As Soviet dissidents said: do what should be done; what should happen will happen. All things considered, I think that, even though our chances are not particularly big, they are still much bigger than people think in the West. If those in power were strong and self-confident, they would ignore us. However, they are afraid. They are terrified that soon not a few thousand of us will take to the streets, but rather several tens of thousands, and then they will not be capable of stopping us…
… Today in Russia there is something from the corporative system of Mussolini’s Italy of the 1920s, purely feudal relations function here with subordinates and an emperor at their center, and we have also retained some remnants of democratic institutions as well as elements of the Soviet, purely totalitarian, system. We live in a state that simply evades definitions.
… I am convinced that the conditions exist in Russia for the regime to change. The situation is catastrophic for an absolute majority of Russians. When Russian propaganda and even the Western media exalt economic growth and prosperity, they quite ignore the fact that there are two Russias. Yes. One of these is really undergoing an economic rise and prosperity, but only roughly 15 percent of the population belongs to this group. But what is this 15 percent? 20 million people: that is the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and a bit of Hungary. The remainder belong to the second Russia – roughly 120 million people. The gulf between these two countries inside Russia is increasing.
De campeón de ajedrez a líder de un partido de la oposición. Kasparov nos da un cruda visión sobre la realidad de la Rusia de hoy. No dejen de leer la entrevista completa en Transitions online. Llego a ella vía «Die Achse des Guten«
