Zima přichází - Proč je nutné zastavit Vladimira Putina – Kasparov Garry (2022)

Why it is necessary to stop Vladimir Putin The new edition includes a foreword by Russianist and journalist Libor Dvořák. The beginning of the 1990s, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the era of President Boris Yeltsin, the Chechen wars, and 15 years of Vladimir Putin in the role of president or prime minister of Russia. All these events are reflected to a greater or lesser extent in Garry Kasparov's book Winter is Coming. The description of the first ten years after the fall of the Iron Curtain opens the main theme, which is the author's view of Vladimir Putin. Kasparov understood his rise from the position of a former KGB officer to the presidency as one of the first signals that Russia was beginning to deviate from democracy. As a leading figure of the Russian opposition, the author labels the current president a dictator, who wields great power around the world due to enormous resources and nuclear weapons, and criticizes the accommodating stance of the United States and other Western countries towards Russia. Garry Kasparov wrote this book back in 2015, and it is clear that, unfortunately, he was right in many respects. The threat of Putin's Russia is now extremely relevant, and the world must confront it head-on.