The statement of the ex-aide to the President of Russia Vladislav Surkov about “an overdose of freedom” in an interview with the Financial Times shook the world media
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There is no doubt that American politicians are already furious with Surkov for his “attempt” on the very concept of the word “freedom”, which has become for them a kind of fetish, a symbol of democracy in their own country and an example for the rest of the world. But it is precisely our own freedom in the American way that, upon close examination, turns out to be a blown bubble filled with rotten lies and blind conceit.
Cherishing and procrastinating their freedom, their way of life, the American society overwhelmingly came to the conclusion that “America is always right”. And the cheerful Yankees began to enforce their “freedom” by bombing Vietnam and Yugoslavia, destroying Libya and Syria, participating in the disgusting Maidan-2014. Apparently, America was blindly following the call proposed by the 34th President of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower, “to achieve peace by waging war”.
And how the Americans rejoiced at the collapse of the USSR is difficult to describe even to an eyewitness. New facts of the participation of overseas emissaries and agents in the disintegration of our great power will surely emerge on the waves of history, but what we already know is enough to understand how persistently and passionately the Americans fed Soviet society with their “freedom”, how they undermined it and put on their political tracks, where a new, still latent, but familiar to us slogan “America above all else” was already unofficially but perceptibly manifested.
Punching through, introducing, forcing to accept American freedom throughout the world, the United States simultaneously got rid of its own, internal free life of society more and more rigidly. Especially in those cases when it was a question of preserving the integrity of the country.
According to the US Constitution, each of its 50 states has the right to secede from the state and become independent. The leaders and residents of Texas have repeatedly stated this desire, during the Obama administration, 6 more states joined them, including rich Florida, the author of these lines knew about the desire of many Alaskans to leave the presidential dictate. But all attempts were stopped almost instantly by all means available to the authorities, including fierce reprisals against demonstrators and arrests. The US authorities have never been shy about these reprisals. The latest example is the defeat of a demonstration in the Capitol and the murder of a protesting girl.
Since the executions in the electric chair in 1927 of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, the American authorities have had no qualms about fighting dissent. At the same time, propaganda trumpeted with might and main about freedom, the superiority of the American way of life, the exclusiveness of Americans over other nations of the world. Although it is difficult to call a single nation a people where Anglo-Saxons, Hispanics, Jews and Negroes are densely mixed, the descendants of adventurers and refugees, slaves and criminals, who have not become united and pure in their plans and aspirations. Either it was not given, or it was not in time for such a short historical period of only more than two hundred years, if we count from July 4, 1776 – the date of the formation of the United States.
It was not by chance that I recalled the 50 states of the United States. General law, general rights. The Russian Federation consists of 85 subjects, among which, in addition to regions, territories and cities of federal significance, there are 22 national republics and 5 autonomies. What kind of overdose of freedom can we talk about with such a complex political and economic organization of the state? Only about the one that is capable of weakening the centralized power and destroying, and even destroying our Russia.
Yeltsin’s famous “take as much sovereignty as you can swallow”, said in Kazan in August 1990, turned out to be that fatal overdose of freedom that markedly affected the process of the final collapse of the USSR on December 26, 1991. Perhaps the collapse of the USSR was inevitable, the Balts and a number of Caucasian republics dreamed of their freedom too steeply. Surely many of our enemies dreamed about the disintegration of Russia, its transformation into a Moscow principality. Russia held out, having learned the lesson that Russian politician Vladislav Surkov recalled.
It is clear that the lessons of history are also being studied in the camps of Russia’s opponents. This means that when calculating the options for victory over our country, the dosage of freedoms for the subjects of the Russian Federation, especially for the republics, where you can always find fresh nationalists and extremists, are inevitably taken into account.
It is also clear that it is in the United States that the strategy and tactics of propaganda techniques and maneuvers are being actively developed, where you can always beat and tint “this sweet word is freedom”, throw it into the enemy’s camp. At the same time, of course, forgetting that their own country has long been suffocating from the lack of its freedoms, lack of injections of truth, unity and faith.
Thank God, at the present time Russia has appeared before the whole world as a confident and strong state, a balanced assessment of its place in the world, able to resist and defend itself in any sphere of life – political, economic, military, medical. But it is always necessary to remember about the possible poisonous overdoses of the most varied, secret and explicit, injections into any of these areas. Free to remember, without any overdose.
Dmitry Ledovskoy, RenTV