WORLD WORLDWIDE RUSSIA SPAIN News Journal Update - (en) Russia, avtonom: Toads and Vipers: Trends in Order and Chaos Episode 115 (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 Spanish Revolution -- "The cavalry is prancing on the Rambla. Passing

trucks, hastily sheathed with iron sheets. Children carry flags,
passers-by throw rings, coins. People with rifles are hung out of cars.
Teenagers girded with machine-gun belts sleep on benches. The girls,
stepping carefully on high heels, drag guns. Undismantled barricades
everywhere; they still breathe battle. Shards of glass, shells. In the
boudoir of the hotel "Columbus" among the rococo furniture - hand
grenades. At the walls of houses, on the pavement slabs, in the squares
- piles of roses: the heroes of Barcelona died here. Fever shakes the
city. Every day people in their dreams take Zaragoza, liberate Mallorca,
break into Cordoba. On the back of a taxi: "We are going to Huesca!"
Mattresses, rifles, wineskins. Vigilantes on guitars perform the anthem
of the "Confederation of Labor" - "Sons of the People".
This is how Ilya Ehrenburg described Barcelona in August 1936. On July
17, the Spanish military mutinied, leading to civil war. The answer was
a popular revolution. On July 19, an attempt by the military to take
control of Barcelona failed. The anarchists handed out weapons and
defended the city. Further, the social revolution had to develop in the
conditions of a war with the fascists and constant blows in the back
from the republican government of Spain. But even the period that
anarchists were able to use to build a life on libertarian principles
gave invaluable experience not only to the anarchist movement, but to
all of humanity.

"I came to Spain just to write reviews for the newspaper, but almost
immediately joined the militia: in the conditions of that time it seemed
the only possible thing to do. Power in Catalonia belonged to the
anarchists, and the revolution was still in full swing. To those who
have been here from the very beginning, it might seem, even in December
or January, that the revolutionary period ends, but for a person who had
just arrived from England, the view of Barcelona was shocking and
overwhelming. For the first time I came to a city where the working
class acted in the first roles. George Orwell "Memory of Catalonia"

Patriots on both sides of the bars
What happened this week in Russia? Well, they are clamping down on
supporters of the war who do not like the way it is being conducted.
Since war is the state's monopoly on terror and violence, those who
agree with the state as a whole, but want to do what it does, despite
its monopoly, are in for a big surprise. Arrested Strelkov-Girkin .
Officially - in the case of public calls for extremist activities on the
Internet. No, no, he did not write protests against the war, but called,
in particular, for executions of those who do not allow to fight properly.

Let me remind you that in July 2014, a passenger Boeing was shot down in
the Donetsk region . 298 people died. The joint investigation team
considers Strelkov, who commanded the separatist forces in the summer of
2014, and his subordinates to be involved in the disaster. The Hague
Tribunal sentenced Strelkov in absentia to life imprisonment. But he was
arrested, of course, not for this.

But even with the monopoly on violence, the Russian Federation is so-so.
Here Prigogine was reminded of the murder committed 19 years ago. And
how many people his subordinates from "Wagner" killed in the war - the
state does not care.

Putin's secretary Peskov boasted that his son served in Wagner. And my
son confirmed this to reporters . Last week, Putin said that "PMC"
Wagner "does not exist . "

Questions appear, and where then the son of his press secretary served.
Or maybe it doesn't exist either? That is, a son, that is ... how did
they not get confused there themselves?

The first audio recording of Prigozhin appeared  after the rebellion, he
spoke at the opening of the Wagner militant camp in Belarus. The man
keeps himself cheerful, calls the actions of the Russian Ministry of
Defense at the front a shame. He seems to feel himself in the same
weight category with Putin and Lukashenko. How all this is possible is
unclear. But it looks more and more like the realities and role models
of Latin American drug cartels.

Another patriot, Alexei Navalny, is being sentenced to another 20 years
in prison, and another absurd trial is coming to an end with him. A
person very worthily endures the pressure of the state. We do not agree
with Navalny on almost everything, he should not be allowed into any
government. But there is no reason for him to sit.

The prosecution requested 18 years in prison for Ilya Sachkov, founder
of Group IB. He built a world-class IT company from scratch, he always
positioned himself as a "patriot of Russia": that is, he "glorified his
country with normal things", and not with the bombing of Mariupol. Now
Sachkov is accused of treason, the case is classified. Sachkov does not
admit guilt, but for all the years of application of this criminal
article, only one acquittal is known, and that was 23 years ago.

Face recognition
News came this week that the European Union had imposed sanctions on the
developers of Moscow's facial recognition system . Very timely, of
course. Well, there are doubts about the effectiveness of these
sanctions. However, it is interesting that specific companies are
listed. It was their leadership and employees who helped to identify the
protesters, and now also those who evade military service.

To this news, I was told that the results of an independent sociological
study had recently been published. On the topic of what factors are now
keeping Russians from taking to the streets. The first line in the
ranking was occupied by cameras with face recognition. That is, people
argue like this: if the first time does not work out, there will be no
second chance, in principle, for none of those who came out. And
therefore it is better not to take risks and wait, when, well, it will
work out exactly, exactly. I did not find this study, but the logic
described in the commentary is quite understandable. Unfortunately, even
those who are ready to go out once, but for sure, are also not enough,
and the majority are not even for the war, but rather prefer to sit
quietly, not waking up dashingly. Although why wake him up when he has
already woken up.

Drowned pilot
An illustrative example is the pilot who drowned in the sea. After a
video appeared on the Internet of how the plane crashes into the Sea of
Azov in front of vacationers on the beach, Z-bloggers began to resent,
they say, how come, why no one tried to save the pilot even on a boat,
even on a scooter. But people have been taught all this time not to
stick out and not climb, otherwise it will be worse, so they reacted in
a natural way. Well, it also suggests that military operations do not
cause enthusiasm, no matter how hard the propagandists try. Rather, they
are treated like a natural disaster with which nothing can be done. But
in fact, you can and should do it, otherwise it will not be up to
relaxing on the beach.

Let me turn again to history. War weariness has a strong effect on
society and has led to a revolutionary situation more than once. Decay
in the army, distrust of officers and "traitors at headquarters", the
economic problems of the working population played a big role in Russia
in 1917. Russia of our time...

Crimean bridge
During the undermining of the Crimean bridge, a married couple died,
their daughter was in the hospital with injuries. Of course, it's not
the smartest idea to go on vacation to the Crimea now, but it's still
the death of non-combatants. Joy over the death of these people is the
same kind as the joy of those who rejoice over the death of Ukrainians.
War is also terrible because it destroys human feelings towards the
enemy, for whom all people on the other side of the front are taken.

Another week in the north of Crimea , a UAV drone was flying somewhere .
It exploded in an ordinary village, a high school girl died in front of
her mother. When and if Crimea goes to Ukraine, it is hard to imagine
that this woman will be able to become a loyal citizen of this state.
Yes, Putin unleashed all this. Yes, Ukrainian children also die every
other day from Russian artillery. But no internationally recognized
borders justify any child deaths. Now, when the war has entered the
stage of horror without end and edge, this is even more obvious.

The situation through the eyes of the inhabitants of the Crimea looks
like a complete mess. Summer tourism is the main component of the
economy of the two millionth peninsula. Last holiday season - almost
disrupted, this one - even worse. There are no guarantees that at least
next summer will be peaceful. For an ordinary Crimean, what difference
does it make if a two-color or three-color rag hangs on the flagpole
near the village administration? Both yellow-blue and white-blue-red
color combinations brought nothing but grief, arbitrariness and terror
to ordinary Crimeans.

Here you can, of course, gloat that, they say, the Crimeans themselves
wanted this. For warring states, territories are more important than the
people inhabiting them. People suffered when the Red Army took Crimea,
when it was occupied by the Nazis, and when Stalin deported the Crimean
Tatars. Putin will definitely not think about people. He needs them only
as a bargaining chip, a human shield. For a long time, the Crimea was a
reason to support his regime, so, they say, what a fine fellow
"collector of lands." Now this trump card already ceases to be such. But
who cares about people? It's time for them to think about what the
Russian Federation brought them, except for disasters.

Terrorist patriarchy
In the outgoing week, it was finally decided that Putin would not go to
the BRICS summit , the Russian delegation would be headed by Lavrov.
Thus, Putin has become one step closer to the future tribunal: the South
African authorities have made it clear that (yet) they are not ready to
arrest the Russian tsar, but they cannot host a war crimes suspect who
is on the international wanted list.

This is the collapse of the fantasies of Russian diplomacy about the
alleged "multipolarity" of the modern world. BRICS, the largest
"non-Western" international association, is not ready to enter into a
confrontation with NATO. At least because of Putin.

The real "success" of the Russian Federation in the international arena
is the opening of one of the first international business centers in
Kabul . Under the government of the Taliban, who are generally
recognized as a terrorist organization in Russia. But this is already a
legal atavism, the Putin regime is following approximately the same path.

After waves of persecution of gays and transgender people, restrictions
on the sale of drugs for abortion are being prepared. Minister of Health
Murashko gave a speech that the state expects from a woman not
self-realization, but the birth of four children.

Concluding the issue, we once again remind you that we, Russians and
those who temporarily find themselves abroad, must remove all this
darkness and haze with our own hands. The struggle is very difficult,
but liberation is not achieved in any other way.

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