An Appeal to the Russian Opposition

The Russian writer and philosopher Michael Weller has addressed the opposition.

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I am addressing the Russian opposition intelligentsia.
I am addressing the Nobel Prize winner Dmitry Muratov, with whom I have sat at the same table in his editorial office many times.
I am addressing the brilliant chess player, world champion Garry Kasparov.
I am addressing Michael Khodorkovsky.
I am addressing Andrei Piontkovsky, a brilliant publicist.

I would like to briefly remind you of something.

You, who lived the political life in Moscow.
It was you, in 1991, after the "GKChP" putsch, who helped Yeltsin pull the rug out from under Gorbachov's feet.
Yeltsin did everything to nullify and disavow Gorbachov.
And the entire intelligentsia supported him.
And all sympathies and my sympathies were on his side.
And no one thought what would come of it.
And then came 1992.
And the entire intelligentsia supported the reforms of the reformers Gaidar and Chubais, not understanding that then corruption, banditry, and the power of the special services are laid in the framework of the future state.
And when in 1993, the Parliament was shot, the intelligentsia welcomed the shooting of the Parliament, not understanding that this is the shot democracy and their future.
When in 1993, a new Constitution was adopted, this was the legislative consolidation of the end of democracy.
And when in 1996, pseudo-elections elected the sick alcoholic Yeltsin with his 3% support, the power of the democrats, democracy ended.
When in 1999, Operation "Successor" was carried out to appoint Putin, Yeltsin continued to enjoy the support of the intelligentsia, who still did not understand anything.
When the state, to the creation of which the intelligentsia had a strong hand, because its influence on the brains of the thinking part of the people was always quite large, and when this state pulled this intelligentsia out and slammed it against the wall, this intelligentsia found itself outside of Russia.

And now, I ask this question.
Why are you helping in every way to build socialism throughout the world?
Do you understand that you are helping to build socialism throughout the world with your activities, your speeches, the propaganda of your convictions?
The very socialism that you so loudly cursed in the 1980s, the very socialism that you so loudly and angrily disown.
And now, you are helping to build socialism in a state that is the central pillar, the support of our Euro-Atlantic civilization, in the USA.
It should be clear to everyone by now that the calls of the democrats to regulate prices, to equalize all these minorities and raise them to the top, this is all the same socialism in its modern form.
Today, Socialism is built under the brand of "just society" on the basis of racial, national, religious, sexual minorities.
Perhaps you have forgotten that socialism always ends in dictatorship and very quickly.
Because a planned economy requires a centralized state.
At the head of a centralized state are people who dictate everything.
Now, they dictate.
They have already dictated.
We can say goodbye to freedom of speech.
You remember how "wonderful Freedom of Speech" was in the Soviet Union.
Not everyone has forgotten the "GULAG Archipelago" yet.
This is "Freedom of Speech" when a person is thrown out of work and excluded from society for his careless words.
"Freedom" when parents can be jailed for interfering in the lives of their children who, under the influence of propaganda, have chosen to change their gender.
And here you are faced with this pseudo-democracy, in which, in Oklahoma alone, the commission found 450,000 false names on the voter lists.
Because Socialism is always a lie, and it stops at nothing for its Victory.
And you work for it.
That is, the Democratic Party of the United States has turned into a deep state that is openly seizing power.
And you are helping this.
If anyone still has reason, honor and conscience, come to their senses!
What are you doing?
Do you really think that Trump is an enemy of democracy?
Maybe you will tell me what was prohibited under Trump?
What restrictions were established?
Maybe you will tell me what law was violated under Trump?
Maybe you will tell me under whom the Russian-Ukrainian war began - under the Democrat Obama or under Trump?
Under whom the military actions in Ukraine practically ceased - under Biden or under Trump?
Perhaps you will recall the refusal to admit Ukraine to NATO in 2008 at the Bucharest summit, when the US had already agreed.
Social Democrat Angela Merkel forbade Ukraine from being admitted.
Does anyone else need to be told that Angela Merkel could not help but be an agent of the Stasi and the KGB?
Or are your brains working in a completely different, false direction?

Here is the whole question: Do you understand that you objectively contributed to the destruction of democratic Russia, whose love you swore, and now you are contributing to the destruction of democracy in the entire Western world?
That is all I wanted to say.
Because now the "edge of time" has arrived.
Now events will very quickly become irreversible.
The "bifurcation" point is approaching too quickly.
And there may never be a turn back.
Please think about what you are doing.

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