People watching the political situation in the country, of course, have heard about Leonid Yakovlevich Gozman. An ardent liberal, easily recognizable both in appearance and in his statements. Especially ambiguous impression is caused by his statements about the Second World War.
The boy Lenya was born in Leningrad on July 13, 1950. The family is quite standard for the post-war years and did not stand out in any way. There is really a moment with Leonid's grandfather, who, being drafted to the front from Moscow, was shot in 1942, presumably for cowardice and desertion. This fact greatly influenced Gozman's attitude towards the NKVD troops. In his understanding, these are punitive troops, standing on the same scale with the SS troops.
After leaving school, Leonid entered the Moscow State University at the Faculty of Psychology, which he graduated in 1976. He did not particularly want to work for the communist regime, and he remained at the university in a teaching position. And seven years later he even defended his dissertation and became a candidate of psychological sciences.
Leonid Gozman's political career began in the early 90s with the political council of the Democratic Choice of Russia party. In the future, there were many different parties and associations, in which Gozman either joined or left. This is both "Right Cause" and "Union of Right Forces". The names of the parties seem to be quite relevant, but the ideas of these associations have not been deposited in the souls of people. Apparently, in addition to the name, something else is required.
How the psychologist met Yegor Gaidar in 1992 is unknown, but Leonid becomes his advisor. Russia's democratic choice is in full swing. The country is collapsing, “unnecessary” enterprises of the military-industrial complex are being closed, we are eating “democratic” chicken legs. To improve the quality of the advice given, Gozman travels to America for an internship.
This internship raises the level of Gozman to an advisor to Boris Yeltsin. It's 1996-1998. Half of the country works as shuttle traders "saturating the market" with consumer goods. Defense factories produce pans and pay off the workers with these products. In everyday life, such a concept as offset. Offsetting schemes include dozens of participants.
In 1999 he became an advisor to the chairman of the board of RAO UES of Russia, Chubais. We got rid of sponsored farms supplying their products to RAO UES employees.
Chubais, when moving to RUSNANO, took Leonid Gozman with him and appointed him director of humanitarian affairs. Gozman worked here until 2013.
For viewers, Gozman became recognizable after regularly participating in televised debates. Leonid took part in many programs and with different opponents. They were Zhirinovsky, Prokhanov, Mikhalkov, Khinshtein and Zyuganov. The result of all the television disputes is the complete defeat of Gozman himself. Spectator voting was never on his side. So just imagine what he advised Yeltsin!
An interesting situation with the income of this politician. Somehow it so happened that while the country was changing vouchers for consumer goods, he happily became the proud owner of shares in large companies. Already in 2006, submitting his declaration before the elections to the State Duma, he was the wealthiest among all the leaders of the Union of Right Forces. Apparently democracy in a single pocket has come.
Now Leonid Gozman is a zealous opponent of everything that is constructive in Russia. He is not satisfied with the launch of the robot Fedor on the ISS in 2019. Here is such an interesting shot in the Russian political space.
