Belarusians Have A Reason For Optimism
11- 12.08.2025, 14:53
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Lukashenko's favorite writer compared Russia to "a chicken whose head has been cut off."
Sometimes it is a pleasure to read imperial authorities. Recently, Alexander Dugin unleashed a pessimistic scenario for the Russian Federation.
Vladimir Putin declared Russia a "civilization state" by decree. It sounds impressive, but no one can explain what it is, writes "Salidarnasts".
Alexei Chadaev, a military-political technologist Alexei Chadaev, a very popular Russian turbo-patriot, writes:
"With difficulty choosing words, we rolled out the formula "state-civilization." As part of the purity of understanding, it would be necessary to clarify what the "state-civilization" should possess that the "ordinary" state does not have, to assess whether we have the desired thing and in what state it is...
The main paradox of our claim to the status of "state-civilization" - it makes sense only if we show the ability to self-organization and collective action "on the other side" of the "state" itself. We do have one such institution, but it is hardly something to be proud of: it is, in a broad sense, "AUE" ("Arrestant way of life is united" - the name and motto of the Russian criminal subculture - S.).
There is a big question about the church, for example - whether it is viable in its current form without reliance on the state and outside it. There is nothing to say about the rest - they are all simply not tenants without the state.
This, by the way, are not the words of some opposition liberal, but of a member of the Russian president's personnel reserve and an opinion leader among supporters of the invasion of Ukraine. That is, Chadaev, for all his "Russian Worldliness in acute form," even doubts the ability of the ROC to exist without state support. He is right, by the way.
It would be possible, of course, to write this off as the private opinion of an individual skeptic. But Alexander Dugin, whose books, as we now know thanks to Time, are in the most honorable place in Alexander Lukashenko's library, joined the discussion.
This philosopher-uracobo confirmed Chadaev's conclusions: "Quite right... We [this topic] have not developed at all."
In general, one of Putin's key theses has unexpected opponents. But the favorite writer of the ruler of Belarus did not stop there and described Russia in a very unexpected context:
"When a chicken's head is cut off, it continues to run. When a country, a society, an industry loses its meaning, they continue to do everything they did before. But somehow not like that anymore.
The USSR of the perestroika period is such a run with its head cut off. There is still the all-powerful Politburo, the CPSU, there is the strategic triad, there is full control over huge territories including Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Moldova, the Baltics (no exclave in Kaliningrad), Kazakhstan. Everything is under control. And there is no head. There is KGB. But there is no head, alas.
The last years of the Russian Empire are the same. There is a tsar, but no brains, alas.
Something seems to me that something similar is coming to us.
You make up your mind: "state-civilization" or "chicken", whose head has been cut off or is about to be cut off.
But it is very characteristic that even the imperialists themselves realize that Russia is a shell without content.
And for Belarusians it is an occasion. For some - to think whether it is worthwhile to bet on alliance with such... substance. Others - for optimism.
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