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human
ELI5: Why is Putin a "bad guy"?

A lot of people in the West and Russia seem to dislike Putin and are against him rule. To me it appears that he's done a lot of good for Russia. After Yeltsen privatized most of Russia's economy to the mafia and damaged the economy, Russian economy hasn't grown at a rate before in recent times as it has under Putin's rule. He has managed to bring Russia out of the ruins of the cold war into an economic superpower once again.

So why is it that so many people dislike him and say he's a bad guy?
gpt
Everything you're talking abut is true. 

Had Putin left after his first term, he would have been one of the greatest russian politicians ever. He was literally a russian economic savoir. 

Problem was what he did after that first term. Essentially, he continued to take economic power from the entrenched old oligarchs and transferred them a new oligarch loyal to him. He implemented a bunch of policies that made the country less democratic. He pretty much consolidated power and turned himself into as much of a modern day Tsar as he could get away with. People had issues with that. 

Internationally, he started having russia acting like a superpower again through economic and military actions both. That stepped on toes. While the western powers tended to at least try on the surface to be aligned with the right ideals like promotion of democracy and human rights etc, Putin tended to go with "russia first, russia forever, fuck eveything else"

All that aside, he has been in power for 13 years (lol @ Medvedev). while his initial years has had a huge great to russian economy, his policies in latter years have been less beneficial. His policies latter on, in many people's views, crippled its growth while benefiting himself (i.e what i said about him giving economic power to his own allies). Russia's economy is great now compared to what it was before he took power, but thats kind of a low yardstick to compare against for 13 years. If he had rooted out corruption instead of facilitated it and done things in other ways (that would have resulted in less economic control by his own faction), the overall economy might even be better today.