The annual "Straight Line" with Putin is like the annual convergence of the Holy Fire. Everyone is waiting for this Fire, as if with his appearance and truth will descend grace on them. And it's not so important that the bearded peasants carried a lighter with them, so that the Fire descended on them with a guarantee - this is a matter of faith. If you believe in the Fire, you do not care where it comes from and how it comes about. You're just fine with what it is.

With Putin - all the same. It does not matter what kind of noodles he hangs and what glasses he rubs - you either believe in him or not. And if your faith in Putin is strong, then you like everything, you laugh at stupid puns about blue uniforms, and you really believe that corruption is not the main problem for the country, and indeed no problem at all. True, there are fewer and fewer believers.

We like to twist all the statistics to show how much better and more fun our life has become and how broad the people's support for any rubbish. But here the masters of twisting the social odometers of something unseen. A year ago, nearly 4 million questions and appeals were sent to Putin on the "Straight Line", and this year it is half as much as a mess!.

However, on individual citizens, grace can also descend. And such stories for all these years of the indulgence of the blessed Putin have already accumulated dozens. The way to spend, cable to stretch, herringbone to light. And everyones obolduy sit and are touched: what kind of president is good, what kind and caring. And I'll tell you that the president is shitty. Because after almost 18 years of Putin's rule, there is no one in the country to light a bulb in the entrance without his instructions. Only he alone can decide everything, only he alone is power. And there is no one between Natalia Kalinina of the Olovyanni district and the President of Russia, no intermediary links.

Well, in addition to Trans-Baikal chinodralov, following the results of the "Direct Line" for the bald, some more. Because the most interesting thing this time was not in questions and answers and other staged special effects, but in messages on the screen.

This is the most unique case when our television has to be watched. In it, from time to time, a parallel, but in fact a real life,. That's what it means not to plant an editor and let people write everything they think. "Maybe you are tired and you should rest?". It seems that not everyone is beneficially affected by this fire. Although many have already enlightened.

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