In uniform

The second version

June 12, 2012 Viktor Shenderovich

So what was it, with searches around the perimeter?

So far, there are two versions. One is pleasant, the other is alarming.

The first version, pleasant: we are dealing with ordinary idiocy of power, the consequence (in the terminology of Lev Semenovich Rubinstein), its "collective farm mentality." It was decided to run stronger on Navalny, Chirikov and Co. and to decline the protest. Cheap and cheerful - but painfully cheap, even for there.

Rudeness from the eleventh of June, of course, will only add the number of the twelfth streets. I write these lines in the future in the early morning, but very soon the hypothesis, I hope, will be proved by life.

Idiots?

However, there is another version, anxious - the one to which I am inclined.

Putin and Co are quite consciously go to maximum aggravation of the situation. They are not just not afraid of clashes and blood on the streets of Moscow - they are waiting for them like the manna of heaven! They suffered full moral collapse, they have no social support; In the normal, “positional” political struggle, they do not have a single chance, and they perfectly understand it.

Their only chance is the muddy bloody water. To bring an expanding protest to the line of violence and lightly push, the benefit in idiots and provocateurs there is no shortage from any side of the barricades.

In Putin's hands there is no tools except lies and violence. All his successes for a dozen years are in this simple circle. In these riot police, he will undoubtedly win once again-Pirrov, of course, but will win.

He expects this to us today, impatiently tapping a hoof to the Kremlin parquet.

No need to rush into this debut trap.

Our chance, still, massive, peaceful, coordinated, ongoing civil pressure on power. All adjectives are equally important here. Total video control for what is happening today on Moscow boulevards and avenues. Organization of a referendum, strengthening a democratic bridgehead, solidarity with political prisoners, educational work ...

Expansion, not an exacerbation of the social base of protest.

Dear business, it's time to get out of the underground! Dear security forces, you are not obliged to violate the Constitution, even if your thieving authorities orders you this! Colleagues-journalists, honor Jack Berden's Testament: even in our profession it is not necessary to be scum ...

Well, in general, when it becomes difficult to breathe, most often it is because of its own smell.

It is dangerous to be afraid.

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