90's just set a paradigm in heads: take whatever you want from your state, who cares, the get the hell out of country. It still works for a lot of men here.
It sucks. But what we do now - we set a new paradigm. At leat try to. When the generation in charge of power changes, things'll change all around us. No idea in what way they'll change, however.
Out of interest Comrade, when do you think the current generation in power will change? Can you see an end to the current establishment in the same way that things changed in the early 90s?
10-15 years maybe. Maybe more.
I think things won't go 90's-wise here because this generation was generally raised by people who scared the shit out of them with their talks about "horrible 90's when there was no bread in shops and bandits all over streets with no police against them (and sometime with them) and army that apparently completely fallen apart. So, do you want those back, kiddos?"
There is a strange thing: in Russia - especially in Moscow - there is a rather small strata of people who arу very well-run, never were hungry, have plenty of money and have good jobs, but still complain about government constantly because it "oppresses people of Russia (c)", though they maybe haven't been anywhere but Moscow in Russia. They are very active in socium, however, and most of opinions that are shown on "progressive and liberal" TV shows and written by "progressive and liberal" people in their LJ's come from those. And the main thing - most of them have no will to change a damn thing. All they like is to complain in internet or TV, maybe go to a meeting occasionally. That is their maximum. They prefer that to start actual work on improving their country. Example: a person has a lawyer dyploma and is capable to work in justice system. He thinks that the justice is performed badly because the judges are bribed. What does that person do? Right, he starts complaining IRL, on internets and TV instead of becoming a judge and actually performing justice.
And those people are the ones we used to call intelligentsia. It is an old tradition, which started even before USSR, in Russian Empire. Not like it is the best of our traditions. Overall, I don't think - I hope - things won't go 90's-wise, but we'll have some reforms. Lots of them. I hope they'd be performed more... smoothly since we need no general reforms, like from planned economy to market structure, but it'll take a whole abyss of lesser ones.
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