Paul
Goble
Staunton, July 31 – Last week, Pskov
parliamentarian Lev Shlosberg argued that the only alternative to revolution in
the Russia of Vladimir Putin are elections but Igor Eidman argues that in
fact, Putin has no intention of holding real elections but instead will, in the
absence of a revolution, unleash still more wars of aggression.
The Russian commentator argues
that “the alternative to revolution in the present-day situation is not
elections which do not exist and under the current regime will not take place
but war. The Putin powers are already conducting regional wars in Syria and
Ukraine” but “of course, the regime will not stop at these” (kasparov.ru/material.php?id=597EB90F56D57).
The Kremlin’s “adventurist
policy will inevitably lead to new military conflicts,” Portnikov says. “The very
existence of this aggressive and inadequate regime, with its atomic weapons,
sharply increases the risk of global war and nuclear catastrophe.” And thus the
continued existence of Putin’s regime threatens people far more than any
revolution.
The commentator points out that “the
overwhelming majority of European revolutions of contemporary times, including
[Russia’s] in 1991” did not lead to civil war,” and consequently, those who suggest
that any future overturning of the Russian regime will have that outcome are
frightening people in ways that help keep the regime in power.
“Unfortunately, there is no
fairytale figure who could lead out of the Kremlin the enormous army of rats in
uniform and not who have settled there, headed by a kind who long ago lost his
adequacy” to rule. “They won’t go by
themselves,” Eidman says, “and to hope for that is to deceive oneself and
those around us.”
And he continues: “Only a revolution
can liquidate the Putin regime, the currently most dangerous source of threats
of a global catastrophe.” And thus a revolution and not anything is “is the
single chance for people striving to ensure that their families have a secure
future.”
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