Quite recently, some experts predicted that the scenario of a colour revolution in Belarus is just a rehearsal for the subsequent main blow to the centre of the Russian world – Russia
Why exactly in Belarus, because there are many other state formations along the perimeter of Russian borders? Many, but no suitable scenario can be chosen for them. There are too many differences in mentality, educational programs, culture and traditions. The Belarusian electorate is a different matter. Despite years of attempts to form some “authentic” national consciousness, in reality, they managed to make progress only in matters that are more formal than real. And here it becomes clear what the president of Belarus meant when he spoke about the prospects of standing with the president of Russia back to back and shooting back.
So far the two countries, though not commensurate in territory, but sharing the same spiritual environment, are stubbornly fighting with external aggression aimed at destruction of their statehood. And success is evident. So, the key to the script has not been found, and people of good will still have time to work out their own scripts of resistance.
In this connection, the fact that another attempt to drag the Belarusian society into the quagmire of Maidanism once again did not lead to the desired result cannot but rejoice. No matter how much the opposition human rights defenders may scream about 190 political prisoners in Belarus, this information can only work against the opposition itself. With a population of 9.5 million, 190 people in custody for six months of attempted riots… Calling it a people’s movement is a silly joke, even without arguing about the figures the opposition is so fond of maximizing. The Belarusian protests have subsided, the opposition agenda is fed up – can we relax? No!
Russia is next in line! Apparently, foreign political technologists have decided that Russians have had enough of New Year holidays, it’s time to come out to the protests. They also brought back the main protester – where would they go without him? Unexpectedly? Not at all! January 23rd showed the similarity of the patterns by which they are preparing to undermine us. It is all the same theatre of the absurd, which we have recently witnessed in Belarusian cities, but only on our stage. They are comical paraphernalia in the form of blue pants, children to cover themselves with, women shouting at the camera, etc. Again a protest for protest’s sake, zero substance and specifics, but a vivid emotional image.
However, here the political technologists have gone further. And if in Belarus there were representatives of the trend “I am a mother” with their children at the rallies, in our country the children themselves have no parents. It is cynical, dirty and mean! On the eve of the rally they were well worked up, urging them through the social networks to go out for a so-called “walk”. Why minors? You can answer that question when you know what kind of event they are preparing the ground for! And it is by no means the autumn elections to the State Duma, they are only a stepping stone, it is the elections in 2024. That’s when the TicToc generation will grow up, acquire the right to vote and decide the fate of the country! When journalists asked minors “Why did you come to the rally today?”, the answers were similar: “For the movement”. What conscious choice can those who today are taught not to think, but to bark? Who, at the first call of the bell, run for the sake of hype to where their uncles call them from the iPhone screen. So, if uncles, also showbiz aunts with huge numbers of subscribers: Sasha Bortich, Lolita, etc.
The benefactors who sponsor all these theatrical protest spectacles have taken up the task of educating our younger generation. And they are well aware that this is not an achievable, costly, but very promising undertaking. And given the educational tools of the various stultifying “comedy clubs” and primitive songs about “sweethearts”, the war is not about consciousness, but about its complete destruction. That is what the slogans about an internet without borders and censorship were for.
Naivety is not a vice, but purity of soul. But it is already quite obvious how it can be used for evil.
As long as it exists, there can be no real democracy. Lack of censorship is just a way to raise generations of narrow-minded people in a rival country who are far removed from the realities of life. Those people who will believe that the institution of statehood was not invented to protect its citizens from outside attacks. Those people who will have no idea that the economy is not shaped by pseudo-democratic mantras and slogans but by the real sectors of the economy, that is, by production and marketing. Those people who think they have the right to demand, but do not have to work at the same time. It’s not hard to imagine what the exercise of the right to vote by such people would look like…
Russia is still alive, so nothing is lost. It is simply time to realise that politics is not the domain of the elected and not the concern of MPs alone. If children are our future it is time to remember that everything starts in the family: any future, which in essence is politics, is the state’s overall policy towards its citizens.
Irina Belozerova, specially for News Front