Putin vs Porec | Paper

Behind him are Lenin and Stalin, even Andropov, his teacher, through many others. He has redesigned his features and rejuvenated himself, and this is not good for a true tyrant, but he is still a formidable man. He’s a judo master, by the way. He is a great statesman, no matter what you think of his methods and the kleptocracy that concerns and surrounds him. But Putin is not only the history of communism, subjected to the “greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century”, they are his words after the fall of the Berlin Wall. He is a model, the strong man, the strong man, loved and respected in the world as a critic of liberal democracy, as a builder of a plebiscitary, semi-democratic, decidedly illiberal mentality.. A centralizer. A guy who has given identity and meaning back to the middle class, which until then did not exist, in a country that has always lived in the mystique of poverty and the state aristocracy, from the Tsar to the Soviet nomenclature.