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# Russia is a huge cart, dragged along a wretched road by scrawny nags: the officialdom
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/rossiia-eto-ogromnyi-voz-vlekomyi-po-skvernoi-doroge-toshchimi-kliachami-chinovnichestvom/
- Published: 2026-06-30T10:03:16.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:25:44.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Observations, Society, Humour

> Russia is a huge cart, dragged along a wretched road by scrawny nags: the officialdom. On the cart sit the common folk and public figures, cursing the authorities for all they are worth and blaming them for the bad road. It is these gentlemen who ought to be taken off the cart and put into the traces; let them try pulling it themselves.

And do you know, Vyacheslav Konstantinovich Plehve, we would not be against trying, so do not fret