Oksana Zaitseva. Fear

Fear
Oksana Zaitseva

Publication date: February 10, 2004

In the evening in the center of St. Petersburg, a group of teenagers, presumably skinheads, attacked 35-year-old Yusuf Sultanov, who was returning home with his 9-year-old daughter and 11-year-old nephew from the skating rink in Yusupovsky Garden. Ten people with bats, chains and knives. The boy, who suffered a concussion, managed to escape and hide, Yusuf received a closed head injury, and the girl died on the spot from blood loss. The teenagers waited until she died and only then ran away. All this happened in the courtyard of the house, and not only did no one rush to help, but did not even call the police. It’s hard to imagine that none of the residents heard what was happening under the windows.

The crime is not only blatantly brutal, but also with nationalistic overtones. It was not a Russian girl who was killed, but a Tajik girl. They attacked the so-called "chocks". It is unlikely that this is a direct reaction of skinheads to the explosion in the Moscow metro, but rather another attack by degraded outcasts, carried away by the ideas of fascism.

With his (never literally fulfilled) promise to “kill terrorists in the toilet,” Vladimir Putin wanted to scare Chechen extremists, but he achieved the support of Russian Nazis. Now we are outraged by the growth of nationalist sentiments in society. The president's protégé Valentina Matvienko ordered to "get out of the ground... the juvenile scum" who killed the girl. “We must fight any manifestations of nationalism in our city,” said Valentina Ivanovna. At the same time, media reports emphasize that the Tajiks who were attacked had official registration in the city. As if, if not for her, the crime would have been less brutal.

I wonder if Matvienko would have stood up for a family living in the city without temporary registration? It seems not - this fits into the latest concept of the authorities about the civil structure of the two capitals. The system of selectivity, remoteness, and isolation of both capitals from the country is being supported and strengthened by all means. After the explosion in the Moscow metro, one of the first reactions of the city mayor's office was a statement of intention to tighten the registration procedure .

The fear of personal defenselessness against any manifestation of violence has long existed in society. They are afraid of Caucasians, skinheads, policemen, bandits. This fear gives rise not only to chimeras, but also to quite tangible partisan groups fighting these chimeras. The strengthening of red-brown sentiments is a direct consequence of the government’s policies. From the highest rostrum they introduced us to the national enemy - the Chechen. Following him, all persons of non-Slavic appearance became enemies. And while the Chechen was fighting with Russian soldiers, the Russians began to hate all Caucasians.

Then a real war came to the country, which had previously nested somewhere on the outskirts of the world. Explosions of houses, an explosion in the passage on Pushkinskaya Square in Moscow, Dubrovka, now the metro. And fear began to grow like a snowball. Since the authorities cannot provide security for the population, skinheads take up the cause - with youthful maximalism and ardor. There is no one to stop them, because the country has neither a system of self-regulation, nor effective law enforcement agencies, nor, in the end, quality education. There is no one who can properly explain to teenagers that killing is bad. There is no one to convince them that people of different nationalities are the same inside, that any nation can produce both geniuses and degenerates, but for the most part the nation is citizens who are normal from all points of view.

In such conditions, it is difficult to exclude the possibility of an underground civil war. To put it simply - massacres. The authorities have created the image of an enemy for us and are now dealing with the consequences. So we have to blame here not so much the “young bastards” as ourselves, Valentina Ivanovna.