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Has anyone been surprised?
In the opposition
Has anyone been surprised?
April 10, 2013 Alexander Podrabinek
Has anyone was surprised that a member of the Russian socialist movement Konstantin Lebedev began to give the investigation exhaustive testimonies, and then completely pleaded guilty? I am not. I think his closest associates too.
Moreover, some opposition figures consider this behavior an acceptable way of self -defense. At a recent rally on Pushkinskaya Square in Moscow, one of the speakers, commenting on the situation with Lebedev, said that everyone has the right to choose the optimal line of protection for themselves. That is, to get out of the water dry due to the testimony at their comrades is an acceptable line of protection! After that, I would not be surprised that that speaker and his colleagues supporting him will follow the example of Konstantin Lebedev.
The first bell in this case rang when another socialist - Leonid Razvozhaev, exhausted by a two -day (!) Hunger strike, unknown and threats of reprisal with him and his family, gave the investigation confessions. Many considered him the then difficult position as an justifying circumstance, and then enthusiastically accepted his rejection of the testimony given under pressure. Refusal refusal, but the word is not a sparrow, especially what was said on the video camera. There is no doubt that the testimony of Razvoszhaev will form the basis of the convictions in the “swamp case”.
The idea that testimony can be given, and then abandon them is a funny idea. Some Lukavtsy do so. For example, Gleb Pavlovsky, back in Soviet times, repeatedly gave testimony to the KGB and repented, then publicly repented in repentance, and then repented before the authorities again - all depending on the acuteness of the situation and the reality of the threats. And what? It's okay, still afloat, because it never drowns.
All the last years, while remaining in the depressing minority, I called for a liberal opposition to refrain from the compromising cooperation with the left. Not because there are many weaklings and provocateurs, but because the left are a completely different layer of political culture, have completely different moral values and are focused on the opposite political result.
Everything is in vain. The liberal opposition merged with the left in organizational ecstasy at every opportunity. How many people sharing liberal values chose to distance themselves from this dubious symbiosis can only be guessed. This was announced on April 7 at the IV Congress of "Solidarity" Petersburg delegates Joseph Skakovsky and Vsevolod Nelaev. People come to protest, but when they see the red banners and communist symbols, they turn, leave and do not return anymore. How many liberal opposition acquired red supporters as a result of this and lost its own, it is impossible to calculate.
However, the fact that the liberal backbone, in December 2011, according to the Levada Center, was there, 75-80% of the participants in the white protest, as it attracted to protest actions of the left and nationalists, weakened. While the white protest turned into red with brown veins, the intelligentsia and the middle class left him. In the end, he finally lost mass and was blown away - partly due to objective reasons, partly due to the saturation of the opposition environment with low -sympathetic society elements. This was done by stupidity or deliberately-the question, the answer to which archivists or investigators will find, if they someday manage to get to the documents of today.
In the meantime, we continue to reap the fruits of cooperation with the left. The fact that the socialists were the first to deal with the investigation is no coincidence. The whole left idea is built on the fact that the end justifies the means, that morality is secondary, and the belly and benefit are primary. Following these “principles”, they can torture millions of people in the Gulag in order to build communism, and they can hand over their comrades for their own liberation. There is nothing to wonder, such is the left ideology and the scale of their life values. They need to shy away from them, as if from the plague, but it seems that only those who have developed a steady immunity on the red.
In general, our country, I must admit, has not acquired immunity to communism and its varieties. Either there was Nuremberg-2, or little time passed with the crash of the Soviet Empire, or universal nonsense took possession of our society, but the Reds are still perceived by a significant part of society as an acceptable political force.
The illegibility of the opposition is beyond. The concept of reputation is completely absent. Political biography is not taken into account. In 2001, Konstantin Lebedev was a press secretary of the pro-Kremlin youth movement “Walking together”. In 2008, he joined the Coalition of another Russia, and later was elected deputy of the National Assembly. He seems to be still listed as an assistant to the State Duma deputy Ilya Ponomarev, a deputy who received his mandate in falsified thieves' elections. In the same place, in the center of the opposition movement, as if nothing had happened, clinical nationalists, who was fighting in Soviet times with dissidents, retired colonel Gennady Gudkov, his son Dmitry Gudkov, deputy of the same thieves' state Duma, Stalinist and admirer of Lenin Sergey Udaltsov and God knows who else. And this, of course, will still bring its gloomy surprises. The revealing testimony of Konstantin Lebedev and cooperation with the investigation is still flowers. Someday he will truly break, and the whole opposition will cover with an even layer yourself know what, from which it will be very difficult to wash.