Dictators

The Russians are coming – they came yesterday…at the pool downtown, as a part of a ballet ensemble and even in this form, they can send some shivers down the spine of those around, given that their predecessors, perhaps their ancestors have done a lot to change things in these parts of the world, the latest calamity being the communism they have imposed in a land where members of that dreadful, awful outfit were scares and that ideology had no appeal here and it became official policy only after the infamous divide of the Iron Curtain – Greece had many more times communist partisans than we did, but luckily for them, it fell in the Western sphere of influence, when judged on tendency and leftist supporters, they should have been in the Warsaw Pact (well, if anyone deserved that terrible fate) and we should have been left out…

If these dancers show up in the Jacuzzi at the club tomorrow, to take thousands of selfies like today, perhaps I should try and see what they think of Putin, albeit on past experience, I have asked a rather intelligent, adroit, well-travelled, distinguished woman and she was, if not very fond of their horse riding, bare chested, judo specialist president, anyway she was quite satisfied with what he has done and I do not remember if Crimea had been already in the bag at the time of the discussion, but surely, a vast majority there feel that and other large territories belong to Mother Russia and they presumably see the good in the adventures the dictator embarks on in the Ukraine, Syria, some years ago in Georgia, playing games with Ossetia and the other small place that they encourage to detach from their enemy, just to create division, confusion, conflict and benefit from the famous ‘divide et impera’.

If Russia has the divine writers, creators, scientists and even now, the opposition surely has outstanding intellectuals, there is still a feeling of something close to hatred, for after they changed the political system here, everything was lost and in decades of tyranny, the economy, mentality, civilization, culture and everything else have all suffered such a blow that it would take other decades, maybe a century, to recover completely from the disaster and move in line with the west, bringing democratic principles, voting literacy to the countryside – we have had elections only three days ago and although the emeritus Klaus Johannis has won with over 66%, it is still outrageous that about 3,000,000 have still opted for the Red Plague party, a group of Mafiosi, bandits that have stolen huge amounts from the state, in organized crime groups, exhausting the resources of the country, with illegal land grabs, embezzlement, onerous, corrupt contracts assigned to their accomplices, in exchange for a share of the spoils…

This was such a massive, huge scale operation that it has become clear that a supporter of this party could be nothing but either stupid or perverse and so immoral, abject as to be ready to steal and keep so many in poverty, only because he wants to spend money and acquire property in the still poor country and in places like Brazil, where it seems that the former leader of this local Mafia (now Alhamdulillah in jail and there for a long time, Insha’Allah!) has parked a lot of his extreme wealth, unjustified in terms of his official income and considering he has always been an official, a politician on a public sector income, generous, seeing as parliamentarians have gifted themselves with very large paychecks and pensions, but still not enough for mansions and properties that have access on three streets and defy the very voters that keep them in power (well, they did, but hopefully they have stopped).