stairway to Heaven. Dialogues about power, career and global elite (№ 440501)

Increasing violence, Power inevitably reduces its own stability. Not the smartest approach. By the way, it is precisely for this reason that it is naive to call the post-Stalinist USSR a totalitarian state, since the quality and depth of education of the population, and not the scale of violence, constantly increased in it. Educated people cannot be kept by violence, only by an idea. And the destruction of the USSR occurred precisely at the moment when the authorities could not adequately respond to the emerging economic problems.