For the complete dismantling of Nazi Russia

Appeal to citizens of the Russian Federation

The Putin regime has plunged Russia into dirt and shame. Having trampled the Constitution, laws and rights of citizens, he unleashed an aggressive, aggressive, vile, criminal war. Neither Ukraine nor NATO attacked or intended to attack Russia. The only reason for the war is the manic obsession of the rulers of Russia with a thirst for the unlimited expansion of their power. They are waging a war to assert the “right” to dictate their will to other peoples.

By attacking Ukraine, the Kremlin kleptocracy has already killed hundreds of thousands of people. Ukrainian defenders of their country and civilians, including more than five thousand children. But the Russians, turned by the Kremlin into invaders and occupiers, who found their inglorious end in Ukraine, were also killed by those who sent them there.

The Putin regime has brought back to Europe bloodshed, suffering and grief not seen since the days of Hitler. Putin's regime is the regime of the new Hitler. His ideology, which many call " Racism ", is a version of Nazi ideology adapted to the conditions of the post-industrial era.

This ideology denies the subjectivity of people and nations, their equality, democracy, the priority of human rights and the rule of law as such. It is based on a purely Nazi concept of the exclusivity of the so-called “Russian civilization” and its superiority over the “Western world”. The purely Nazi nature of Putin’s regime is evidenced by the declaration of Ukrainians as an incorrect “under-people” and the setting of the task of forcibly changing their national-cultural identity.

Like Hitler’s regime, Putin’s Nazi regime seeks to overturn the legal and moral restrictions on violence and cruelty developed by humanity, to establish the “law of the jungle” with its permissiveness of force. It destroys the international order that ensures stability and security, throwing the world into archaism and savagery. It poses the same global threat to civilization that Hitler’s regime did.

Today Ukraine has become a global battlefield between civilization and barbarism, between freedom and tyranny. This is a war for the future world order, for a way of life, for values. This is an existential war, in which on one side are those who are convinced that it is possible to attack their neighbors, subjugate, rob, kill and dismember them. And on the other side are those who believe that this is impossible, that you cannot take someone else’s. A compromise between them is impossible.

We are citizens of Russia, advocating for a world in which we cannot take what belongs to others. In which people and nations have equal rights and can live without “masters,” both their own and others. In which they freely choose both their leaders and their friends and allies. For this we consider it necessary:

1. Unconditional restoration of the internationally recognized borders of Ukraine in 2013. Russia's unconditional renunciation of any attempts to dictate Ukraine's foreign, defense and domestic policies. Including linguistic and cultural.

2. Compensation by Russia to Ukraine for damage caused to it during the war, the amount of which should be determined by a representative international conference.

3. Bringing the current military-political leadership of the Russian Federation, headed by Putin, to the international court for committing “crimes against peace” - unleashing and waging an aggressive war in Ukraine.

4. Denuclearization of Russia (liquidation of its nuclear arsenal). Systematic blackmail by a nuclear first strike by senior members of the Putin regime (including Putin himself) must not go without consequences.

5. Deverticalization and deimperialization of Russia. Its re-establishment as a voluntary confederation of its constituent territories, retaining the right to secede from the confederation. A radical redistribution of powers from executive bodies of state power to representative ones at all levels.

This can only be achieved through military defeat of the Putin regime and its overthrow. We categorically reject attempts to “freeze the conflict” in its current state. This will only legitimize aggression and annexation as a means of achieving political goals and will finally bury the international legal order. We reject attempts to find some kind of compromise with the Putin regime that takes into account his “concerns.” An aggressor who has violated all international norms and encroached on the future of humanity should receive nothing.

We demand that Western leaders end the policy of avoiding “conflict escalation.” It only allows Putin to blackmail the West with that very “escalation,” hoping to force it to “geopolitical capitulation.” Any international legal order lasts only as long as its violator meets a collective rebuff. While his co-founders are ready to fight for him.

We demand a fundamental expansion of military assistance to Ukraine up to the direct participation of NATO troops in hostilities. Ukraine must receive binding security guarantees now, not after the end of the war.

We call on Western leaders to put aside fears about the possible collapse of the Russian Federation as a result of the fall of the regime. No “painful consequences” of this will outweigh the danger of maintaining an imperial state, which will reproduce aggressiveness and revanchism. Either Russia will become confederal, democratic and "pro-Western", returning to its European roots, or it must disappear as an entire entity.

We will welcome the overthrow of the Putin dictatorship, no matter which group carries out this overthrow and no matter what means it uses. But replacing a dictator or a handful of his closest henchmen is not enough for us. We stand for a radical change in Putin’s corrupted “elites.” They must leave and answer for what they have done, at least by losing their wealth and status. Only this will make it possible to dismantle the tyrannical and aggressive system.

We welcome any form of opposition to Putin's aggression. From simply refusing public support to the regime to refusing to serve in the army, transferring intelligence data to Ukraine and joining the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

In the context of the bloody massacre unleashed by the regime in Ukraine and the elimination of the last opportunities for legal protest in Russia, we consider statements about the inadmissibility of violence in opposition to this regime to be hypocritical. Unconditionally recognizing the right of Ukraine to armed resistance to the aggressor, we also recognize the right of citizens of the Russian Federation to armed struggle against the Putin dictatorship.

We do not believe, however, that public peaceful protest against war and dictatorship has lost its meaning. But there are no safe ways to express disagreement. All of them can lead to certain repressive consequences. Confronting the absolute evil of Putinism today requires a willingness to sacrifice well-being, career, freedom and even life. For the sake of our world, in which theaters, hospitals, schools and residential high-rise buildings cannot be bombed. In which you can’t take someone else’s.

We will not accept the fact that Putin has destroyed this world of ours. We will fight to restore it. We don't need a world in which there is Putin. We invite citizens of the Russian Federation who share our views to consider themselves participants in the Anti-Putin Resistance Front.

Victory for Ukraine, freedom for Russia!

Alexander Skobov , historian and publicist

Maxim Reznik , St. Petersburg politician

Igor Yakovenko , sociologist and journalist

Igor Eidman , sociologist and publicist

Maxim Kuzakhmetov , St. Petersburg historian and journalist