On the one hand we have the scandal in Courchevel. The police of this French resort detained and interrogated Mister Prokhorov, the owner of the largest Russian nickel enterprise Norilsk-Nikel, a forty-year-old playboy, who arrived at this French town to celebrate New Year escorted by 16 women and by his drinking buddies. Why did he bring the women? In one of their suitcases 200 condoms were found. They have celebrated the New Year "really well" with a tsarist merchant’s vigor! This is not an exception, but an example of everyday life of the modern Russian oligarchs who have collected honey from Yeltsin’s reforms. Prokhorov’s estate is $7 billion, however, he ranks only # 8 on the list of Russian oligarchs. The other members of the top list don’t party any worse. TV anchor Pushkov described being a witness to several of such oligarchs bringing to one of the hotels of Crete 40 floosies and had fireworks in honour of one of their birthdays. This is why it was necessary to destroy the USSR and the democratic reforms of Gorbachev, Yeltsin and Putin.

On the other hand, we have quite a contrasting story. A young woman, an operator of a construction crane, opened the door of her crane booth and jumped from a 100 meter height. She committed suicide having left behind her elderly mother and a little daughter. Why? It was time to pay back for the money she had borrowed on credit, but she had nothing to pay with. After having searched her apartment the court police discovered there was nothing valuable to confiscate.

The "democratic" market so highly praised by the publicists, choking with excitement, who painted it in the colours of the rainbow, turned out to be the rope of death for the masses. On yet another TV program we see the court police knocking on the door of an apartment. The resident of the apartment is a woman with five children who now is a "criminal debtor" and according to the court ruling must be evicted and thrown out onto the street. By the end of the year 1.5 million more Russians who cannot pay their utility bills in full are likely to face her fate. The first on the list for eviction are the residents of the so-called dormitory complexes, which had been built in the USSR by the factories, and the apartments that had been distributed by the factories among the workers. Today these complexes have been sold to new owners as private property and their original residents are being evicted one by one!

The highly praised private property today in Russia is announced "holy and untouchable". For the workers it became a landmine under their lives. According to the new Real Estate Law only the owner of an apartment or house is the legitimate master of the dwelling. Hence, a son having inherited an apartment from his mother, now being the legitimate owner, throws her out onto the street. Likewise, a wife kicks out her former husband, and son and so forth. This Real Estate Law gives the state the right to evict residents for unpaid utilities and to move them onto the street any time of the year. It is not by chance that this Law has been called "The Cannibal Law". It was adopted by a majority vote by the Putin’s ruling party "United Russia".

Another component of Damocles’ sword are the constantly rising utility prices on building maintenance, water, electricity, gas, telephone and others. The reason, again, lies in private property. Now, according to the liberal doctrine, absolutely everything is privatized: from a square meter of apartment to plumbing and sewage. The private owner is interested in only one thing: PROFIT!

The Soviet state, the state of the workers, built entire residential districts and gave the apartments to labourers for free. It maintained the whole life infrastructure and did capital repairs. Today the bourgeois government is trying to avoid all responsibilities and to make the residents pay for everything. However, what wealthy residents can easily afford lies as an unbearable burden on the shoulders of ordinary labourers.

For now the mainstream mass fooled by television and mass culture obediently carries its cross without looking into the roots of the origin of the vise, which is being screwed every year tighter and tighter. Nonetheless, history shows: slaving and patient suffering always comes to an end! And then nothing will save the oligarchs from the people’s wrath.