The highest stage of Putinism

Putin’s transition to frankly Hitler foreign policy qualitatively changes the political configuration within the country. First of all, the project "United Antiputin Opposition" was finally removed from the agenda. Putin managed to use the "postersal syndrome", to enrich the mass imper-chauinistic psychosis and achieve support for a significant majority of aggression he had begun. Most of the opposition took to his side. First of all, systemic, Duma, but not only.

Mass imperial chauinistic psychosis is a very dangerous and serious illness. When he covers the country, it is very difficult for him not to succumb. Moreover, many opponents of the Kremlin immunity to this disease were originally, to put it mildly, weakened.

Were attempts to unite the fundamental opponents of imperial politics and the imperial state model with fans of these cute things in the general citizen protest movement for honest elections, political freedoms and the elimination of the Kleptocratic Putin regime? I am convinced that they are correct. Scarecrow about the fact that democrats can lead to the power of people more than Putin is nothing more than demagogy. If such a motley “united opposition” really arose and it managed to overturn the Putin regime, he would have replaced the coalition government in which great -power revengers would not be the only force. And they would have to act with an eye on partners. Even at first they would not have been up to foreign policy adventures. Indeed, a heap of internal problems requiring urgent solution to solve urgent solutions would immediately fall into the new government. In addition, the change of regime inevitably at least temporarily destroys the centralized system of control over the information space through which the current power virus spreads.

This train is gone. People with various, even opposite values ​​can find a common language when that united at least temporarily, more relevant than what disconnects them. With people fascinated by the charm of the imperial idea, one can deal with exactly the moment when their dreams about the empire begin to be embodied in reality.

When the spirit of the Empire called to life materializes, its adherents enter the state of ecstatic trance. They lose their ability to adequately perceive reality. They turn off the system of moral limiters. They do not notice lies and meanness, someone else's pain, death and suffering of thousands of people.

There is nothing more fascinating than the dream of a great empire building a city and road. There is nothing more disgusting and dirty than the Great Empire in the flesh. And now, a half -drunk company, inspired by the joint execution under the guitar of the "eagle of the sixth legion", with enthusiasm, Gorlanit "I am a descendant of Khan Mamaia":

*I have a letter from the Russian prince.

He turned, a scoundrel, to "you".

I trampled him in the mud

Under the jubilant roar of hordes.*

This is your empire. Conquer, attach, trample. Everything else is details and financials. Only all the empires in the chest end.

Russian aggression against Ukraine showed that the most fundamental watershed in society, the watershed is not just ideological, but mental, takes place on the attitude to imperial politics. A variety of forces that do not belong to the ruling kleptocracy can find a common language on all other issues. You can achieve understanding and compromise on economic and social policy, in relation to property and the market. But in relation to imperial expansion, a compromise is impossible. Because imperial expansion is a war. When there is a war, the warriors against each other cannot cooperate even on such a politically neutral issue as urban protection. Those who consider the annexation of Crimea by meanness and shame cannot cooperate, and those who consider this robbery valor.

Elena Tkach, who sided with the empire, felt this new reality. And her exotic proposals to deprive citizenship for “anti -state speeches” also completely correctly reflect another new reality: the warring empire is doomed to become totalitarian. She can still allow discussions on budget and taxes. But the one who opens against the imperial policy itself and the imperial model passes from the category of the opponent to the category of an enemy losing the right to legality.

There is no doubt that such performances will be criminalized very soon in one form or another, and the purely totalitarian concept of "anti -state propaganda" will be legalized again. All the fractions of our "frantic printer" have long and unanimously exhausted from prohibitory itching, from the desire to plant. Now they will be the highest allowing this desire to satisfy this.

Imperial expansion and colonial wars are incompatible with democracy and political freedom. In any case, in a long historical perspective. Either democracy will kill the colonial war, or the colonial war will kill democracy. Western democracies that turned out to be this dilemma abandoned their colonial possessions. Flessed Russian democracy, a deadly blow was inflicted on a clonical colonial war against Chechnya. Putin retained some external attributes of democracy and the remnants of political freedoms, until he was ready to open an open gap with the West. Now that the gap has actually took place, the logic of the confrontation not only frees the Kremlin groin from the need to depict decency, but also directly makes him abandon the Western standards of human rights with his banner.

Democratic anti -imperial opposition will have to go through the martyrdom of repression. At the same time, in the foreseeable perspective, it is doomed to political and ideological loneliness, to frying. Any political cooperation with the Communist Party and the “just Verskvites”, which are actively, not for fear, but for conscience participate in the destruction of the remnants of civil rights, today there is a combination of fascism. But even with the side of the imperial expansion, part of the non-systemic opposition, which not only does not require repression, but it itself is subjected to it, at best, individual contacts are possible for separate, as they say, humanitarian and legal protection issues.

Of course, denunciations of the guard should be completely excluded for ideological reasons . I always opposed the criminal prosecution for the statement of any views, including Nazi. Even if the expressing them is not some shocking marginal, but a successful zealous chuly of the ruling kleptocracy. Let Hitler consider himself a brilliant politician . But to show solidarity with the Nazi , who was just deprived of the government award of a neighboring state for his Nazi performances - this already means directly sides the Nazism.