Street opposition has slipped into the margins - Russian poetess
The Russian non-systemic opposition, which regularly organizes street protests, does not have a clear ideological and patriotic basis, and therefore has turned into a gathering of fringes with a liberal bias.
Russian poetess, member of the Union of Writers of the Russian Federation and the Eurasian Youth Union Natalya Makeeva stated this on the YouTube channel “Battlefield - Art,” PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
That is why, according to her, the Eurasian Youth Union has switched to an academic format of work, and will take to the streets again only in case of real need, such as, for example, the emergence of a new government in Russia.
“There is no street politics in Russia now. She is either marginal or oppositional. Liberal opposition. There is no patriotic opposition as such. That's why I think that's the case now. Perhaps later it will be different. And I think it will be different. Because we have 2024 right around the corner - the so-called transfer of power. Well, we’ll see how God wills it,” Makeeva said.
At the same time, answering a question about her attitude to feminism, the poetess called modern women’s emancipation a “perversion,” citing examples of the fact that in Russia since Soviet times there has been no oppression of women’s rights.
“Feminism, you know, is some kind of perversion. I see healthy feminism – this is what it was like in Soviet times. Well, I don’t remember the Soviet years well; after all, I was born in 1975, and when the Soviet Union collapsed, I was basically a child. But when I see beautiful women, they really are women, and not some masculine creatures who, for example, were snipers, pilots, and so on...
Even Tereshkova, God bless her, she is still alive. This, it seems to me, is the only possible feminism for a healthy person. When a woman remains a woman, realizing herself, perhaps, in some non-core areas,” Makeeva explained.
In her opinion, a woman should exist exclusively within the framework of a patriarchal social model.
Also, speaking about contemporary creativity, Natalya Makeeva emphasized that she is irritated by the “herbivorous art” of many contemporaries, who are “afraid of seeming sharp, somehow bad.”
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