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@lina @Zerglingman If you insist…
To perform that, you need
A) monopoly on exercising power
Though Russia seems much like a totalitarian regime, the order is sewn together from local powers: certain republic chiefs, oligarchs and diasporas. It’s only while the government feeds everyone well, that they don’t tear each other or the government.
B) monopoly on economical decisions
You can’t feed, clothe and equip the army, when the factories are outsourced to private businesses. If you’re going to perform a cleansing, you have to seize all the necessary means first. It’s a road to completely totalitarian state, which the Russian government tries to avoid by all means.
It can be fantasised, that Putin, perhaps, has his own plan for “boiling the frog” (squeezing out the power from businesses and absorbing it into the government structures), but even this is the truth, there are weak hopes that it will work as intended.
C) the people chosen to govern the country down to village chiefs must have a good understanding of how the country aims to develop, why chosen means are for common good and most importantly, those people must hold close those ways to their own beliefs.
Something unimaginable with the current govt grandpas at the helm.
To have a people united for the common good, they must have at least
- good education,
- a period of at least 15–20 years when the standard of life rises,
- upbringing that tells younger generation that they were born to change the world and are given examples of that.
Meanwhile, schools in Russia accept children by the family income, low-wage folk doesn’t need more than 5 years of education etc. See “Final bell”. Not long ago I’ve read a post lamenting the lack of understanding of the modern economy among Russian nationalists. It was about the hyped news about how Russia has written off a 20 bln USD debt to African countries. In the howling about “why again?” “better give these money to Vasya in the village” and “why not even restructure the debt?” the author noted, that the debt was not simply written off, it was, in fact, restructurised. Thus the author (Kholmogorov) concludes: “But the ‘patriots’, who are completely deficient in the regard of statesmanship, don’t give a damn about it. So much that they can’t verify even this elementary fact.
For this reason, there will be no RNS [Russian National State — eisai]
There’s no one.
No staff.”
A lot of people understand cleansing as easy as “overthrow the government, line up soldiers, tell them who to shoot”.
But how to guarantee that the new government will consist of reliable people? Many will mimic the behaviour.
Molotov said: “In the 1920s we had the thinnest layer of party leadership, and within this thinnest layer there were cracks”
How do you imagine the cleansing? In the repressions of 1920–1930 Stalin and his closest men didn’t realise the scale of the mass killing at first. But he’s stopped it. They might continue well into the Great Patriotic war, and the war then would be much worse. How do you know, when to stop? What can you rely on, knowing that the numbers of kills and casualties change several times while they go from the frontlines to the table before Putin?
A related quote from Lenin: “We have such a national character, that in order to implement something into the life, one has to strongly overbend it to one side, and then slowly straighten it. And to make right at once we will not learn for a long time yet. However, if we would replace the Bolshevik party with a, say, Leo Tolstoy party, then we might be late for an entire century.”
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