Putin’s Terrorism Increasingly Irrational and May Devour Its Creator, Pastukhov Says

Paul Goble

            Staunton, Oct. 23 – Many are now focusing on the increasingly absurd statements and actions of Putin loyalists, Vladimir Pastukhov says; but they should see them collectively as evidence that “the post-communist neo-totalitarian state has reached its highest and final stage of development.”

            Since 2013, the London-based Russian analyst says, Russia has been in “a terror phase” of development, one that “is characterized by the predominance of the irrational over the rational,” a phenomenon not directed at a specific target and “cannot be controlled but only directed” (t.me/v_pastukhov/1281 reposted at kasparov.ru/material.php?id=671A5745E2EFC).

            In recent months, Pastukhov continues, the terrorism of the Putin system has become increasingly disembodied, with “the engine of this terror” formerly “Putin’s deep state” ever more being replaced “by Putin’s deep mind,” a development that means that “if earlier we mainly saw the consequences of irrational actions, now we will see the results of irrational thoughts.”

            According to Pastukhov, “we must be prepared for the fact that we are entering, alas not for the first time, into a harsh period of Russian history in which human life and destiny will largely depend on someone’s prevented fantasy, often one with complex sexual or even suicidal aspects.”

            In brief, he concludes, the important thing to recognize is that “Kafka’s time has now arrived in our Animal Farm.”