Putin really took a lot of effort to take over the Russian mess handed over to him by Yeltsin. Take Austria's 2.8 billion debt as an example. Putin listens to a small Austrian country with a big horn behind his ass every day to collect debts: pay back the money! Pay back the money! Don't pay back the principal, pay back the interest of 300 million dollars first!
No way, poor Tinker Bell Russia really couldn't come up with the money, so Putin had to ask around and finally heard that Austrian fighters were about to retire. Putin immediately pulled up the Russian arsenal and went to Austria with 20 MIG -29 fighters, intending to pay his debts.
It stands to reason that the price of 20 fighters far exceeds $300 million, and Austria should accept it. However, Austria only wants to fish in troubled waters at this time. The newly elected Russian leader Putin is not sure how much he weighs. If he waits a little longer, he may be able to squeeze out more oil and water.
How could Putin not know about Austria's career? But he can only swallow this tone, and then hold a press conference to emphasize to the world: Russians will not default on their debts, and every debt will be repaid one by one!
But Russia's 20 billion debt cannot be written off by lip service. In order to solve this problem, Putin turned his eyes back to China. Putin, who won the election with the slogan of cracking down on oligarchs, did not intend to make this an empty talk.
From the beginning, Putin made a positive appeal to the seven oligarchs, promising that they would just withdraw from the transfer of interests to the military and political circles, return to commerce, conduct legal operations, forget everything before and let bygones be bygones.
However, the oligarchs who are used to bullying will not pay attention to this newcomer in politics. They have accumulated experience by manipulating the presidential election twice, and think that Russia is in their own hands, and Putin is just a grasshopper in autumn, and it won't take long! One of them even said: If I want, the monkey can be the president of Russia.
Putin's victory in the second Chechen war won him the loyalty of Chechens, and then Tajik militia also announced their support for Putin. The submission of these two military forces has also become an important political card for Putin to thoroughly crack down on oligarchs.
Compared with Putin, who has political legitimacy and military power, oligarchs are actually just nouveau riche who made a fortune in the Soviet Union through Yeltsin's shock therapy. Oligarchs who lack political experience have not realized at this time that fighting against the state machine never ends well.
Putin, who kept his word, began the performance of cleaning oligarchs!
The first is Russian media giant Gusinski.
Procuratorial organs first investigated all industries and companies under Gusinski's name on the grounds of embezzling state property, and arrested them immediately after finding evidence. Although Gusinski fled overseas on bail pending trial, all his property was immediately seized by Putin. This also allowed the government to regain control of Russia's most important media.
Then, oligarchs such as the richest man in Russia and the president of Yukos Oil Company were arrested on charges of money laundering and embezzlement of state assets, and their property and companies were also nationalized.
After Putin came to power, he cleaned up these nouveau riche oligarchs in one breath, and all their property was used to enrich the state treasury. In addition, at the beginning of 2 1 century, the international crude oil market flourished, and Russia made a small fortune by exporting natural gas and oil. This will pay off Russia's previous foreign debts. For a time, Putin's domestic support rate also reached its peak.
Putin, who was born in KGB, is like a needle, which has stabilized Russia's political situation and economy.
In the past 20 years, tough guy Putin may not be able to continue to take charge of the huge Russian empire, and the international politics after the Russian-Ukrainian crisis is more complicated. But we know that in any case, Russia will continue to be tough and live with blood and sweat.
After all, big countries don't deserve to surrender!