[16:07 - 16:48] Putin's Rise: Replacing Bandits with a Non-Rotational Power Structure

And therefore, when Putin came, they applauded him standing. Because the first thing he did was he actually started fighting bandits. And instead of bandits, he first established a vertical power structure, essentially unchangeable. And how is it unchangeable? It's rotational, but unchangeable, because it's the same party. People change there, but nobody even knows these people. There's, so to speak, a sign of affiliation. There's party affiliation.