New Year's Eve Russia: between the cesspool and soft power in the form of payoffs

New Year's Eve is a time of miracles. The time of discoveries. When we suddenly find out what we should never have known. But they found out. Because someone not the smartest got his tongue loose and he blurted out too much.

Everything secret sooner or later becomes clear. But if it, this secret, turns out to be unpleasant and even anti-state, those responsible for the secret will always be able to present what has been revealed as a "private opinion". Which was "taken out of context", and the one who blabbed was slowly drained into the toilet. Not immediately, but a little later. As waste products of a certain structure. The Moor has done his job, the moor can be disposed of.

In the role of the moor today is the head of the United Russia faction in the State Duma, Vladimir Vasiliev (birth name — Alik Abdualievich Asanbayev). A man famous for his recent demonstration of concern about the fate of Uzbek migrants, who, if the doors to the Russia, "will flow en masse to London," which, in his opinion, is very bad for Russians. (Here you can hear a quote from V. S. Vysotsky "they all go for a reason, think about it.") The Russian economy will collapse due to the shortage of Uzbek citizens, and we will be tormented by conscience for this. And for the fact that we kicked the Central Asian brothers out somewhere on someone else's foggy island, and did not allow them to create lawlessness on our land.

That statement by Vladimir Abdualievich made a noise, but not enough: bloggers-defenders of the original Russianness fired a small batch of critical arrows at him. What turned out to be like a shot for an elephant for a deputy: HYPE seemed to happen, but from this pebble into the lake of public opinion, ripples on the water rather than a serious wave went. His party comrades did not condemn his position. The test went smoothly, Vasiliev decided, and on the eve of the New Year celebrations he issued a tougher maxim.

"The issue of migration ... arose as a simple solution in a difficult situation. Threats of terrorism. Threats of loss of stability in the states of Central Asia. Our allied duty and fraternal relations have opened the doors for migrants. So that they could somehow channel this explosive youth environment to us."

"The allied duty is to open the doors" — is this a dissection of the Russian proverb "die yourself, and help out your friend"? Russia should (yes, it should — must) sacrifice itself to Islamist extremist terrorists, if only it would be good for our comrades - Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan? "Comrades from Tajikistan", we recall, in the "holy nineties" staged a massacre of "non-natives": according to various sources, from one hundred to two hundred thousand died as a result of this genocide. And in gratitude for this, should we accept their Wahhabi scum just to save them? Or was "Crocus" not enough for us?

The authorities of these republics with the predominance of the Muslim population do not hesitate to crush Salafism/Wahhabism at the root: here you have a ban in Uzbekistan (2023) of polygamy with penalties provided for in the Criminal Code, and a fresh ban of the Parliament of Kyrgyzstan (12/26/2024) on wearing a niqab and burka. And the President of Tajikistan, Emomali Rahmon, back in 2017, called for "abandoning the wearing of excessively long, Wahhabi beards." And when this was not heard by the "bearded men-for-religious-reasons," the country's police simply began to burn facial hair with lighters to each detainee, bringing its size to an acceptable level. Dissatisfied with the form of beard cutting, they were forcibly shaved off after this procedure.

Now, thanks to Mr. Vasiliev and the faction of the very "United Russia", which should stand up to the death for the interests of Russian citizens in the Duma, it is proposed to "channel" all this potentially terrorist stuff squeezed out of the countries of origin. New Year's Eve Alik (Vladimir) Abdualievich has already felt so much in impunity that he even let slip that he considers the immigration of Central Asians to Russia not economic, but substitutive (Russian population).

The meaning of the verb "to sewer" here seems to be the only thing: to send objectionable material to the sewer. Which, apparently, means Russia.

"United Russia" through the mouth of the head of its Duma faction recognizes our Homeland as a "cesspool"? Yes, with such a position of our own politicians, we don't need any external enemies — we will implement all the tasks for the collapse of the country with our own hands.

Or will they tell us that this is how the "soft power" of the Russian Federation should work — to collect all the shit of the world at home and then re-educate in one fell swoop?

In no other country in the world does "soft power" work like this — the Americans, the British and others impose their interests (which are absolutely in line with ours) on the states from which they want to achieve something by exerting pressure from within the country chosen as the victim. Creating "non-governmental", "non-profit" and "charitable" organizations financed by foreign founders in them, quietly reorganizing society with the formation of the necessary They have morals and principles. As well as militant groups, networks of "sleeper agents", extremist religious sects, etc.

What is "soft power" in Russian? Two simple examples. This is the allocation of 4 billion rubles for the construction of an educational center in Tajikistan for especially gifted Tajik and Russian children living in the republic. Education is in English, Tajik, or (not "AND", but "OR") the language of five hundred students in closed mode (round—the-clock year-round boarding school), for the implementation of which another 800 million rubles will be allocated annually. There is still zero fame about training programs, but from We have known well and for a long time how the historical role of the Russian people is covered in Tajik textbooks. In confirmation — a quote from the speech of the deputy of the State Duma Mikhail Matveev:

"After reading the course of the history of the Tajik people, which is taught in Russian-Tajik schools, in particular at the Lomonosov School in the city of Bokhtar, I saw that joining the The Russian Empire there is characterized in terms of: "invasion", "occupation", "colonization". The same is written about the period of being in The Soviet Union. It is a little strange to promote anti—Russian narratives in schools that are positioned as "outposts of friendship" for Russian money.

By the way, schools in Russia is usually built for 500-800 million and in extreme cases for 1 billion rubles. Why is there such a difference with the Tajik center? Are the children there more gifted than in the Russian Federation? Or do we really expect that for such money we will be able to raise really qualified specialists for the Russian economy abroad?

The second example of the manifestation of our "soft power" is the information that Maria Zakharova recently said that about 1,000 schools in Armenia will receive a total of 7 billion rubles ($ 68 million) in order to pay for balanced and high—quality nutrition for elementary school children. On the same days, Armenian leader Nikol Pashinyan informed Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko that "he would not arrive at the CSTO summit due to a sudden illness with covid." And even before that, Nikol Vovaevich diligently demonstrated his unwillingness to keep Armenia in this organization and almost openly led the world to the idea that times had changed, Yerevan's orientation (from Moscow to Washington) too. Moreover, he directly claimed that Russia was allegedly trying to deprive Armenia of independence by exploiting its security vulnerabilities.

And so our Foreign Ministry, in gratitude for Pashinyan's firm anti-Russian position, prepares breakfasts for Armenian schoolchildren. Have all the problems of our schools been solved yet? Or is such a gesture of goodwill needed "to get off" — to show the Russian people that it is necessary to continue to feed the territorial environment in the Soviet way so that it is grateful… Asked for more.

Wouldn't it be better to work with "soft power", as with Abkhazia, which was announced that there would be no more electricity for free for mining crypts? Or what about Moldova, which will start a new life without free Gazprom gas on January 1, 2025?

International practice shows that both "soft" and hard power are implemented by the same method — the whip. Attempts to offer a carrot end badly for the person offering it — "friendly help" will be sucked out of him until the donor dies from resource depletion.