2019 102 years have passed since the Great October Socialist Revolution, also known as the Bolshevik revolution. 39 years from the time when, according to Khrushchev, communism was supposed to come, instead of which there was the Moscow Olympics and the war in Afghanistan. 28 years since the collapse of the Soviet Union. 60 years since the birth of the author. Everyone is in a lousy mood. The economy is stagnant and ready for depression. The officials responsible for it openly tell the president that there will be no recovery according to his decrees. The pension reform has been carried out, why - God knows: the budget is in surplus and the treasury is bursting with money, although the country does not see it like its own ears. The security forces are strangling business. Taxes and fees are rising. Capital is fleeing, but emigration is free. The turn to the East brings China to the place of America and Europe, but the strategy of developing the country as a raw material appendage remains. We got up from our knees, the question is: in what position? Elections, protests, arrests and detentions of protesters, protests against the arrests, detentions and sentences they face have merged into one. The democratic opposition is drawing up lists for purges, which it will carry out if it becomes power. The authorities neither moo nor talk. Cities and villages are drowning, forests are burning, they are stealing everything, but they cannot deal with the garbage. Science and education cannot be saved, but everything is fine with religion. Ukraine has a new president, we have an old one. Only the people do not understand their happiness. Russia...