Translated by Sasha and captioned by Leo.
Have you noticed that since the beginning of the Coronavirus epidemic the “Putin Dumped the Kuril Islands” topic quietly died out? Not only this but many similar topics disappeared from the opposition publications as if they never existed. Now the liberals scribble, while the authorities ‘conceal’ it, in support of the Western discourse of supposedly existing in Russia understating the COVID-19 death rate. But you shouldn’t think that ‘allislostism’ has disappeared. Simply, this baton has been taken by emo-Marxists.
I regularly direct your attention to the fact that the Russian imitators of the left opposition hype anything they can. The previous story on the topic was about attempts by a PM from the Commercial Party of RF to fit into the subject of throwing money from a helicopter. [Ed. – Commercial Party is the nickname for the Communist Party during the 2018 presidential elections, when Pavel Grudinin was their candidate.] However after 11 May when Putin voiced the new supporting measures for the Russian citizens, it’s rather hard to hype the aforementioned topic. Nevertheless the emo-Marxists do not lose heart. They simply reanimate the “Putin Dumped…” discourse in different directions.
Appreciate this headline: “Russia Won’t Even Notice How She Will Lose the Kurils Along With Sakhalin During the War Between US and PRC.” One can’t shriek that Putin dumped the Kurils to Japan anymore. You’d be a laughing stock. But – swoosh! – and the topic has got a new dimension. Now they scribble that Japan will take the Kurils by force with the US support in the process of the war between America and China. And these are other headlines on the “Free Press” website:
“Kremlin Cannot Hide Its Disgrace.” “Damascus Threatens to Wipe Putin’s Name from History.” “The Ruble Will Face American Roller Coaster – First 65 rubles for a dollar, then – 140.” “Putin Got to Be Led by Navalny.” Had I not shown you which site these headlines come from, would you guess it? Not necessarily. Because they don’t differ from the click bait that fills up the liberal media sites. The publicist Aleksandr Rogers ran a test recently, having put together a mix of headlines from the ‘Free Press’ and the ‘Svidomy Observer’. Here are examples:
“The Economist: The authorities will support the business wives of ministers and daughters of senators”, “Koch named the first region that Russia might lose.” “The Ghost of Freezing Hovers Over Citizen’s Bank Deposits.” “Significant photos of Peskov next to Putin before getting infected with COVID-19 appeared on the Net.” “Kremlin Faces Choice: Either a Political Uprising by Angry Russians or Revoking the Pension Reform.” “Where Does Putin Hide from Coronavirus.” “The RF Regional Budget Loses Might Reach Maximum Levels Since the Beginning of This Century.” “Kremlin Loses the Battle With US and Becomes Junior Partner of the Chinese Regime.”
The even headlines are from the ‘Free Press’, the uneven ones are from the Ukro-Nazi ‘Observer’. The difference? There is none. That is the editorial policy of the people that head the Russian supposedly left media doesn’t differ in any way from the analogous editorial policy of the ‘Svidomy’ russophobes. Who then heads the ‘Free Press’ that threatens us with the loss of the Kurils, infection of Putin and the political uprising of angry Russians?
Yes, it is that very [Zakhar] Prilepin of whom I’ve been saying all this time that he doesn’t differ from the liberals. For instance, this is the ‘Editor’s Choice’ section on the same web page. Zyuganov’s marasmus. The pseudo-shaman Garbyshev’s alcoholism. The Kremlin’s shame. Coronavirus is compared to the ‘Kursk’ submarine disaster. And I have already quoted about Damascus. What is lacking? That’s right, the news about UFOs, the celebrities’ private life, and a restaurant guide from Bykov-Zilbertrud, who, as we know, is very close to Prilepin.
However, even without the addition of these topics, the site of emo-Marxists reeks of tabloid press. But this tabloid’s direction is to create an impression with the reader that he lives in hopelessness, that around him is not one of the most developed countries in the world, but some sort of hell. And now compare it, for instance, to what the Russian nationalist [Konstantin] Krylov used to write about Russia before he recently died of a stroke.
“Russia is a monstrously dull, dirty, acid burnt country, exactly alike everywhere at that. Some semblance of real life exists in Moscow and St. Petersburg. And even that is merely a whiff. All Russian cities are equally dull, dirty, ruined, built up with plaster-cardboard abomination, mud and concrete walls are everywhere (all in the same style), tire shops, youth in track pants, shitty food, shitty vodka, gray sky, and other ‘barns-cowsheds-mama-we-are-in-hell.’ And it is hell indeed. If someone is proudthat he ‘traveled around Russia’, it is the same as ‘did time in the joint’. Only beyond the Russian borders something good can exist and only that is worth sharing.”
“If you go left you’ll come to the right,” as ‘comrade’ Stalin used to say in such instances. When emo-Marxists depict Russia as hell, they quickly join the Nazis. Which means that the lefties who like so much to show themselves as fans of Iosif Vissarionovich, during his time, would definitely meet the fate of their predecessors – the Trotskyites. And Professor Preobrazhensky’s famous phrase now should sound like this: “Do not read the lefties’ sites before lunch.” Today it is not hard to follow this advice, because we, unlike Dr. Bormental, have a choice. Luckily, Prilepin’s ‘all-is-lost’ picture is not the sole source of information about what’s happening in Russia. I don’t even need to say: “Watch us.” You do it anyway. And we keep working for you.
Turn left and you meet the right.
Flip sides of the same coin.
I run into a dozen of these “abandon all hope, Putin blah, blah, blah, Russia, blah, blah, blah” articles every morning as I tour open sources from Russia.
The US payroll for so many “authors” and bots must be in the tens of millions per month.
Too bad the authoritarian Putin doesn’t crack down on these clowns.But then, he’s too busy stealing money from Russian mothers and children and forcing seniors out into the cold, denying them a piece of the action from oil and gas revenues. I read this stuff and its like a Seinfeld script. Hilarious.
No offence, but Seinfeld, hilarious, now that is hilarious. Perhaps I’m to ‘gentile’ to get the jokes
” I read this stuff and its like a Seinfeld script. Hilarious.”
For me, it’s more like Monty Python. The ridiculous being used to highlight the insane. John Cleese [of Monty Python fame” ] described humour as “the point where islands of insanity meet the sea of sanity they are floating in”. You laugh at the interface.
But that monster’s description of Russia, the bleak, mud, grey, dull, miserable place is what I grew up in Cold War Britain being fed. And — no, it’s not that you “believe it true” — it’s that slowly, drop by poisonous drop, over the years, it seeps unnoticed into your perceptions, changing them, so you unthinkingly accept that this image is true.
I was an adult before I found the beauty, richness, glory and fascination that is Russia – and felt a utter fury at how I had been led to live with such a travesty for so long. So – it’s hard to find that funny.
But the ludicrous travesty of the insane – yes, I get that.
“For me, it’s more like Monty Python.”
Well they are “dead parrot” salescritters who are proposing to build a bridge to connect the twin peaks of Mt. Kilimanjaro….
“I read this stuff and its like a Seinfeld script. Hilarious.”
Never thought seinfeld or his vastly over rated show to be hilarious. Occasionally they hit a funny bone, but over all it was tedium incarnate in the shows I got stuck listening to. As for seinfelt, he is an insufferable egomaniac who excels at being boring. Now if that sentence was reworded a bit to:
“I read this stuff and its like a Seinfeld script. Tedious.” Then I would agree wholeheartedly. ;-D
Larchmonter445
When it comes to the Russian political opposition, the situation is pretty simple. In 1917 the Western bankers financed the Russian “revolution”, giving Lenin 20 million dollars in gold. Lenin was joined by Trotsky. The ‘revolution’ partially succeeded. When Lenin died of syphilis in 1924, he was replaced by Stalin, who was not banker controlled. The Soviet Union (Russia) was permanently attacked by the West for it’s communist system, even though it never asked for it, nor did it invent the communist philosophy, the same being done by two characters living in London and financed by the Rothschild'[s. Communism was meant to be an export philosophy, and as such being ostensibly anti-capitalist. In fact it was very much pro-capitalist, as the intent was for communist governments to nationalize everything that was worth anything and serve it on a silver platter to the West. Well, Stalin and Mao Tse Tung prevented this, using the communist philosophy to work for both the Soviet Union (Russia) and China. The communist philosophy did indeed work in the beginning, as it industrialized the Soviet Union with somewhat lesser success in China.
What we have today in Russia and China is a repeat performance from 1917. The West is again trying to provoke a revolution in Russia, except that it’s not calling it a communist revolution, but rather a ‘democratic’ or ‘color’ revolution, The methods are the same while the names are different. The intent is to introduce little Guaido’s in Russia and China, who would them sell the countries to Western banks and corporations. The original Guaido in Venezuela openly stated that he intended to privatize the oil and gold fields in the country, ie. give them to US corporations. This statement made President Maduro even more politically stable, as the population in Venezuela could not forget the pre-Chavez years, when the country was looted by US corporations and domestic oligarchs. Same thing in Russia. People cannot forget the Yeltsin years, when Russia was looted of 100 billion dollars a year by Western banks, corporations and domestic oligarchs.
The West is looking for political Trojan horses in Russia. It has found them. However, what they found is a pale shadow of what they expected to find. In fact liberals in Russia are remnants of liberals from the Yeltsin years, doing immense harm to themselves, while at the same time maintaining the popularity of President Putin. An identical situation here in Serbia. The remnants of liberals who were used to overthrow President Milosevic in 2000 are now losing their nerve, as they are losing the little political power they still have left. They resorted to physical provocations in front of Parliament, after which they moved to peaceful protests, hoping people would join them. In the morning you could see two or three of them in front of Parliament, while in the afternoon you could see about a dozen of them. The liberal philosophy, based on predatory liberal capitalism, is going out of fashion, the elites excluded.
These emo-marxists, lefties and liberals justifiably pilloried here are not Marxists or lefties. They are zionazi-gays, like guardianista faux leftists*. Some might actually be liberals, but liberals are rightwing. They only drip less foam from their mouths than the mentally deranged critters further to the right.
*BTW, in case some here were not aware of this, the guardianista club are/were the frauds who fanatically attacked Gilad Atzmon and whom he referred to as anti zionist zionists.
I have no proof, only a thought, based on Marshall McLuhan’s concept he called “living in the rear view mirror”. The idea is that we think we are looking ahead but we are actually looking in the rear view mirror, and what we think is the current reality — and sometimes even the future — is really the recent, and not so recent past.
The two most prominent forms of this concept are (1) predicting a future catastrophe, when the catastrophe has already arrived; we are living in it.
The other form (2) has to do with the wretched state of Russia; and here I am really winging it since I have never been there. I see Russia through other people’s eyes of via their cameras. As justification, I am going to take a wild lurch into a somewhat disconnected time, place, and subject.
Historian David Irving predicted the fall of the Berlin Wall exactly one year in advance, and he correctly forecast the date. Irving is noteworthy for using original documents exclusively as the basis of his historical research. Commenting on his successful prediction, he said something to the effect that, “That just shows that the deeper you go into the stacks (the national historical archives of Germany, Russia, etc.) the closer you get to what is really going on right now.”
Travelling as did Emily Dickinson, “There is no frigate like a book”, I already know that Russia is a light to the world. If the mother of Jesus has told the children at Lourdes to pray for the conversion of Russia, then let’s get the word out. It’s already happened. Time to shine the spotlight of prayer someplace else.
Pindostan is not going to crash, it already has, is not about to experience military calamity, it already did.
I have got to say, This ain’t my america. Torture as a national policy has been debated in Congress and approved by the Supreme Court. They may always have tortured people, but in the past they had the good grace, or sheer hypocrisy to at least conceal it. This isn’t me. This isn’t mine. I’m not here.
Denial will get you nowhere else, Ed.
Time to buck up and face the plain facts of the matter:
The common man or woman most anywhere on earth is a child with soiled diapers…………… until forced to clean up their act and get more creative than crying and complaining, “cunningly” to manipulate whatever adults exist (or often don’t exist…lol but that won’t stop them!) within earshot.
A child whose circumstances, whether relatively lucky (as in most of the US 1946 tp 1980 or so) or severely daunting (China in its “century of humiliation”) makes do as best they can with little conception of the national direction or what to think or do about it.
These adult age children will be appealed to by an “elite” globalist, primarily WESTERN enemy who have no intention of leading them to real responsible adulthood, and every intention of using them like toilet paper, and little more
That enemy will have the most success with the spoiled brats in the west, but will use its refined methods of narrative control and debasement of the creative potentials of its sheeple, perfected at home, to infect the dumber and more childish persons in other lands, and make them even stupider and more infantile
Therefore the direction this thing takes depends to an inordinate degree on the quality of leadership that manages to emerge, often the best in crisis…..but sometimes not.
If that leadership frustrates the designs of the Luciferian Globalists, they (think Stalin) will be depicted by The Masters of Discourse as the worst sort of monsters, in the soft, stupid minds of the silly children they spoon feed their pablum and bed time stories to 24/7.
In the meantime, I think we need to reflect on a few plain facts of the matter in current history:
1) What Ruslan Ostashko ridicules of the most infantile portion of the Russian psyche may be pathetic and annoying, but the generally more mature and hardened toughness of the typical Russian, for the foreseeable future, will not desert proven leadership to join the small minority of crybabies. They will remain a western test tube experiment which may linger indefinitely, but not defeat the adults of Russia.
2) Ditto China, although the circumstances may differ considerably there, in terms of cultural and historical detail, strengths and weaknesses.
3) Here’s where we come to the controversial part, the USA because we ARE here, And whether we like it or not, in 99 out of 100 cases of those of us who recognize how messed up the minds of so many people around us are, we are not emigrating in our lifetimes to either China OR Russia. Although living out the last portion of my senior years in my in-laws flat in St Petersburg…..IS a fallback option, if things go 100% into the toilet here! LOL.
Therefore, we need to take notice of the turbulent, fertile situation around us, and size it up strategically, creatively…to conceptualize how to change it for the better.
And one thing stands out from previous periods of great national stress….such as the Civil War…….or the Great Depression. While most Americans were tougher then, on average, and much more self-reliant, as individuals and communities, they were also MUCH more isolated from the rest of the world. Today, if you have any curiosity at all, you can size up the mettle of a Putin or Xi…on one end of the leadership scale or a Macron or Merkel on the other…….. and in some small way at least, bring your mind to bear on the challenges of the entire planet…..and search for ideas and allies that could be cooperated with to turn around the mess closest to home……under your own roof …..in your neighborhood and town, and state and ultimately,as never before, the thoughts of the individual human mind can potentially connect with other minds in other lands………..as never before in history.
And this is why Putin (as in Ukraine!) will poll much better numbers among the relatively well informed in Flyover Country, USA…than Nancy Pelosi or Adam Schiff will.
And that, Ed, is an extremely significant opening…a great start..as a new “delta” in the global situation and America itself, which you see in numerous other Americans commenting here in the Vineyard and many other places, as well.
And it would be simply absurd to abandon that new …(and quickly growing!) potential in a petulant fit of self-righteous disgust.
Hey Bro,
Thanks for replying to my comment. You seem very much a kindred spirit. Though I want to be crystal clear, it still happens that people read my stuff and then reply with something that makes me wonder where I fell down in making my point. Which (roughly) is:
We think we see what is really there, when we are really stuck in the past. And I applied that idea to views of Russia and the USA expressed commonly. I think that Russia is better and the US is worse than many people seem to think.
So please, Bro: what are you disagreeing with?
Moderator: I can see you rolling your eyes. If I am just protecting my ego, trash this comment.
Different but strongly related: Putin and Syria
I noticed a recent theme … ‘Russia turns on Assad’ where the U.S. claims that Russian media outlets (controlled by the Putin who never sleeps) is ripping Assad for being corrupt for some unspecific endgame.
My gut feeling … the monsters in the U.S. security establishment is making life so completely unbearable for the Syrians, destroying their currency, all forms of revenue, their infrastructure, keeping their country fractured, keeping them from their own resources, … and seeing which fissures form to attack Assad, Russia, and Iran as best they can. These people are without any scruples.
The line on Putin / Russia would be … you can’t trust them since this ended up being his biggest currency in the Syrian intervention.
The line on Assad, ‘he’s corrupt, cannot govern the state of Syria’
Iran, what lie won’t they tell about Iran, accuse them of plundering Syria since that is what we are doing.
As I write this I realize that this is obvious. The Deep State in the U.S. is not creative but they do not have to be since our MSM are sheep.
Good article !
And there som good comments too, for sure!
And my own comment: USA delenda est.