Symphony without "orchestra"

"Yesenin Center" in Ryazan

From the editorial office

The action-packed Wagner show, which ended this week, can be considered the only major Russian success in the information war. For many months, the world media covered in detail the national competition for places in Hell (as the comrade -in -arms of Prigozhin and Utkin in laconic necrogers formulated this plot).

Sadism, arrogance and adventurism of Prigozhin fascinated the Western audience. A public conflict with the command of the regular army, a trip to Moscow and a cinema denouement - all this fed illusions, fears and hopes. The illusion of the indispensability of Wagner, the hope for the split of the ruling groups in the Russian Federation, and at the same time - the traditional fear of "Troubles and Chaos". That is, everything that interferes with decisive actions to ensure the victory of Ukraine.

"Wagner" played a huge role in the Putin global project. Prigozhinsky holding took place not only as an effective military, political technological and information tool of expansion, but also as a myth, a horror story for the West.

The public execution of the rebel using either rockets, or bombs (either by the VKS, or the FSB) inspires reasoning about the instability of the Putin system of power. The collapse of Emmra with its paradoxy: the decisive actions of the insidious boss are very similar to acquaintance or even symbolic suicide. After all, Prigozhin is the Putin alter ego. The same Gopnik-Bester, only with a sledgehammer and implanted balls. And we see how the expert pendulum vigorously sways between the picture of the triumph of the omnipotent dictator and the script of the mafia war of everyone against all.

But we are not at the movie show, but in the middle of a large European war. Before our eyes, the machine of Russian terror gets rid of one of its most important units, but does not stall, but is pushing with a rattle. When the Batmen, Motorola and Givi exploded in the captured part of the Donbass one after another, the occupation group did not turn the terror and did not cease to exist. No matter how spectacular there are internal showdowns, they do not prevent Russia from carrying enslavement and death. A new daring challenge to Putin "from the inside of the system" will quit the same terrorist as he himself and Prigozhin. And nothing will cancel the need to fight with Russia and win.

Worse fortune -telling about the "protest potential of elites" - only attempts to measure the popular popularity of "Wagner" and draw far -term conclusions on this basis. The warm meeting of the rebels in Rostov and the spontaneous memorials after the murder of the "leaders of the orchestra" speak only about the readiness to support any power and sincere admiration for the workers of the genocide.

Ukrainians, of course, were pleased with the death of prominent terrorists. And they continued hard front work. They already know that the unpunished Russian evil is unable to self-destruction, but only to self-production.