Kirill Martynov: “It’s time to call the Decembrists”

“On social networks, a wave raised by bots and sympathizers reached me. They say that they (Georgians) spat in our (Russian people) faces with bad slogans about our (beautiful) Russia, and these (liberals) do not want to see the obvious and realize that The measures taken there (by the president and the government), namely petty vindictiveness about tourism and wine, are the only reasonable responses to this terrible insult,” writes a columnist and lecturer at the Higher School of Economics on his Facebook page.

“If we assume that this whole structure can, in principle, be taken seriously, then I absolutely do not understand the premise that was missed in these arguments.

Here's how I reason: if someone doesn't like something, then he can come out with a sign against this hateful bullshit, be it NATO, reptilians or Putin. And no one is responsible for this except the person who came out, just as no one has the power to prohibit him from such actions.

And if they prohibit it, then it’s time to call in the Decembrists, so that later they can write something on the ruins of autocracy. In short, this is a slave system or something like that.

And now the so-called offended Russian people are presuming from the first paragraph: if someone came out with a Fuck Russia sign, it means the people are to blame, and the Georgian authorities, their despots and Roskomnadzor, generally allowed this to happen. Everyone must be punished. After all, if someone showed up on the street with such a sign, they would quickly take him to the Nizhneye Biryulyovo police station. It is quite obvious that this is how it is organized everywhere.

Let us punish them for the way we are accustomed to serfdom. And then, of course, a very serious conclusion: these are bots, Vladimir Rudolfovich Solovyov and other front-line heroes, testing Russians to see how much they like the new war.

Please don't be fooled."