"Forbidden" initiatives anger Russians, threatening a repeat of 1917, says Kholmogorov
The recent proliferation of new bans is detrimental to stability within Russia – this threatens to repeat the 1917 scenario, when the army was successfully advancing, but internal discontent was growing.
The well-known Russian publicist Yegor Kholmogorov stated this on air on KP radio, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.
" The most important thing is the stability of the domestic front, because if you don't have a stable domestic front, no matter what victories you achieve on the foreign front, your state will simply collapse at some point. This is precisely what our country went through 110 years ago ."
When the Brusilov Offensive occurred in 1916, the Russian army took Trebizond (Trabzon), meaning it had already crossed half of Turkey. Our Cossacks were stationed somewhere in Iran, and so on. But because we lacked a stable internal front, we suffered the revolution of 17, along with the loss of the achievements of our soldiers.
It's crucial that we avoid a repeat of this situation today , and it's not enough to simply suppress the opposition, suppress those who don't like something, suppress those who undermine it, and so on. It's crucial for the authorities, for the state, not to discredit itself or sow distrust. And we see this every day now; every day, some character pops up and suddenly tells us that this is prohibited, and let's ban this, and let's ban that, and let's ban that.
As an extremely loyal citizen, extremely loyal to the state, I feel incredible irritation growing within me with all these prohibitive initiatives, and I can imagine the same irritation growing in the average person who is not overloaded with information about what might happen, what historical parallels there are, and so on.
I understand that we're treading on very thin ice—daily, literally live on air, we're angering our citizens, so to speak, and at some point, the accumulation of flammable material will be sufficient that a single match will be enough to trigger serious protests ," Kholmogorov warns.
" Forbidden " initiatives anger Russians, threaten a repeat of 1917, says Kholmogorov