Anastasia Mironova about why in Russia even the dissenters do not tolerate dissent
In Russian opposition politics formed a class of people who never, under any circumstances, tolerate the “complex” opinion. Speaking against Putin, you have to unconditionally support all his opponents from Poroshenko to the St. Petersburg city madman. If Russian TV exploits the theme of crime among immigrants in Europe, you have to support the new influx of refugees. Do not respect the government — to blame all of his initiatives indiscriminately. Don’t want to live under the anti-sanctions — push in response to the Russian tomatoes. Not like Sobyanin — mock new curbs, wide sidewalks, and the demolition of tents. Yes, no forget to recall what a beautiful Moscow Luzhkov.
Alexei Navalny has published new data on how much money the municipality pays for their PR. And on this basis said that all who love the improvement of the Moscow bought. All!
Wow. And I new Moscow like the old one, so I’m talking about Tverskaya well written without the money of city hall. Without money in the summer of 2013 I Bulk live “Rain” was asked why in his election campaign he number of facts suppressed. If you believe the blog Navalny, throughout the spring and summer of 2012, the politician was investigating the Moscow road of corruption and “tile” contracts. And then — as cut off. His nomination for mayor through signatures of municipal deputies Alexei Navalny explained the pressing need to get the opposition broadcast and the legitimate platform. And that he, from this rostrum we are told? The entire campaign we were listening to eulogies to the cheerful volunteers and the agitation cubes. We listened to a lot on how well healed the Muscovites by the mayor of Navalny. As they bad lived at the mayor Sobyanin, Alexey, I was told. But now denounces anyone who liked the laid in his Maryino district bikeways.
If Mr. Navalny really was going for the presidency, not playing in front of us multiple play, the least he would be worth his slander to Sully the reputation of those few journalists who himself has not spoiled. Some of the “pure” journalists have come forward to support the capital improvement. And was immediately blackened.
I honestly have not idea what the future will build for us, those who are in the existence of disinterested opponents with the “hard” opinion doubt.
Oddly enough, but the Russian majority, those tens of millions moderately apolitical, uneducated and short-sighted of our fellow citizens who spend their days in front of the TV, opinion integrated and much more complex. They know about inflation and bad cheese, I think “need to suffer”, “maybe it will get better” and “in the Crimea are people too. They see the unending destruction under their Windows, but vote for Putin because a lot has changed and in fact it used to be worse”. Those same viewers, unlike Navalny, I believe that rallied the opposition, stupid, young, do not know life or have interests that are too divergent from the interests of the people.
Few would claim that supporters of fair elections bought by the state Department.
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Most of the liberal establishment (before them was a great word — demshiza) is confident that a different opinion can only be a paid propagandists or those who are looking for the night of their transfer. Our conditional progressive class cannot move beyond dichotomous thinking.
Running in connection with speculation about the death of Karimov dispute about the prospects of an authoritarian regime in which the leader resigns immediately to the resuscitation bed is also conducted in a dichotomous system. Supporters of the head of the charity project “Need Help.<url>” Mitya Aleshkovsky shouted: “If not Putin, then war” and wing Alexei Navalny reason opposes this or Putin until his death and the war, or young strong policy, keep legitimate to change the power under Putin. But if the first statement is obvious, while the second is completely false. The situation is more complicated: we can’t change the power legitimately, a time when the minority was able to influence the government without bloodshed, loss. We have no tools of influence. And it is a terrible tragedy for Russia today, and for all its neighbors and partners. We are in a highly complex political system, it is necessary to speak difficult. And you need to come from the complexity of the problem, not of its simplicity.
Any simplified structure of the type”, or” will lead to massive losses because lead people astray.
The tendency to simplify everything in my head to the primitive structures — the result of continuous years of propaganda. Soon it will be exactly 100 years since then, how people are brainwashed. With a row, because in the perestroika and Yeltsin propaganda will not go away and was not tired — she just changed the vector. Not surprisingly, these 100 years hit hardest on those with the propaganda had more to do: intellectuals, former party nomenclature, the Soviet rich — they had TV, they read Newspapers, wrote a propaganda article, from the speaker to the student producing the school newspaper in the red area, all involved in the production of propaganda.
While the simple people of buying a little TV, Newspapers, read a little, plenums of the Central Committee, did not attend. Ignorant people immune to propaganda below, but contact with infection less. Conditional opposition today are mostly the descendants of the educated Soviet people who taught the kids that correct the second opinion does not happen. Or, or!
Intellectuals, generations, decades, pressed by the propaganda of recent years pressure has not sustained and has surrendered. Many distinguished Russians personally wished me all sorts of misery just for the fact that I, despite all the troubles of Ukraine, do not want to write “in” and continue to write in Russian “na”. In their bipolar world you’re either with Putin, or “in Ukraine”. To say that the work of Putin with the rules of the Russian language are not related, today is dangerous. And rejoice that now, having arrived to Moscow, can take the kids out in Zamoskvorechye, to sit and drink in the Park coffee, he called the corrupt bastard.
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The Kremlin is a terrible, bloodthirsty, intolerant, but the current government I have no personal enemy, no one personal friend, not a single person who would have the time to insult me personally, personally, to argue with me or to threaten to personally investigate. In all the years I’ve been writing about Russian political life, my conflicts with supporters of the Kremlin were limited to a couple of these attacks of crazy, touring the Putin rallies, petty attacks Internet trolls and virtuals. But none of their acquaintances, or just head to the interlocutors in the defense of Putin and of traditional values was not released to me so much hate, anger and insults as I have received from opponents Sobakinskikh benches, of the supporters of open Europe or went to the Ukraine apologists Tatar Crimea.
Mitya Aleshkovsky to describe thoughts, feelings and beliefs of their opponents, who for the assertion that the death of the President will lead to civil war, called his Kremlin hireling, picked a good word — brutality. In his fatigue from the Kremlin people brutalized. They constantly tell us that we live among the brutal majority. I listen and don’t know what to do with myself, because I personally animals while they are just minority.
I don’t know what to do. Because I do not believe in change in our country. Political change always gets enlightened minority. Our minority often arrogant, full of anger, lives in an imaginary simplified world, and tolerates no objections. This minority did not give birth, but a new wave of censorship and repression. I guess I will every minute to live in fear before the power, before changing it for another, more bloodthirsty power.
A country where politicians do not tolerate contradiction, even at a time when are only oppressed opposition is doomed.
If we survive in this mess, swim out, pull themselves from the bottom with all the missiles, counter-sanctions and the Crimean “Massandra”, the first thing will have to be undeniable rule: never support a politician, who lied about at least one journalist. And under no circumstances not to choose the power of a man who thinks all people who disagree with his opinion, bought. Especially if we are talking about journalists. Because the disregard of power to at least one journalist does freedom of the whole society. Because to live in the world”, or” it is impossible.
Anastasia Mironova
Journalist
