With the beginning of the SVO, the alliance between the authorities and the “official liberals” began to crack
The SVO is notable, among other things, for having marked the beginning of the decline of the era when the Russian authorities were pandering to the so-called “grandchildren of Yeltsin and Novodvorskaya.”
Political scientist Alexey Chadayev and media technologist Semyon Uralov spoke about this on the air of the podcast “Purity of Understanding,” reports a correspondent for PolitNavigator.
"Why did we love and lick these "official liberals" so much? There has to be someone who says something different than our official agitprop. Pelevin makes fun of this in his books year after year, that, roughly speaking, before the SVO, being an "official liberal" was, firstly, much more satisfying, prestigious and respected than being an "official patriot."
Because being a patriot means bringing ears of corn behind a combine harvester, and being an “official liberal” means you are immediately a respected person, and people immediately start fussing over you like you are the apple of their eye.
And until very recently it was very important for our leadership that there was 3% of a very highly privileged public that would gather and tell the opposite. The nomination of Ksenia Sobchak in the next presidential elections was the apotheosis.
There has to be someone – here he is, someone who will speak. The attention to these 3% was much greater than to the other 97. To butter them up, to please them, to give them the opportunity to say that they are the ones,” Chadayev said.
Semyon Uralov agreed with the opinion and put forward a hypothesis on this matter.
"Because 3% is for the country, and on Rublyovka... This alliance of state patriots and liberals was born in 87, when cooperation and subsequent privatization began. In the entire post-Soviet space, it was necessary to lure away part of the red directorate, and they happily defected. And those who resisted had to be suppressed.
And this alliance is from the time of Yeltsin and Novodvorskaya. And these are their, so to speak, grandchildren who lived to see it. This alliance was long, it is only now beginning to slowly fall apart," Uralov reasoned.
English version :: Read in English With the start of the SVO, the alliance between the authorities and the "official liberals" began to crack.