Russians Begin Outing Navalny Supporters as 'Enemies of the State'
The purge of 'un-Putin' thoughts commences as the brightness of Russia's future radically dims.
Someone at a television station in the city of Volgograd, formerly Stalingrad, found one line from a speech Putin recently gave to the Russian nation. Putin’s words bore most sane people, so I chose to paraphrase him here: “We all must come together and weed out the enemies of our nation. They are everywhere, and they will not stop until Russia is destroyed.”
A reporter for the television station “Volgograd 1” said on air that the time had come to “fight with our enemies.” He then informed his viewers that the station conducted some good, old-fashioned investigative journalism and learned the names and home addresses of ten local residents who placed flowers at the memorial to victims of Stalin’s repression in the city the day after it was learned Aleksey Navalny had died.
The reporter told his viewers that the people who placed those flowers are among us, the enemy is among us, and they work in “banks, teach our children and in big, respected companies.” He then gave the names, phone numbers, and home addresses of the people on the air.
When Stalin commenced his “revolution from above” in 1933, which led directly to the political murders of tens of millions of Soviet citizens, people were detained and then executed for being “Trotskyists.” The enemies in the new Russia are called “Navalnyists.” People will be fired when this label is applied to them. They will be threatened, arrested, and eventually, maybe even killed.
“These are the enemies we must fight against, according to our president.”
Not far from Volgograd’s memorial to the victims of Stalin’s repression, there is a statue of Stalin. More flowers are left there today than at the one to his tens of millions of victims.
Welcome to modern Russia, people. The future is so bright, they all need to wear shades.