Tightening of Screws and a Coming War
So, this came across over the weekend. Given Russian history, it’s pretty likely. In the 1920s, the NKVD did this. It was a terror. this led to a lot of show trials. Between 1936 and 1938, arguably, the cream of the Russian officer corp ended up dead or in the gulag.
Others who were sent there were former senior leaders of the Communist Party. Let’s say you wanted to advance in the party; the slightest accusations could land your boss in front of the court, and death awaited them in many cases.
During the Second World War, Joseph Stalin ordered the creation of SMERSH. After the war, things continued to get worse. This is why this piece was not a real surprise. Plus, we have seen that tightening of the screws.
Putin* is going to play great terror
Our sources in the FSB, the Investigative Committee and the presidential administration claim that in April the “Great Terror 2.0” will begin in the Russian Federation — Putin’s version of Stalin’s repressions.
Bastrykin won the role of Yezhov with great difficulty. It is the Investigative Committee that will search for, detain and interrogate “terrorists”, “extremists” and “traitors”. The Department for the Investigation of War Crimes, Genocide and Rehabilitation of Nazism of the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation is already investigating the terrorist attack at Crocus, and the cases of all those detained in the Russian Federation for setting fire to military registration and enlistment offices, relay cabinets, preparing terrorist acts and sabotage will also be transferred there.
According to sources from the FSB and the Investigative Committee, Bastrykin is seeking the creation of a new security force within his department, which he proposed to recruit from Russians who returned from the war “who have proven themselves before the Motherland” (he allegedly uttered this phrase at a meeting with Putin the week after the terrorist attack in “ Crocus”).
“He has long wanted to expand the power component of the Investigative Committee and gain greater participation in the near-war issue with the internal enemy. Back in 1922, he reported to the top that the Investigative Committee was ready to relieve the FSB of the tasks of fighting and preventive work with the fifth column. “Historians” will be imprisoned under this (the same department for the investigation of war crimes, created even before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and then engaged in the “investigation” of crimes committed during the Second World War). They will be given more people and a budget, and they will create a nightmare for the people,” says one of the employees of the Main Investigation Department of the Russian Investigative Committee.
“Already at the beginning of summer, a major reorganization is possible in the FSB, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Investigative Committee,” says an employee of one of the departments of the 2nd service of the FSB. — The FSB is not coping with the tasks that have been added since the beginning of the SVO. The idea of transferring cases with political overtones to the investigators, with collaboration, can be realized. This does not please our leadership — the money all comes from the same pot, but it seems that the idea has been adopted by the Security Council and the Kremlin,” says the source.
Until the Investigative Committee has received new powers, people and budgets and has not completely turned into Putin’s version of the Gestapo or the NKVD, the fight against the “fifth column” will be the same ones who did it before, that is, the FSB, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Investigative Committee. After the reorganization, such cases will transfer exclusively to the Investigative Committee.
A lot of work is planned for April 2024 on those networks into which security forces have long and successfully been embedded. These are subcultural, Islamist, leftist, anarchist, reconstructionist, right-wing communities, as well as communities of volunteers and activists (helping the homeless, animals, searching for people, etc.), student and sports communities, individual motorcycle and auto clubs.
According to the estimates of the security officials we interviewed, we are talking about dozens of criminal cases in April alone, some of which will involve more than 10 people at once.
“The proof in our country was finally recognition. Recognition can be obtained by any means. Anyone who has appeared can be accepted for recognition; there are actually thousands of them. Young people like to post photos from paddy wagons, put avatars, and write all sorts of s — ..nude. It’s impossible to catch real enemies this way, but it’s easy to create the complete impression that there are a lot of traitors around and the state is effectively fighting them. And this is one of the main political tasks today. Pay attention to the frequency of use of the words “saboteur”, “sabotage”, “terrorist attack” by propagandists in April. It will increase several times,” says an employee of the AP’s internal policy department.
They will try to remove migrants and people from Central Asia from the attack. The task is to discover enemies among your own and once again divide society.
This is also about tightening the road towards a more traditional Russia that rejects the West. Or concepts such as freedom and individual liberty. In other words, Vladimir Putin seeks to return the motherland to its greatest terror hits: Stalin's terror and Ivan the Terrible.
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