By Marie Jego, October 31, 2011
This article is talking about how life in Chechyna is getting 'better' after decades of blood wars. Ramzon Kadyrov is now in charge, and following in his 'father-like' Putin's footsteps. While the city LOOKS like it would be a great place to live (newly built skyscrapers, sushi restaurants, etc..), the latter half of the article is filled with citizens personal stories about the fear that they constantly live with that at any time, their leader could end their lives.
Jego, the author, didn't have to compare this style of leadership to any other style to see how violent Kadyrov is, but since we just read a lot of Confuvius' texts that state the exact OPPOSITE type of leadership, I couldn't help but compare them. The citizens of Chechyna openly admit to living in fear of their ruler. Kadyrov purposely has his 'thugs' (seriously, his men are referred to as thugs.) leak videos of them violently punishing and torturing citizens who dared to admit they didn't support Kadyrov in power. If you think about the qualities that make a 'superior man' and a superior ruler, it is being such a good person that people don't even realize you are directing them to live a certain way because they don't have anything to complain about.
Obviously it would be impossible to suddenly implement this type of Confucious leadership into a community but Kadyrov is on the completely opposite side of this spectrum. I know there are plenty of countries with awful and mean leaders, but I just came across this article and it really seems so idiotic to me that people like this still exist.
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