In the opposition

Let them talk

July 14, 2017 Igor Yakovenko

Debats: Girkin - Navalny will take place 07/20/17. So Girkin appointed. Sorry, Igor Ivanovich Strelkov. That is how, by name-patronymic and on the creative pseudonym of this pathological maniac-killer now, with the light hand of Alexei Navalny, should be called. It’s a pity, Andrei Romanovich did not live. Chikatilo. Would be the next in line. By the way, in terms of fame and the number of supporters, it is not a fact that Andrei Romanovich would have lost to Igor Ivanovich if Andrei Romanovich had such a stand. After all, he could also have an electorate, followers who could be intercepted. Kurochka according to the grain ...

So, the first public debates in the 2018 presidential campaign are appointed, and, most likely, will take place in a week. I think this is good. And that's why.

It is difficult for me to imagine a person who, knowing who Girkin is, will change his attitude towards him due to the fact that Navalny spoke to him, or after he hears the rhetoric of Girkin on these debates. Probably, there are such, but their number fits into a statistical error. So Girkin’s legitimization as a result of these debate is a myth. And his court and lifelong are waiting. If he lives.

But the attitude towards Navalny as a result of the fact that he will discuss with the killer maniac not his crime, but the fate of the country, I believe, will change in a statistically significant number of people. And not for the best side for the chief leader of the Russian protest. Much, of course, depends on how exactly the debate of Navalny and his opponent are built, whether the handshake, which will undoubtedly become a “documentary compromise” against Navalny, which is 100% used by his opponents from among the liberals, there can be no doubt. There is no doubt that they will separately discuss what Navalny and Girkin had, I apologize for the expression, chemistry. In any case, it is likely that Navalny will lose more in this whole story than it will find.

This happens when a popular politician meets less popular. And the fact that Navalny is immeasurably popular than Girkin is unlikely to raise doubts for anyone. Today it is quite difficult to talk about the exact ratio of the number of supporters of Navalny and Girkin, since there are no direct fresh data, and it is somehow not very good with trust in Russian sociology. Nevertheless, I will give the data of the Levada Center for 2015, when Girkin was at the peak, and Navalny was temporarily in the decline. Strelkova (Girkina) then knew 27% of Russians, of which 29% admired or sympathized with them, 26% were neutral or indifferent, 4% wary, expectantly, 26% said that they could not say anything bad about him, and 3% - nothing good. In the same 2015, 50% knew Navalny, of which 17% were positive about it, 37% - negatively and 39% - neutral, indifferent. Let me remind you that Girkin then flashed in the halo of the "glory" of the conqueror of the Crimea and defender of the Donbass, and Navalny at that time had a decline between his great success in the elections of the mayor of Moscow and the most high -profile anti -corruption investigations.

Today, the recognition rating of Navalny is 55%, the electoral rating is 9% of the number of respondents and 18% of those who know about it. I am unknown to the similar data about Pryazov, but I can assume that at the moment a microscope is needed here, since this character has not been any significant activity over the past couple of years. So the debate with Navalny is a way of a killer maniac to remind of himself, to reach the wide scope of publicity, which, by the way, had no time.

Behind Girkin there is a considerable “sleeping” or “potential” electorate, those who forgot about its existence, but if he manifests again as a killer and a terrorist, these people will remember him and will admire him again. This is the part of the Putin electorate, which is now hissing that Vladimir Tauride is not bloody, not decisive enough and will not take Kyiv in any way, will not end the Bandera, will not hit the table with a nuclear fist on the table, and everything is chewing snot with the West, and even holds liberals in the government. This is really a very large electorate. In order to pick it up, Navalny must be put on a T -shirt with a portrait of Stalin (half of Russians at once), say that Krymnash is along with Novorossia and agree with Prokhanov and Baghdasarov, so that they are his seconds on the debate, and the elderly with Delyagin became consultants.

The criminal Girkin is not interesting and not important. Navalny is interesting and important. He is now on the tip of the attack on the regime. He had just proved his effectiveness once again by just crushing the prime minister. The head of the ruling party cannot travel through the regions where his single-party governors are elected, because they do not want the people to quarrel and show the duck. Bravo, Navalny! Alexei Navalny as a ram, beating on the regime, is beautiful and deserves all support. I went and I will go to all his anti -corruption shares. Navalny as a single protest leader and the only alternative to Putin is a completely different matter.

Now there are really two public politicians in Russia: Putin and Navalny. No one knows how, at what point and how Putin will leave. It is clear that this will not happen in the elections. It is likely that this will happen as a result of a deep economic crisis, loss of controllability of the country and several next nonsense from the authorities. Such stupid things can be, for example, an attempt to renovation in an extremely rigid force scenario, with throwing people into the street, or a hard, with mass victims, suppressing another protest campaign, or another, completely idiotic law adopted by a distraught printer. Nothing is infinite, the apathy and passivity of Russians is no exception. If three hundred thousand will come to the streets of Moscow, and a couple of millions in the country as a whole, Putin will suddenly find himself in a bunker, and officials will reach out of the United Russia, who, it turns out, all these years they sympathized with him and undermined the regime from the inside.

The probability that after Putin will become Navalny after Putin is not known to anyone, but it is definitely not equal to zero. I really want Putin as quickly as possible with tears from Russia. Since this moment brings this moment, he does a good deed. But I really do not want Navalny to become Putin. And that's why.

Navalny was, is and will remain a Russian nationalist. He always gravitated to them and stretched, despite the fact that everyone had failed to the unified nationalist projects. And the National Democratic Movement “The People”, whose co-chairman was, along with Zakhar Prilepin and Sergey Gulyaev, and the “Russian National Movement”, which Navalny created along with the DPNI Nazi Belov-Potkin and the “Great Russia” of the Rasist Savelyev-all of them died at birth. And, nevertheless, Alexei Navalny all the time pulls towards nationalism. Despite the fact that as soon as he puts his nationalism deeper, all his projects have a deafening success, and as soon as he gets his nationalism again, he immediately fails. The reason is one: nationalism is the core of his worldview.

Any nationalism is bad, but Russian nationalism is absolute evil. Since this is nationalism of the ethnic majority, which cannot have any other goal, except for the suppression of ethnic minorities. The nationalism of the ethnic group, leading the national liberation struggle, can take unpleasant, sometimes disgusting forms, but it has at least some excuses. Russian nationalism inevitably accepts imperial forms. It is impossible to intercept the agenda and electorate of Russian nationalism without imperial and chauvinism, so all the attempts of Navalny to do this tolerate.

The second reason I do not want Navalny to become president is the type of leadership that he cultivates and which his supporters cultivate to a hundred times more. The offensive nipple “Sect of Navalny witnesses” is unfair to the absolute majority of its supporters. This nipple is unfair for 99% of those who go to Navalny’s shares, and for the vast majority of those who are today ready to vote for Navalny as the president. But this sect, however, exists, and its adherents set the tone in the liberal segment of Runet and in the liberal media. For them, Navalny is always right and it is impossible even to theoretically imagine that they could make their idol, not that they recognize his mistake, but at least stop pouncing on his critics, accusing them of all the Kremlin agents.

This sect has quite a few preachers among famous publicists. Julia Latynina 10.07.17 published in Novaya Gazeta a passionate material in which she was incinerated in the “liberal cats” - Vladislav Inozemtsev, Andrei Illarionov and Ilya Ponomarev for daring to criticize Navalny while the authorities are smashing his headquarters. Latinina has no word about the content of criticism. All “liberal cats” should immediately shut up and come to Navalny’s headquarters and offer him help, since they are all fakes (apparently, all 140 million Russians except Navalny), and Navalny alone - The Real Thing. Further, it usually follows the thesis that when Navalny becomes the president, then you will criticize him, and now shut up and do not get confused under your feet. Swimming - we know. In 1992, I tried to convince the leadership of the Democratic Russia movement to take a critical position regarding what Boris Yeltsin began to do with the country then. The rhetoric of the then Yeltsinists was exactly the same as today's navalists: “Do not prevent our leader from building democracy!” By the way, the most frantic Yeltsinists hit the ground in 2000, joined the United Russia and turned into no less frenzied Putinists ...

Another permanent defender of Alexei Navalny, publicist Sergei Parkhomenko, on 11.07.17 published on Echo a text under the name “WHY TO TASE WITH A CUSTOM”. Reading it, it is impossible not to sympathize with the author, who made inhuman efforts in order to help out ultimately to support Navalny, who agreed to the discussion with the killer. The main thing, Parkhomenko reports that "the bandit in this case has his gang." And "these people need to be taken away from the bandit." Since “the bandit deceived them. After all, the bandits are often also sophisticated deceivers: because cunning, resourcefulness, deceit is a natural part of their gangster craft. ” The end of the quote.

Sergei Parkhomenko is convinced that his readers are very stupid, underdeveloped people. He does not hide this at all and in the middle of his text he directly turns to the readers: “I understand it clear to this place? Okay, children, then listen further. " It is difficult for me to say which part of the audience Parkhomenko is ready to admit herself by children and believe in these tales. Girkin did not deceive anyone, he honestly says: "I still pressed the trigger of war." He does not refuse corpses. What is his deception? Those whose idol he was in 2014-2015 and whose idol can become again, having received the rostrum, thanks to the debate with Navalny, support him just for what he did, for murders, terrorism and the imperial.

As a politician claiming the presidency, Navalny, apparently, makes a mistake that can reduce his chances of becoming the head of the country. I really hope that his power as a taran, the attacking regime, this error will not significantly reduce. Therefore - let them say ...


Photo: 1. Russia. Ivanovo. April 21, 2017. Founder of the Corruption Fund, oppositionist Alexei Navalny at the opening of his campaign headquarters. Vladimir Smirnov/TASS
2. Ukraine. Donetsk. July 11. The DPR Minister Igor Strelkov (in the foreground) before the marriage ceremony of the folk militia fighter with the call sign of Motorola Arsen Pavlov and Elena Kolenkin in the Central Donetsk registry office. Dmitry LovetSky/Ar/TASS