The Russian Revolution through the eyes of a Ukrainian nationalist

Russia pregnant with revolution, as a hundred years ago. However, the majority of Russians do not feel its approach, though cook over low heat frog from the old science joke. It is difficult to realize that the approaching storm, if you yourself - all-just a drop of water in a cloud, and the wind of history carries you somewhere.

We are, Ukrainians, even a year ago would not have believed it, as soon as our streets ablaze. A year ago, exactly on May 18, we held a peaceful opposition rally "Arise, Ukraine!" And hoped instead mafia Yanukovych elect at least one herbivore Yatsenuk accountant. A year ago, a policeman in the splash of a gas canister was considered a terrible extremism. A year ago, no one knew about Dmitry Yaros. A year ago, people are now shooting at each other, quietly went shopping at one and the same stores, and the political struggle waged mainly on the Internet. A year ago, the constitution seemed law, police power - immutable and infinite, state structure - monolithic, as the ceiling concrete bunker. Just a year ago - a lifetime ago.

A year ago in Ukraine had the same problems, the same fault line that now exploded in revolution. Less than a year ago, in the summer, a little town Vradievka (Mykolaiv region) rebellious people gutted the local police, because the girl was raped by policeman. July 2, 2013 on the wall of the police station in Vradievka crashed first "Molotov cocktail." "Vradievka - only the beginning!" - Wrote on the walls of Ukrainian radicals, but no one took them seriously.

Ukraine every year periodically shaking rumble deaf - Vradievka, Language maidan, Tax Maidan. We heard them, but an approaching storm scale never imagined. Until the last drop - a police crackdown Evromaydana - suddenly overflowed the cup.

Russians do not feel approaching revolution, because they see no signs known from books - the movement of the lower classes, the strikes, the proletarian councils. They do not, because the 2014 revolution - right.

Small and medium entrepreneurs (crushed the oligarchs), nationalists (embittered national humiliation), pro-democracy activists (utomlennіe struggle for rights) - gathered critical mass at one point - and suddenly echoed society. Suddenly came to protest those who had previously not interested in politics at all. just went to ever hit a police bastard in the face for everything! For all the humiliation, for extortion, for imperious rudeness, for permissiveness, for bribes, for indifference and arrogance of officials - all at once. And even when the mass of the people are already biting at the bit and ran through the cold Kiev barricades in an unknown future, only the most perspicacious of us have seen that this situation can not be fought peacefully. Nobody wanted war, and war was inevitable.

Russia shakes Kondopoga, Sagra, Kuschevskaya village, Manezhka, Swamp, and Arzamas and Biryulevo - and none of the russians still does not understand what exactly are shaking the foundations of the regime. A russian government is doing something to eliminate the causes of these seizures? ...

Yevgeny Roizman once led a stunning example - Moscow decided to hold a kind of clean-legality - revealing dismiss any of the governors for corruption, to show people a good work, and show to officials "firm hand". BUT! The first official - steals, but shared with others. The second official - steals more, but his covered by “serious people”. Third - even worse!

Lenin wrote that a revolutionary situation - this is when the lower classes do not want to live in the old, and the upper classes - can not effectively manage now as before.

- Putin can stop the robbery of the Russian people?

NO! Because the removal of the oligarchic links from the budget lead to destabilization of the entire system, carefully constructed back in the 90s, besides money is needed - at the mercy of the police, Kadyrov and other colonial princes.

- can Putin stop “feeding” Kadyrov?

NO! Because otherwise start a new war of independence in the Caucasus.

- can Putin afford a new full-scale war in the Caucasus?

NO! Because Russia is in a difficult external situation, and in a terrible internal - a new war could explode Russian streets, now they overheated by "national question".

- can Putin solve the national question?

NO! Because he will have to crush ethnic mafia, so - shake up the oligarchic system.

- can Putin shake up the oligarchic system and stop robbing the Russian people?

NO! Vicious circle.

And thus the system is running worse and worse. It is not independent financially, technologically and production. Even the attempt to replace the navigation system, which is under the control of a potential enemy, for domestic ended in failure. Rocket fell.

And all this - on the background of overdue ideological crisis. Burned Prague, Warsaw and Budapest, rioted Vilnius, Tbilisi, Chisinau, Kiev and Bishkek - desovietization ring is compressed around the Empire. People are looking for freedom and new meanings. “Grandfathers fought” and “Yuri Gagarin” may not be pillars of the national idea, because the world, which was built by grandfathers with their bayonets, collapsed with the Berlin Wall. Where Yuri Gagarin flew, circling U.S. commercial satellites.

About the possible economic crisis caused by international sanctions not worth mentioning.

Machiavelli wrote that the Emperor is allowed to build its internal policy on fear - it is safer than love. But not to be overthrown once, sire must be able to inspire people fear, not inspiring at the same hatred. And not to instill hatred, we must stick to only two simple rules: do not infringe on the women of his subjects, and not to encroach on the property of subjects.

Dictators, frightening, but not robbing people tend to die a natural death, without getting off the throne. And the memory of the people they remained paradoxically good (so was Stalin, for example, can become so Lukashenko). But Putin, like Yanukovych - robbing. Rowing, crushes, makes great Russian into one huge “Gazprom”. Such can not rule forever.

by Dmytro Reznitchenko