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States that operate according to this scheme tend to decay rather quickly. This anecdote, by the way, comes from the late Soviet Union, which was rapidly following this path. In the early Soviet Union, the response would have been significantly different.

Because if there are no "boyars" at the helm, or if there are too few of them, a so-called "paralysis of power" occurs. This, by the way, strongly resembles the general atmosphere in AK – the desire to appear harmless and well-intentioned, to over-insure, to avoid difficult decisions, to sit it out in the hope that things will resolve themselves, to wait for someone else to make the decision, and so on.

To avoid "paralysis of power," they still allow their own people in, and so on, but they will never simply take someone else into their group, even if that person has a good character and intelligence. (With very few exceptions, very few indeed.)

By the way, regarding the USSR, you are clearly mistaken. In the USSR, a tractor driver, Gorbachev, became not just a "boyar" but a King.

Hehe. You are either a naive person or you live abroad. Now everything is exactly the same as in the USSR, even worse. In general, I no longer see the point in arguing with you. The forum members will draw their own conclusions. If you stubbornly believe that a person with a good character and intelligence from the lower classes can become a "boyar" simply because of his character and intelligence, then continue to believe that.

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And also, considering that you are trying to apply the formulas of sociology and political science to this forum (which has nothing to do with it) and using all your wisdom to manipulate the opinions of forum members and promote yourself as a leader, or a "boyar" even more, makes me want to stop arguing with you. :smile35: