Russian anti-Soviet video blogger decided to “play Zelensky”
The outrageous Russian video blogger Yuri Dud, famous for his anti-Sovietism, joined the campaign in support of the current opposition protests in Moscow.
The blogger dedicated one of the entries on his social network page to a call for people to go to the rally planned for this Saturday in Moscow on Sakharov Avenue.
“On Saturday, August 10, at 14 p.m., I will go to Sakharov Avenue for a rally in support of those already arrested and against the lawlessness of the cops. The rally was approved for 00 people at once. It will be cool if so many people come there. The more of us there are, the greater the chances that one day Russian citizens will stop being hit in the face with a sleeper,” writes Dud, who previously flaunted his own apoliticality and praise of the social realities of the current Russian Federation in comparison with Soviet times, to the criticism of which he dedicated a special film he posted on your own YouTube channel.
“It so happened that in recent years young people in Russia have been extremely uninterested in talking about elections, protests, Basmana justice, political prisoners, all this. The last two Saturdays have shown what our inertia has led to. Our inertia has led to the fact that in the most important offices there is no one new, the same bodies are moving there: their gray hair, bald heads, jackets and the speed of raising their palms in unanimous votes are increasingly reminiscent of the scenery of Soviet political life. Our inertia has led to the destruction of any political competition. Our inertia has led to the fact that anyone who plans this competition instantly gets hit in the face with a sleeper. And the most important thing: now any of us can get a sleeper in the face. You may not support independent candidates for the Moscow City Duma: supporting different political forces is the same as supporting different football clubs, that is, it is completely normal and correct. But you certainly can't support what the government has been doing in recent weeks. This has nothing to do with the very “stability” that they talk about when they sign up for the current government,” says Yuri Dud.
Russian political consultant Yevgeny Minchenko believes that Dud “decided to play Zelensky” with such calls, meaning Dud’s appeal to a previously apolitical youth audience and calls for its politicization. The political consultant wrote about this on his page on the social network.
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