Bernd
03/25/2022 (Fri) 11:06:42
No.47052
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03/25/2022 (Fri) 11:06:42
No.47052
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>>47019
Political murder wasn't so common in Russia contrary to popular opinion, because there were plenty of ways to suppress people. It was not only about just politics, but mostly about combination of politics, money and crime, often on local level.
Typical example: governor of large region built a villa and grabbed territory around it pretty unlawfully (built fences near water and closed access, it is forbidden), some local activists gone to police and court and get nothing, and when started to act in media, were beaten and investigated by police as suspected criminal.
Local police almost always work as defense for local government and rarely goes against it even when government officials are going openly against the law. And local government mostly composed of mix of businessmen and criminals (often both). Kushchyovskaya was a most known example of that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kushchyovskaya_massacre but there are many of similar cases that didn't get media attention.
Of course there are examples when commoner won against state force, but they are rare, and mostly include internal conflicts inside state and related entities (i.e. some mayor had enemies and they've used situation against him). While being against the state on words was tolerated, acting against the state was pretty hard, even if your actions are conceptually pro-state (i.e. going against stealing and corruption for patriotic reasons). Western media often concentrates on "anti-Russian" opposition but there were plenty of "pro-Russian" people who were against government and also suppressed.
On higher political level, criticism was suppressed mostly by soft force. There were no purely opposition media, even famous "liberal" entities were controlled by different state actors and had clear limits about what they can say. It is very fun to watch how "patriotic" people hated "evil pro-western Ekho Moskvy" that was owned by state-controlled Gazprom, or similar "Novaya Gazeta" that is owned by Rostekh.
Although everything I wrote is about pre-war situation. Now situation is completely different, and it is hard to describe it in short. I guess it may be illustrated with that news item from random local news site: https://www.ivanovonews.ru/news/1137076/
Political murder wasn't so common in Russia contrary to popular opinion, because there were plenty of ways to suppress people. It was not only about just politics, but mostly about combination of politics, money and crime, often on local level.
Typical example: governor of large region built a villa and grabbed territory around it pretty unlawfully (built fences near water and closed access, it is forbidden), some local activists gone to police and court and get nothing, and when started to act in media, were beaten and investigated by police as suspected criminal.
Local police almost always work as defense for local government and rarely goes against it even when government officials are going openly against the law. And local government mostly composed of mix of businessmen and criminals (often both). Kushchyovskaya was a most known example of that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kushchyovskaya_massacre but there are many of similar cases that didn't get media attention.
Of course there are examples when commoner won against state force, but they are rare, and mostly include internal conflicts inside state and related entities (i.e. some mayor had enemies and they've used situation against him). While being against the state on words was tolerated, acting against the state was pretty hard, even if your actions are conceptually pro-state (i.e. going against stealing and corruption for patriotic reasons). Western media often concentrates on "anti-Russian" opposition but there were plenty of "pro-Russian" people who were against government and also suppressed.
On higher political level, criticism was suppressed mostly by soft force. There were no purely opposition media, even famous "liberal" entities were controlled by different state actors and had clear limits about what they can say. It is very fun to watch how "patriotic" people hated "evil pro-western Ekho Moskvy" that was owned by state-controlled Gazprom, or similar "Novaya Gazeta" that is owned by Rostekh.
Although everything I wrote is about pre-war situation. Now situation is completely different, and it is hard to describe it in short. I guess it may be illustrated with that news item from random local news site: https://www.ivanovonews.ru/news/1137076/