Russia's many internal and external enemies

From aliens to fifth columns in the ‘Novaja Gazeta’ artist Petr Sarukhanov has tried to draw the whole picture of the ‘enemies of holy Russia’, composing a list that seems to be updated non-stop. As Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov explained, ‘the special military operation has recompacted our society, allowing us to purify it’.

Moscow (AsiaNews) - The well-known artist and publicist of Novaja Gazeta, Petr Sarukhanov, has tried to describe the whole picture of the ‘enemies of holy Russia’ inside and outside the country, composing a list that seems to update non-stop, in ‘Russia encircled by Aliens’.

One remembers the ‘Satanist’ West, Jews ‘in the aircraft turbine’, gypsy nomads, migrants from Asia, Caucasians, Anglosaksy, Lgbt exponents, supporters of the child-free ideology, and now quadrobers, animalised human beings, have also been added.

Not to mention political opponents and all those who are not in full agreement with the Kremlin's line, and according to Patriarch Kirill, even the ‘gawkers and do-nothings’ who hide from the exigencies of war, all characters for whom ‘sanitary measures’ of correction should be reserved.

The big enemies are of course NATO, the US, the EU and all those who stand on the front line on the side of the Ukrainian ucro-Nazis. At home there are many inoagenty who work for them, and participate in the activities of the ‘undesirable organisations’. In addition to current dissidents, Sarukhanov notes that ‘dissidents from the Soviet period and victims of the Stalinist period have also become enemies again’.

The Orthodox Church condemns the ‘servants of the dark forces of this time’ who indulge in the ‘spirit of the Antichrist’, those who celebrate Halloween, perhaps by adding pagan deities from pre-Christian Rus', radical Muslim women who wear the hijab, to “destructive liberals”.

A fierce fight must be waged against the internal enemies, the Fifth Columns or National-Traditors as Vladimir Putin calls them, the Natsional-Predators. Laws are multiplied to ban any manifestation of hostility, lists are made like those proposed by the Duma's deputy speaker, Anna Kuznetsova, to finalise the ‘law of laws’, that of the ‘prohibition of everything’, and two large tomes of material have already been collected for this.

On the religious and spiritual level, recalling the lists of the philosopher and diplomat Joseph De Maistre in the early 19th century, ambassador to Russia of the Kingdom of Sardinia, they condemn ‘Jansenists, deists, atheists, Freemasons, Jews, up to Protestants and Catholics’, especially those of the Byzantine rite linked to the Ukrainians.

As far as possible, ‘independent scholars, democrats, Jacobins, liberals, utilitarians, anti-clericals, egalitarians, libertarians, journalists, intellectuals, all those who believe in the freedom of the individual, reformers who call for common sense and individual reason’ must be eliminated.

Sarukhanov reminds us that ‘every authoritarian regime needs enemies, otherwise it would lose meaning in its model of political construction.

There are class or race groups that do not fit into the accepted norms, such as the gypsies and the Jews, but also people with mental illnesses, the lišentsy, as those who were deprived of the right to vote because they did not belong to the dominant class of the proletariat were called in the early days of the USSR, then the bourgeoisie, the uklonisty of right and left, i.e. the ‘renunciants’ of military conscription or political directives, another term from the Soviet past that has come back into vogue; then the worst were the Trotskyists, today the navalnists.

As Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov explained, ‘the special military operation has recompacted our society, allowing us to cleanse it of all those who do not feel part of the history and culture of Russia and the Russian World’.

The artist-writer concludes by stating that ‘instead of the target of inflation, which is soaring due to rising prices, we have the target of galloping hatred, instead of butter and eggs we wage holy war against the aliens, those Satanists who ate all the butter and broke all the eggs’.

Without the continuous load of hatred ‘Putin's system wobbles, it must continually relaunch itself in an endless war, with no positive goals, only negative ones, destroying all enemies’.

As the Orthodox oligarch Konstantin Malofeev proclaimed at the meetings of the Universal Russian People's Council, ‘We Russians are the victorious people, we are God's people, and if God is with us, who will be against us’? That is why new enemies must always be found, for fear of losing God's help.