Putin recently announced that he will participate in Russia's 2024 **, and according to Putin's current approval rating, if nothing happens (suffering a major illness or being assassinated), Russia's next ** will be Putin, then he will be re-elected until 2036, when he will be 84 years old.
Some people say that only Putin can lead Russia, others say that Putin is ** and excludes dissidents, and some people say that Russia without Putin has long been **, is this in fact the case?
The current Russian Putin can be described as an evergreen tree in the world. When he became Russia in 2000, the United States was still the 42nd Clinton, and now in 2023, the 46th Biden is about to be, Putin is still Russia, and unknowingly Putin has been in power in Russia for 23 years, and is therefore nicknamed Putin the Great, but what is little known is that Putin almost became a black taxi after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
So from the black brother to the Russian Emperor, what did Putin rely on to achieve the same transformation as opening a hanging?
01 KGB**
In 1952, in an ordinary family in Leningrad, a crying baby was born and explored the world with curiosity.
When Putin was a child, his parents were worried about him, because he was the most taciturn child in the family, he always played alone, but he was very naughty and always got into trouble. The only thing that can be called good is that Putin's grades in physical education are quite passable, because he loves judo, is brave and ruthless, and has an extremely strong personality.
Just when the family thought that Putin would become a judo teacher in the future, Putin met the first noble person in his life, Gurevich, Gurevich is Putin's German teacher, he likes Putin very much, and has praised Putin in class many times as the best student he has ever met.
With the encouragement of his teacher, Putin began to work hard, and finally with excellent results, he was admitted to Leningrad University, one of the best universities in the Soviet Union at that time.
Here, Putin met the second noble man in his life, Sobchak, a professor who taught Putin about economics, and then the trajectories of their lives continued to intersect, and finally pushed Putin to a high position, but this is all for later.
At that time, Putin was only 22 years old, this was his last year in college, he wanted to prepare for graduation in the last year, but he didn't expect that the KGB, an intelligence organization affiliated with the Soviet Union's *** committee, found Putin, hoping that he could join the KGB to serve his country.
Putin was happy to go to the appointment, so in 1975, as soon as Putin graduated, he was sent to the 401 secret school, after a short training, thanks to his excellent German foundation, Putin was sent to East Germany to carry out undercover missions, and then because of his excellent performance, he became one of the local KGB leaders.
Since then, Putin has been living a dangerous life, which is a shady job, but it has also tempered Putin's ability and paved the way for becoming a Russian ** in the future.
However, in 1989, Eastern Europe underwent drastic changes, and the Berlin Wall, which was several hundred meters long, collapsed, and also ended the history of the separation of East Germany and West Germany. Putin's mission was over, and he returned to his native Leningrad. At that time, life in the Soviet Union was not easy, the whole country was in a state of continuous slump, the economy was in a sharp recession, and Putin, who rushed back from Germany, could not find a decent job for a while.
At that time, Putin was 38 years old and once planned to make a living by opening a black taxi, but fortunately, the KGB did not forget this "veteran" who made outstanding contributions. The KGB offered Putin a decent job, assistant to the rector of Leningrad University for international affairs.
02 Return to glory
Returning to Leningrad University, Putin again met his teacher, Sobchak.
At that time, the Soviet Union was in the middle of a single country, and Sobchak seized the opportunity to become the first in one fell swoop, and was successfully elected chairman of the city of Leningrad.
And Putin has been the head of the KGB for many years and has a lot of political experience, and the two hit it off, and Sobchak promoted Putin to be his adviser on international affairs.
Since then, Putin has plunged headlong into the political whirlpool and has not yet escaped.
As Sobchak's popularity grew, it didn't take long for Sobchak to be elected mayor of Leningrad and Putin to be promoted to head of his foreign liaison department.
On June 12, 1991, Yeltsin passed the election and became the first president of Russia, that is, the then Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
Sobchak happened to be a supporter of Yeltsin, and Sobchak has risen step by step since then, and even with Putin, he served as the deputy mayor of St. Petersburg at that time. During his tenure, Sobchak liked to go abroad for investigations, so the actual speaker in St. Petersburg was Putin. Therefore, Putin was also jokingly called "the gray cardinal of St. Petersburg" at that time. ”
A few years later, when Sobchak lost the election and Putin wanted to go back and continue to open a black taxi, an unexpected invitation came to him.
The inviter was Borsakov, who was the deputy prime minister at the time, and invited Putin to leave for Moscow immediately to serve as the deputy director of the ** Affairs Bureau, so Putin successfully met the third noble person in his life, Yeltsin.
Yeltsin saw Putin's excellent ability, and in 1998, he promoted Putin to the post of first deputy director of the General Office. All of a sudden, he became one of Yeltsin's most powerful aides and entered the inner circle of Russian power.
Similarly, with Yeltsin's help, in the same year, Putin was appointed head of the Federal Security Service of Russia, the predecessor of which was actually the KGB.
23 years have passed, Putin has gone around and around, and he has returned to the place where his dream began, but now he is no longer the hairy boy who didn't know anything back then, but has become a political leader with authority. "I'm finally home," he said. On this day, he was 46 years old.
At that time, Yeltsin was still facing a rival on a par with him, but after Putin took office, he used beauty tricks to ruin Yeltsin's rival at once.
Yeltsin was overjoyed, and on August 20, 1999, Yeltsin promoted Putin to the post of the total of the Russian Federation, and until December 31, 1999, Yeltsin, who was over half a hundred years old, finally stepped down, and the last thing he did before resigning was to appoint Putin as his deputy. And uttered the phrase: "Take care of our Russia." ”
03 Iron Will**
This was perhaps the most correct decision Yeltsin made during his tenure, and Putin not only fulfilled his demands, but also succeeded in taking Russia to a new level.
In March 2000, in the midst of overwhelming cries, Putin sat in the position of Russia's first, and his power also reached the peak of his ruling career.
However, Russia was not calm at that time, first, Chechnya was vigorously fighting for independence. The second is that the seven oligarchs cover the sky with one hand in the country, and can even interfere
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Chechnya did not stop, they carried out crazy terrorist attacks on the territory of Russia for independence, thousands of Russians lived in fear, and Yeltsin ** was helpless about it, and when Putin came to power, the Chechen problem was on the verge of war.
And Putin's approach is to be tough to the end, he said: "It is God's business to forgive ***, and our task is to send them to God, to shoot them at the airport if they are caught, and to drown them in the toilet if they are caught in the toilet." ”
Putin's fiery attitude also inspired the Russian army to break through all the way, and finally pressed Chechnya to the ground and rubbed it, forcing Chechnya to obediently submit.
The battle in Chechnya has accumulated a huge popular and political base for Putin, and Putin finally has enough capital to fight a big war with the oligarchs at home.
These oligarchs originated in 1991, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, with the support of foreign forces, they wantonly embezzled state-owned assets, controlled most of the country's wealth, and widened the gap between the rich and the poor.
Moreover, the oligarchs also manipulate politics and oppose all policies that are unfavorable to them, and after Putin came to power, he had a face-to-face with the seven oligarchs and said: "Make good money, don't interfere in politics." ”
04 Strangling the oligarchs
Obviously, Putin's threats did not have much effect, the seven oligarchs not only did not relent, but also worked against Putin everywhere, and it was obvious that there was an impulse to make Putin **. They sent Yeltsin away, are they still afraid of Putin, a "hairy boy" who has just taken office?
It's just that what they don't know is that Putin still has a trump card in his hand, that is, the Russian civil service. Before Putin came to power, Russian civil servants were divided into three factions: the Moscow faction that followed Yeltsin, the St. Petersburg faction that followed Sobchak, and the "Slovik" faction headed by the intelligence services.
But it's a coincidence that Putin has served in the KGB for 16 years, and he was once the head of the intelligence service, he is Sobchak's right-hand man, or Yeltsin's appointed representative, which means that this civil service is under Putin's control.
The Russian oligarchs who can't figure out this truth don't know how to prove it until they die, and the media oligarch Gusinsky, the financial magnate Zovsky, and the energy magnate Khodorkovsky have been sent to court one after another, and what awaits them is the death penalty or exile.
Under Putin's iron fist, other oligarchs surrendered one after another, and for a while, Russia's oligarchs were purged.
05 Amendment to the Constitution: The number of terms of office will be automatically reset to zero
By quelling the Chechen insurgency and toppling the oligarchs, Putin has become popular as Russia's leader, and he was re-elected in 2004. In 2008, due to the term limit imposed by the Russian Constitution, Putin decided to step down and his old partner Medvedev became the prime minister. However, due to Putin's huge influence, Putin is in **, and the center of power is in**.
In fact, Putin is still the actual speaker of Russia, Putin did cultivate Medvedev as his own ** person at that time, but Medvedev is a liberal with a heart towards the West, and he has done a lot of unreliable things during his tenure.
On August 1, 2008, shortly after Medvedev took office, Georgia launched an offensive against the South Olympic region, but the Russian army did not launch it until August 8, and it was still on vacation.
And that's not all. In 2011, the United States tried to establish a no-fly zone over Libya and initiated the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973, Gaddafi was Russia's most important ally in the Middle East, but Medvedev ordered the Russian representative to abstain from voting under the fool of the United States ** Obama, which directly led to the collapse of the Gaddafi regime and buried a strong ally in vain.
What's worse is that in the face of NATO's aggressive eastward expansion, Medvedev believes that Ukraine has the right to seek integration with Europe. Two stupid tricks in a row and his unrealistic illusions about Europe and the United States, and the Russian military and political top brass were very dissatisfied with Medvedev, Putin was disappointed and had to come out to the rescue again, and his return to serve as ** is also the will of the people, Putin has a clear enough understanding of the West and continues to implement his consistent tough line.
In 2012, Putin was once again elected as the first of Russia with a high vote, and as soon as he took office, he amended the constitution and changed the term of office from 4 years to 6 years. During his tenure, Putin took back Crimea, actually controlled the Black Sea, sent troops to Syria, miraculously gained a foothold in the Middle East, withstood the pressure of European and American sanctions, and made Russia the world's largest grain exporter.
In 2018, Putin was elected to Russia for the fourth time with a high vote. In June 2020, Putin-led constitutional amendments were passed again, the most notable of which were**The number of term terms is automatically reset to zero
This means that after Putin's term ends in 2024, he can run again and be re-elected until 2036. We all know that Putin will be 71 years old this year, and I don't know if he will be able to govern Russia with his usual iron-fisted style at the age of 84 in 2036.
And Putin's domestic approval rating remains high, and most of the Russian people also believe that only he is the pillar of Russia can get Russia, and Putin himself has not found a good future person.
However, will a country that is too dependent on a strongman continue to become rich or will it go downhill, and what is the future of Russia?