Much to my bitterness, the protest went wrong, in the wrong direction, with the wrong strength and the wrong composition.
For good, but infantile young guys, he was a game. For the sticky elite cholesterol, which lives well under any regime, it was an extra opportunity to have fun. For the “reds” and “browns” it was an opportunity to become legitimized in the minds of the masses.
And social parasitism, which is the basis of both nationalism and any “left” movement, manifested itself in the mess described below by Maxim Katz.
Soviet deja vu with “veterans of labor” demanding extraordinary unlimited sales of toilet paper.
I am neutral and not an oppositionist; the time has not yet come for us to climb the barricades. But when the police began to grab peaceful people on the street...
...Lawyers report that the same people end up in the police department, sometimes twice a day. Helping activists is a completely different project, I won’t be involved in it...
...They began to ask/demand lawyers for environmentalists, various activists in different cities, they began to persistently ask them to draw up some papers for trolling the authorities and filing complaints with the ECHR, etc...
...He tried to put pressure on me, saying that I have no right to refuse help to anyone, since the money is public, and I cannot make such decisions...