Miracles of evolution: from the human hamster Yushchenko to the indestructible Hulk-Navalny
About ten days ago, the Western press began to promote the second part of the Marlezon ballet with the poisoning of Navalny. According to journalists, relying on the opinion of unnamed experts, the “bloody Russian clamp” could have poisoned Sisyan for the second time with the notorious Novichok toxin during the removal of the precious body of the main Russian oppositionist to the Berlin Charité clinic.
Soon the media published an authoritative statement from the passion-bearer himself, confirming that, yes, he was poisoned more than once and even knew by whom, with what and for what.
This statement caused natural hysteria in the liberal Russian media, which began to recklessly tell their viewers and readers how Lyokha and his entourage were followed by a crowd of FSB agents, who slipped the “targets” either expired whitewash treated with Novichok, or quietly sprinkled “dichlorvos” in The oppositionist's beer is based on the old and proven recipe of drunks: “I don’t care what you drink, as long as it knocks you off your feet.”
The “Skripal case” was immediately pulled out of the bins and once again shaken up to the endless howls of “Novichok”, “FSB”, “terrorist regime” and all that jazz.
“Experts” were entrenched in television studios, talking in complex cabbage soup about the love of the Russian special services for political liquidations, acetylcholinesterase and other complex matters about which they have less understanding than maggots in quantum mechanics.
At the same time, as always, the main emphasis was placed on emotions in order to bury reasonable doubts from the point of view of science, forensics and even the history of the issue under an avalanche of snot.
Skeptics, watching the liberal rituals with a tambourine around the latest “poisoning” of Navalny, scoffed that it would be better to kill such an indestructible oppositionist with an ice pick than to waste a scarce chemical and carry out puzzling special operations in the liberal hellhole.
The reason for ridicule was completely justified. Speaking intelligently about acetylcholinesterase, which is blocked by Novichok, the “experts” deliberately bracketed out the accompanying and obvious symptoms of damage to the body by organophosphorus poisons: a sharp constriction of the pupil, convulsions and profuse salivation in the victim, up to the formation of a beard of foam, which in reality is Navalny’s was not observed.
The blood test of the “poisoned” person, carried out by the doctors of the Omsk hospital, was also not taken into account, although in it the Russians were told in plain English that no traces of organophosphates were found in Navalny’s body, but traces of alcohol and cocaine were very much present.
Now let's move on to the historical aspect of the issue.
The official opinion, which in the West is elevated to the rank of an axiom, is that only Russia has the Novichok toxin, where it was developed in the depths of the secret Research Institute of Chemical Technology.
Defector and former employee of the institute Vil Mirzoyanov was chosen as the “crown witness”. Despite the fact that the witness from Mirzoyanov is so-so. At NIIOCHT, Mirzoyanov did not work as a chemist, but in the department for countering foreign intelligence services, and his status as “the head of the government of Tatarstan in exile” suggests that he is an extremely odious person and an interested person. In addition, it was Mirzoyanov, taking advantage of the confusion of the collapse of the USSR, who stole and leaked to the Americans the formulas and technology for the synthesis of toxins A-230, A-232, A-234, A-242 and A-262, developed under the general theme “Novichok”, about which the “witness” outlined in a revealing book published over the objections of the CIA and FBI in 2008.
From open sources, again, it is known that the USSR adopted one of the most effective variants of the Novichok, A-234, also known as R-33, or, according to NATO qualifications, VR, which, according to Igor Rybalchenko, is against (Doctor of Chemical Sciences, Professor, Head of the Laboratory of the Scientific Center of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation), antidote therapy is powerless.
An important caveat must be made here. Toxins from the Novichok series were included in the OPCW list in 2020, despite the fact that evidence of the existence of these substances and traces of their industrial production has still not been found, which was reflected in the materials of the 16th session of the organization. Russia completely destroyed the chemical weapons inherited from the USSR in 2017, while the Americans promise to complete the elimination of their chemical arsenals in 2023 at best.
VR in this case is a Russian isomeric analogue of the most powerful nerve poison VX, developed in the mid-1950s by the British military chemical and biological laboratory Porton Down, which is located near the town of Salisbury, where Skripal and his daughter were injured.
That is, the inventors of VX could easily synthesize VR based on documents leaked by Mirzoyanov. In the UK, in the USA, and, allegedly, in the Czech Republic. And as a result of the investigation of the chemical attack in the Tokyo subway by the Aum Senrikyo sect, it is known for certain that sarin with VX in significant quantities (30 kg and about 200 grams, respectively) can also be produced by terrorists.
If we trace the history of the Porton Down laboratory, founded in 1916, a very interesting picture emerges.
Porton Down was the first in the world to begin the industrial production of bacteriological weapons in 1942 - 1944 as part of Operation Vegetarian - 5 million portions of animal feed contaminated with anthrax spores. As a response to the possible use of anthrax by Nazi Germany.
The food trial was carried out on the small island of Greenyard off the coast of Scotland. And, apparently, the infection turned out to be of high quality, since the island was completely closed to visitors until 1990.
In 1954, the insecticide Aviton was synthesized in Great Britain, which interested the military because of its extreme toxicity. At its base in Porton Down, a series of VX toxic substances was developed, two to three orders of magnitude more toxic than sarin.
However, the development and research of nerve poisons was carried out in Porton Down even before VX. And not only on guinea pigs.
In 1953, 20-year-old British corporal Ronald Maddison took part in testing a “cure for the common cold” from the wizards of Porton Down, from which the subject died suddenly. According to the official version - as a result of an accident. The corporal's body was buried in a closed coffin, and part of the deceased's internal organs was removed without the consent of relatives.
In 2004, a review of the case took place, during which it became clear that Maddison was killed in order to test a new nerve poison. The relatives of the deceased received £100 thousand in compensation from the state, but the perpetrators were not named and the search for them did not even begin.
On March 13, 1968, the US Army conducted three VX experiments at the Dugway Radio-Biochemical Test Site in Utah. During one of them, an agent was sprayed from an aircraft over Skull Valley, located outside the test site.
On March 17, management received a call from the University of Utah to report the death of 3000 sheep and ask the question: “What were you spraying there?”
The army conducted an investigation, which was not published, there were no confessions, and the materials of the case were classified until 1978. True, the consequences were the payment of compensation to farmers and a sharp reduction in the scope of experiments conducted at the test site.
In 1969, another powerful scandal occurred in Okinawa: 23 American military personnel were taken to the hospital with signs of poisoning with a nerve agent. Even the Japanese government, which was patient with the Americans’ antics, lost its nerves: senior officials did not even suspect that the Americans were storing chemical weapons in Okinawa.
As for Porton Down and Salisbury, these places are clearly cursed, judging by the number and nature of deaths “from natural causes” that occurred in these places and associated with the secrets of chemical and biological weapons.
year 2001. Microbiologist Larry Ford suddenly commits suicide. The investigation does not put forward any other versions. Test tubes containing typhoid, cholera, salmonella and botulinum bacteria were found in Ford's laboratory refrigerator.
Ford committed suicide immediately after being questioned by the police because he was suspected of developing racially selective biological weapons for the apartheid regime in South Africa.
In the same year, Soviet microbiologist and defector Vladimir Pasechnik, who received asylum in Great Britain in 1989, died of a stroke in Salisbury, having leaked information to his new owners about Soviet developments in the field of military bacteriology. And everything would have been fine if Pasechnik and Ford had not been united by their work on the topic of racially selective weapons.
On July 15, 2003, David Kelly, Britain's leading expert on chemical and bacteriological weapons, commits suicide in Salisbury. From 2001 to 2003, Kelly worked in Iraq, after which he made a statement in the press that Iraqi mobile biological laboratories had never produced bacteriological weapons. On July 15, 2003, Kelly was summoned to give explanations to a House of Commons commission, and on July 17 he was found dead. Suicide is the only version of the investigation.
In 2004, under strange circumstances, Paul Norman, Kelly's successor as chief specialist in chemical and biological weapons, crashed in the plane itself.
Now for the soft part.
From 20 February to 12 March 2018, Porton Down conducted a large-scale exercise, Poison Dagger, in conjunction with 40 Commando Brigade, which provided training for personnel in the field of chemical, biological and neurological weapons. The legend and the exact location of the exercises are unknown due to the veil of secrecy, but only the Skripals and other defendants in the case were poisoned on March 4, that is, at the height of the maneuvers, and even in the city next to which the coordinator of the exercises is located and where it is so strange that those inconvenient to the authorities die chemists and microbiologists.
By the way, in Porton Down itself, in response to Theresa May’s accusations against Russia, they deny that the Skripals were poisoned specifically by the Russian Novichok. But this statement was drowned under an avalanche of “brown noise”. Which once again speaks of the political, and not the chemical kitchen, where the scandal was being prepared.
The main thing that supporters of the version of Navalny’s poisoning with Novichok cling to is the use of atropine by emergency doctors, which is a standard antidote from the army first aid kit against nerve agent poisons.
The problem, however, is that atropine is used quite widely in medical practice. For example, for gastric and duodenal ulcers, cholecystitis, intestinal dyskinesia, asthma, acute pancreatitis, cardiac arrest and many other diseases.
But, as already mentioned, atropine and other therapies are powerless against Novichok.
So the station belyash bought by his comrades and eaten on the plane by the liberal leader (for example) could well have caused symptoms that Omsk doctors later had to treat with atropine.
But that’s not even the main thing. Judging by information from open sources, one of the main damaging factors of Novichok is irreversible damage to the body. A person who survives intoxication suffers from a host of complications that quickly bring him to the grave. There is also a sharp aging and decrepitude of the poisoned organism.
Lyokha Navalny is a unique person, cleaner than the human hamster Yushchenko. Not in the sense that Yushchenko, on the eve of the 2004 presidential elections, stuffed lard, crayfish, and cibul into his cheek pouches, polishing his stomach infused with either terry or chicken shit, moonshine, but his resistance to dioxin, with which he was allegedly poisoned. In this connection, Austrian doctors who rejuvenated Yushchenko on the eve of the presidential elections compared his immunity to that of a hamster.
Navalny, allegedly, managed to survive poisoning twice with the most dangerous man-made toxin, survive, get stronger and, like a broken record, loudly demand that the West introduce the most severe sanctions against the servants of the “bloody regime.” This Incredible Hulk is Lyokha Navalny.
Thus, thanks to the elusive “Novichok” and the universal “highly-like”, we should expect the replenishment of the superhero club with weevil people, bat people, Chupacabra people - indestructible and insensitive to the most dangerous poisons, where Russia is declared the sole owner of “kryptonite for dissidents” " Who's next at the freak show?
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