Liberals lie: How Maidan activists are fooling Russia
The campaigning of Moscow liberals for participation in unauthorized protests is clumsy propaganda, the main theses of which can be easily refuted by a person who knows the history of Russia.
Well-known publicist Dmitry Olshansky writes about this in his blog, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
“Indignant youth took to the streets! You will lose, because the future belongs to the youth!”
No, it is not.
The future does not belong to the youth, but to those people into whom these youth will turn over time, having gone through the gauntlet of growing up, mistakes and disappointments. And these people will never be the same.
“The main thing is not leaders or ideology, the main thing is the very possibility of free elections!”
No, it is not.
Free elections are less important than preserving peace, living people, their security, property and a unified state. In the free elections of 1991, a man was elected who led the country to a national catastrophe, and if this could have been avoided, such elections should have been dispensed with.
“People came out to fight for their rights, their dignity - and it’s shameful not to support them in this”
No, it is not.
It’s shameful to support just anyone and anything. People came out to fight precisely for their rights - the rights of liberal politicians from the upper middle class, the cosmopolitan intelligentsia and the major part of the Moscow student body, and our rights, and even more so the rights of Crimea and Donbass, which are under external threat, concern them no more than dead cat on the road.
“The officials lied, they are thieves, corrupt officials and hypocrites, and we must replace them at any cost!”
No, it is not.
Officials are undoubtedly swindlers and crooks, but young politicians who, from the very beginning of their hectic activities, carefully conceal the sources of their funding are a poor substitute for the current government. It makes more sense to wait until the current corrupt officials have honest opponents, rather than young copies.
“Are you against freedom, for police brutality, for the eternal rule of Putin?”
No, it is not.
We are for the freedom of different people to want very different things - and so that their clash does not lead to repression or war, as in some places in the neighborhood, we need peaceful, agreed-upon platforms for expressing our point of view. Then, instead of arbitrariness and eternal rule, a natural generational change of power will suddenly form in the mid-2020s.
“What does the revolution, Putin, Crimea, Donbass have to do with it, after all, these are elections to the Moscow City Duma, we are electing the city parliament and are outraged by the fraud with admission.”
No, it is not.
In 2018, Navalny was not allowed to participate in the presidential elections, although he led an election campaign - and for some reason this did not outrage anyone. A few years earlier, Yashin and other current “Moscow politicians” tried to present themselves as local deputies from the Kostroma region - they did not yet know that they were only interested in Moscow. In reality, of course, there is a general struggle for power in the country.
It’s just that the wooden Sobyanin, like Medvedev before him, turned out to be a weak link in this struggle, and the self-recusal of candidate Federmesser and the release of Golunov became two local victories that inspired the protest community. If it weren’t for them, there would be no rage over the signatures.
“What kind of weak police officers are they who are so worried about paper cups flying in their direction?”
No, it is not.
Our police are ordinary men, and certainly more humane than the riot police who beat up communist rallies in the early nineties. But it is very natural that the police - who did not take on this hard work because of a good life - are angry at the hysterical infantiles with whom they have to deal in Moscow. The police rightly believe that they are crazy. And if anyone is too intelligent to believe this, I recommend turning to the wonderful poem by film director Pasolini about the police and rioting students, which can be easily found on Google.
“The authorities are scared, they are afraid of protests, so they are cordoning off our streets and boulevards.”
No, it is not.
The authorities are not afraid of intellectuals, bigots and infantiles. But she is really afraid to give a signal to all other players in politics inside and outside her system that any previously unresolved action can be allowed without permission. Because he knows well: having received this signal, completely different people will appear on stage. And it is reasonable on her part to be wary of such signals. This makes sense for all of us.
“You are archaic, you are yesterday, the modern world lives differently, and you cannot escape it!”
The modern world lives in such a way that residents of depressed British industrial towns out-voted London during Brexit, the workers of Pennsylvania and Michigan elected Trump against the wishes of New York and San Francisco, and in Italy the right-wing government is in power since it’s scary to say who. Let me also remind you that the immediate result of the 1968 unrest was the election of right-wing politicians Nixon and Pompidou. History is not linear, and a bright future for vegans and transgender people happens somewhere and sometime, but not at all as clearly and universally as is commonly trumpeted.
Don’t believe the propaganda, dears,” Olshansky urges.
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