Paul
Goble
Staunton, April 28 -- Anatoly
Nemiyan, a specialist on the Muslim world who blogs under the screen name “El
Murid,” says that Russian consumer protection chief Anna Popova is completely
correct when she says that after the pandemic, Russians must be prepared to
live under “a new normality.”
She said that on Russia-1 yesterday (gazeta.ru/social/2020/04/27/13064653.shtml), and El Murid says that what it means is that this
new normality represents among everything else the passing of “sovereign
democracy” as the self-definition of Russia today and the appearance of fascism
with the assistance of the coronavirus (kasparov.ru/material.php?id=5EA84AC9987D9).
Judging
from everything, the outspoken blogger continues, “contemporary fascism will be
established within the framework of medical terror, where phobias and the total
illiteracy of the population on issues of the personal security of their health
will be used as an instrument of intimidation.”
As
he points out, “the very best terror is when people themselves create the
frameworks within which they agree to exchange their rights and freedoms.” Medicine
can play that role, but in the process, it is transformed from “the most humane
profession” into “a powerful terrorist instrument of control over society.”
That
process may not be easy to carry out, El Murid concedes; but every step in that
direction will cost society dearly.
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