The Russian best-selling author Vladimir Sorokin has repeatedly emphasized that political rule in Russia since the reign of Ivan the Terrible has essentially always been exercised in the same way: with brute force. Also the collapse of Soviet Union have not changed anything in this principle. The “dead body of the Soviet”, according to Sorokin, was not buried in the 1990s and has been rotting in a corner ever since. Now he has risen and threatens the whole world with annihilation.
