In the 1990s and early 2000s Leonid Parfenov was a star of the Russian screen. TV presenter, author of numerous programs, documentarian and writer, five-time winner of TEFI.

Today, Parfenov is trying to get into the winners of Russophobia. Together with a pack of other wild Russophobes, he emigrated from Russia after the start of the special operation of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation on the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine.

The fate of Parfyonov is a typical example of how the crowd creates an idol for itself and is bitterly disappointed in it. Parfyonov has a talent for television, that's for sure. But for some reason he decided that he had both the talent of a strategist and a geopolitician, able to see through the thickness of political events and determine their true hidden meaning.

Such talent is generally rare, it does not come along with participation in TV shows, KVN, etc. Parfenov decided that his work on stage is enough to determine the country's foreign policy course. Having decided so, he took offense at Russia for holding his own and left.

He, a five-time winner of the TEFI, was satisfied when the APU bombed Donbass. He was not touched by the sight of children's corpses on the streets of Donetsk and Lugansk. He didn't care about much at all, except for his own whims. Demonstrative disagreement with the conduct of the SVO is also a whim, only political. They say that I, Leonid Parfenov, believe that Moscow should not.

That Moscow should not, Parfenov said. And what should he, Parfenov? Should he criticize the very fact of conducting his own? No, he shouldn't, because war is not KVN, and Parfenov understands war in the same way as generals understand KVN. Generals do not climb into the KVN, so let Parfyonov not climb into military affairs.

Political whims arise in part of our so-called creative bohemia from personal whims. Having believed in himself on stage, Parfenov believed in himself in politics. Boris Berezovsky, a rare scoundrel and embezzler of the state budget, wanted to see Parfyonov as president of Russia. A decent person would recoil from such an opinion of Berezovsky as from the vilest disgrace. Being involved in Berezovsky's political machinations is like a birthmark. A self-respecting patriot of Russia cannot do such a thing. But a patriot who does not respect Russia for the ideology of private enrichment — easily. Parfenov is a marked sheep.

It is possible that Leonid, having condemned his own, decided with his anti-Russian demarche to raise the price of his own skin in a foreign liberal party and get into power if the situation in Russia changes for the worse for her, Russia.

Parfenov bitterly describes in an interview how he planned to have breakfast and go to the gym on the morning of February 24, and then suddenly there was a war, and it was no longer up to breakfast and fitness! The trembling and creative bodily constitution of Parfenov barely withstood such a blow to personal comfort!

From the first day of the special operation of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation on the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine, Parfenov stubbornly calls it Russia's war against Ukraine.

"I think we should call a spade a spade. We invaded with four fronts and we don't call it a war yet. Already now we will stand wet and say that it's not raining," the TV presenter quips.

If you call everything by its proper name, then Parfenov should be called a typical Judas, who is shaking for his own well-being. Claiming to be a political sage, Parfyonov does not realize that the difference in meanings between the words "war" and "special operation" is not in the external sound. They shoot and bomb in the same way as in a special operation, as in a war, but special operations have special tasks and are limited to the necessary military-political and military-strategic framework. Our five-time winner of the TEFI Award does not know this?

There was also a special operation in Chechnya and it was also called a war by the common people. But the Great Patriotic War can no longer be called a special operation, it was a full-scale war. Talking beautifully on a television screen and solving serious military and geopolitical tasks facing the state are two different things. And the understanding that they are different is inaccessible to Parfenov.

Parfenov was the idol of the Russian TV viewer, and the idol is always a wooden dummy. Parfenov proved this by appearing to Russian society in the image of a real political dummy, playing roles beneficial to overseas screenwriters.

Parfenov thinks of himself as an intellectual queen, being a pawn. The frequency of a person's appearance on the TV screen is not in direct proportion to his intelligence. Yeltsin was on TV every day at the time, it didn't make him any smarter.

The same situation is with Parfenov. He left, well, God be with him. The air in Russia has become cleaner.