The party of war is looking for an enemy

This is not the United States, not NATO or even the APU - this is Russian society

For the first year, the party of war in the person of a diverse Z-community-nets of hundreds of telegram channels-is trying to understand how it turns out that Russia does not succeed in this war. Yes, the Armed Forces - and with them the entire NATO block with the “hordes of mercenaries” is serious opponents, but it cannot be so that Russia, rallying, could not cope with them. In the third year of the invasion, the war party, it seems, finally found the answer for itself. In his new column, the writer, producer and researcher of the Z-community Ivan Filippov talks about the “main” enemy of Russia in this war-a society that wants to just live and work.

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From the first days of the war, the Z-channels complain that Russian society did not include enough in support of the army leading military operations in Ukraine. While Putin talks about the fact that the country was “rallying in the name of victory”, they write that the country does not give a damn about the country. And on the warring soldiers too. The topic itself for the Z-space is not new, but the last two weeks of such texts-about the wrong people, about the people who have closed and indifferent-have become more and more.

Z-authors are very unhappy with Russian society. No, of course, they don't say so directly. They write about the "fagots" who dare to go to rest during the war. About the "fat fat swims", whose "fucking fat life" is provided by the "bent backs of serfs" mobilized. They accuse the “middle class, managers and small entrepreneurs, SMM-lords, promoters, IT-shnikov” is that they are dismissed “from the news from the zone”, because “the appetite and mood spoil from them”.

For the past two years I have been writing about this regularly, I have been talking in interviews or speeches-to understand how unpopular war is and how marginal its party is, you need to read not the “cold” or the New York Times, but the Z-channels that write about it with enviable regularity. Not directly, but, for example, describing unsolved problems in the army and an endless drawback of a wide variety of things. The simple logic of the Zubtors: since volunteers provide the Russian army with a majority of the necessary, from uniforms and body armor to transport and drones, and there was not enough and not enough in the troops, which means that the very small percentage of our fellow citizens supports volunteer activities.

Zuuttors themselves understood this for a long time. The new surge of texts about the “wrong people” says, it seems to me about something else: that the Russians who fight and helping the front begin to understand - nothing will change. For almost three years of full -scale war, society has not been mobilized and, most likely, does not mobilize. Because it categorically does not want war. And this causes understandable rage and understandable anxiety in the wireworm channels: it is one thing to be a veteran of the “people's war”, another to hear the “We did not send you there” so familiar to many.

The most acute text last week was published in his Ramzai channel as deputy editor -in -chief of the newspaper Tomorrow, a regular member of the Izborsky Club and military expert Vladislav Shurygin: “I wanted to say a few words about our main enemy. Not about the USA, not about NATO, and not even about the Armed Forces of Ukraine. <...> I'm about another enemy. About the stupid, deaf and indifferent to the whole official, who deeply spit on everything except his own pocket, his own chair and the will of the higher boss, on whom his well -being depends. <...> About the swimming fat, who is a stacker who serves the state, providing him with a comfortable life, with the opportunity to bring his family pride to Turkey and talk under Marmaris’s palm trees, which was better in Italy, but his <...> main theme [their conversations]-when will there be a lightning? ”

Shurygin is one of the most loyal authorities of the authors who can not be attributed to the all -named “all -managers” (conditional Igor Strelkov and his comrades such as Colonel Viktor Alksnis). If you try to somehow classify the Ramzai channel, then it is much closer to the position of the “guardians”-that is, to official propaganda, which has everything according to plan. And it is Shurygin that writes that the main enemy of the Russian army is a “swimming fat” citizen of Russia and the Russian official.

Shurygin’s post instantly dispersed through the Z-space. He was reposted by dozens of channels. But what is the most curious, the deputy Andrei Gurulev wrote about this post: “Read, I agree with many things, it is written hard, but frankly.” But in the text of Shurygina, a rather detailed listing of all the main topics of the Z-space: excess losses, commanders who drive, like cattle, soldiers to storms for awards and raises. The total lack of everything and most importantly - constant lies. All this is listed by the author in his already sensational text: “Two and a half years there is a war, and at the front there are still lies and window dressing, like an opium poppy in the Tajik garden.”

Shurygina was answered by the AiF correspondent Ekaterina Larina, leading her small Z-channel called “Calling Augustus” (Shurygina channel also reposted this answer):

“We are not talking about any consolidation of society more than two years after the start of the war. On TV and radio, entertainment programs still occupy the lion's share of etheric nets. Do you know why? Because “the pup is hacking” because the ratings, which means that this etheric indecency brings grandmas. Because someone, responsible for domestic policy, is as well as what is happening as this peep. ”

And this is the main idea that unites all the Zubtors mentioned in the column: their dream is to end the peaceful and comfortable life of fellow citizens. So that the whole country lives in war, weaves camouflage nets, and stood in lines in the military enlistment offices. I did not have fun, did not rest, did not work in peaceful work - but donated everyone for the sake of Victory.

“The Maskvichi Pidaras went to the resorts, neither piss nor to refuel at the gas stations. And they say that in the infantry the incomprehension of personnel. Here at each gas station you can find a battalion. <...> Who today goes to the M4 to the resorts - all fagots. It doesn’t matter where they come from, ” writes the author of the No Pasaran channel, a volunteer who is engaged in the delivery of dynamic protection complexes (KDZ) for tanks to the front.

If the neat author of Ramzai nevertheless writes about a certain abstract official in his emotional text, then the author of the “trench mud” channel essentially accuses the country's leadership of the country (although he doesn’t call names either): “We have made a bet with minimal risks for the stability of society. True, for this you will have to put the whole burden of war on let a small but absolutely fixed number of your citizens. Nothing, the soldiers will fail. Soldiers suffer. Soldiers remains less every month. ”

The DAZBASTADARAW Z-artist, commenting on the first court session in the case of “ desecration of a spontaneous memorial to veterans in Barvarka,” writes: “Maybe for someone this is news, but the enemy has not been on the other side of the front line. He is already nearby. Krying lips, escorts the letter Z on chevrons and cars with contemptuous glances. It is demonstratively turning away, surrounding the military uniform in public places. Shows his “anti -war” position. ”

“Fuck the majority, as it was a fuck, is so,” summarizes the author of the Rosgwardian channel. “For them, the war is sooooo far, very much. They are not disturbed by tomorrow, he will still come in his world. They say so guilty, they say, I'm not very interested in the topic of war. Anyway, everything is high. "

In January last year, I wrote for the “cold” the column “What Zakhar Prilepin is aching about.” It was a text that Russian culture makes all conceivable efforts so as not to get dirty in the war, and the Russian Guard of Lieutenant Colonel Prilepin was extremely sad. A year and a half passed, and this week Prilepin also ached, and again on the same topic-the lack of interest in the Z-culture from the fellow citizens and the leaders of theaters and television channels. They do not want to read Prokhanov and listen to Chicherin. Prilepin finished his post with the words: “There should be some conclusion. (There will be no conclusions.). "

We, it seems to me, is the conclusion to draw just. A new narrative of the war is being formed, in which opponents and enemies are Russian citizens who want a peaceful life. A rather important conclusion.