After Putin

[Neo Kerala]

This isn't a critique of Putin.It is an actual discussion.

So,Russia is currently doing fine but Putin has made the Russian Political System is centralised around him.There doesn't seem to be anyone else who is qualified.What do you think?

[Jack Thomas Lang]

Maybe list some possible successors like Shoigu, Medvedov and any other big shot.

[Bombadil]

Putin will never die, just like his ancestor Ras Putin.

[Tetradimensional Overworld]

After Putin, that's a good premise for my worldbuilding project

[Duhon]

Well, Putin is the only remotely capable leader the Russians have now. A great tragedy, all things considered, but then a hallmark of Russian culture has been to think in the depressingly short term (see: Ivan Groznyy).

[Duhon]

Maybe list some possible successors like Shoigu, Medvedov and any other big shot.

Peewees to the Matterhorn, the lot of them. Which is depressing, honestly.

[Heloin]

Mecha-Putin.

[Kowani]

Mecha-Putin.

Psh. Uploading your consciousness to the Internet, that’s the future.

[Duhon]

Putin will never die, just like his ancestor Ras Putin.

Rasputinism, anyone?

[Bombadil]

Putin will never die, just like his ancestor Ras Putin.

Rasputinism, anyone?

He's a film advisor in Hollywood.

While many people just blindly assumed that Grigori Rasputin brought it while he was trying to claw his way out from under the ice of a Russian river, we know that he survived that night. Replacing what was assumed to be his body with that of a corpse with an ostentatious beard attached- a series of events that would later form the basis for the hit film Weekend at Bernie’s- he fled revolutionary Russia, sensing the danger that lay there for him, and continued his career fraternising with the upper echelons of the cultural elite. That’s right- we can confirm that Rasputin actually ended up in Hollywood. And he’s been working there ever since.

With his magical powers, Rasputin acted as a consultant for many major horror-related motion pictures during his stay in Los Angeles. Although he’s now retired from the business officially, he occasionally takes on jobs as favours for proteges like Scorcese and Tarantino. While his official involvement on film sets is generally kept hush-hush for fear that the viewing public may be put off by the involvement of a supposedly-dead Russian priest, he is a regular on the LA party circuit.

Evidence of this is limitless- aside from a photo with Grigori and George A. Romero from the set of Night of the Living Dead, which was tweeted in 1967 then quickly removed, he regularly uses pseudonyms to conceal his real identity. The general rule of thumb is that if the person accepting the Academy Award has a big beard, it’s a nod to the fact that Rasputin was behind the bulk of the work.

He is scheduled to begin production of a new movie next spring.

I remember Twitter in '67, it was definitely there.

[Neanderthaland]

If the pattern holds, his successor will have a full head of hair.

[United Muscovite Nations]

If the pattern holds, his successor will have a full head of hair.

^This, the bald-hairy dichotomy is the great pattern of Russian history.

[Tetradimensional Overworld]

If the pattern holds, his successor will have a full head of hair.

^This, the bald-hairy dichotomy is the great pattern of Russian history.

If you don't count Malenkov

[Neanderthaland]

^This, the bald-hairy dichotomy is the great pattern of Russian history.

If you don't count Malenkov

Nobody counts Malenkov.

[United Muscovite Nations]

^This, the bald-hairy dichotomy is the great pattern of Russian history.

If you don't count Malenkov

What loser would count Malenkov.

[An Alan Smithee Nation]

If the pattern holds, his successor will have a full head of hair.

Putin in a wig.

[Neanderthaland]

If the pattern holds, his successor will have a full head of hair.

Putin in a wig.

So... Trump?

[Baltenstein]

We don't know the current status of "Project: Vladitron". Putin may still see himself succesfully upgraded to eternal robo-czar of all the Russias.

[-Ocelot-]

Either the huge state propaganda system Russia has will fabricate some new messiah figure to prepare for Putin's retirement or Putin will die unexpectedly and Russia will have to face yet another massive political crisis.

All regimes that are based around a "great leader" have this problem. But Russia is a more refined dictatorship than, say, the USSR and they will most likely have no issue promoting the next dictator. As long as the oligarchs don't eat each other in the process.

[Deutschess Kaiserreich]

He will probably be moved to the golden throne if he ever approaches death.

[Duhon]

Either the huge state propaganda system Russia has will fabricate some new messiah figure to prepare for Putin's retirement or Putin will die unexpectedly and Russia will have to face yet another massive political crisis.

All regimes that are based around a "great leader" have this problem. But Russia is a more refined dictatorship than, say, the USSR and they will most likely have no issue promoting the next dictator. As long as the oligarchs don't eat each other in the process.

Refined or not, you have to have a lackey who'll look the part as well as have experience handling the oligarchs, and who aside from Putin has both in spades?

No one.

So the system Putin has fashioned out of the frustrations of the '90s will certainly collapse, with no one but weak schmucks ruling over Moscow in the interim.

[An Alan Smithee Nation]

How about Sergey Shoygu?

[Duhon]

How about Sergey Shoygu?

Peewee.

[Washington Resistance Army]

Zhirinovsky is the only person who should lead Russia.

[Jack Thomas Lang]

Zhirinovsky is the only person who should lead Russia.

Shut up black mud.