Dmitry Bykov: "The Chinese way"

“Putin’s cultural revolution will take place under the sign of reprisals against damned liberalism, and anyone who does not approve of reprisals will be recorded as traitors to Orthodox values... this revolution, in turn, is proceeding in three directions. Firstly, it is beginning to be intense, although and not always obvious, a struggle at the top, due to the fact that the position of power is unstable: the “great leap” has failed, it is necessary to somehow strengthen the regime of personal power. Secondly, they sow hostility and splits among the people in every possible way - first of all, by inciting them. proletarians and villagers against the intelligentsia. And thirdly, detachments of radical youth are being organized, whose outrages the authorities turn a blind eye to. Roughly speaking, if the Red Guards kill the professor, this is an undesirable, but, in general, forgivable excess."