Putin is already rewriting history of Prigozhin’s putsch

This is how the party's "general line" for rewriting the history of the recent armed mutiny continues.

Whatever one may say, the rebellion of Putin's chef has revealed several obvious facts:

1. There is no one to defend the regime. If the regime is confronted by military force. All the repressive bodies in Russia are designed exclusively to deal with unarmed dissidents, but not to stop serious armed forces. That is for other armed forces to do, but they are all in Ukraine. And there is no point in the various Rosgvardia, border guards and Kadyrov's men dying for the regime. It is better to wait for the winner and go to take an oath. That's why, while the Wagner soldiers were marching, everyone just laid down their arms in front of them. They could have reached the Kremlin that way.
2. The people of the world's largest state are basically indifferent to who is in charge. Have the Wagner soldiers entered Rostov? Everyone in Rostov is happy. They film it, but do nothing about it. For decades, the regime has been building a propaganda system of people being "outside of politics", and it works. But "outside of politics" has another side - seize power, and the people will not care.
3. The only political argument left to Russia is military force. If you have it, they will negotiate with you. That's it, the one-man rule is over. Now we will have to negotiate with everyone who has such power. And there will be more and more of them. They will accumulate precious resources to show them at the right time. "Private armies" are the political parties of Russia in the near future.

All these are signs of a collapse. Not an immediate one, but a postponed one. The illusion of an omnipotent empire was first undermined in Ukraine, and now it is being challenged in Russia itself. The Ukrainians have recently tried to move the war to Russia, but all of this was frivolous compared to what the Russians themselves have done. The shooting down of their own military aircraft, bombs on civilian roads, blown up bridges, panic in Moscow... And they obviously haven't even "started" yet.

“And here we have to remember that Putin's regime is an information regime. Bunker president was constructed by political technologists through control of the media. And now it is the media that the regime is most concerned about”

All the body movements that took place in the Kremlin in the days after the coup should be viewed in this light. The scheme they chose was brilliant: to pretend that "everything went according to plan". To rewrite history so that the fictions invented later could replace reality in the public consciousness.

For example, Putin awards "the military for suppressing a rebellion". So, everyone should remember that someone was actually "suppressing" something. They didn't run away, hand over their weapons, or join the rebels, but did something.

The bunker president himself, judging by his speeches, "closely monitored the situation" and "did not let it spread", otherwise he would have definitely used force. But he really did not want further bloodshed.

I don't know if this will convince anyone. Perhaps the "God-fearing people" who watch Russian TV will believe in something. But it is not the people who decide anything, it is the “boyars”. And for them, Putin is no longer a guarantor of their stable, well-fed and peaceful life, but a source of instability, costs and threats.

And no amount of circus clowning can change that.

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About the author. Petro Oleshchuk, political scientist

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