{"id":10424,"date":"2014-07-28T03:55:53","date_gmt":"2014-07-28T07:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goldstocksforex.com\/?p=10424"},"modified":"2014-07-28T03:55:53","modified_gmt":"2014-07-28T07:55:53","slug":"let-the-past-collapse-on-time-by-vladimir-sorokin-the-new-york-review-of-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2014\/07\/28\/let-the-past-collapse-on-time-by-vladimir-sorokin-the-new-york-review-of-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Let the Past Collapse on Time! by Vladimir Sorokin | The New York Review of Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Vladimir Sorokin:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Yeltsin, who was tired after climbing to the top of the pyramid, left the structure completely undisturbed, but brought an heir along with him: Putin, who immediately informed the population that he viewed the collapse of the USSR as a geopolitical catastrophe. He also quoted the conservative Alexander III, who believed that Russia had only two allies: the army and the navy. The machine of the Russian state moved backward, into the past, becoming more and more Soviet every year.<\/p>\n<p>In my view, this fifteen-year journey back to the USSR under the leadership of a former KGB lieutenant colonel has shown the world the vicious nature and archaic underpinnings of the Russian state\u2019s \u201cvertical power\u201d structure, more than any \u201cgreat and terrible\u201d Putin&#8230;.A country such as this cannot have a predictable, stable future&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Unpredictability has always been Russia\u2019s calling card, but since the Ukrainian events, it has grown to unprecedented levels: no one knows what will happen to our country in a month, in a week, or the day after tomorrow. I think that even Putin doesn\u2019t know; he is now hostage to his own strategy of playing \u201cbad guy\u201d to the West&#8230;..If you compare the post-Soviet bear to the Soviet one, the only thing they have in common is the imperial roar. However, the post-Soviet bear is teeming with corrupt parasites that infected it during the 1990s, and have multiplied exponentially in the last decade. They are consuming the bear from within. Some might mistake their fevered movement under the bear\u2019s hide for the working of powerful muscles. But in truth, it\u2019s an illusion.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Translated from the Russian by Jamey Gambrell.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href='http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/archives\/2014\/may\/08\/let-the-past-collapse-on-time\/?insrc=rel'>Let the Past Collapse on Time! by Vladimir Sorokin | The New York Review of Books<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Vladimir Sorokin: Yeltsin, who was tired after climbing to the top of the pyramid, left the structure completely undisturbed, but brought an heir along with him: Putin, who immediately informed the population that he viewed the collapse of the USSR as a geopolitical catastrophe. 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