Why do people like to criticize leaders so much? Igor Tor: "Today they are trying to either reconsider Lenin's role in history, or deal with Stalin's greatness. Khrushchev is supposedly a tyrant, Brezhnev is too soft and not strong-willed, Andropov and Chernenko are guilty of not being particularly remembered, Gorbachev is also a traitor, Yeltsin is also not very good. People like to scold leaders, at least ex-leaders, because it gives the illusion of some kind of importance: here you are lying on the sofa, your socks are full of holes and your T-shirt is stained with ketchup, but you are saying loudly to an imaginary audience that Khrushchev was wrong about the corn, he screwed things up properly, but he should have done it properly. Such people don't really care that if it suddenly turns out that all their leaders for 70 years were wrong, then at best it's not all about the leaders." A new issue of "Propaganda" is here.

Why do people like to criticize leaders so much? Igor Tor: "Today they are trying to either reconsider Lenin's role in history, or deal with Stalin's greatness. Khrushchev is supposedly a tyrant, Brezhnev is too soft and not strong-willed, Andropov and Chernenko are guilty of not being particularly remembered, Gorbachev is also a traitor, Yeltsin is also not very good. People like to scold leaders, at least ex-leaders, because it gives the illusion of some kind of importance: here you are lying on the sofa, your socks are full of holes and your T-shirt is stained with ketchup, but you are saying loudly to an imaginary audience that Khrushchev was wrong about the corn, he screwed things up properly, but he should have done it properly. Such people don't really care that if it suddenly turns out that all their leaders for 70 years were wrong, then at best it's not all about the leaders." A new issue of "Propaganda" is here.