One gets the impression that before us is a communist defending his honor, another victim of the intrigues of the Rashid mafia, Proud and unbroken. Is it so?
No, it’s not. Ergashev drew into his corruption schemes, or rather into the lifestyle of the Uzbek housebuilder (the homemakeman), the Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the USSR Churbanov. The late minister’s capital was about 10 million rubles, and the primary custodians of this wealth were family members and close relatives.
Vanity. Part 2. Where to go, whom to give yourself to?
Who supports this order? Who likes it?
Of course, outside Refags can support such democracy and such nationalism.
Therefore encouraging the local elite to become independent in the external arena, the Refags showed better self-sufficiency and democracy in general than the socialism of the Zerefs. This is absolutely not the same Refags that landed North American fleets with Columb.
If, for traditional people, hierarchy in any form and conditions is essential, regardless of time and civilization, then for Refags it is critical to sell their goods, just irrespective of time and place. They like Zerots (the traditional elite) because they don’t have to mess with them.
Chapter VIII
Big brother steals and builds a house
Not provincials choose the career of an official. Previously, this prospect looked attractive and traditional. But after the collapse of the USSR and the restoration of capitalism, the star of Kommersant’s status shone attractively.
Not only the top item like the new imported stuff and cars. Everything could be bought in the market now. Much faster and of a different kind. The opportunities of the west elite became available to the Soviet bourgeoisie. What was available only to the top became available to everyone. This confused everyone. Who is the elite now? Therefore, the lower classes did not immediately understand all the market’s charms. But as they understood, they immediately became merchants, began to sell anything. Many, of course, were forced from a desperate situation, the family to feed as it is necessary. By necessity, they also appreciated the taste of an inaccessible deficit in the past. The first savings went as personal achievements, then family ones.
Not all people were on this path of rapid and easy enrichment simultaneously. The most purposeful, ambitious, and evil, cynical merchants turned out to be the poorest in the past. That was unexpected. Real fighters appeared, often from large, orphaned, and other low-income families, against the background of the depreciation of past morals.