2023再看此书

作为一个入门级别的俄国政治爱好者，我试图从本书中找出那些在2022年2月之后成名或更有名的人之前的样子。亮点如下：
人物表：
伊戈尔·吉尔金——原来他出名这么早！
Girkin,Igor (later Strelkov). Key figure in Russian occupation of Crimea and the war in Donbass; charged by the Ukrainian authorities with terrorism and sanctioned by the EU; now being sued by the families of passengers killed when Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down, allegedly by forcesunder his control.
现在他已被海牙法庭判处无期徒刑，却在俄罗斯坐牢🤣
前言：
History seems logical in hindsight, when the outcome is known and the events are traced back to their origins. It may even seem to have a purpose, a design, whereby what happens could not have been otherwise. Its protagonists retroactively invent grounds to justify their actions. They find cause where none existed and pluck logic out of the air.
It is logic that Putin-era Russia lacks. The chain of events that I have been able to link together reveals the absence of a clear plan or strategy on the part of Putin himself or his courtiers. Everything that happens is a tactical step, a real-time response to external stimuli devoid of an ultimate objective.
说的太好了！克里姆林宫完全不知道自己想要什么，没有清晰的战略，只有混乱的临时应对——刚开战时声称“消灭纳粹”，剑指基辅；接连败退至乌东后号称“自卫”；还没见过在别国领土上自卫的，于是竟然把别国领土吞并了。逻辑从来就没有自洽过，估计连普京自己都无法信服，怪不得变成了一个抽象工作室。
第一部：Putin I The Lionheart（看到名字就笑出来了）
1.老普里马科夫
Prime Minister Primakov, for whom the Communist members of parliament had voted unanimously in September 1998, topped the polls among politicians nationwide and seemed the most likely candidate for the presidency.
总算是见到这位传奇老政客了，不过现下更引人注目的是他的孙子小普里马科夫，俄罗斯国合署署长，皇俄势力带头人。看来祖孙二人真是一脉相承。
2.谢尔盖·绍伊古
Putting Putin forth in that role was dangerous, since an electoral failure would make it impossible for him to succeed Yeltsin in the presidential contest. Therefore,another popular candidate was chosen as a safety net: minister of emergency situations Sergei Shoigu. "Shoigu to Save Russia" headlines appeared in pro-Kremlin newspapers even before he had agreed to run. In the end he had to be persuaded by Yeltsin himself.
战神还有这等过往？只知道他父亲和叶利钦是好友，他因此备受信任，却从没想到他是叶利钦的第二选择。资历可真够老的，俄联邦成立多少年，他就当了多少年部长级高官。
3.维亚切斯拉夫·沃洛金
In the Kremlin's corner was Vladislav Surkov, and in Primakov's was a young political consultant from Saratov by the name of Vyacheslav Volodin. It was the first of their many scraps. They would spend the next fifteen years fighting for influence over Putin.
目前来看在这场斗争中沃洛金赢了，他成为杜马议长至今，是莫斯科痴人说梦天团中的重要一部分，为我们贡献许多笑料（当然，不及……），而苏尔科夫灰溜溜下台。
4.百感交集
Putin began his presidency convinced that he could build good relations with the West, in particular with the United States. 
5.通俄门
Much less was known about the Republican candidate, George W.Bush. Therefore, Voloshin decided to send a large delegation from Unity to attend the Republican National Convention in August 2000, where Bush would receive the Republication presidential nomination.Voloshin explained to the delegation that the Republicans were more pragmatic and constructive politicians, not as "ideologized" and less concerned about human rights, and noted that relations between Russia and the United States had always been much easier under Republican presidents.
这话说的不错👍俄罗斯的确是欧美右翼的圣地，不过通俄门通的也太早了！
6.尼基塔·米哈尔科夫
What's more, the task of composing the new words would been trusted to the author of the previous version, the old Soviet poet Sergei Mikhalkov, father of Andron Konchalovsky (who had directed War and Peace at the Mariinsky) and Nikita Mikhalkov,also a film director.
终于出现了一个我知识范围内的人。这位比他父亲更重量级，说出了“没有普京，俄罗斯将不复存在”这种话。现已被欧盟和乌克兰制裁。其实我很喜欢看他的电影，《毒太阳》相当好，可惜了，又是一个政治大于艺术的时刻。