German Obukhov: War Syndrome

Russia is unique not only its largest territory on the planet, not only by its 1917 revolution, but also by the fact that for several generations it has been living in war. The Great Patriotic War, which claimed more than a dozen millions of millions of lives of Soviet citizens, caused severe psychological trauma to all nations living in the territory of a huge country. Since the beginning of the 70s, the authorities began to deliberately speculate on the tragedy of this war. “They attacked us, they wanted to destroy us ... They now want to destroy us ...” - such a thesis was constantly impended by official Soviet propaganda during the Cold War. In New Russia, this propaganda turned into a farce, since people who were born almost after the war were equated to the "war veterans"! The militaristic psychosis was covered by society, even children in kindergartens and first schools of the school, teachers and teachers inspire the idea of threats emanating from neighboring countries, from the United States - first of all.

Very a few countries of the world you will meet preschool children dressed in military uniforms with weapons in their hands. And in no other country you will not see cars with inscriptions "on Berlin!" In any country, the world will not build an exact copy of the Reichstag so that youth paramilitary organizations train to storm this building. Seven decades have passed since the end of the Great Patriotic War, but it seems that the war ended only a few years ago.

The war for the Kremlin is the only way to extend power

Why all this? The conclusion is this: Russia cannot live without war. This is a formed lifestyle that can pose a threat to all of mankind, since the population of a huge country thinks of militaristic categories. The government deliberately supports these sentiments, imposes hostility among citizens to other countries and peoples. These trends intensified many times during the reign of Putin: the Russian government does not imagine life without war.

Imagine for a moment that there is no conflict in Eastern Ukraine, that Crimea is again Ukrainian, that in Syria there is no Assad and there are no Russian troops, that South Ossetia is again Georgia. What will the Solovyov-Kiselev-cheaps from the television screens of the main television channels talk about? About how poorly the worker lives in Samara? About how Gazprom destroys the ecology of Siberia? That officials live better than scientists and artists? Then do not pass the folk rebellion, all the "loyalists" will be bought without exception. Today, the Kremlin will not live without war a single day! The war for the Kremlin is the only way to extend the power. We do not know when this nightmare is over, but it is clear that the country is not able to endlessly live militarism. This requires a lot of money, and they tend to end, for this we need human resources that also melt.

War is evil, and absolute evil. Angels also live in the same United States, but American society can influence the "hawks" in power. The war in Vietnam was stopped by large -scale protests; After the war in Iraq, many in Washington thought about the appropriateness of military intervention abroad. This did not fail to use the Kremlin, considering that now it was his turn to pursue a "canonerian policy." The current leadership of the country did not teach Afghan experience, although it is obvious that Russia today is not able to dictate its conditions through military presence. This practice has remained in the past, and the present is so hopeless that there is no chance to get out of the dead end of a militaristic fucker.

What can all this lead to? To the collapse of the country into several states. Moreover, it is possible that some of these states will be under external management, like Germany after the Second World War. This is the most bloodless option. Nobody will allow the third world, and Russia is not able to fight the whole world. The militarization of the country after the Ukrainian revolution of 2014 reached the climax. The authorities have forgotten about the fact that there is culture, there is science, there is an infinite set of social problems. All this faded into the background, only because Kyiv allegedly “attacked” the eastern Ukraine, and the Syrian regime began a merciless war against its own opposition.

German Obukhov is the founder and coordinator of the International Antiputine Coalition "Stop Fascism in Russia!"

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