And did you notice how the mood of our Pro-Western opposition? A few years ago they promoted slogans like “together we can”, stated that “more good people”, they just “worse organized.” Showed us pictures of the protest rallies, saying that we still have a little string up and come out to the streets millions of sleeping regime fighters to establish in Russia a total democracy.
It was considered that the government support only “paid thugs” and so called “anchovies”, state “slave mentality”, which are driven by threats to rallies in support of the “regime”. Country in the minds of the opposition were divided into two groups — “good people”, which was about two thirds, and “brainwashed anchovies”, which was about one third.
As you remember, the protest soon faded away, “marches of millions” turned out to be marches in the best case, thousand. The Pro-Western opposition has failed to demonstrate the mass and quietly left the streets back in the information field.
Here are some typical quotations of the period — liberal society then intended to “educate” the people, threats and persuasion turning the “anchovies” of the supporters of the European way of development:
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Had 2 rally, free people and anchovies. And I have to say that the Kremlin’s strategy won the anchovies were more. Anchovies in Russia was more than of a free people.
…the Swamp was going the CITIZENS and for the IDEA, and in Luzhniki SLAVES and under the order! And servile Yes-men…
It should be conducted in this case is not about adding candidates in the protest segment (which itself would be properly and fairly, of course), and the elimination of Putin’s social base. there are 40-50 million people who support him anyway.
The country is not such that it fit!.. It is necessary to drag, the stupid fat-ass tap! Now, maybe leadership is trying to comply, to be as stupid as the people in the same backward as a nation.
The time has passed. The coup in Kiev gave the Crimea’s legitimate right to independence — just as the coup of 1991 in Moscow gave the right to independence of the Ukraine. Crimea has exercised this right for independence and for joining Russia.
And without that not especially dense ranks of Pro-Western opposition has thinned out even more — it is very convincing as the Euromaidan and friendly animal aggression of the West against Russia. Suddenly it turned out that the opposition no longer has a majority not only in real life (where it was not before), but even in the information field. As the mainstream media and the main site of Internet has gradually taken a healthy and Patriotic position, sometimes even with overlap in the honor-patriotism.
The word “anchovy” is out of date, he was replaced by the word “jacket”:
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Some time in the minds of liberals cherished the hope the mighty West, they say, and now the ruble will fall, and the crowd “jackets” immediately run to sell the Crimean solder odorous cheese. Next year this hope has dissipated — it became clear that the Russian economy “in tatters” in boastful speech of a black President, and that the average “jacket” is categorically not ready to sell two and a half million compatriots nor cheese, nor even for the best dollar.
To date, the tone of the Pro-Western opposition, changed completely, the mood became completely defeatist. Even the most stubborn Westerners it is now clear that they are in the absolute minority, and that is exactly no chance to win over to their side, “Putin’s majority” they do not — in any case, in the coming years.
Now the hopes of the opposition relate to the fact that people “Wake up” and go burn the tires on the Red square — it’s clear that not going. The hopes of Pro-Western liberals now associated mainly with the 2024 year — when respecting laws Vladimir Putin will leave the post of President, and in its place will come some less than reputable politician.
Perhaps, colleagues, Russia has made another step towards building a reliable system of checks and balances. On the one hand, to keep out the agents of other States in politics, of course, unacceptable — and very well, that directly influence the decisions of the authorities, our Pro-Western opposition will be no more. On the other hand, it is very good that the West still has ardent spokesmen in our country. They keep society in good shape, reminding him what happens to States who have the temerity to blindly trust in his Western friends and partners.
