Putin's story: why the reckoning is inevitable

Of course, historians have long settled all the dots over "and" in that opus, but to speak of "history from Putin" has to be again and again, because the President of Russia constantly uses historical stereotypes in their own interests.

For example, in the fact that Putin constantly calls the Ukrainian people a "brother", while sending the Russian army to a "fratricidal war", it is not surprising, because the thesis about the "Triune Slavic people" serves the ideological needs of the Russian (and Soviet ) power since the nineteenth century.

Although in this design, Ukrainians and Belarusians were not destined to become equal to the Russians, the exploitation of this "brotherhood" remains one of the cornerstones of Russian politics. Putin and the "fight against the Nazis" are also exploited. He called a large -scale war against Ukraine "special operation on denacification" and still speaks of "Nazis in power in Kiev.

" And this is that someone, and Putin, who performed in January 2020 in the Memorial of the Holocaust of Yad-Nasha with an anti-Polish speech, would know that the Jew could not control the Nazis. In fact, the Kremlin dictator repeats the mistake of him: he tries to pick up the story for himself, to adjust in a favorable light. Russian state and military machines are sharpened for the thoughtless performance of these fantasies, and propaganda - for their ideological accompaniment.

Here is one example: the story of the "crucified boy in Slavyansk" (perhaps the greatest famous fake of Russia's hybrid war against Ukraine and the world) is only a repetition, the actualization of the old propaganda campaign "Kill a German", whose headliner became Konstantin Simonov in 1942 . These manifestations of propaganda are subordinate to the desire to dehumanize the enemy, to force their soldiers to kill those whom the authorities appointed enemies without unnecessary reflection.

In the same context, it is worth considering the attempt of the fake tribunal over the "Azov", which Russia has not yet refused. As the history of mankind proves, in the process of creating events that will claim the title of historical, it seems important to act adequately in the country and the world. I would like to emphasize that Putin, who repeated "we will not allow the Srebrenica in the Donbass", was hammered only by February 2022, because after that Bucha, Mariupol, Izium were after that.

The geographical distance between the locations of the most famous military crimes of the Russian Federation suggests that they were not a random element of the manifestation of hatred of individuals, but is part of the state ideology of the Russian Federation. "Who allowed you to live so well," the Russian invaders asked the residents occupied by the settlements of Ukraine. And they killed - killed with a sense of their own impunity of civilians in Bucha and prisoners of war in Olenivka.

Putin consistently extends the medieval law of the strong in the occupied Ukrainian territories in Russia, as if there were no centuries of evolution of mankind, humanistic ideas and views. As if there was no horror of the First and Second World Wars, written in the blood of the Geneva Conventions and the Declaration of Human Rights.

Ukraine pays expensively for the poor knowledge of the political elites of the history of relations between Russians and Ukrainians, for neglecting the threat of Great Russian chauvinism, on its own bitter experience, convincing that their former metropolis, poorly hidden, phantom pain is capable of transforming into military crimes. Putin will also pay - for twisting history, for its utilitarian use to satisfy her personal ambitions.

Already, Ramzan Kadyrov-a military-political career of which began in battles against the Russian troops in the North Caucasus and an adult to the "infantryman Putin", who is allowed to criticize the Russian generality-responded to "restricted" mobilization in Russia. Chechnya.

In this case, Kadyrov not only confirmed the assumption of significant losses among his soldiers, but also demonstrated that the relations of elites in Russia XXI have all the signs of feudal, up to a hint of disobedience to suzerain. With regard to the mobilization itself, even the first reaction of Russia's citizens to it suggests that it will be a problem primarily for the Russian authorities.

And Putin's demonstrative visits in the first decade of September to Kaliningrad (Western Anclav of the Russian Federation) and Vladivostok (Far East), who noticed units, may not save the situation. By the way, if lawyers should be given a legal assessment of pseudo -referendums in the occupied territories of Ukraine, then politically reminiscent of sublimation.