Our country has a tsarist mentality, it’s subconsciously tsarist. Genetically. Everyone needs a Tsar. Ivan the Terrible, as they call him in Europe, who drowned Russian cities in blood and lost the Livonian War, is remembered with fear and awe. The same goes for Peter the Great and Stalin. While Alexander II, the Liberator…the Tsar who gave Russia freedom, who abolished serfdom…he was murdered. The Czechs can have their Vaclav Havel, but we don’t need a Sakharov in charge here, we need a Tsar. The Tsar, the Father of the Russian people! Whether it’s a general secretary or a president, it has
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