Purges in the Ministry of Defense as of 08/05/2024:✍️
1. Minister of Defense General of the Army Sergei Shoigu - removed from office;
2. First Deputy Minister of Defense Ruslan Tsalikov - removed from office;
3. Deputy Minister of Defense Timur Ivanov (construction) - arrested ;
4. Deputy Minister of Defense Colonel General Yuri Sadovenko (Department of Defense apparatus) - removed from office;
5. Deputy Minister of Defense Tatyana Shevtsova (financial support) - removed from office;
6. Deputy Minister of Defense General of the Army (retired) Nikolai Pankov (State Secretary) - removed from office;
7. Deputy Minister of Defense General of the Army Pavel Popov (innovative research) - removed from office;
8. Former Deputy Minister of Defense General of the Army Dmitry Bulgakov (logistics) - arrested;
9. Chief of the Main Personnel Directorate Lieutenant General Yuri Kuznetsov - arrested ;
10. Chief of the Main Communications Directorate Lieutenant General Vadim Shamarin - arrested ;
11. Head of the Department for Providing State Defense Orders Vladimir Verteletsky - arrested ;
12. Press Secretary of the Ministry of Defense Rossiyana Markovskaya - removed from her post;
13. Assistant to the Minister of Defense, Lieutenant General Alexander Burachenok - removed from her post;
14. General Director of the Military Construction Company Andrei Belkov - arrested;
15. Director of the Department of Property Relations Mikhail Sapunov - removed from her post;
16. General Director of Voentorg Vladimir Pavlov - arrested;
17. Director of the Patriot Park Vyacheslav Akhmedov - arrested;
18. Deputy Head of the Main Directorate for Innovative Development, Major General Vladimir Shesterov - arrested .
You can't be deceived forever. Constant discrepancies between the expected (based on your own stereotypes ) and the actual (which doesn't fit into the stereotypes even under pressure) lead a person to a crisis similar to neurosis: a state of unbearable anxiety, continuous frustration, constant emotional tension, all of which is expressed in the accumulation of anger and aggression, which are difficult to contain.
Since most people in our society are in a state of such a crisis, “social” ways of dealing with it are extremely difficult - people literally have no one to share their emotions with.
Eventually, something like catharsis occurs: the system of ideas about the world and stereotypes that determine perception is suddenly rebuilt - in such a way that all traumatic inconsistencies disappear. Anger and aggression spill out onto one's own previous ideas about the world and their bearers. “Insight” occurs.
Conditional “patriots” suddenly realize that:
➖Russia as a great power has long been destroyed;
➖Russia has not been sovereign for a long time, it is more like a colony: the ability to decide or produce anything independently has been eliminated;
➖freedom and independence can only be remembered;
➖a great nation does not exist as a single whole - it is divided by countless walls of misunderstanding: property, national, religious, regional and - most importantly - it is perceived by those in power as a serf, without rights;
➖unity and cohesion of the people is impossible because there is no basis for them;
➖the split in the elites paralyzes any possibilities for qualitative change in the system;
➖Russia, in the person of the current government, cannot win in the NWO and does not want to win - those in power only want to agree with the hegemon on a colonial “treaty”, which - against the backdrop of demonstrated weakness - will certainly be worse than the previous one;
➖Russia's victory in the SVO is impossible due to the weakness of the management, which cannot be changed, and defeat is impossible, since it will obviously lead to catastrophic consequences.
The so-called “individualists” suddenly realize that:
➖they are not “masters of the world” in which they only need to settle in well, but slaves of some hostile system in which almost all comfortable places are occupied;
➖democracy, legality and human rights are just words, the phenomena themselves do not occur in nature;
➖a meritocratic society is a utopia or fantasy that does not exist anywhere in the world, including Russia;
➖personal abilities, hard work and creativity will not be useful for personal advancement if there is no “connection” or sufficient skill in demonstrating slavish obedience;
➖a golden ticket to the best places in life - kinship with the powers that be or readiness to do anything for the sake of the owner, regardless of personal ethical and aesthetic convictions;
➖”tightening the screws” is a one-way process that stems from the weakness of power and will never reverse itself;
➖Russia's victory or defeat in the SVO will not change the situation in any way, since the growth of tyrannical and inhumane tendencies is happening everywhere and “individualists” are not needed anywhere.
As the awareness of the bankruptcy of their system of perception of the SVO grows, the majority of the Russian population rapidly falls into depression and apathy, tries to fence themselves off from traumatic information and switches to primitive survival practices. It does not matter what these practices are - leaving their own job, “internal emigration”, drunkenness, switching to everyday and family problems or partying “like it's the last time” - the main thing is not to see, not to hear and not to think about the real state of affairs and those inconsistencies between the imaginary and the real that suddenly appeared and are crawling out of all the cracks.
But under this “lid” of protective practices, anger and aggression accumulate - both against themselves and their mistakes, and against those who are “guilty” of these mistakes. And one day this “cauldron” will explode.
But there is also a minority of the population that, as a result of insight and catharsis, understands that “something needs to be done.” What exactly is not very clear, but they will think hard. And maybe by the time the “boiler explodes,” they will come up with something. Or maybe not.
It appears that in addition to 18 people being removed from their military posts, half were also arrested. Perhaps this will not reach the huge level of removal of Soviet officers just before WW2 by Stalin, but it will be interesting to see how many of these people are still alive in 6 months, and how many more have been displaced. Stalin severely damaged his Army’s military capability with his murderous purges. How effective will Putin be this year as he slices and dices?