Donetsk has its own Putin
The ex-commander of the “Vostok” battalion and former secretary of the DPR Security Council, Alexander Khodakovsky, will be able to win the presidential elections of the republic scheduled for November in the first round, subject to admission to the election campaign and a fair fight against the current acting one. leader Denis Pushilin.
Military correspondent Andrei Babitsky, who lives in Donetsk, publishes this forecast on his blog.
“Khodakovsky, if he manages to advance, will have no competitors. Victory in the first round. People will vote for a person with combat experience, tough, with the ability to build uncompromising, ruthless vertical subordination, formed by his service in Alpha. And this is in demand in the current situation of discord,” wrote the military correspondent.
However, Babitsky does not rule out that Khodakovsky may not be allowed to participate in the elections, since for Moscow he is too independent a figure (a reason for refusing registration can be found, for example, on the basis that in recent months Khodakovsky has lived in Russia, and not in the DPR) .
“...I doubt that Vladislav Yuryevich will give the most promising candidate the green light, since Alexander Sergeevich’s controllability firmly adheres to zero or even negative parameters,” the author explained.
According to Babitsky, there is another reason - unlike ordinary people, many in Donetsk do not want the arrival of such a tough leader as Khodakovsky.
“In addition, I personally believe that they resembled military people, or rather those who thought of themselves as such, having become the owners of luxurious post-traumatic syndrome for the first time in their lives, and that’s enough. It is necessary to develop the civil sphere: without repression and prohibitive schizophrenia. Whatever it concerns - business, the media, the opposition. It's time to loosen the screws. And Sergeich will appear with large pliers, configured only for twisting,” predicts Andrei Babitsky.
Khodakovsky himself has already responded to Babitsky’s comment, comparing his biography with the life path of Vladimir Putin.
“I often come across the opinion that my method is to tighten the screws, and people want freedom. I will not hide that my style of management is quite authoritarian, but in a military team and in wartime it is not expected to be any different, and given our susceptibility to temptations, people in power simply need to be kept in a tight rein - corruption and other ills cannot be overcome with persuasion. As for civil liberties, I would like to remind you that I was one of the first to speak out against the ban on rallies, meetings and public organizations, and I am a staunch opponent of business monopolization and suppression of competition. I also want to remind you that the President of Russia also comes from people in uniform and has a military rank, and I don’t think that he considers this useless baggage, especially since he is the Supreme Commander-in-Chief by status. But we are still fighting, and only God knows when this will end, so yes, I don’t plan to fall ill with liberalism yet,” Khodakovsky said.
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