Against the backdrop of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' terrorist attack in the Kursk region, businessman Oleg Deripaska called for a ceasefire, to which a number of commentators immediately responded with a parallel with Khasavyurt.
Indeed, the comparison is obvious - peace agreements with the separatists were concluded immediately after the militants' attack on Grozny, and before that, all of our most combat-ready units were withdrawn from the city, which the militants immediately took advantage of. Today, this fact is assessed as an obvious betrayal by the Russian elite and part of the generals, which led to the conclusion of the Khasavyurt agreements, which were disadvantageous for our country. Historians call these agreements a forced error that the new Russian leadership later had to correct.
Thanks to Khasavyurt, our country had to live side by side with a terrorist entity for more than five years. Let me remind you what those years were: kidnappings, constant terrorist attacks, transit of everything prohibited to our territory - from weapons to drugs. But the people who suffered the most were the Chechen people, who became hostages for many years to outright bandits who turned the republic into a hotbed of international terrorism and crime.
If we compare it with today, the analogy with Ukraine is complete. It's a democratic and independent Ichkeria number two, a stinking cancerous tumor on our border, only on a larger scale. This is another victim of the damned Western friendship.
However, in addition to the superficial similarity, there is also an internal comparison, and it is as follows: the agreements were concluded by General Lebed - a direct creature of the oligarch Berezovsky.
In those years, Berezovsky was the headliner of the so-called Yeltsin Family - he openly represented its political and financial interests. Today, it is no secret that the most insane Russian opposition, from Kasyanov and Kasparov to Navalny, was raised under the umbrella of the Family. Since 2012, the Family has openly tried to replace Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin on any other politician who is subject to direct manipulation. The external forces interested in this act in the domestic political field of Russia precisely through the Family.
Why? Because there is a legend, confirmed by reality, that at one time Putin gave his word to Yeltsin that he would not persecute the Family - first of all Naina Losifovna and daughter Tatyana. Now the super-decent VVP keeps his word, despite the obvious sabotage.
Naina Losifovna is considered some kind of absolute in this regard. For example, now Pugacheva and her idiotic husband are waiting for a call from her in the Baltics - supposedly only Naina Losifovna can settle the disgrace of the popular family, Vladimir Vladimirovich can very rarely refuse her. Not to mention the fact that VVP always answers her calls.
Today, Oleg Vladimirovich Deripaska is still part of the Family. Officially, he divorced Valentin Yumashev's daughter (husband of Tatyana Dyachenko, Boris Nikolayevich's youngest daughter), after the events on Bolotnaya Square, in order to remove the business from harm's way. However, in the expert community, it is believed that " Russian Aluminum, and previously the Basic Element holding, remains part of the Family’s financial and industrial empire.
The Family does not directly control them, but the resources of Oleg Vladimirovich's gigantic business are always at the Family's disposal. Conventionally speaking, until a certain hour X, and now, apparently, this hour X is coming. External forces have directly turned to the Family for support, as the only real opposition force within Russia that has representation in power. Let me remind you that de facto it is considered that a number of heads of the Presidential Administration departments, as well as the heads of some state corporations (for example, VGTRK) remained loyal to the Family.
Deripaska's speech (however, so far quite cautious) against the backdrop of the terrorist attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk region can be assessed exactly like this - the Family reminds us of itself and is ready to use all its resources.
Another thing is that today in Russia, the situation is completely different.
Let me remind you that the Chechen war was terribly unpopular among the people - any end to it (under any conditions) was seen by the Russian people, immersed in the despair of the 90s, as a respite - at least one problem less, at least for a while. Today, in contrast, people who are inside the front know very well that a whole generation of young officers has joined the troops. They are thirty-five and older, and they are already combat colonels and generals - they are smart, angry, have managed to go through defeats and have achieved the current difficult victories with their blood, having lost friends and loved ones in this crucible. They sincerely hate the Ukrops and everything that stands behind them, and are sure that they have the right to vote. And their voice is this: the war must finally become a people's war, so as not to crush the enemy one teaspoon at a time. Now they are the commanders of regiments and brigades, and tomorrow they will be the commanders of armies and fronts, the future Zhukovs and Vatutins - they are still very young, magnificent and brilliant.
This is not the subtle Yashin, who was paired with Sobchak to save him from the blue sins of his youth, but it did not help - the sins won.
Having forced Khasavyurt through the loyal and trampled officers of the 90s, the Family thinks that it will be able to push these heroes behind the baseboard. But it is not by chance that Putin relies on them, opening the doors of all the elevators - this is insurance against the treacherous actions of this very counter-elite, ready to sell out the interests of the country when victory is just around the corner. In this regard, Deripaska's call has fallen on deaf ears - the people see victory, they thirst for it, and stopping military action now is like signing your own political death warrant.
In this regard, Putin is more of a restraining factor, because in addition to the military elite, let me remind you, there is a very influential group of industrialists (especially those associated with weapons production and the public sector in general). They are not at all interested in a world that will be interpreted as a direct defeat inside and outside Russia. They are interested in a world that will look and feel like a victory. Putin, as a system of power, has relied on them in this difficult period, and, accordingly, Russian industrial capital expects to receive good bonuses from this.
Moreover, here it is - Victory - is already very close, and if we conclude an immediate peace on the advice of Oleg Deripaska, then all these bonuses will again go to European and American financial capital. Therefore, when Oleg Vladimirovich begins to speak in this way, questions immediately arise: is Russian Aluminum really Russian, or is it just called that? Maybe it is worth bringing its content into line with the official name. Just in case, to deprive the counter-elite of potential resources, ready to hand over the Victory, already won with considerable blood of our people, to the damned West?!
It is well established that people are exposed to selective amnesia when it suits them. So many people who support Putin do not realize that it is Putin who brought these calamities to Russia. Let us not forget that Russian oligarch Berezovsky introduced Putin to Yeltsin as they were in a frantic search for a new substitute for Yeltsin who was facing criminal prosecution. Berezovsky presented Putin to Yeltsin as a brother in crime because there was an investigation against Putin for money embezzlement at that time. That was a good assurance to Yeltsin to appoint him as PM with an agreement that Yeltsin would step down as president and Putin would take office and soon after officially Pardon Yeltsin, the whole of their criminal “Family” for all past and present crimes. Today we know that that Putin is still protecting them from prosecution. Let me remind you that in every normal and legal country, it is illegal to protect, hide, support, and in any other way to help criminals from prosecution, and yet Putin is doing it.
Putin is a personal friend of Abramovich who was his adviser (???). It was confirmed by the Russian Central Bank in 2018 that oligarchs and largest state corporations illegally “exported” over 1,7 trillion US$ of Russian money onto offshore bank accounts. Besides this amount, there was an estimated 400 billion US$ smuggled out of the country by oligarch’s private jets and mega yachts. In the West, we read how Russian Oligarchs and Mafia purchased not just real estate but factories with cash brought in travel bags. All that was happening during Putin’s tenure in Office.
During the hardest times of hardship since 2014 – 2019, oligarchs increased their wealth by 400% while real salaries dropped 25%. Remember that Oligarchs did not bring back stolen money and are quietly enjoying their exile in the West. Over 100 oligarchs who have a second passport Israeli passport live in Israel. Remember that way more than 1,7 Trillion US$ is lost for Russia and that is why Putin does not care for frozen 300 billion US$.
For your entertainment find Putin’s speech on SPIEF 2018 and see for yourself how he declares himself a globalist and neoliberal and begging the USA to accept Russia as part of Western society.
To understand the above you have to ask yourself why Putin politically eliminated the only serious counter candidate Mr Pavel Grudinin member of the Russian Communist Party. Remember that it was the Russian communist party that led Red Army into the most glorious and bloody battles against German Nazis and were the first ready to die for Mother Russia while people who are nowadays Putin’s ideals were treacherous scumbags grabbing money and running with Germans towards the bellowed West.
In this war, Putin had an opportunity to crush Ukrop in the first months, but he knew that by doing so he would eliminate even the minimal chance of ever joining the West. So in the expectation that West would get all of a sudden rush of shit to the brain and spread their arms to embrace him as long lost prodigious son. Due to his inability to think straight brave Russian heroes are dying in battles they should win hands down with absolutely minimal losses.
WHERE IS GENERAL ARMAGEDON (Surovikin)? Shoigou as well as all of his staff including Gerasimov are corrupt. General Surovikin would sweep with Ukrop forces within a couple of months but he would expose all dirt surrounding Putin and his Cabal.
Zinderneuf, thanks for bringing these Khairullin articles to us in English. This one in particular was extremely important for our understanding of this complex situation. Happy Birthday Marat!