{"id":32453,"date":"2025-12-22T00:02:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T21:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/igp.org.ua\/?p=32453"},"modified":"2025-12-26T11:20:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T08:20:23","slug":"zagadka-krivavogo-bezumstva-stalinizaciya-chastina-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/igp.org.ua\/en\/publikacii\/zagadka-krivavogo-bezumstva-stalinizaciya-chastina-1\/","title":{"rendered":"THE MYSTERY OF BLOODY MADNEZZ: Stalinization. Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"a______ tm6\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><span class=\"tm7\">A. Savarets, V. Shevchenko<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"tm8\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"tm9\">THE MYSTERY OF BLOODY MADNEZZ: Stalinization<\/span><\/h1>\n<p class=\"a______ tm6\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><span class=\"tm10\">Dedicated to Oleksandr Fedorovych Belov, researcher of Stalinism<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 40px;\"><em><span class=\"tm10\">\u201cStalin would have dealt with you properly!\u201d \u2013 millions of people in Russia whisper these words to the corrupt and semi-traitorous part of the Russian elite, not because they like Stalin, but because millions demand from the authorities: be tougher, tougher!<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 40px;\"><em><span class=\"tm10\">And Putin hears this whisper of millions&#8230;\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em><span class=\"tm10\">Sergei Markov<a href=\"#footnote1\"><sup>1<\/sup><\/a><a id=\"footnote1back\"><\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 40px;\"><em><span class=\"tm10\">\u201cWe will defeat everyone! We will kill everyone!<br \/>\n<\/span><\/em><em><span class=\"tm10\">We will rob everyone we need to!<br \/>\n<\/span><\/em><em><span class=\"tm10\">Everything will be the way we like it!\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em><span class=\"tm10\">Vladlen Tatarsky<a href=\"#footnote2\"><sup>2<\/sup><\/a><a id=\"footnote2back\"><\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 40px;\"><em><span class=\"tm10\">\u201cThe Russian did make a breakthrough into 1937 and returned to a state of supreme national comfort.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em><span class=\"tm10\">A. Nevzorov<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"tm8\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span class=\"tm9\">INTRODUCTION<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n<p class=\"a______ tm6\"><span class=\"tm13\">Contemporary Putinism is an incomplete political and economic construct rapidly moving toward its ultimate form \u2013 Stalinism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm6\"><span class=\"tm13\">The regime is aware of its own \u201cincompleteness\u201d and is attempting to complete itself through war, repression, total control, and internal mobilization.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm6\"><span class=\"tm13\">To understand the internal logic of this process, it is important to see the historical transformation of types of statehood that Russia is undergoing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm6\"><span class=\"tm13\">In the feudal model, the state was identified with the personality of the monarch \u2013 \u201cstate is me\u201d; power was personified, and rights and privileges were distributed from above.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm6\"><span class=\"tm13\">The liberal statehood of the modern era made the state an arbiter, a \u201cnight watchman\u201d, and a mechanism for reconciling interests, where rights were declared universal while the risk of losing freedom and property was regulated by law.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm6\"><span class=\"tm13\">Lenin\u2019s model understood the state as \u201can apparatus of violence by the ruling class over the oppressed\u201d, an instrument of suppression and mobilization of the masses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm6\"><span class=\"tm13\">Stalin\u2019s system went a step further: violence became total, and the state became a self-sufficient machine where even the elites were not protected, fear replaced institutions, and propaganda shaped the \u201cnew man\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm6\"><strong><em><span class=\"tm14\">It is this Stalinist matrix that becomes the ultimate goal of Putin\u2019s system and the historically proven form of self-preservation for power corporations.<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm6\"><span class=\"tm13\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm6\"><span class=\"tm13\">The war against Ukraine allowed this logic to be implemented on a full scale, becoming not a cause but a condition for \u201crefining\u201d the regime to its totalitarian absolute.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm6\"><span class=\"tm13\">Therefore, the Stalinist model is once again in demand in modern Russia \u2013 as the only way to retain power and prolong the existence of the system itself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm6\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span class=\"tm7\">THE TECHNOLOGY OF STALINIZATION<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm6\"><strong><span class=\"tm7\">1. Nationalization of the Economy<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm6\"><span class=\"tm13\">The full-scale invasion of Ukraine and the ongoing war have provided the perfect smokescreen for \u201casset transfers\u201d and creation of a mobilization model of the economy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm6\"><span class=\"tm13\">The key player, of course, has been the Russian state, which has grown significantly stronger against the background of continued hostilities and the militarization of the economy and budget.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm6\"><span class=\"tm13\">But \u201cthe state\u201d is too broad a concept and does not reflect the logic of events. It would be more accurate to say the Russian special services, desperately fighting for complete power within Russia itself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm6\"><span class=\"tm13\">Russia is not a country where property rights are sacred and inviolable, but they were based on several pillars: the oligarchic consensus, the terms of the \u201cdeal\u201d on the conditions of the transition of power in 1999-2000, guaranteed by the FSB, as well as the attempt (<a id=\"aHlk217043699\"><\/a>admittedly not unsuccessful) to create investment attractiveness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm6\"><span class=\"tm13\">The beginning of the so-called \u201cspecial military operation\u201d nullified many agreements and even nearly led to a military coup led by Yevgeny Prigozhin.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm6\"><span class=\"tm13\">Given that property is a necessary attribute of power, it is not surprising that assets have become the focus of efforts by the Russian special services.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm6\"><strong><em><span class=\"tm14\">The socialization of assets<\/span><\/em><\/strong><span class=\"tm13\">, or simply \u201cnationalization\u201d in a broad sense, is taking place in three key spheres:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li class=\"a______ tm6\"><strong><em><span class=\"tm14\">Cancellation of results of privatization: <\/span><\/em><\/strong><em><span class=\"tm13\">the prosecutor\u2019s office goes to court to ask for the privatization results from the 1990s to be declared illegal<\/span><strong><span class=\"tm7\">.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li class=\"a______ tm6\"><strong><em><span class=\"tm14\">Nationalization itself: <\/span><\/em><\/strong><em><span class=\"tm13\">mainly for failure to comply with legal requirements (antitrust, anti-corruption, and others), or failure to fulfill defense orders;<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<li class=\"a______ tm6\"><em><strong><span class=\"tm7\">Alienation of assets of foreign companies that have left Russia: <\/span><\/strong><span class=\"tm13\">temporary management of foreign companies or seizure in favor of the state.<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p class=\"a______ tm6\"><span class=\"tm13\">Perhaps one of the most striking examples is the cancellation of the results of privatization of the Chelyabinsk Electrometallurgical Plant and two factories Serov and Kuznetsk Ferroalloys that produced ferroalloys (80 % of the market) for metallurgy and the military-industrial complex.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm6\"><span class=\"tm13\">The formal reason for the reprivatization of companies belonging to Yuri Antipov (\u201cEtalon\u201d company), whose fortune was estimated at $400 million, was the export of products to unfriendly countries. In reality, however, the reason was the strategic importance of the enterprises.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm6\"><span class=\"tm13\">As for foreign-owned enterprises, a number of foreign companies have been nationalized since 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm6\"><span class=\"tm13\">A wide variety of mechanisms are used to seize foreign enterprises in Russia: introduction of \u201ctemporary management\u201d by Rosimushchestvo; the forced transfer of assets to state structures or affiliated investors; nationalization through presidential decrees; blocking of transactions and a ban on capital withdrawals; freezing of shares and dividends, administrative pressure leading to sale for a symbolic amount; as well as actual confiscation of property through regulatory and court decisions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm6\"><span class=\"tm13\">Besides, a law has been drafted to protect businesses from foreign influence. Economically significant organizations may be temporarily removed from the influence of foreign owners if their actions or inaction threaten national interests. Moreover, this will also apply to intermediate structures through which control is exercised, so that the restrictions apply not only to the parent organization but also to all its important subsidiaries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm6\"><span class=\"tm13\">The Moscow law firm NSP (Nektorov, Saveliev &amp; Partners) has stated that <\/span><strong><em><span class=\"tm14\">the<\/span><\/em><\/strong> <strong><em><span class=\"tm14\">scale of what the Russian state calls \u201cnationalization\u201d amounted to 3.9 billion rubles over three years<\/span><\/em><\/strong><span class=\"tm13\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm6\"><em><span class=\"tm13\">Reuters<\/span><\/em><span class=\"tm13\"> cites a comparable figure \u2013 <\/span><strong><em><span class=\"tm14\">the amount of confiscated assets is approximately $50 billion.<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm6\"><span class=\"tm13\">It is only natural that the militarization of the economy strengthens the role of the state while weakening the influence of the private sector, but given the scale of asset socialization, a logical question arises: <\/span><strong><span class=\"tm7\">why?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm6\"><span class=\"tm13\">Many economists, analysts, and political observers have already dubbed this the next redistribution of property.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm6\"><em><span class=\"tm10\">The Financial Times<\/span><\/em><span class=\"tm13\"> has written that the Rotenberg brothers are behind the campaign to nationalize large companies after the start of the war in Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm6\"><span class=\"tm13\">Allegedly, <\/span><em><span class=\"tm10\">\u201cthe whole concept of a kind of soft nationalization is the Rotenbergs\u2019 idea. They developed it. They have people who are working on it \u2013 legal advisors, economic advisors, data collection specialists who specifically try to find these cases and then present arguments to the Prosecutor General\u2019s Office\u201d.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm6\"><span class=\"tm13\">But there is an important thing! It is that the enterprises are not transferred to new owners (with the rare exceptions of Danone and Rolf), but rather become the property of the state (and the Russian special services know firsthand how to extract corrupt rents from state-owned enterprises).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm6\"><span class=\"tm13\">According to Russian Minister of Finance Anton Siluanov, in 2025, revenues from the privatization of all state property, including newly nationalized one, will amount to only about 100 billion rubles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm6\"><span class=\"tm13\">The answer to the question \u201cwhy\u201d was brilliantly formulated in June 2025 by Russian businessman Oleg Tinkov: <\/span><em><span class=\"tm10\">\u201cIf you look at what happened after perestroika \u2013 to me it\u2019s the NEP. It\u2019s just that the NEP lasted seven years, and this one lasted 30 years \u2013 a little longer. Foreigners came and brought technology and equipment. Then Stalin kicked everyone out. It\u2019s the same thing here. Over 30 years, they gathered everything \u2013 these factories, Danone, and so on. Now they\u2019ve taken it all away. Well, they\u2019ll sit on it for another 30 years&#8230;\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm6\"><span class=\"tm13\">In other words, while as a result of Perestroika and the collapse of the Soviet Union, party officials and secret service officers became the owners of what they had previously only managed, now Russian secret services have decided to become the managers of what someone else previously owned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm6\"><span class=\"tm13\">The main result was a significant weakening of the Russian oligarchy, specifically the part that arose as a result of the collateral auctions organized by Yeltsin\u2019s \u201cFamily\u201d in preparation for the 1996 presidential election.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm6\"><span class=\"tm13\">The \u201cFamily\u201d in the narrow sense refers to Boris Yeltsin\u2019s daughter Tatyana Dyachenko and her husband Valentin Yumashev. In the broad sense, it refers to \u201cTanya &amp; Valya\u201d plus a group of oligarchs: Oleg Deripaska (\u201cRusal\u201d, husband of Yumashev\u2019s daughter), Roman Abramovich (\u201cSibneft\u201d, was one of those who helped in the 1999-2000 \u201ctransition of power\u201d from Yeltsin to Putin), Vladimir Potanin (\u201cNornickel\u201d ), and others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm6\"><span class=\"tm13\">During the transition of power, the general arrangement was established: immunity of assets and personal security guarantees for the \u201cFamily\u201d and close oligarchs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm6\"><span class=\"tm13\">This arrangement was to be protected by siloviki, namely the FSB clan, providing security and cover. At this, Vladimir Putin was transferred to the post of President of the RF. In addition, he was entrusted with the function of supreme arbitration in oligarchic disputes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm6\"><span class=\"tm13\">Despite the fact that siloviki themselves violated (or, more accurately, adjusted) this arrangement by driving out Berezovsky (LogoVAZ), Gusinsky (NTV), and Khodorkovsky (Yukos), the Family as a whole did not suffer, and the FSB created several of its own pocket oligarchs, whom we call \u201cstate\u201d oligarchs: the Rotenberg brothers, Timchenko, and others. These are the FSB wallets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm6\"><span class=\"tm13\">The annexation of Crimea and the war in the Donbas upset the oligarchs, but not too much. <\/span><em><span class=\"tm10\">\u201cWe have one president standing on the parapet. And you\u2019re talking about how you\u2019ll let the country down, how we\u2019ll get additional sanctions?\u201d<\/span><\/em><span class=\"tm13\"> said Yevgeny Giner, a mid-level oligarch and owner of the CSKA football club.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm6\"><span class=\"tm13\">But the full-scale invasion, which the oligarchs really didn\u2019t want, changed things a lot: on the one hand, there were painful sanctions from the West and frozen assets, and on the other \u2013 international arbitration was canceled and things got pretty uncertain in Russia itself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm6\"><span class=\"tm13\">Vladimir Potanin boasted: <\/span><em><span class=\"tm10\">\u201cWe believe that it would be right for us, so to speak, not to fuss over the client, but to follow the course set by state policy in this area, to follow the political line pursued by our government and president\u201d.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm6\"><span class=\"tm13\">And despite the fact that Russian billionaires had almost returned to their 2021 level ($606 billion) by 2024 \u2013 their combined wealth now stands at around $577 billion \u2013 they are facing a threat far more serious than Western sanctions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm6\"><span class=\"tm13\">Another telling example is Governor of Vologda Region Georgy Filimonov\u2019s attack on Aleksei Mordashov, owner of the steel company \u201cPAO Severstal\u201d, with a fortune of $22.5 billion. Could the governor of one of Russia\u2019s least wealthy regions have afforded to make such a move on his own initiative without the Kremlin\u2019s approval? The question is rhetorical.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm6\"><span class=\"tm13\">By the way, it was on Filimonov\u2019s initiative that a monument to Stalin was erected in Vologda.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm6\"><em><span class=\"tm10\">Meanwhile, the State Duma has proposed nationalizing the assets of the oligarchs to fill the budget. According to MP Arefiev, Russia\u2019s richest businessmen \u201caccumulated $25 billion\u201d last year alone. \u201cIf we nationalize the sources of income used by the oligarchic elite, this money will be enough to resolve economic problems\u201d, he added.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm6\"><span class=\"tm13\">Moreover, by striking a blow against the second echelon of oligarchs (a striking example being the reprivatization of the Chelyabinsk Electrometallurgical Plant), Russian special services made it clear that the \u201coligarchs of the 1990s\u201d are also under threat, despite their possibly good personal relations with Putin.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm6\"><span class=\"tm13\">Given that Putin himself is a puppet figure, the oligarchs may be sacrificed, and if necessary, along with Putin himself, who is nominally the guardian of the \u201cBig Deal\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"tm5\"><strong><span class=\"tm6\">2. Total Control over Money Circulation<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p class=\"a______ tm7\"><span class=\"tm8\">In October 2025, Elvira Nabiullina announced that the Central Bank was actively preparing for the widespread introduction of the digital ruble.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm7\"><em><span class=\"tm9\">\u2018The digital ruble, by the way, will make it possible to track in the budget that money is being spent specifically on the purchase of equipment, construction work, or other purposes,&#8221;<\/span><\/em><span class=\"tm8\"> said <\/span> <span class=\"tm8\">Nabiullina.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm7\"><span class=\"tm8\">Financial analyst Mikhail Belyaev explains to the Parliamentary Newspaper how it will work. <\/span><em><span class=\"tm9\">\u201cThe digital ruble is the same as a regular ruble, only it is serviced by a specific software algorithm. At the same time, it has one special feature: it is very easy to mark in a special way. This means that it is easy to identify the transaction that is serviced by a specific digital ruble from among other cash flows, regardless of whether they are carried out in digital form or in the more familiar format of fiat money<\/span><\/em><span class=\"tm8\">.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm7\"><span class=\"tm8\">But in addition to financial discipline and control over its own citizens (which will be discussed below), the introduction of the digital ruble is another marker of the end of the \u201cnew NEP\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm7\"><span class=\"tm8\">After the bright flash of \u201cMilitary Keynesianism\u201d that Putin organized to ensure the functioning of the war machine, Russia faces colossal economic problems due to accumulated structural imbalances.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm7\"><span class=\"tm8\">The situation can only be saved by switching to a distribution system similar to the Soviet planned economy, and digital money is essentially the same as OGAS (the State Automated System for Accounting and Information Processing) \u2013 a project for an automated system of economic management in the USSR.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm7\"><span class=\"tm8\">Chair of the Federation Council of the RF Valentina Matviyenko has instructed that self-employed individuals be \u201cclosely monitored\u201d. She called the growth in the number of \u201cfalse self-employed\u201d individuals a \u201cvicious practice\u201d. The Speaker instructed the committees of the upper house to \u201cclean up\u201d this area.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm7\"><span class=\"tm8\">The increase in VAT in Russia to 22 % also has a disproportionately strong impact on small businesses: small companies will be forced to either pass on the tax in full to their customers (losing customers) or absorb it at the expense of their already small profits, which effectively drives them out of the market.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm7\"><span class=\"tm8\">The State Duma has approved a draft law which will give Rosfinmonitoring access to all data on transfers made by Russians through the SBP, using Mir cards and universal payment codes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm7\"><span class=\"tm8\">Putin himself demanded that the plan for structural changes in the Russian economy be implemented immediately, which, according to experts and businessmen, will result in increased administrative and coercive pressure on business.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm7\"><span class=\"tm8\">Putin also demanded <\/span><em><span class=\"tm9\">\u201c&#8230;to strengthen control over the circulation of cash\u201d.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"tm5\"><strong><span class=\"tm6\">3. Breaking with International Arbitration<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p class=\"a______ tm7\"><span class=\"tm8\">Deputy Speaker of the Russian State Duma and member of the \u201cUnited Russia\u201d party Petr Tolstoy once stated that the constitutional amendments that \u201creset\u201d Putin\u2019s four terms in office and allowed him to run in the 2024 election are not final.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm7\"><span class=\"tm8\">He said that after the start of the war, \u201ca lot has changed\u201d and \u201cmuch more significant\u201d changes to the constitution are planned. In his opinion, most of the world\u2019s practices have not taken root in Russian legislation, and that more significant changes to the Constitution are allegedly forthcoming than those made in 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm7\"><span class=\"tm8\">The Center for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine has already rushed to suggest that Putin plans to grant himself even more powers and the opportunity to rule for life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm7\"><span class=\"tm8\">However, most likely, among other things, this may refer to the notorious Article 15 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, which provides for the primacy of international law over national law.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm7\"><span class=\"tm8\">According to Part 4 of Article 15 of the Russian Constitution, the Russian legal system includes universally recognized principles and norms of international law and international treaties. If an international treaty establishes rules that differ from those provided for by law, the rules of the international treaty shall apply.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm7\"><span class=\"tm8\">This is indirectly confirmed by the words of State Duma deputy Anatoly Wasserman, who believes that the \u201cdogmas of the totalitarian sect of liberals\u201d laid down in the first chapter should also be removed from the Constitution.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm7\"><span class=\"tm8\">In our previous <\/span><u><span class=\"tm8\">works<\/span><\/u><span class=\"tm8\">, we wrote that not only the largest oligarchs, but also representatives of medium-sized businesses, right down to the owners of small companies, built up their assets through complex holding structures in foreign jurisdictions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm7\"><span class=\"tm8\">In this way, they relied on the protection of Western \u2013 first of all European \u2013 legal systems and courts. Any pressure from law enforcement agencies could result in an appeal to an international court and significant penalties for the Russian state, which had to be enforced.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm7\"><span class=\"tm8\">The war of aggression against Ukraine has quite naturally led to Russia\u2019s exclusion from the Council of Europe. Moreover, the Russian Federation has unilaterally denounced dozens of international agreements, thereby creating the conditions for its withdrawal from international arbitration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm7\"><span class=\"tm8\">Accordingly, at this stage, none of the former owners whose property was nationalized can appeal to international arbitration, since Russia simply does not recognize it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm7\"><span class=\"tm8\">Founder and owner of \u201cRolf\u201d Sergey Petrov calls the seizure of \u201cRolf\u201d shares by the state \u201clegal lawlessness and a shot in the foot for the state\u201d. Shares in \u201cRolf Motors\u201d, \u201cRolf Estate St. Petersburg\u201d, and \u201cRolf Tech\u201d also came under the temporary management of Rosimushchestvo.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm7\"><span class=\"tm8\">Structuring the business in foreign jurisdictions (the controlling stake in \u201cRolf\u201d belonged to Cyprus-based Delance Limited) did not help at all.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm7\"><span class=\"tm8\">This is not a side effect, but a deliberate action by special services \u2013 through military aggression and the continuation of a pointless war and the killing of tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of people, they have gained the opportunity to seize the most attractive assets with impunity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm7\"><span class=\"tm8\">In such a situation, the Family we mentioned earlier and the largest oligarchs of the 1990s remain completely helpless and defenseless in the face of the repressive machine.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"tm5\"><strong><span class=\"tm6\">4. Strengthening the Repressive Component in State Governance and the \u201cGreat Purge\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p class=\"a______ tm7\"><span class=\"tm8\">In his programmatic article \u201cWho Are We?\u201d, Head of the Presidential Directorate for Monitoring and Analysis of Social Processes Alexander Kharichev wrote: \u201cFor Russia, the SVO (Spetsialnaya voyennaya operatsia \u2013 special military operation \u2013Transl.) turned out to be a purification\u201d. And, naturally, processes directly related to the SVO.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm7\"><em><span class=\"tm9\">\u201cPurges are a struggle for strengthening power. To preserve it. It is a struggle for the personal safety of the leader. Purges are a means of preventing coups. And coups are always and everywhere carried out by the military. That is why we call them military coups\u201d. <\/span><\/em><span class=\"tm8\"> V. Suvorov, \u201cPurification\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"tm5\"><strong><span class=\"tm6\">Dead Generals<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p class=\"a______ tm7\"><span class=\"tm8\">In our previous publications, the authors wrote about Purification as one of the ways to concentrate power in the hands of a single ruling group. We then assumed that it would be carried out in the most radical ways: <\/span><strong><em><span class=\"tm10\">the most active representatives of the \u201cold system\u201d would be repressed, while key figures would be killed.<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm7\"><span class=\"tm8\">In turn, we determined that the main competitor of the special services in the struggle for power was the army, which possessed enormous financial, military, and political resources. In addition, the Russian army also had reputational capital, albeit based on the myth of the \u201csecond army in the world\u201d. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm7\"><span class=\"tm8\">The task of special services was to destroy the Russian army politically and reputationally, and some of its representatives \u2013 physically.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm7\"><span class=\"tm8\">The so-called SVO became ideal for fulfilling this task \u2013 during the RF\u2019s full-scale invasion (February 2022\u2013July 2025), the deaths of the following Russian generals were confirmed:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm7\"><span class=\"tm8\">In other words, by pushing the Russian army into an aggressive war against Ukraine, the special services significantly thinned the ranks of army generals.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"tm5\"><strong><span class=\"tm6\">Generals in a Cage<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p class=\"a______ tm7\"><span class=\"tm8\">It\u2019s not that the chekists are really concerned about Putin\u2019s fate \u2013 come the need, they will liquidate him themselves\u2013 but in the heat of the struggle for power, they don\u2019t need any surprises. To achieve this, they had to weaken the opposing clan as much as possible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm7\"><span class=\"tm8\">But despite military setbacks and the mass extermination of Russian generals by Ukrainian troops, the Russian army did not suffer a decisive political defeat, so special services resorted to an old trick they had already used before \u2013 the \u201ccase of the Moscow prosecutors\u201d on the eve of Putin\u2019s election in 2012, etc.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm7\"><span class=\"tm8\">Immediately after the 2024 Russian presidential election and just before the appointment of the new government, Deputy Minister of Defence of the rf Timur Ivanov was arrested.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm7\"><span class=\"tm8\">Ivanov, accused of bribery and embezzlement, was responsible for procurement and military construction and was considered Shoigu\u2019s \u201cwallet\u201d. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm7\"><span class=\"tm8\">Importantly, the FSB\u2019s military counterintelligence department provided operational support. But despite the \u201cFacebook\u201d article, Ivanov was dragged to the Basmanny Court so that the hearing would be public and deliberately political.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm7\"><span class=\"tm8\">And since the hearing on the preventive measure was open, Ivanov was dragged to court in uniform, with medals and insignia, in order to inflict maximum damage on the army\u2019s reputation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm7\"><span class=\"tm8\">Naturally, after such a painful grip, Sergei Shoigu could no longer claim the post of defense minister, so he was appointed to the honorary but empty position of Secretary of the National Security Council.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm7\"><span class=\"tm8\">Moreover, Patrushev\u2019s resignation from this position was supposed to look like a great administrative victory for Shoigu. In reality, Kuzhugetovich (Shoigu\u2019s patronym \u2013 Transl.) understood perfectly well that that was a delayed resignation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm7\"><span class=\"tm8\">Under the plausible pretext of fighting corruption, firstly, special services destroyed the team of a political opponent, and secondly, they created the image that all military generals are thieves!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm7\"><span class=\"tm8\">And if they are not thieves, they are certainly traitors to their country. The charges that the arrested commanders from the Ministry of Defense and the General Staff will face are corruption, fraud, and treason.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm7\"><span class=\"tm8\">The Guardian <\/span><u><span class=\"tm8\">wrote<\/span><\/u><span class=\"tm8\">: \u201c&#8230;it was Shoigu\u2019s departure and the loss of his protection that allowed the FSB to remove influential officials in the struggle for power, which could have consequences for Russia\u2019s special operation in Ukraine&#8230;.the arrests indicate that the balance of power has shifted in favor of Russian security services\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm7\"><span class=\"tm8\">In reality, this means not just a shift in the balance of power, but a complete transfer of control over the Russian army to the security services.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm7\"><span class=\"tm8\">The political defeat of the Russian army, led by the Shoigu clan, was one of the true goals of the so-called SVO.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm7\"><span class=\"tm8\">Sergei Shoigu has been close to the \u201cFamily\u201d since the 1990s, when he was Minister of Emergency Situations. During the transition of power in 1999\u20132000, it was precisely his closeness to \u201cTanya and Valya\u201d that allowed Shoigu to remain, at least, in the post of the Minister of Emergency Situations until 2012.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm7\"><span class=\"tm8\">Shoigu\u2019s appointment as Minister of Defense was considered a compromise between security forces and the old elites, as he posed no threat to either side and was popular with the public.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm7\"><span class=\"tm8\">In reality, given the enormous political and military resources available to the army, the appointment was another guarantee of security for the \u201cFamily\u201d. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm7\"><span class=\"tm8\">Depriving Shoigu of his power resources disrupts the \u201cbalance\u201d and stability of the political structure that developed during the transition, and also exposes the \u201cFamily\u201d itself and the oligarchs loyal to it.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"tm5\"><strong><span class=\"tm6\">Mysterious Deaths<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p class=\"a______ tm7\"><em><span class=\"tm9\">\u201cYes, man is mortal, but that would be half the trouble. The bad thing is that he is sometimes suddenly mortal, that\u2019s the trick!\u201d <\/span><\/em><span class=\"tm8\">M. Bulgakov, \u201cThe Master and Margarita\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm7\"><span class=\"tm8\">From the very beginning of the so-called SVO in Russia (and beyond its borders), mysterious things began to happen \u2013 under strange circumstances, high-ranking managers of state and commercial companies began to die.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm7\"><span class=\"tm8\">Since the date of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, more than 30 officials have died.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm7\"><span class=\"tm8\">All of the victims were in some way connected to the elites and corporations (Gazprom, Lukoil, Novatek, Transneft), as well as to the security forces (SVR, MVD, FSIN).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm7\"><span class=\"tm8\">In addition, there is a \u201cnarrow set of scenarios\u201d \u2013 all died under similar circumstances \u2013 falling out of windows, hanging, gunshot wounds, falling overboard, sudden heart attacks. But even this would not be suspicious if it were spread out over time, however, all the mysterious deaths occurred with unnatural frequency.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm7\"><span class=\"tm8\">The death of Mikhail Kenin, the nominal owner of Russia\u2019s largest developer, \u201cSamolet\u201d, deserves special mention. It turns out that the real owners of the company are Sergei Shoigu and Andrei Vorobyov, the governor of Moscow region, who is close to him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm7\"><span class=\"tm8\">The company began to experience problems after Shoigu fell out of favor and his deputies were arrested. A couple of weeks before Kenin\u2019s death, information appeared online that his company was drowning in debt and that Kenin himself was urgently trying to get out of it.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"tm5\"><strong><span class=\"tm6\">Fighting Corruption<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p class=\"a______ tm7\"><em><span class=\"tm9\">\u201cThe state machine consists of sand, which it grinds into dust. It exists only because everyone approves of its existence, even \u2013 and quite often until the very last minute of its victim\u201d. <\/span><\/em><span class=\"tm8\">J. Littell, \u201cThe Kindly Ones\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm7\"><span class=\"tm8\">In parallel with the purges in the army, the Kremlin began the next stage of its\u201dfighting corruption\u201d in other government agencies, naturally redistributing resources and powers under a plausible pretext.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm7\"><span class=\"tm8\">As in the case of the defeat of Shoigu\u2019s generals, siloviki brought the most striking cases to light.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm7\"><span class=\"tm8\">Such high-profile arrests should delight the Russian public \u2013 Z-bloggers have already rushed to assure us that Putin is really trying to stop theft, the very \u201cbond of power\u201d on which the entire late-Putin system was based.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm7\"><span class=\"tm8\">In addition, fighting bribery should cover up inter\u2013and intraspecies struggles, although in fairness it must be acknowledged that the initiators of the \u201cpurge of corrupt officials\u201d do not worry too much about the reliability of the \u201ccover\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm7\"><span class=\"tm8\">The same Zetniks explain the intensification of the fight against corruption by the situation in the economy, including Russian exports. Allegedly, Russia\u2019s enemies are seeking to reduce Russian oil and gas revenues, which, according to their plan, should deprive the budget of the lion\u2019s share of its income, forcing Russia to curtail its military\u2013political plans to gain sovereignty.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm7\"><u><span class=\"tm8\">The Telegraph<\/span><\/u><span class=\"tm8\">, in an article entitled <\/span><em><span class=\"tm9\">\u201cRussian Elite Living in Fear as Putin\u2019s Purges Take Bloody Toll\u201d<\/span><\/em><span class=\"tm8\">, directly links the mysterious deaths, arrests, and wave of punishments to increased control and internal conflicts in the highest echelons of power.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm7\"><u><span class=\"tm8\">The Washington Post<\/span><\/u><span class=\"tm8\"> also pointed out that even top officials, including governors and ministers, who could previously be considered protected, are now at risk due to possible corruption investigations, military failures, sanctions, and increased pressure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______ tm6\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong><span class=\"tm7\">A. Savarets, V. Shevchenko<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"a______\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p class=\"a__________ tm11\"><span class=\"tm12\"><a id=\"footnote1\"><\/a><a href=\"#footnote1back\"><sup>1<\/sup><\/a> <\/span>&nbsp;<span class=\"tm12\">Sergey Markov \u2013 a political scientist at the court at the time, supported Russian aggression from the outset and justified war crimes; now a foreign agent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a__________ tm11\"><span class=\"tm12\"><a id=\"footnote2\"><\/a><a href=\"#footnote2back\"><sup>2<\/sup><\/a> <\/span>&nbsp;<span class=\"tm12\">Vladlen Tatarsky (real name Maksim Fomin) was sentenced to 12 years in prison by a Ukrainian court. He was a bank robber, then a militant in the \u201cDonetsk People\u2019s Republic\u201d, then a blogger and propagandist for Russian fascism. In the words of Aleksandr Dugin, the chief philosopher of modern Russia, he is \u201cthe banner of the new Russia\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A. Savarets, V. 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