history, it produces these extraordinary moments, but it produces these characters as wealth. yes, it certainly does. i think i used the word volcanic before. that certainly applies to prigozhin, not really to vladimir putin, more quiet, thoughtful man, you would have said, if he hadn't invaded ukraine so casually 16 months ago. but it is partly, i think, and these are big judgments which perhaps one shouldn't make, but it does have something to do with the internal passivity of russian society. going back to 1991, for instance, scarcely anybody rallied round the system that gorbachev had introduced,