This is episode 87. Here are the main stories on the agenda of the past two
(including the New Year) weeks. ---- 1. Some results ---- The past year hascompletely uncovered Russian fascism. The attack on Ukraine, which seemed like acompletely absurd idea because of its apparently suicidal stance, was a logicalcontinuation of all previous Putin's policies. It turned out that the slogan "Wecan repeat" is to start bombing Kyiv at four o'clock in the morning. And then, asVysotsky sang, "the soldiers of the Zentr group are marching across Ukraine."---- For many Russians, the beginning of the war was a complete shock, but ifthose who realized how all this time Russia was systematically plunging intofascism began to look for ways of resistance, then most of the population beganto look for excuses for the authorities. They are smart, they know better. Sothis was the only solution. The same people who were taught from childhood that"if only there was no war."Well, in fact, in Russia the word "fascist" is a dirty word, no one wants to be afascist, everyone wants to be good, and psychological defenses work. Especiallywhen state propaganda calls black white and vice versa. Old Orwell must have beenoffended in the next world, so many people remembered his novel "1984". "War ispeace", "Freedom is slavery".However, the mass enthusiasm that the Russian authorities were counting on, allthe previous years preparing the ground for war, still did not happen. Thisbecame especially noticeable when the mobilization was announced. According toForbes, about 700,000 citizens have left the country since September 21.2. How to mowThose who could not leave Russia began to hide. Thanks to human rightsinitiatives, guides have appeared on what to do if called. The best thing,according to them, is not to take a summons, not to appear in the draft board.And we already wrote a lot about it last year.However, as it turned out, not everyone knows about such opportunities. Here is astory that will not be referenced, because I know it not from journalists, butdirectly. So, one young man, having received a summons, called the veterinarians.And he began to find out: how much does castration cost, and is it possible to doit in such a way that "then you can restore functions." To the negative answerthat it was impossible, he hesitated and asked: "And if there is only onetesticle?" Then it was the turn of the veterinarians to be amazed, and theyasked, what kind of problems does the pet have? As a result, it turned out thatthe young man thought to perform the operation on himself. Well, what can I say... Quite an unexpected method to hang back from the army, but there is thepossibility of not so radical methods.In general, mobilization and how it is carried out is becoming an increasinglyactive point of tension. It shows how rotten the Russian army is, where themobilized must also purchase all the equipment at his own expense. And then, evenif not death on the front line, beatings and bullying await the mobilized, as isusual in such a typically patriarchal team as the army is. Another suchpatriarchal system with a rigid hierarchy has always been the prison. Now both ofthese systems have merged in the war.3. Private armyToday, there are already two private armies operating in the country - Kadyrov'sand Prigozhin's. And in one and the other, the participants earned the dubiousfame of complete scumbags. It is quite possible that both Kadyrov and Prigoginewill rely on them in their further struggle for power.4. New Year's performanceBy the way, indeed, something Putin already does not look like himself. Either heabuses Botox, or even released a double for the New Year's appeal. This time,Putin, speaking against the background of the wall of the military, seems to behinting that no one will leave the mobilization. The pretentious faces of extrasin camouflage, apparently, call for heroism, but this whole production looks likeit's a crowd of bodyguards that covers him from ... who? From the people? Well,the people that he throws into the furnace of war like brushwood?Although no, he really took care of the people. The new soldiers must somehow bereproduced, so the government thought about it: now the mobilized can freezesperm for free. Such are family values. At the same time, the authorities inspirethat the family should be with dad and mom, and immediately removes dad from thefamily, the main thing is that the wife can continue to give birth.5. RefuseniksBut even not only among the mobilized, but also among the regular military, thereare refuseniks who have realized the criminality of the war with Ukraine. NovayaGazeta interviewed an officer who refused to return to the front. For such, a newarticle of the Criminal Code has been introduced, for "a serviceman's refusal toparticipate in hostilities" they face a prison term. But now there are times whenheroism is not about going to the forefront of a war of conquest that bringsdeath and grief. It's about resisting it. The same Novaya Gazeta published thestories of the missing refuseniks.When agitators in the First World War talked with soldiers, of course, the firstthing they talked to them about was understandable and close to those things -home, family, which they had to leave for the sake of those sitting in palacesand knowing neither the cold nor the horror of shelling. No one wants to feellike cattle in a slaughterhouse, and human dignity cannot be preserved in theRussian army. So it started with the moods that Bumbarash sings about.And then - the armed people, tired of the war, decided to ask the authorities,but in fact, isn't it time for them to give this power to the soviets? And whatis a council, if not self-organization for the struggle for one's rights, whichanarchists talk about?6. Repressions against anarchistsRepressions against anarchists have passed from last year to this year.Therefore, we call for solidarity with the imprisoned and under investigationactivists.On our site you can read interviews with young guys from Chita, who were detainedwhile drawing graffiti, and now they are charged with articles one heavier thanthe other. "Personally, I am guided by simple human values that are elevated tothe absolute. This is freedom, equality, brotherhood. And I think that if I havemy own position, I can express it. I have been participating in public events fora long time. Not only political, but also environmental, for example," says LyubaLizunova. "We do not agree with today's policy," says Alexander Snezhkov. - Wehave constant repressions in the state, we are considered aggressors all over theworld. More precisely, our state is considered an aggressor. We are conducting anabsolutely senseless meat grinder on the territory of Ukraine. What is themeaning of it? It is seen only by our government, pursuing personal interests,which it determined for itself in 2014, when everything was just beginning."7. New Year wishesSince the New Year is also a time of wishes, we also wish all our listenersfreedom and peace. Stay strong, don't lose hope. Then Putin imagined himself asthe Dark Lord and even ordered to forge the rings that he presented to nineparticipants of the CIS summit. He left one ring for himself, apparently as the"Ring of Omnipotence". \Well, if you haven't read Tolkien, you've probably seen The Lord of the Ringsmovie. To be honest, Gollum is most like Putin there, obsessed with the desire tohave the "Ring of Omnipotence", and, as we remember, this obsession of his killedboth the Ring and himself. So we wish everyone to live to the end of thisterrible tale - then a new story will begin, and its plot will also depend on howmany of us can influence it.Well, that's all for today! We remind you that in "Trends of Order and Chaos" theparticipants of "Autonomous Action" give anarchist assessments of current events.Listen to us on YouTube, SoundCloud and other platformshttps://avtonom.org/news/vlastelin-kolec-trendy-poryadka-i-haosa-epizod-87_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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