SBU Major General: The Kremlin Is Being Purged

Putin's officials have only one option.

The wave of arrests, the suicide of former Transport Minister Roman Starovoit, deaths of top managers - is this an internal purge of elites or a sign of the beginning of destabilization of Putin's vertical?

About this, Charter97.org spoke with SBU Major General in Reserve Viktor Yagun:

- Everything is actually very simple. Any authoritarian state cannot afford a democratic change of power. And the power still needs to be changed, because there are certain categories of people who, roughly speaking, are disgruntled, fed up, bored. When there is a democratic procedure - elections, change of power, a new government comes, some people are replaced, others are not liked - this is normal. But here the situation is different: everyone is in the same boat, all representatives of one gangster group. That is why there is only one way out: either to the coffin or to prison.

That is what is happening - there is a purge of the ranks. It already happened under Stalin, who is now very much loved in Russia. No one has come up with anything new. As it was in the 30s and 40s in the Soviet Union, so it is now in Russia. A person simply reaches a certain level of necessity and becomes unnecessary. Where to put him? Retirement? But this is not their method. So they either drive them to suicide or make it look like an accident.

- Why is the Kremlin defiantly silent after the deaths of former associates?"

- Putin is a coward. He is a terrible coward. He is afraid of his death, afraid of everything. Most importantly, he is afraid of responsibility. To come out and say, "You have stolen, we will put you in jail." Tell that to Shoigu. Didn't anyone know Shoigu was stealing? Everyone knew. Say it! But no, the logic is: "We're on the same team, we're friends." So we do it quietly: we take him out, we bring him down, and then we shut up. Putin believes that this method is the most effective. That's why the Kremlin is silent.

- Should we expect any decisive action from the Russian elites? Can fear lead them to try to change power?

- It's like fear of Stalin. All members of the Politburo in the USSR at that time were afraid that if they went against him, they themselves could be crushed at any moment. I don't know how developed the sense of self-preservation is among modern Russian officials. We should look not so much at them as at the self-preservation of business and the assets of those who have stolen a lot. Because now there is not a redistribution of property, but its selection in favor of other business groups.

If these people do not understand that in the near future they themselves may be the first to be hit, left naked, barefoot, without everything - and well, if alive - they need to unite in time to implement a change of power. If they do not stop this monster and his entourage, they themselves will be crushed. Everything will be the same as with Evgeny Prigozhin - they will "play with a grenade in the wrong place and at the wrong height".

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