20 YEARS! with Putin

By Eduard Yastrgembsky

I’m Russian, and I live in this country for 43 years.
In this book, as in film Forest Gump (1994) by Robert Zemeckis, I’ll tell you about my life. About those moments that greatly influenced me and my family, and also describe what happened in my country, and the current events that are happening now.
This is a true-life of a single Russian family.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Eduard Yastrgembsky
• Release date: May 10, 2020
• ISBN: 9780463312032

Eduard Yastrgembsky

I’m Russian, and I live in this country for 43 years.

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20 YEARS with Putin

by Eduard Yastrzhembsky

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Preface

A Frenchman can be self-confident because he considers himself personally, both in mind and body, irresistibly charming for both men and women. An Englishman is self-confident on the ground that he is a citizen of the most comfortable State in the world. And as an Englishman, he always knows what to do, and knows that everything he does is undoubtedly good. The Italian is self-confident because he is excited and easily forgets himself and others. A Russian is self-confident precisely because he knows nothing and does not want to know. Why? Because he does not believe that anything can be completely known. The German is self-confident, yet worse than everyone, harder than everyone, and nastier than everyone because he imagines that he knows the truth, a science that he invented, but which for him is an absolute truth. ― Lev Tolstoy, War, and Peace

I was born in the small, beautiful, and ancient city of Veliky Novgorod. In 2020, he will be 1161 years old! Population 224,297 (2019).

It was first mentioned in Russian Chronicles under the year 859. At that time, the city was just a fortified settlement, which was assigned the name New city, which is quite widespread in world toponymy (for example, in Russia — Novgorod-Seversky, Nizhny Novgorod, Novograd-Volynsky, abroad- Neustadt, Newtown, Naples, New York, etc.). In the Russian chronicle, under 1169 and later dates, the city is referred to as Veliky Novgorod.

Veliky Novgorod is the city-museum of Ancient Russia, as well as the birthplace of Russian statehood and democracy. Ancient churches and monasteries, powerful defensive towers of the Novgorod fortress, wooden houses of 400 years old. In the middle ages — one of the centers of Kievan Rus.

Located in northwestern Russia 552 км (343 miles) northwest of Moscow and 145 км (90 miles) southeast of St. Petersburg.

The joke about Yeltsin:

Once upon a time Clinton, Kohl (Chancellor of Germany, 1982-1998), and Yeltsin came to the church and turned to God with the question:

What is our happiness?

And God answered them.

Clinton: Your happiness is that you have the richest country, and you people live better than anyone.

Kohl: Your happiness is that in your country, more than anywhere else, you have the most professional engineers and the most reliable economy.

Yeltsin: And your happiness is that my hands are nailed!

My mother was born in a village near Ryazan (925 years old), graduated from the Moscow chemical College, and came to Veliky Novgorod, where a new chemical plant was being built at that time.

My father came from a village near Smolensk (1157 years old), graduated from a chemical school, and also came to Veliky Novgorod, where my parents met.

In August 1941, my city was captured by the Germans in World War II. And for 2.5 years, it was held by Hitler's invaders.

I had a happy childhood; I watched the Soviet cartoons that are not like Hollywood's like Tom and Jerry, for example, where a big and strong dog beats a cat, and the cat beats a small mouse. Soviet cartoons were made FOR SOMETHING, not just for entertainment. We were taught to respect and value friendship, don 't be a Snitch, keep your word when you make promises, etc.

By the way, looking ahead, I will tell you a perfect illustration that describes me. 2 years after the death of my mother in 2000, my father later began to live with another woman, Lena (we were not opposed). She had a criminal brother, and on her birthday, I began to talk with Lena's mother. We started talking about her son, why he was imprisoned three times, a drug addict, and she started saying that he had a difficult childhood, etc.

To which I replied, What a difficult childhood? He is my age? Maybe he's like this because I was raised differently? If I wanted something, sneakers, or a bicycle, then I had to WORK. I dug beds in the garden, dragged water in buckets to water vegetables, where we went every Sunday. And you probably just given him everything he wanted. That's why he grew up a lazybones and a drug addict.

At first, we lived in a communal apartment, threesome in one room (Father + mother + I was born), we shared the toilet and bath with the neighbors from the three closest neighboring rooms; kitchen with neighbors from the 7-10 closest rooms. According to Wikipedia, he and Putin’s parents first lived in almost the same room as us only without amenities, which means that the toilet was on the street (imagine you woke up in the morning and go to the toilet in the winter?).

The joke about the Soviet Union:

With Lenin, it was like in the subway: it was dark all around, and in front - one light bulb.

With Stalin - like in a bus: Half sits, half they're shaking with fear.

With Brezhnev - as in an airplane: one at the helm, the rest makes sick.

And with Gorbachev - like in a taxi: the farther, the more expensive.

Then, after my father worked at the factory for two years, he got a two-room apartment for FREE.

In the Soviet Union, people were not afraid to give birth to children, because they were provided with housing and could feed them. Everyone received approximately the

Reviews for 20 YEARS! with Putin

[Robert McKelvey · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

This is pure Kremlin bot propaganda and should be classified as such

[mark · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This is an absolutely fascinating book. Reading it was like having a box of chocolates open in front of me: do I follow my passions and eat the box in a single day, or be rationale and stretch it out over several days. I managed to stretch reading the book out over 36 hours.