Pink fog of war

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Last Sunday, quite emotional statements of the head of Dagestan Sergey Melikov appeared in news feeds. He was outraged by the “aggressive rhetoric in relation to the region”: “As if some high speakers deliberately set the goal of aggravating the situation. What kind of social experiment is trying to put on our republic, why are they pushing us into a dark abyss? ”

Melikov’s discontent could be understood-it was Dagestan that became the hottest theme in the Z-space last week. The discussion began, of course, in connection with the attacks of terrorists on Makhachkala and Derbent. But when the terrorists were already killed and the number of victimswas calculated , the Zutors began to discuss the causes of what had happened. And they began to do this not only in a traditional extremely harsh form for themselves, but, as it seems, completely not adhering to the official position of the federal government.

This position was illustrated, for example, the State Duma deputy from Dagestan Abdulkhakim Gadzhiev, saying that Ukrainian intelligence was involved in the events in Derbent and Makhachkala. And, it would seem, the perpetrators were found - who else could be beneficial, right? In March, after all, after the terrorist attack in the Crocus, the Z-community was actively supported by the “Ukrainian trace” version.

But not this time. In the case of terrorist attacks in Dagestan, something unexpectedly went wrong.

The first Dagestan deputy answered Senator Dmitry Rogozin, who leads a rather impressive size of the Z-channel (more than 100 thousand subscribers): “If we are every terrorist attack, implicated on national and religious intolerance, hatred and Russophobia, we will write off the machinations of Ukraine and NATO, then this pink fog will lead us to big problems.”

This post was extremely popular in the Z-space, and after Rogozin and other zuttors began to try to answer the question about the causes of what happened. I must say, pretty quickly in their attempts they came to a new, it seems, more important question for themselves: “What is wrong with Dagestan?”

“Dagestan with frightening constancy becomes a weak link, helping the enemy to make all new attempts to rock all of Russia. There is no coincidence, there are no accidental coincidences - the same region becomes the same region over and over again, ” wrote the Road military channel, illustrating the post of photography of the blogger Hasbik and the fighter Abdulrashid Sadulaev (both natives of Dagestan), however, do not say anything about them in the post - go to the mind that the author meant.

The repost of this text, in the final of which the author demanded to conduct a “integrated program of decriminalization and deradication of the region”, was made by the journalist of Komsomolskaya Pravda and the author of the Russian Tarantas channel Dmitry Steshin.

The text of a member of the Human Rights Council Marina Akhmedova (1.6 million readings) was incredible last week, in which she also called for “putting things in order” in Dagestan, and also complained: “For some reason, people who returned after wounds from their own were not honorable in the republic among youth. There you will not meet the symbolism of Z, but you can easily see the Palestine flag by car. ”

The reaction of the Z-community and the kilometers of the texts about Dagestan they wrote are very indicative-the fact is that many wire-wire authors have sincere irritation for individual representatives of the Dagestan society. And this is, of course, with the war. From their point of view, Dagestan, or rather the leaders of public opinion of the republic, are silent about the war. They do not send money and humanitarian assistance to the front, but at the same time they dare to support and actively and emotionally join the “Alien War for Russia”-the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. This topic pops up in the Z-channels again and again, and due to the pogrom at the Makhachkala airport in October last year, and in connection with the news that the MMA fighter Khabib Nurmagomedovasked Donald Trump to help Palestine.

Last week, Khabiba went separately. For example, one of the largest and most influential military channels “Rybar” directly opposed the fighter: “An athlete, publicly positioning himself with the righteous patriot of Dagestan (up to a certain attitude to the Russian state flag), has not yet responded to the native republic. As, however, in general, for two years of his own and countrymen participating in it. But the war, which was very far from the North Caucasus, the Gaza Nurmagomedov sector did not go attention, publishing posts in social networks in support of the Palestinians. ”

The author of another significant Z-channel “Military Cotton Kitten” echoed the “Rybar”: “Habib is the one that sequentially distant from Russia and fundamentally does not pick up the Russian tricolor. During his time, not a single fighter was sent to the front, moreover, in two years he was not followed by a word in support of the RF Armed Forces or at least civilians who die from Ukrainian missiles and drones. At the same time, all this time he is actively and defiantly worried about the “Palestinians brothers”. ”

The volunteer channel Troika, without standing specifically on Khabib, formulated in essence the same thought, but even sharper: "Regional scraps, who ignores his, jerked off to Palestine and searched for Jews in the turbine - they sit with a dick in his mouth and are silent."

The fact that reality is far from all in line with emotional Z-texts, most authors of these texts, of course, are often ignored. And sometimes - they come up with a way to recognize the obvious, without abandoning their own conclusions, reality not quite relevant. As Marina Akhmedova did in the final of her accusatory text: “The vast majority of Dagestanis do not welcome terrorism, people want to work and earn money. <...> It’s just that in Dagestan it's time to put things in order. The hero must be the Dagestan-Soldate of his, it must be introduced into the management. ”

At the same time, the Dagestan military fights and die at the front, humanitarian aid is sent from the republic both to the front and to “new territories”. And not only representatives of the authorities , but even individual fighters of MMA, such as Islam Makhachev, participate in this. But for the purposes of the emotional texts of Zubtors, many facts are not important. For example, after the posts that “Khabib is silent about terrorist attacks,” Nurmagomedov posted a post on his Instagram with words of support and condolences-but he also did not arrange a Z-community. "Where are the words of condemnation to the terrorists?" - The propagandist Sergei Mardan wrote in his channel.

The accusations specifically Khabib, in fact, of “betraying of national interests”-this is only part of a large Z-narratic. The wire -wire authors accuse the whole MMA that in Russia this type of martial arts " turns into a battle wing of terrorists ." Another noticeable Z-author Alexander Kot directly writes that “pseudo-signs in its cave manifestations” were brought to Dagestan “not Arab emissaries, but“ opinion leaders ”, youth idols. Bloggers with millionth audiences, stars of wrestling, fighters of MMA. ”

Of course, among hundreds of posts devoted to terrorist attacks, and in the heat of discussion, Zvuttors also appeared ideas on how to rectify the situation in the region. Probably, it was these considerations that caused an acute reaction among the head of the Republic of Sergei Melikov, since they are reduced to several simple statements: Dagestan for 18 years “without a master”, the region needs “its Kadyrov” - “which will be fire, sword and ideology to fight terrorism”. So the solution to the problem was formulated by Zvtorka Anastasia Kashevarova. The rest of the authors, who did not experience any sympathy for Ramzan Kadyrov, issued a more vague formulation in the total mass: cleaning regional elites .

It seems to me that the reaction of the wire community and the texts written by Za-authors are important, this is why. This community, in principle, is interesting in that it not only knows how to highlight serious problems in the Russian army or give an important context to the false statements of the Ministry of Defense. By the reaction of these authors to certain events, one can judge the "pain points" of that (small) part of Russian society, on behalf of which the Z-channels speak. Yes, the Z-space is offended that in Dagestan the struggle for “free Palestine”-as the authors seem to be-the population excites a multiply more than the “liberation of the Donbass”. But, I believe, this is not only about resentment, but also about quite obvious household chauvinism.

And despite the fact that the authors often make reservations that Dagestan is, of course, Russia and many military from Dagestan is now at the front, this very undisguised chauvinism is read quite clearly in their texts:

“Do not dump everything to the west and SBU. They do not pursue a multinational policy, pilaf festivals and lobby for suicidal migration policy, ” writes Roman Antonovsky, author of the channel“ Sons of the Monarchy ”. The nationalist Roman Uneman echoes him: “They are looking for performers where a suitable environment has formed for this. How did this environment arise? Why does it still exist, moreover, is expanding? And what is being done to fix the situation? In addition to the next festivals of pilaf, lessons of tolerance and the construction of new mosques for migrants in Moscow and Perm. Here are the questions that the country should ask for. And find answers to them. It’s not too late. ”

Pink fog of war

The Z-community requires “its Kadyrov” for Dagestan and opposes Habib-in the new column of Ivan Filippov