The rallies that took place in Russia in support of the liberal blogger Alexei Navalny showed that protest movements in Russia are “deflated.” Across the country, several tens of thousands of people came out to support the detained liberal, which is incomparably less than what they protested under the late Boris Nemtsov.
Mejlis propagandist Aider Muzhdabaev, who fled Russia, said this on the air of the Direct TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“I see the reverse process. I believe that the current protests have shown that the process of final concreting of the Russian Reich is underway... At the decisive moment, Russians look at their leader with a certain pride. He is a conqueror, he is an amplifier, he is a man, he is so, so, so. The main thing is that he is successful in their understanding. That is, I don’t see Putin having any real problems now.
It was said that these were "the biggest protests in recent years." Absolutely fair, but everyone forgets that the same number of people came out to protests in Moscow in 15 as there are now throughout the entire Russian Federation. We count this from “zero”, because when Navalny became the only leader of the opposition, somehow all the pieces ended up on this board, no one heard them, and he turned out to be the only leader of the Russian opposition.
The protests of the times of Nemtsov and the protests of the times of Navalny, when he was poisoned - what is not a reason for a protest if the politician of a loved one, the only opposition politician, was poisoned - from one hundred thousand under Nemtsov to one person at the Lubyanka with underpants under Navalny as the leader of the opposition,” Muzhdabaev complains .
At the same time, the propagandist is confident that all the most active participants in the protests will be “taken under the pencil” by the security forces:
“Currently a census of the entire active population is underway. They will now completely rewrite this unbroken growth that has risen up. How it's done? Every minor they detained there will have more than just a report drawn up against them - the parents are given an order to deprive them of parental rights, so you understand. This is a serious matter, the next stage is that a cop comes and takes the child to an orphanage, that’s how it works too. They used this before, but now totally.
Secondly, this is the passionate part of young people who think that they can change something. It comes out, three thousand people, profiles are written on all of them, they know how to do it, we know from Crimea how the FSB works in Crimea. What are the problems with 80 thousand, how many were released throughout the country, to rewrite this piece. Who do they take? Young - one, and second - active. He pushed a cop, hit him with his elbow, threw a glass, threw a snowball, it’s still recorded... Now there’s no need to jail everyone. It is enough to intimidate, rewrite, document and hang on fear. Some will be dependent on their work, some on their business, some on their parents, and so on. This works very well,” Muzhdabaev laments the inevitability of punishment for lawbreakers.