What is happening now in Russia is reminiscent of an earthquake: Russian missiles are exploding in Kiev and Kharkov, but the ground is shaking in Moscow.
Whole markets and industries are frozen, businesses are crashing, media and civilian projects are closing.
Also, Western companies have already begun to flee Russia - they are stopping supplies, closing representations, returning workers.
The borders are closing fast: the European skies have closed to the Russians, and chartered planes are leaving the country, which is losing its fleet of planes and probably the entire aviation industry.
Turkey, the Middle East and Latin America are still open, but ticket prices have risen to thousands of dollars.
At the border crossings, Russian officers inspect the smartphones and tablets of anyone leaving Russia, look for suspicious correspondence and interrogate about the attitude towards Putin or the war in Ukraine.
Everyone is actually waiting in panic for the joint sitting of the two houses of parliament and for Putin's expected appearance today before them.
They can declare a national state of emergency, recruitment and a freeze on deposits.
There are some politicians, for example former President Dmitry Medvedev, who even propose to return the death penalty to the law.
Ukrainians flee to Poland after Russian attack // Photo: Reuters
Russia is falling apart before our eyes.
Everything was thrown away.
All the daily habits, institutions, media, normal ties with the global world that have been strengthened for 30 years since the collapse of the USSR - everything collapsed within a week. The USSR "Empire of Evil", as President Ronald Reagan called it, and it threatened the world with nuclear missiles, intercepted a Korean Boeing and waged a bloody war in Afghanistan.
Putin's wish to resurrect the USSR has come true. Russia is now an "evil empire" that once again threatens the world with nuclear weapons, intercepts a Malaysian Boeing, and is waging a bloody war on its southern border with Ukraine. .
Amazing the speed with which the disintegration occurred, a matter of a few days.
I am reminded of the lines of Vasily Rozanov, who wrote in 1917 in the collection "Apocalypse of our time": "Ross evaporated in two days. The most - in three. Even 'Novoya and Remia' could not be closed so quickly, as Ross closed.
And today we can go back to it: Russia has evaporated in three days.
Even the Memorial organization could not be closed so quickly, as Russia closed.
Huge queues at IKEA, Moscow.
Companies leave Russia, Photo: Reuters
And paradoxically, cars continue to travel the streets of Moscow and the internet still works.
The usual entertainment programs are broadcast on television, the restaurants are open, and couples fall in love with flowers in their hands.
All this is nothing but a thin crust of reality, a setting, a rotten fabric that has been unraveled and behind it black and empty have been revealed.
It is a relentless plunge of an entire country into an abyss.
Apocalypse in the head of one small person with mental problems created an apocalypse for an entire country.
It needs to be stopped, before it becomes a global nuclear apocalypse, which the little man with the red button has already longed for in his speeches.
In Ukraine the fate of all mankind will be decided.
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