The Rude Visitor

Putin belongs to the same anthropological type.

Right before our eyes, a peculiar catastrophe—not so much a social one as an anthropological one—is unfolding in Russia. It was roughly the same after the October Revolution of 1917, when representatives of the darkest, most malicious, and most aggressive segments of the population emerged onto the social stage. At that time, the Bolshevik party oligarchy, having seized state power, granted the rabble that supported it the right to violence and to physical domination over the ordinary people around them. The Putin regime is doing exactly the same thing. It grants the right to violence and grassroots authority “in the neighborhood” to that segment of the Russian rabble that is used as a power base within the country and as cannon fodder in the war against Ukraine.

Something similar occurred on a limited scale in the early 1990s, when this male, violent, low-class rabble was involved in criminal organizations. But those were spontaneous processes, not directly initiated by the state, and not as widespread as they are now.

Putin said that the “SVO” members ask him: “When the SVO ends—what will we do?” Well, it’s clear what they’ll do—or rather, what they’ve already started doing—the same things that are happening now in Ukraine, only this time right here in Russia: killing, looting, and raping. And all under the patronage of the state, which has proclaimed them the “flower of the nation.”

Yes, of course, eventually all this rabble will be cast aside. As Zinaida Gippius wrote: “And soon you’ll be driven into the old barn with a stick.” But that “soon” is still a long way off. And right now, just as after the October Revolution, Russia faces mass terror at the hands of criminal rabble.

And we’re not talking about people with low social status. This is less a class-based phenomenon and more a cultural-anthropological one. The rabble—a crude and vicious mental plebs—dominates at all levels of Russian society, including at the very top. Putin belongs to this same anthropological type.

Amid endless war and the ongoing fascistization of Russia, the power of the aggressive “bydlo” has become total; they are literally being pushed to the top in all spheres of life. They are beginning to dominate and oppress those around them everywhere: from the home, where residents are terrorized by some perpetually drunk “veteran” who can do whatever he wants because he was “wounded on Kolchak’s fronts,” to the school, where another thug teaches children to “love the motherland,” — all the way to a country ruled by the supreme boor.

Igor Eidman, “Telegram”

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