Biography of Berlusconi Book

Dear reader! You hold an unusual book in your hands. Why unusual? Firstly, it is written by an unusual person. It belongs to the category of people, the existence of which we all know, but units know them ourselves. Today he is in the area of ​​outdoor activities let everyone put his own understanding into these words. Secondly, she describes an unusual person whom some hated fiercely, others almost idolize; Some despise, others take an example from him.

Some of his political take -off are called randomness, others are a regularity. His financial achievements in business cause either admiration or stupid envy in different people. And he continues to remain himself and work for the benefit of his country. I don’t know if the hero of the book is familiar with this ancient wisdom, but, in my opinion, it characterizes his behavior as well as possible.

Naturally, such unusual behavior and such an unusual fate do not leave indifferent those who are in contact with them to some extent. This attracts the attention of researchers around the world. At the same time, in Italy itself there are practically no serious monographic publications about this person. I cannot answer this question. The book is written so exciting that it is read literally in one breath, and this is the merit of the author.

But this book is not a light “boulevard reading”. It allows you to understand and comprehend a lot. So, only after reading the book it became clear to me why Putin and Berlusconi - two completely different people - immediately found a common language and managed to agree on positions on many more recently, seemingly insoluble problems. No wonder the interstate contacts between Russia and Italy are developing today simply rapidly!

The book will be interesting to everyone: economists will find answers to their questions here; Political scientists and historians-on their own, lawyers-on their own, etc., but an ordinary reader, not burdened by the search for some specific “truth”, will simply get acquainted with an interesting person and an interesting book. In this regard, I want to draw the reader's attention to the section on the world -famous “Clean Hands” operation, which still receives an ambiguous assessment in the press 1.

The author allows you to look at this event differently, leaving rumors and speculation outside the narrative, operating only with facts. Surely many of the data he cited will be new even for specialists, for example, the very name of the Operation “Clean Hands”. In recent years around the world, sociologists have observed a phenomenon that is commonly called something like alienation of power from the people.

An example of the political career of Berlusconi, including the fact that the assessments of politicians and political scientists do not always adequately reflect the actual mood of the people, which is guided not only by momentary sympathies and antipathies, but some other, deep wisdom, which our sociometrists have not yet learned to measure. There is no so far such a city doper that would accurately determine who the people love, to whom he believes, and most importantly to understand why this is happening.

In fact, this is not scary for people, but it can be scary for politicians, especially for those who live in the virtual world of their own illusions and ideas and with all their might try our real world to shove into this own world. The Prime Minister of Berlusconi, as I understand it, does not adapt to people to like them, but does not seek to drive them into the framework of their own ideas about the proper and beautiful.

He is trying to understand and only after that act. The path is the most important, but it is precisely such a way that deserves primarily respect, regardless of the political addictions of the one who follows this path. We live in a rich and even oversaturated with political events and shocks. So let's try to understand what it is in time, and what is happening to us at this time, and that we ourselves are doing in it.

And we all really need this today. Yuri Golik, Doctor of Law, Professor Prolog for Berlusconian Line from an unpublished report ... Then, in M, I just came to Italy with my own Izvestia correspondent and immediately received an unusual task: to write an urgent analytical material and make a report on the basis of the programs of the Italian GOSTELEDODOM RAI and private channels of Italy-1; Channel 5 and Reta-4 Silvio Berlusconi.

It is not necessary to explain for a long time that it was required from me and what ideological forces stood behind this "operational task in the room." In the agitprom of the CPSU Central Committee, they were waiting for a correspondence from Rome, which would extol with reserves and carefully really high-quality, perhaps the best in Western Europe would not leave a “stone on stone” under the advertising and producer, made according to American patterns and standards of the “Fininvest” programs.

In other words, it was necessary to defeat the private sector on TV, taking care only about the financial side of the matter and not putting a cultural and historical theme that humiliates moral-ethical and other national and international values.Particularly “renunciation” was expected from me when assessing political events in southern Europe, permanently crisis atmospheres in Italy and incidents in the Mediterranean in connection with the capture of the flagship of the Italian passenger fleet of the Akille Lauro ship.

I set to work, visited the bodies of rivals in Rome, Milan, Bologna, Florence, Peskara, visited Sicily and Sardinia and very soon realized that in many ways I did not converge ends meet. Firstly, in addition to the dominance of American cinema on a “small screen” and a large number of advertising, and I did not find both private and public TVs of all Western Europe on any of the channels of “Fininvest” by topics borrowed from the American TV, and even more so dashing before Washington.

Secondly, I did not see the “little art”, the low cultural level of “Fininvest” programs, a lack of fantasy, rather the opposite was true. At the same time, our Soviet television would look just like a player of a weaker category on the TV field. In short, I did not complete the task, but "water did not go into the sand." A large collected material has become a rich back for the future.

I got a taste and continued to collect all the newspaper and journalal information on the theme of “TV Italy” state and private, which appeared daily in Italian and international media. The dossier quickly grew, dozens of folders were filled, future headings, ideas for specific journalistic searches, research, and development were especially stood out of the common topics.

A cool turn in my mind and work occurred in m, which, re -reducing the name of the work of the great French classic of literature, nare “Ninety -Third year”, but not Viktor Hugo, but Silvio Berlusconi ... Then in the Roman Order of Foreign Patron - a kind of journalistic club of foreign correspondents accredited in the department Membership number-a discussion of the prospects of the Berlusconi-political movement “Forward, Italy!

Opinions were divided. My German and French colleagues Erich Kush, Alene Samu and others believed that it was not necessary for the personality, an even an extraordinary ability, an entrepreneur who created a powerful building, trade and financial structure and a television empire, will be able to form a functional political association with a prospect of entering the number of leading parties in Italy, and even more so in a relatively short time to achieve a weighty result, and to achieve a weighty result, and Even lead the cabinet of ministers.

Redmont, like me, believed that it was Silvio Berlusconi that would be able to say his strong word in Italian politics, where the main traditional bourgeois movements turned out to be “de -energized” by the Pure Hands police operation, discredited, implicated in the completely corruption. A political vacuum formed, demanding immediate filling, I needed a "fresh, living political blood." As the Italians say: at the exact moment, an accurate person is needed.

He became the Milan entrepreneur Silvio Berlusconi - the gentleman of the labor cavalier, as he was often called in the press. So the first pages of the Berlusconiana opened. And they write this book now in different ways: with various assessments, with different approach to the same events, with sympathy and antipathy, with a sense of support and, on the contrary, with the desire to torpedo, stop the “oligarch, telemagnate and a newly-minted Hegemon-Politician”.

Italy split. And despite the obstacles and thorns, for a decade - from for a year and this is a considerable time - the position of Bloc S. Berlusconi, including the party “Forward, Italy! In work on this book, the press service “Forward, Italy helped me! I dreamed of writing a book on the basis of my almost twenty-year experience of journalistic work in Italy about S. Berlusconi and his time, so to speak, “two feathers”-together with one or more colleagues-opponents adhering to the opposite views of Eric Joseph-“Liberal”, Paris; Massimo Locke Rai, Italy, but the idea is still not feasible.

And in these conditions, I offer the readers of my current work in the hope of its further development. Chapter I Operation “Climbing Olympus” Strokes to the portrait of heroes for journalism, historical and documentary essays choose meticulously, after a thorough analysis and many thoughts. But the heroes sometimes come by themselves. Due to the international conjuncture and real events, let's say in everything understandable language, they are inextricably stand on the agenda, and become satellites of our great life.

Silvio Berlusconi. How did it happen that it is one of the largest industrialists and financiers of Italy and Western Europe that the owner of a total capital of $ 12 billion is occupied by the yuh line, according to the American magazine “Forbes”, in the list of the richest people of the planet, the prime minister of Italy, from July 1 to January 1 of the year of the presiding and writing and writing research of the EU?

The leader of the party “Forward, Italy!So, what are the secrets of Silvio Berlusconi-the Prime Minister of Italy, who began its life path with an entrepreneur of the "middle hand" in Milan, in Northern Italy, who quickly found the "golden core" in the construction business, which raised the expensive elite residential complexes "Milan-3" on the periphery of the northern capital of Italy?

As he literally made a revolution in the TV market, became the largest owner of the main channels of private television in Italy and a number of European countries, the main consumer of advertising television streams, as well as the leader of the whole mass-media empire? Berlusconi has learned the pattern: if you use the first chance of fate and your own experience correctly, then the second, third and other chances that should not be missed will inevitably appear.

Will you miss ...? And Signor Silvio did not miss the moment. He succeeded in publishing, created an empire, which includes the famous Mondori Publishing House, magazine systems - the weekly Panorama, the Jornals newspaper and other effective print media on the public opinion of the country and the world. The spheres of his interests are unusually wide. In addition to financial, construction and television business, this is the market for the sale of consumer goods, and communication, and the acquisition of real estate both on the Apennines and Sardinia; This is art, cinema, painting, antiques, sport and armature with the purchase of the flagship Mediterranean liner “magnificent”, later called “Azurra” “azure”, the ship “House of Freedom”; This is the creation of the Electoral Bloc Silvio Berlusconi, who won the parliamentary elections in March.

But all this is still only individual, although very important, strokes to the portrait of the telemagnate, its power applies to three main channels of Italian private television-Italy-UNO, Channel 5, Reta-4, industrialist, financier and businessman. Any attempt to create the image of Silvio Berlusconi would be incomplete if it would not allocate its organizational talent not only in specific economic areas, but also in the national Italian and international arena.

In the year, creating in the shortest possible time in three months the political movement “Forza, Italia” - “Forward, Italy! The swing was made powerful and caused streams of skeptical criticism, they say, do not sit in your sled. Attacks followed one after another, from the bastions of political opponents - mainly the heirs of the ICP of the Italian Communist Party - the Left Democrats DS.

He won then, although without an overwhelming advantage over the enemy. And it was not a pyrrhic victory. An important feature of Berlusconi - he always knew how to choose the time, moment and direction of the main blow. So it happened in M ​​... For a year in the country, after the arrest of the Socialist of the Socialist Mario Kizya, there was a forensic police campaign, called the “clean hands” of the MP-an operation that expelled the corrupt foundations of the first republic-the years that opened rusty springs and all the contents of the “old sofa”-purse from which traditional political political political were illegally financed Parties-Christian democrats, socialists, social democrats, liberals, republicans.

A peculiar voluminous “party vacuum” was formed, which was managed to quickly fill “Volens-Nolens” “forward, Italy! And in this Berlusconi - maestro ... But can Silvio Berlusconi be considered a developer, the customer of the Operation "Clean Hands"? In my opinion, this is a very bold question, and he introduces into a dangerous error. Berlusconi, of course, is familiar with the works of McKayvelli, but not so much as to become their zealous adherent and follower.

Suppose that Cavalier Silvio, according to our “Honored Worker of the Labor Front”, could calculate all the moves of the most complex political combination, could attach his finger to the defeat of all at once or one at the same time of the old parties, but not in his spirit and himself of corruption, giving bribes under very dubious and risky circumstances. No, it was not Berlusconi's handwriting.

But one way or another, he masterfully used the situation, managed to get out of the water himself, create a massive strong part and the “House of Freedom”, used the same populist propaganda methods and means that representatives of the left once successfully used and were held. As a result, everything shifted in the building of the Italian Political Theater: the right -wing -willed, became centrists; The left is blamed; Reds - clearly puzzled and even whitewashed; Black - brightened.

And these changes in the colors took place against the background of strengthening the positions of the entire block and personally Cavalier Silvio Berlusconi. Now, Berlusconi has determined the strong foundations in the party, and in the parliament, and in the local authorities, where he with varying success, depending on regional characteristics, withstood confrontation with the levocentric from the Olive Branch opposition bloc.

The political program was also worked out. Once in Rome, the journalists asked Silvio Berlusconi: what does he see Italy, her present and future?