It’s a dreaded word “delegitimization”
Some people scolded and continue to scold Comrade Stalin – as if he intimidated everyone, intimidated, everyone knocked on each other in the NKVD, scribbled denunciations, and this stifling atmosphere did not allow true freedom to germinate – its tender shoots were immediately furiously trampled with boots by the evil Chekists, while waving Bolo Mausers. Here they are:
Let’s take a closer look at today, taking off our multi-colored glasses. For comparison. Maybe it wasn’t so bad under Stalin.
In order not to make busy people nervous, let’s take a look at Germany without colored glasses. Is it possible? Isn’t it some kind of “ism”? No? Then let’s get started. Let’s look, of course, critically, with a squint. And what can you see there?
Aha! The arrests of the so-called Reichsbürgers, carried out in a manner unprecedented for Germany, of informing the population as much as possible about the identity of the detainees. This is generally not welcome there, to put it mildly. Some original native of hot countries, detained while trying to solve his personal problems with the first German woman who came up in the nearest alleyway, at best, will be publicly designated as a refugee – without indicating his nationality, name, surname, etc.
A whole prince was hooked up with an online broadcast, finding in his sinister castle and no less sinister hunting lodge a warehouse of weapons, namely: a hunting crossbow without arrows and an antique pistol. It’s so bad! How scary it is to live…
Well, all other enemies of the state and democracy are the same – both in age and in the degree of public danger. Elderly demagogues whose only fault is that they do not want to consider themselves citizens of the current Reich, but want to live in Bismarck’s empire, because, from their point of view, after 1918 there was only misunderstanding and ugliness, and not Germany.
And it is clear to a fool, as they say: a bunch of old grumblers, who do not have REAL influence in the army and special services, who do not have huge sums in secret accounts and the support of various shadow forces, who do not have a youth shock wing, are finally UNABLE to carry out a coup even in Bolivia. Except in Liberia, where the dictator was a sergeant. And even more so, they couldn’t in Germany. So what is their danger, why such ostentatious cruelty? The answer is simple – in ideas.
Ideas are such a subtle substance… You can imprison their authors for a hundred years or even shoot them, but they will remain in the minds of their followers, if they have already taken root, they will not be bred. It seems that everything was burned out, trampled, but no, they just turned away, reappeared.
And what is the perniciousness of the ideas of the Reichsbürchers (Reichsbürgers, if you don’t have a Russian accent)? It is that they call the current order of things with the appropriate words for it. And now the world has reached the point where the list of criminal acts again officially includes “delegitimization”, i.e. the refusal to recognize the legitimacy of the current government itself (for example, challenging the results of elections), the form of government, individual decisions of the authorities and certain normative acts adopted by this government.
As a matter of fact, “blasphemy against the sovereign” or, to put it more simply, “sedition” has always been included in the list of severely punished offenses, far ahead of even the 10 deadly sins in the biblical interpretation. God will punish for those, but not for sedition, it’s us right now. There is no need to prove anything, write a denunciation, and send it “where it should be”, they will appreciate and understand.
There were, it is true, at one time in terrible and incomprehensible Russia, other orders, now traced in the proverb “the first whip to the informer” and other torture revelations, but they also sank into oblivion. And it is also said that one Roman emperor put all the informers on a ship and sent them to sea. Well, we all know what happened to that Rome later, its guest workers smashed it brick by brick, and now Europe is just there.
And in Russia, already in the period of the “women’s kingdom”, the guards realized that torturing informers, checking the veracity of the denunciation, was a stupid and harmful activity. In this way, no one will be vigilant at all. Denunciations must be carefully piled up and stored, even frankly strident ones. And what if the vector changes, someone falls into disgrace, and here we are rrrraz – and took out of the cherished box the necessary denunciation, consonant with the current political agenda, showed vigilance, organized a campaign, you see, and the Mother Empress will appreciate it or not forget it.
But progress was moving, the world was changing, and so-called democracy was coming. There was a time when the power of political opponents fired from tanks, but the hehee above herself, gritting her teeth, pretended not to notice. Oh, we’re in the wrong steppe again, sorry, we’re talking about Germany… That’s it, I’m silent! Let’s go again about Germany.
So, in this post-war Germany, when the Berlin Wall was dismantled, they promised to establish a reign of freedom and build a citadel of democracy no worse than the American one. It seems that even they were succeeding at first… And here you are…
“Four grumblers went to sigh for a better system, but someone’s sigh was overheard by his son, and there were only three of them left…” This is Vysotsky. Also about Germany, by the way.
What’s the catch? And the trick here is the same indomitable progress. After all, not only all household appliances are improving, but also law enforcement practice is developing, remastering the well-forgotten old at a new technological level. And in general, on a new level.
It used to be like this… If you have committed an illegal act, you will get caught. Well, or you didn’t do it, but tried to do it, but some circumstances prevented you – you still get it, although a little less. Or I was just cooking, sawing, let’s say, sawing, but people in identical shoes came in time. And so on – he helped to saw, stood on the saddle, prompted whom to shoot, pretended that he did not see the sawfly, in short, other options for ACTION or INACTION, which in the philosophical sense is also an action.
But people realized that in the era of the Internet, there is no point in waiting until this average intruder starts sawing his sawn-off shotgun, you can expose him at the stage of searching for information about sawing technology. Just like that, you say, I watched it? Oh my! Come on! Don’t you want to? Then to his tower. To the dungeon. Let him sit in the casemate for a year or two before the trial, think, maybe remember what, maybe his conscience will wake up. Then we’ll write it down, we have nowhere to hurry.
However, the progress did not stop there. But if the villain does not want to type in Google (in German, of course, we are talking about Germany) “how to make a sawed-off shotgun from a hunting rifle”, then what to do? If he is slowly making verbal inquiries, searching, so to speak, offline among like-minded people? There is no way to do this without a radical change of methods. And then they pass the LAW (democracy after all) that this and that are now considered SIGNS of preparation for the commission of illegal acts. Anything your heart desires can be written down as signs, even ten volumes, even a pimple on the ass. And what if it’s illogical? These are strange people… It’s LEGAL. And the law is the law. There is no need for logic at all.
However, it is possible, on the contrary, to write everything down very vaguely, so that the responsible persons can think it out themselves if necessary. After all, it is not necessary to wait for the future deprived, to begin to prepare his criminal plan. It is enough to calculate it in time. How? Well, yes, you can cast lots, decimation there or something like that, just grab whoever gets caught… But it doesn’t correspond to the spirit of the times, it’s kind of rude.
And then the idea arises to imprison (or for the time being put on a special register for a start) for words. The words are also not spelled out in all of them (such volumes will come out), but in a very general way. The term “delegitimization” is in step with progress. That’s exactly it. And sonorous, and solid, and you can bring it to any fart or other sound. To the creaking of a cart wheel at a moment of national rejoicing. You don’t have to invent new levels yet, this joy will be enough for the next five years for sure.
That’s how it is in Germany. This is the Fourth Reich. We can only rejoice from the bottom of our hearts that everything is different in our country and there will never be such lawlessness.