Year of lawlessness

On the Union state of sadists and poisoners

Two political regimes and two societies look at each other, as in a mirror. In this mirroring, they play the Czechard, briefly ahead of the neighbor. Then Lukashenko is the last dictator of Europe, then Putin.

At the beginning of the year, we still looked at Lukashenko even with some sympathy: there, how he fights against the rude pressure of Moscow. The Kremlin at this time began desecration of the constitution and zeroing, went into conflicts around the perimeter and pressed civilian organizations. In August-September, Moscow and Minsk changed places. Lukashenko became the main gardener of Europe, from the Kremlin they began to expect almost humanitarian intervention in order to stop violence.

At the same time, Russian society looked at the “Belarusian mirror” with horror: because Lukashenko, clinging to the authorities, clearly showed what would happen to a civil protest in Russia if the Kremlin involves its repressive possibilities. However, the Belarusians wanted to hope at least for the fact that Putin would intervene in order to weaken Lukashenko in their interests. At the end of the year, something phantasmagoric appeared in the Russian mirror: in Russia they are discontented with military poisons, experience them in public, a whole large group of specialists works.

As a result, by the end of the year, something like the "union state of sadists and poisoners" took shape. Two conflicting dictators were in the same den. One has already crossed, the second - he is actively preparing to do this in step in one year. And at the cost of the final extermination of society, the exhaustion of its forces.

At the same time, in Russia they look at the Belarusian protest with admiration and shame. In Belarus, a difficult psychological and ideological process began, which Ukraine had previously survived. The Kremlin defiantly supports the “worse” side in the political crisis, and Russian society is not visible and not heard.

Belarusian feelings for Russia are stronger than Ukrainian. But if you look in the mirror for a long time, then you will either be very sad, or you will reject in horror. Along the entire perimeter of Russia, people read and watch the details of Navalny’s poisoning, including in Belarus.

This causes a dumb. What help in the fight against sadism can be expected from the neighboring regime of poisoners?

Lukashenko for a long time was the “Moscow -Brest”, “Old Man”, “Director of the state farm”, joker and balagur. Now he lies with the huge dead carcass of a whale that has fallen into the pool. The water from the pool, along with the fish, was thrown overboard. And now - from the, western side of the pool - the dead whale was overlapped by fugitive Belarusians. There are so many of them, they are so energetic, so simple and open - Europe has not seen such large -scale solidarity for a long time. In the diaspora, support centers arose in dozens of large cities. Not only in the capitals of European countries, but, for example, in Germany: constant support shares are held in Cologne, Dusseldorf, Stuttgart. The fan of daily events generated by protesting Belarusians is amazing. (All this can be seen on the site of Pavel Lesyants Siabry.org)

On the east side of the pool is the Kremlin - with Rosgardia and loans. In the propaganda Russian media, experts write that the Moscow authorities are in the Tsugtswang situation, directly say that Russia "betrays the people of Belarus." And they demand that Putin pull out a dead carcass. In the same media stream, there is a diffamation about the Tikhanovskaya, about the coordination council, about independent Belarusian media, since the Kremlin - together with Lukashenko - wants to consider the entire civil protest as a special operation of the CIA and the State Department.

Both societies - both Belarusian and Russian - today look at what is happening in their own optics in the neighboring country.

These societies were faced with lawlessness in the biblical sense. Lawlessness is an ancient word, it is older than many other words in the political dictionary.

This is not just the violation of the conventions of positive law or ideas about natural law. Both societies are faced with enjoying power from sadism, mockery of norms, laughter of a rapist over the victim. Lies here are not a subject for shame, and it is not just justified by "national interests." She built into this lawlessness as an additional register of this laughter.

Within the framework of the political language, consciousness does not contain: how is the “Dr. Mengele’s gang”, which is engaged in experiments with combat poisons on living people, built into the system of state power and is covered with it. And does not accommodate. Why a group of 5-6 law enforcement officers brutally publicly beats a person who does not resist, but knelt down and raised his hands. And this does not happen in an isolated case, but massively.

All this is much more than the usual “abuse of powers” ​​than the “violation of the law”. And it is precisely before the abandonment of the abyss in his biblical sense that the consciousness of any person who is trying to find the answer to the question: how is it possible and how should this end?

They often ask: what will the West do? Sanctions? Yes, of course, they will expand further. Will strengthen its unity, protecting its world of “tiled roofs” from the toxic penetration of these forces of lawlessness into its lands? Certainly. We can easily imagine what will happen ten years later around the perimeter of this "union state of sadists and poisoners."

But inside the perimeter there will be two decaying huge carcasses, two dead Leviathan. Which crushed two societies. The best, professional groups of the population abroad was replaced. They made a pathological life even those people who are extremely loyal to their countries.

We now re-read Dietrich Bonhofer and in a new way we hear the words of Patriarch Tikhon, addressed to power in 1918. Because the results of 2020 are such that we have to think about what is happening not in the political language of “problems of democratic transit” or “post -Soviet transformations”, but in a language that describes such a clash of a person with the forces of evil, which requires the foundations of a personal choice of one on one with himself, with his own conscience.

There are only us, lawlessness and heaven. This is a common sky - over Maria Kolesnikova and over Alexei Navalny.