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Alexander II was right and Stalin!

Strange way to play with history by the Russian presidency! Medvedev spoke yesterday with an inaugural speech at a solemn congress, held in St. Petersburg to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the liberation of the serfs. The 'event' par excellence (событие) century Russian history took place on February 19 (Julian calendar) 1861 and that the Tsar Alexander II was promulgated the act, known to history as the Tsar Liberator. It 'strange that a ruler must now build on a czar, tsar to a say, to talk about freedom and democracy (in his speech to Alexander Medvedev opposes Democrat Nicholas I and Stalin, astute observers that "freedom is better than no freedom"!).
"Major reforms and modernization of Russia" is the title of the conference. Modernization is not the end of the nineteenth century, but the twenty-first, yes. And 'one of the favorite words of Medvedev and his entourage, so it's sort of a slogan repeated as a mantra with which to distinguish the current president from his (ex?) mentor Putin. As in past years it filled the head of Russia's "sovereignty" and "vertical of power" ... By the way, here is an excerpt of the speech Medvedev:

"Alexander II received an inheritance a country whose political institutions were fundamental serfdom and a vertical power military-bureaucratic. He was able to see their weakness and lack of prospects, beyond the external power of the empire, and we have always been good at throwing dust in the eyes. An economic policy ineffective and an inadequate social structure for developing were taking the country to the inevitable collapse. "
Who ever they are talking Medvedev? Many whisper that the tandem is being unpaired (the presidential elections are close, in 2012) and the BBC introduces your comment to this story with the title : "In the wake of Alexander II to the second term." Well, remember that Alexander was not very fortunate, perished in 1881 after a terrorist attack.
But when the policy takes hold of history is inevitably forced to operate crude simplifications. Liberation from bondage was a reform desired by almost a century, and not only by revolutionary insurgents. The Tsar was at the forefront of the anti serfdom: Catherine II and even the reactionary Nicholas I (on this point wrongly opposed to Alexander Medvedev). But the Alexandrian reform all discontent. It led to the downfall owners already heavily indebted and fell into a spiral of poverty, most of the farmers who had to rescue a high price for freedom, economically offsetting their lords. Instead, it fostered a series of reckless financial speculation, creating the conditions for the emergence of a new class of fixers and entrepreneurs who have amassed huge amounts of capital behind the state and the noble class in decline. This will be the real news of the measures of Alexander II?

Sources: BBC Russian service and site of the Russian president