything seemed to work out very easily. Including the capture of the Crimea. Just like in a science fiction novel, it happened in the Crimea. Even in the reality of this is not too much to believe.</p>
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And then there were difficult times: the price of oil fell, but the former reserves rescued. At some point, it seemed that fortune was turning away from Russia. The price of oil and gas plummeted, and the coronavirus could not be stopped. But then luck returned - gas and oil went up incredibly.</p>
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And then it sounded in the head of the President of Russia: you can become the second Genghis Khan or Napoleon.</p>
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Yes, and with Kazakhstan was lucky: a riot broke out there. And exactly strong enough to scare Tokaev, so that he would ask for help. And at the same time too weak to have to really fight.</p>
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And it seemed like a sign from heaven: you can now become a great conqueror. And a blow in the style of Napoleon Bonaparte.</p>
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Only now the enemy was underestimated. The Ukrainians turned out to be much better prepared for war than expected, and thoroughly dug in. Yes, Zelensky turned out to be not at all such a weakling and soft-bodied as many thought about him.</p>
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So the blitzkrieg that Vladimir Putin was counting on failed. The war became protracted and fierce.</p>
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At first, it seemed that oil and gas prices were skyrocketing, and it would bankrupt the West.</p>
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But in the summer, oil production in the world increased, and Saudi Arabia decided to oust Russia from Europe, and prices began to fall again. And then the Taliban, having decided that the moment was the most convenient, attacked Tajikistan and opened a new front in the south of the CIS.</p>
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And here Russia had to fight almost alone, since the Tajiks turned out to be weak in fighting spirit - they massively surrendered and deserted.</p>