This failure matters, for it allowed Putin’s unqualified belief in central authority to lead to the recapture of the state by the security services. Indeed, a direct result of national repentance for the gulag era should have been the banning of the communist party and the disqualification from political office of those who worked in the KGB.
这项失误非常重大，它没能阻止普京对中央集权的顽固信仰使国家重新陷入安全机构的统治之下。实际上，对古拉格时代进行全民忏悔的直接结果应该是取缔共产党，剥夺所有克格勃工作人员的参选资格。