We are often faced with a common opinion that our country Russia is a world potency, which is strong enough to oppose the US and its allies, has its independent policy and defend traditional values, fight against people of sexual diversity and other behaviors that we know as sins in the world

I do not want to delve into issues of non-approval of people of sexual diversity in Russia, for me that theme does not make sense to even touch it. Since I consider to be problems of each person must be respected the decision is up to everyone and there are much more important issues, which characterize the state of Russia today and that’s worth talking about.

Russia’s image, generated in Guatemala in times of the “Cold War” when, “Soviet Union” supported throughout the war and not only in Guatemala, but throughout the world.

World map of Cold War ,in red shades the allies of the USSR and other communist countries, and in shades of blue NATO, the United States and its capitalist allies; red dots mean communist guerrillas and blue dots anticommunist guerrillas. Guatemala is blue, with a red dot. Source: Wikipedia

 

That was the time of my youth. My family lived in a village of workers in the northern Soviet Union city, to be precise called Novodvinsk.

 

While Soviet propaganda, showed us the success of the guerrillas around the world, my people had no commodities. There was no meat, milk or normal clothes. The population was suffering from severe shortages of everything.

 

Better not talk about luxurious things. For example; My family never had vehicle as a car. Almost no one had. Only the great communist party officials could be able to obtain a car. That was Soviet Union.

 

They  kept guerria around the world, built more sophisticated weapons, had huge army but gave them no food, no dress for their people, Most people lived in extreme poverty.

 

Soviet Union collapsed because of the long period of low oil prices in the 80s. Oil was the only resource that fueled the communist state.

 

With the fall of Soviet Union, all satellite regimes around the world collapsed. To exit the catastrophe, the only option was to change the communist system to the capitalist system. Those who took more time , suffered more. In Soviet Union that ran in the early 90s. Step by step, so the country became a democracy with free market economy.

It was good time to start any business.

Today, Russia produces almost no machinery, or electronic products, almost no high technology. Everything is imported, which flourished until 2014, was oil and some other commodities. But with prices fall, it ended all that prosperity. For one year the Russian currency lost three times its value. The standard of living is falling. By now, the average salary Russia has is lower than the one China has, I have little doubt that in coming years we will see the same economic situation in Russia which Venezuela has right now.

Sometimes people who know my story, they ask to me, Why don’t you accept the purposals, be part of the system that governs the country?

The answer is simple I love the country where I was born and I see dictatorship of Putin as a bigger enemy of my country itself. For now the dictatorship is forming a huge national guard who must fight the riots of the population. About 400 thousand men will fight their own people.

They put people in prison only for a single a post on the Internet, which hurts the dictatorship. The most famous oppositor Boris Nemtsov was killed in front of Kremlin by military officers and no one was punished them. This is my home country today, but under the power of Putin. I do not think they have a prosperous future if we do not change.

In an interview, the lawyer of the Russian government bank VTB involved in the process against us. Harvey Pacay says sincerely “we only want to achieve extraditing BITKOVA FAMILY to their homeland Russia so they will be judged there”. I would tell this gentleman that: he needs to learn little about whom he is serving for a few coins.

To be continued…