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Radical Resistance from Russia to Invasion of Ukraine: Part 2

The second issue of the regular survey from the frontline media group in Kharkov. Previous material about it see here. To support them in restoration of the city social fabric please visit this page.
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New attacks on military recruitment offices are taking place in Russia. Оn March 2, an unknown person damaged the front door of such a building in Voronezh by fire from a Molotov cocktail and disappeared. This attack is unclaimed, while the statement we published last time about someone's unwillingness to see his classmates and friends on the lists of those killed or captured in fact came from the Moscow region: 21-year-old local resident Kirill оn the night of February 28 set fire to the military commissariat in Lukhovitsy. After that, he got rid of his phone and did not get in touch with his relatives. Only on March 8 he was detained at the border of Belarus and Lithuania. The arsonist was urgently extradited, taken to the Lukhovitsy cop station. Kirill explained that he intended to go to Ukraine. A criminal case was initiated under the article of the Russian Criminal Code about “vandalism”. On March 13, early in the morning, he asked to go to the toilet. The handcuffs were removed from and after the toilet Kirill was escorted to the office of the criminal investigation department. From there, taking advantage of the hitch of the employees, the guy jumped out the window and ran away. He managed to climb over a three-meter fence with a mesh netting and head towards the M5 highway. Then traces of the fugitive were found in the forest in the direction of Kolomna.

On March 12, cops reported another arson attack. According to investigators, a 25-year-old store clerk in the Sverdlovsk region, protesting against sending conscripts to Ukraine, threw three Molotovs at the door of the military commissariat on Revolutionary street at about 5 a.m. (the name of the settlement is not mentioned, probably Berezovsky is meant). Unfortunately, the arsonist was detained and he is charged with attempted murder, since there was a watchman in the building at that time. The watchman was not hurt. Generally, at least three fire attacks on the centers of cannon fodder gathering for Putler military!

In Belarus, two residents of Mozyr are suspected of preparing the destruction of Russian military equipment, which is now on the territory of the republic and is on its way to Ukraine. According to the investigation, one of the detainees is 34 y/o, the other is 10 years older. The defendants met in 2020 at unsanctioned mass events in Mozyr. Both have families, are raising children and have no criminal records. For the arson they prepared ten Molotov cocktails. In addition, during the search they seized ingredients for incendiary mixture, glass bottles, baseball bats, air gun and other items “indicative of the suspects’ criminal intentions”. The suspects are detained. According to the information available to the investigation, they are also involved in the drawing of “cynical inscriptions” and images on road infrastructure. Unfortunately, we still know nothing about the detained, not even their names.

In Moscow, during anti-war protests on March 6, two men were also detained. The security forces claim that these citizens were carrying explosives (look like a Molotov cocktail and components of an improvised bomb). There are no other details.

On the same day, an effigy in the uniform of a Russian soldier was burned at a similar rally in St. Petersburg. According to the police, Igor Maltsev and Sofya Semenova "grossly violated public order and showed obvious disrespect for society" by this action, a criminal case was started on "group hooliganism based on political and ideological hatred". The first of them was arrested for two months, the second was banned from certain acts.


From other hand, it is possible that events may take an unexpected turn: Center for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine yesterday warned that the Russian special services are planning a series of violent anti-war provocations and giving ethnic Ukrainian coloring to the unrests due to the deteriorating living conditions in the RF. In their opinion, the goal is "to consolidate Russian society around supporting the war with Ukraine, explain to Russian citizens the inevitability of war with Ukraine and the need to exterminate Ukrainians". Will see how true these words are...
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I just saw that she pre recorded a video, like you might leave a note if you knew you were going away for a long time. She says she’s ashamed for having worked inside the propaganda machine and she says stand up they can’t put us all in prison.
 
A translation of an audio recording from inside a Russian police station:

‘We’ve been fucking told by Putin to fuck them the fuck up’. Transcript of a recording of a torture of an anti-war activist detained by Russian police — DOXA News

Yesterday Alexandra Kaluzhskih [Александра Калужских] has been arrested at an anti-war protest in Moscow, and, alongside other detainees, has been taken to B...
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If anyone wants to listen to the original audio themselves, it's here - obviously a heavy content warning applies:
 
hitmouse said:
A translation of an audio recording from inside a Russian police station:

‘We’ve been fucking told by Putin to fuck them the fuck up’. Transcript of a recording of a torture of an anti-war activist detained by Russian police — DOXA News

Yesterday Alexandra Kaluzhskih [Александра Калужских] has been arrested at an anti-war protest in Moscow, and, alongside other detainees, has been taken to B...
news.doxajournal.ru news.doxajournal.ru

If anyone wants to listen to the original audio themselves, it's here - obviously a heavy content warning applies:
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"Fucking hell. But to be honest, my dad hit me harder."

The balls on her :eek:
 
wemakeyousoundb said:
She has now appeared in court with a lesser charge then expected so risking a fine, community servioce or 10 days in jail.

On the Radio 4 news earlier they were reporting that a major anchor on another Kremlin TV channel has announced she had resigned after she had left the country.
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Speculation on BBC news just now that she may have been spared a heavier sentence because she's a mother, and women are often spared jail time because they're expected to care for their kids.
 
wemakeyousoundb said:
She has now appeared in court with a lesser charge then expected so risking a fine, community servioce or 10 days in jail.

On the Radio 4 news earlier they were reporting that a major anchor on another Kremlin TV channel has announced she had resigned after she had left the country.
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the working conditions of russian journalists have been detoriating for quite some time, & a lot of them obs thinks 'fuck it, at least i'll go out with a bang'

pen moscow, founded in -89, issued this statement 24 feb, published on their homepage & pen international, but has since been taken down, google links are dead, but can still be found on other sites. instead the only thing published since the invasion is a short piece from 8 march condemning the blocking of russian media...

this article from 2017 about leading members quitting the club & comparing it with the soviet era 'writers union' is worth a read.

the noose has been tightening even more since then.
 
Crossposting this event on Thursday here:

Global Solidarity: Against the states and the militarization of the planet // Thursday 17th March

solidarityagainstinvasion.noblogs.org
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Translation of a recent Autonomous Action podcast here:
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The Kremlin's fatal miscalculation: «Trends of order and chaos», episode 44 (March 6)

Hi, it's Sunday and you are listening to our podcast «Trends of order and chaos». This is episode 44. Here are the main events of the past week: the week of the war. Listen on SoundCloud Download as an audio file The Worst-Case Scenario The beginning of a full-scale invasion of Ukraine came as a...
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And a few of their images (the main text in most of them reads Antiwar Action, the other one says "denazify yourself"):
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JimW said:
Yeah, it seemed from context that it is happening ad hoc. Chilling.
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We would do well to remember that it didn't have to be like this. The Russia of today could have been somewhat different had the country not been given over to free-market carpetbaggers, at the behest of western advisors, at the end of Perestroika.

It was always going to end (?) badly from that point on, as a minority of those of us who spent time there could see.
 
RD2003 said:
We would do well to remember that it didn't have to be like this. The Russia of today could have been somewhat different had the country not been given over to free-market carpetbaggers, at the behest of western advisors, at the end of Perestroika.

It was always going to end (?) badly from that point on, as a minority of those of us who spent time there could see.
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I don’t think the blame for that can be solely pointed at the ‘free market’ west - a lot of the oligarchy just grew out of existing networks of gangsterism and corruption, home grown carpetbaggers. Not like their society got turned over by the world bank, looted by foreign petrochemical or mineral corporations or anything like that as has befallen other countries.

I don’t really buy the concept that ‘we’ have a huge amount of ownership of the current problems. Definitely could have engaged more at stages - better outcomes were available, but post-cold war it wasn’t like dealing with a state after a conventional war where things can be rebuilt from scratch in the image of the victor, many of the power structures remained after the fall of communism and would not be overcome by an external western liberal ‘rules based’ order. The people were never really empowered by democracy because it was owned from the outset (just a more extreme version of how many of our societies have become over the last four decades or so).
 
Dogsauce said:
I don’t think the blame for that can be solely pointed at the ‘free market’ west - a lot of the oligarchy just grew out of existing networks of gangsterism and corruption, home grown carpetbaggers. Not like their society got turned over by the world bank, looted by foreign petrochemical or mineral corporations or anything like that as has befallen other countries.

I don’t really buy the concept that ‘we’ have a huge amount of ownership of the current problems. Definitely could have engaged more at stages - better outcomes were available, but post-cold war it wasn’t like dealing with a state after a conventional war where things can be rebuilt from scratch in the image of the victor, many of the power structures remained after the fall of communism and would not be overcome by an external western liberal ‘rules based’ order. The people were never really empowered by democracy because it was owned from the outset (just a more extreme version of how many of our societies have become over the last four decades or so).
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You are right in the main, But post-Soviet Russia, and certain of the other ex-Soviet states, Ukraine included, became a playground for western business, and Russia had a government that lapped it up. It was clear, however, by 1993 when Yeltsin resorted to shellling his own parliament building due to his inabiltilty to control what went on inside it, that the writing was on the wall. His victory in '96 was largely on the back of western and Russian oligarch funding, but an indication of Russia's future came immediately after the 1993 events, when elections went against him, in favour of nationalists and the (also nationalistic) CP, and the accompanying referendum, at first sight contradictarily, gave him, and hence any successor, increased presidential powers. It all indicated that, in a few short years, much of the population had had enough of impoverishment and the false promises of the 'market economy,' and enough of the so-called New Russians and oligarchs.

The real history of those years, during which some western commentators were predicting a lot worse than Putin turned out to be until relatively recently, is probably still being written. The ruthlessness of the elite of the time easily matched anything Putin could come up with.
 
Don't shoot the messenger.

The Guardian’s Moscow correspondents Andrew Roth and Pjotr Sauer wrote about why public support for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is still high, despite hopes from the West that it is waning:

There have been efforts from abroad to encourage the Russian people to protest against the war. Former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger last week released a nine-minute video in which he recalled his admiration for the Soviet weightlifter Yuri Vlasov and his father’s shame at fighting for the Nazi army at Leningrad. “This is not the Russian people’s war,” he said in an appeal to ordinary Russians.

But others in Russia say it is. Many supporters cite the eight-year-old war between Ukraine and Russian proxy forces in Donbas, using words such as genocide and comparisons to the second world war to justify the invasion.

As one former diplomat wrote in a WhatsApp message, he looks forward to Russia holding a “Nuremberg 2.0” in Ukraine after the war. “Aren’t you sad for the children killed in Donbas?” Elizaveta from Moscow shot back when asked about her views on the invasion. “Why don’t you write about them instead?”

Russian society is deeply polarised between supporters and opponents of the Kremlin. Those camps have carried this division over into support for and opposition to the war, experts said. Even simple choices such as whether to call the conflict a “war” or the state-sanctioned “military operation” carry political meaning.

“We are seeing that society is divided by a majority that broadly supports the war and a minority that is against it,” said Sergei Belanovsky, a sociologist. “These two groups live in different worlds, and cannot convince each other that their viewpoint is the right one.”

According to the state-run Russian Public Opinion Research Center, 71% of Russians “support Russia’s decision to hold a special military operation in Ukraine”. Valery Fyodorov, head of the polling centre, said that new data to be published by the centre this week would show an increase in support for the “military operation”.
 


Here is a rough translation of the statement from the anarchist publishing cooperative Radical Theory and Practice:

"The other day, our friend, who created covers for many of our books, signed himself with the pseudonym Pavel Korshunov, committed suicide. He left Russia a few years ago, fleeing repression and torture, ended up in Ukraine, unsuccessfully tried to get asylum there and was forced to flee to Poland after the start of the war. The realization of the beginning of a new legalization process and the previous negative experience turned out to be unbearable for him.

"There is a lot of bitterness and anger in us right now. We hate the state for forcing people into hiding under the threat of torture and prison. We hate the state because it breaks the psyche of our comrades. We hate the state because it has created borders that are not easy for many of us to cross. For the fact that within these boundaries we are obliged to spend our efforts on obtaining documents, instead of just living and creating. Because it starts a war, playing with our lives and destinies.

"Please live. Don't let the state finish us off."
 
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