The author himself — Alfred Reinholdovich Koch — is unquestionably the embodiment of a cynical, brazen ghoul with neither shame nor conscience.
The final stage in the evolution of the Komsomol entrepreneur (Komsomol: the Soviet Communist youth organization), going through life with the slogan, "If you're so smart, why am I so rich?" But in this case, that only makes his opinion more valuable. The truth as it is. Cynical and brazen. What the liberals of the 1990s really think, but only Koch managed to say out loud: *And how are they supposed to explain now why Chechens who killed Russian soldiers are being amnestied, while Budanov and Ulman are not? Why did Chechens drive all the Russians out of Grozny in the early 1990s (and slit the throats of those who didn't leave), while we can't even make them behave decently in our Moscow? Why do we feed them so generously when we ourselves don't have enough? Presumably there are correct and wise answers to these and similar questions. But the authorities provide none! They simply pretend these questions do not exist. So why be surprised that these lads answered those questions themselves? They answered them as best they could. ... I am forced to state: it was only half the trouble when Chechens did not want to live with Russians in one country. The real trouble will begin when Russians no longer want to live together with Chechens. ... The Potemkin village of nationalities policy created by the Kremlin is a hellish mixture of stale political correctness, nauseating servility, and proletarian internationalism long since dead and buried. This pathetic lie about a kind, loyal people and wise leaders is unbearable in its sheer derivative banality. *////////////// Congratulations to Russian Forbes on a hit.