Berlin rally in support of the "Memorial". Photo: Elena Barysheva / Deutsche Welle From the editorial office The operation against the "memorial" is an event of international significance. The symbolic revenge of the NKVD -GB is synchronized with the anti -Natovo ultimatum - an attempt by a revenge in the world arena. The "internal" and "external" summons, repression and aggression are now certainly inseparable. A control shot in civil society sounds like a signal for an attack.

Already in 2014, immediately after the occupation of Crimea and the invasion of Russian troops on the Ukrainian mainland, I had to write that now the Putin regime has turned from a power that mercilessly suppresses internal dissent and competition in order to preserve the criminal-Chekist rule, into a regime of external aggressiveness, a regime that trying to give Russia the familiar Stalinist features of a "besieged fortress" - despite the fact that no one threatens Russia, on the contrary,