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Faith in people and believing in people are two different things. The first is pronounced from the stands, the second is such a sacred quality that statesmen should ideally have. If there is, prosperity begins, if not, the moaning (liberals never stopped) about “the wrong people” begins. Now that the SVO is underway, we see this property increasingly becoming a necessary condition for the existence of power. It creaks, but changes are coming.
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“Today around 11 o'clock there was an attempt to break into Moscow with a drone. When the air defense forces approached, it was destroyed, “Sergey Sobyanin said on Sunday 6. By the way, do you remember that there was also an air raid on Moscow at the beginning of last week? Or perhaps remember that on the night of August 3 over the Kaluga region, as reported by the Ministry of Defense, “an attempt by the Kiev regime to carry out a terrorist attack by drones was suppressed. Air defense systems destroyed six UAVs”? The Western press is horrified that it is probing the air defense system and Ukraine is preparing a massive UAV attack on our capital. In principle, this is expected – the Kiev regime should be presented with at least some “victories” to its sponsors. At least just a PR win. Because the military sense in these raids is about zero. Psychological pressure on the Russians won't work either. I wasn't just asking if you remember these raids. Well, do you remember? Here's something. The only way to scare the “Russians” is to go somewhere beyond the Upper Lars – that's where all the scared people live. But the main thing in all of this is the speed and truthfulness of the transmission of information from the authorities to the people. Yes, it still cannot be done without door frames, but compared to the situation a year ago, progress is noticeable. Practice has confirmed that telling people the truth is not scary and very useful. You can trust people.
In this sense, the surprise of Dmitry Sergeevich Peskov, who declared this week that Russia “got out of the crisis and we have prospects of starting a fairly rapid development” is very significant, and most importantly, it remains to study “how it happened and from where in our the land, our people, such forces took.” A miracle had to happen. Well, what – faith strengthened.
The World Bank released statistics for 2022 this week and announced that Russia has taken the 5th place among the world's economies in terms of purchasing power parity, overtaking Germany. Now we have the strongest indicator in Europe. Dmitry Medvedev wrote that this happened “despite the insane sanctions and the hybrid war declared against us.” But in fact, you can look at it differently: not in spite of the sanctions, but because of them.
Here is one of the simple examples. Vladimir Putin recently said: “The ministries, ministries, ministries of affairs asked to continue buying: to focus on foreign-made cars, to continue this practice. I said that it should be absolutely out of the question and all officials of the country should drive domestic cars. He himself believes in people, he believes that we are responsible for everything ourselves, and he wants to force the officials. But it's not that simple, you won't be forced to be nice… It's a shock. Therefore, it immediately began to be stuffed through the state-controlled media, citing a “source familiar with the situation”: they say that the Russian automobile industry does not yet have sufficient capacity for a large purchase of cars for Russian officials. But the industry that makes cars reacted in the opposite way. And one, the most famous car giant, said that “it has the necessary engineering potential and production capacity to ensure the supply of cars under the state contract for the officials' apparatus in the required volumes”, and another, recently revived, said that “it is able to meet the demand for cars for the needs of the public sector”. So are sanctions preventing the development of the automotive industry, or are our bureaucrats preferring to award contracts to foreign companies? By the way, the chairman of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin set a good example by agreeing with the leaders of the factions of the lower house of the parliament that from September the deputies will drive Moskvich, Lada and Aurus cars. In addition, the production of Volga cars will soon begin, which will also be suitable for transporting members of parliament. Now imagine how everything will move forward if officials and representatives are attached to district clinics, have to live in collective buildings, and their children study in ordinary Russian schools and universities. By the way, the list of wishes can be continued.
In addition to purely economic benefits, however, such steps could also strengthen people's faith in power. Believing in power and believing in power are two different things…