Paul
Goble
Staunton, May 14 – “Thus [the
revolution] begins,” the SerpomPo telegram channel says, with the population
ready to come into the square to defend its rights and dignity against the
powers of “the mafia state, in this case, the state’s church department,” a
segment of the regime which has failed to draw the necessary conclusions from
its Ukrainian losses.
The church hierarchs “continue to
conduct themselves boldly, hoping that the bosses will provide them protection
forever,” forgetting that they and their protectors have fallen into “two
‘black holes,’ corruption in the state and corruption in the church (t.me/SerpomPo/3158,
reposted at echo.msk.ru/blog/serpompo2018/2425723-echo/).
For the Russian Orthodox Church,
SerpomPo says, things are going to “end worse than they did in Ukraine,” with
the withdrawal of the relatively small number of those who have been attending
its services and then the withdrawal of the government’s support for the ROC MP
as such.
According to the telegram channel, “the
atmosphere in the country is changing quickly.
Suddenly out of nowhere are arising protests throughout the entire
country. Moreover, pickets against torture are continuing, despite the
repressions and resistance to the mafia state is growing.”
The
chief thing that has happened, it says, is that “the powers that be have lost
or are losing the moral basis of their rule, the certainty of society that the
bosses are acting correctly.” Instead, the Russian people see that the powers
that be are maintaining themselves by “naked force” alone.
“But
as is well known, one can use bayonets to deal with opponents but one can’t sit
on them for long,” SerpomPo says. “Our rulers, undoubtedly, are going to try,”
it continues. But by doing so, they will
only show the people what those above them think about the people – and once
they see that, no amount of bayonets will help for long.
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