Vityaz at a crossroads

Vityaz at the crossroads, Victor Vasnetsov (1882)

Publicist Pyotr Fedorov - about the special services as the "new nobility" and about the problems that are related to their activities.

The endless search for your own path, hidden imperial ambitions , offenses on the Apad partners and emergency Geopolitical self -confidence, multiplied by the Code of Street, where the right of a strong was built to the Absolute , brought Russia to a forking history. The Russian Knight, as if leaving the picture , painted by Viktor Vasnetsov exactly 140 years ago , holding a spear in a tired hand and his head bowed, chooses the road to tomorrow. This choice today depends - and these are not loud words - not only the path of Russia, but also the path of world civilization, part of which we so wanted to become 20 years ago and which we ourselves decided to reformat for the sake of our own political mythology and ideas about the uniqueness of their historical mission. So what is the essence of today's fork?

Stupidity or betrayal ?

From the famous question , the influential opposition politician Pav Lom Milyukov in November 1916 , was addressed from the rostrum of the Duma , was addressed to the whole country, finally bogged down on the fields of the First World War, which was especially desperate to the patriots and conservatives at first as a light victorious walk around Europe. The country is tired of the war, from a huge number of victims, from the economic problems that have arisen, as a result, the attitude to the war began to change rapidly in society. Russia was on the threshold of “ revolutionary upheavals ” , from which Pyotr Stolypin , and somewhere abroad, Vladimir Ulyanov prepared his first decree, which would soon lay his way to power. This document was very simple and fully met the request of the country that fell into political despondency , it was called the “Mir Decree” .

Milyukov, speaking in the Duma in November on the 16th , was looking for the answer to the question of how Russia fell into another trap of history and who prepared a military-political script, the implementation of which pushed the country to the edge of the abyss ( it will begin to fall there exactly a year later ) . It is worth recalling that Milyukov was not at all a pacifist , he insisted that the government should urgently “organize the rear” to activate military operations, but the authorities were so afraid of its own people and revolutions that chaos at the front seemed less of the evils.

Milyukov’s question is customary to call the “devil’s dilemma”, because both answer options are equally bad. The answers to this and other questions of history very soon, in February 19, the 7th, went out to look for demonstrators to the streets, who, like Milyukov, were not revolutionaries , but the most ordinary “deepest people”. And then Lenin arrived ...

Under the stamp "Secret"

On the survey "Who is to blame?" In that historical turn, which Russia is now being carried out in front of the eyes of the amazed world, the answer is much more difficult to look for an answer. At least because of the “super -hearted ” of everything that happens. Neither the true motives of “special operations” (options are the liberation of the LDNR, the fight against neo -Nazemism, the accession of the Donbass, the philosophical path to the multipolarity of the world, the confrontation with NATO, or maybe this is the real picture of how this decision (who was against, and why), nor the notorious victorious blitzkrieg, in the society, are known. The capabilities of which the resident were convinced by the special services, or the “game for a long time ”, which we are observing now). The plan that “everything is going” is now was known, neither the financial bloc of the government, nor the leadership of the Central Bank, nor the manual State Duma, nor large business, which had no chance to rebuild the logistics and strategy of its international corporations in advance and save any assets. What can we say about the electorate or about the population (this multinational community in different political periods is called differently)-it was not informed and not asked. Not accepted. In Russia, the last two decades are strictly classified. Information about the leader’s health, about his family, about personnel permutations, about the course of the country and the image of its future, that is, the whole policy as a whole wears the “secret” vulture and serves the soil for the mythologization of a certain “collective Kremlin” and conspiracy theories that have long taken the place of real public discussions. Secret is the main methodology of special services that fully control the country, including all its authorities without exception. The secondary officers of the FSB work in ministries and state corporations, introduced into business, are seconded to all universities and state media in the country. They make up both the lists of “unfriendly countries” and the directed directors, actors, journalists, activists and entire media who become foreign agents , spies and “ undesirable elements ” by their team. The entire domestic policy of the country also became a platform for recruiting agents - loyal politicians and officials who pass the FSB filter before the elections . The Chekists brought to foreign policy the methods of work that they were trained at the FSB Academy - a bribery, collecting incrimination, recruitment, and special operations. Actually, the entire Kremlin policy in relation to Ukraine is a special operation of the FSB . The hostage of errors (stupidity or betrayal - let historians understand ) all Russia became, including its n resident, who began his political career with the creation of a "new Russian oprichnina."

A native of the KGB of the USSR, a reserve lieutenant colonel Vladimir Putin, somehow miraculously becoming a “successor” by Boris Yeltsin in 1999, having stopped in the Kremlin, made the simplest decision-to call all his friends and colleagues there. I must admit something like that Brezhnev also acted, calling for power the “Dnepropetrovsk clan”, and Yeltsin with his neighbors in Katerinburg. But Putin, following with Talinsk , the motto “personnel decide everything”, turned his “guardsmen” into a real authority, which eventually expected to rule the country In the mode of secrecy . Secret - a direct path to lies: Russia has turned into a huge “Potemkin village” for years with decorative reforms, simulacules of civil society institutions, imitation of elections, With several exhibition copies of the Armata tank and other false attributes of the Great Power, which existed only on paper. The country has ceased to develop. But it was easy for her to manage.

Oprichnina was born in Russia in 1565 on the initiative of Ivan the Terrible, who saw her task " in the implementation of emergency repressive measures, confiscation of property and lands in favor of the state ." The “chosen thousand”, as Grozny called the guardsmen, consisted of noble, special people. They had their own code of honor (concepts), their habitats and insignia. For example, the guardsmen were supposed to “ wear dog heads on a horse’s neck and a broom for a whip while driving . This means that they first bite, like dogs, and then sweep out all the extra from the country . ” Doesn't it remind you?

Unlike Grozny, who was disappointed in the oprichnin, his follower (Putin in his political style is much closer to willow the fourth than to Peter or to Nyazya Vladimir) silently watched how the state security organs took their country. Moreover, he personally appointed particularly close guardsmen by the governors, like a medieval feudal lord, granting them the lands of the Earth (Zinichev, Mironov, Dyumin ). Thus, the “new nobility” formed (as modern Chekists calls the FSB researcher Andrei Soldatov) or “Casta of the Templar” (determination of the political scientist and philosopher Alexander Morozov). The intelligence agency’s octopus connected civil society by their tentacles, introduced censorship, classified his own archives and the history of the country as a whole, transplanted the opposition and squeezed out of the country of non -proper ones. The peak of the oprichnina became the SV of O, in addition to the military phase, there was an equally important internal political task - to preserve the regime, extending the terms of its existence as much as possible by the final defeat of opponents and the media and the prohibitions of everything that does not fit into the “kids of the modern Cheka. The matter remained small - an important act of political symbolism should be the return of the monument to Dzerzhinsky to Lubyanka.

The point, of course, is not in Dzerzhinsky itself - the monument is not erected to the one who is depicted, but to the one who returns it . When it was previously located on Lubyanskaya Square, one could pay attention to the fact that his gaze was directed towards the Kremlin, which would be no less symbolic at the time of his return. Very soon it may turn out that the regime tired of the geopolitical battles will again fall to the ground, and the power will have to be selected.

It is not the fact that the Bubble Lubyanka will extend the hand of helping to the resident who led her to power in this mute. It is likely to be no less “ toxic” for the “ new nobility ” than for the West. They need young, their own, strong. And preferably - not burdened with sanctions and a train of political adventures.

On the Western Front without change

As described in political memoirism , by okay in August 1991 a crowd of protesters went to the ron of the KGB building, several employees in civilian They hastily ran out to the square to switch the attention of the crowds from the building to a monument, which in the end and carried them instead of the entrance doors of the source entrance 1a. It will be easier to restore the monument than the building, then decided on Lubyanka. You just have to wait in the wings. They were right. Another thing is indicative : the Chekists, recognized masters of intrigues, in the most critical situations prefer to “take the arrows aside” and act “by“ alien ”. As we already know, the Chekists are in no hurry to take part in their planned themselves . With the exception of several divisions of the Central Administrative District (special forces), the Chekists conduct operational work in the rear (in the Rusi, naturally) - make lists of objectionable ones, conduct searches and arrests. During their time, they became only stronger - unlike the army, which, by tradition, can be “translated arrows” on the occasion of the discretion of the “ Apoleon plans ” on the Western Front.

A curious detail: after Napoleon Bonaparte abandoned his invincible “second army of the world” (the first then it was considered to be its powerful fleet) and fled to Paris, this is a shameful retreat sometimes called “Tricolor” - this was referred To the words a nlysk , the writers of the bineton (“the French From the cold there were white faces, red noses and blue fingers. Tricolor " ) .

Who is the commander in chief of Russia appointed the culprit of the failure? This question is now one of the most relevant, because the answer to it will also determine the choice of the path at the very cross -out where the Russian Knight with a spear in the hand froze.

Victory scenarios

“ There is such a thing as nodal points of history: they have an opportunity for the subjective will of one or more people who can influence something , ” writes today, publicist Vladimir Pa , hinting that we are approaching this point . In the circle of Russian philosophers and historians, there are now disputes about at what point Russia embarked on the path of the revival of the empire and at what point did this political vector coincide with the interests of the political oprichnina? Perhaps in 2007 , when P Utin expressed all his insults in Munich. Maybe in 2008, during the Georgian military operation, or after Crimea in 2014? One way or another, we have passed the fork of the story that today It breaks somewhere in the area of ​​Izuma or Donetsk . The world will no longer be the same. But it depends on us today depends on where Russia will turn in the new “nodal point”.

Any special operations I ever end . Especially if her classified plan does not have the main thing - there is no one himself accurately and the achievement of which will be considered a victory for Russia . Anyway, in the survey it is more correct to formulate as follows: can Russia be a winner in battle with its past, ambitions, mistakes, stupidity and treason ?

If Russia selects the path of extensive development- the scenario of the besieged fortress (m abdering the military-industrial complex, the growth of defense expenses, political dictatorship, dependence on the export of raw materials and industrial dependence on China, the technological lag, the absence of allies), this will be a complete and unconditional victory of the sofiles and, probably, it will be growing up with the help of it with the help of it. The new P of the resident, whom they will elevate to the throne (the scenario of collective management in the person of the Council of Security as the power reincarnation of the Politburo is also possible). This path can also be safely called a return to the past-in the 1930s of the USSR .

But there is a path to the future. The scenario of intensive development involves economic freedoms, the intensification of the economy, the legislative consolidation of new exclusively defensive functions of the army, the obligatory rotation of power and immediate reforms from the institute of the oprichnina - the state security agencies should be cleansed of general corruption, deprived of the functions of the repressive apparatus and pushed away from the economy and authorities.

PS: Viktor Vasnetsov, working on the plot “Bigs at a crossroads”, initially thought to write on a stone -symbolizing fork : to go directly - not to live, to the right - to marry, to the left - to be rich. The great Russian artist, hiding these inscriptions under moss , as if addressed the message to the descendants: Russia always has a future. You just need to choose the right path ...