The Horde and the World

About Homo putinus, Ukrainian Golgotha ​​and resurrection

This year, the largest world’s country genuinely, to drunken tears believed that evil is good. That to attempt to occupy the neighbor is for the benefit. That to bombard cities and villages is just. That to act as Hitler is antifascism. That by destroying Ukraine it will earn its obedience and love. Bombarding, torture, rape — all of this has taken place upon the blessing of not only the Russian government and popular masses but not in the least of the church. In the name of Christ. There is this genuine unbelievable devilment that happened to Russia.

Homo putinus

In the passing year, the beast named homo putinus, also known as the “deep people,” for the first time manifested itself so fully and disgracefully. Judging by the Horde which we have witnessed in Ukraine, homo putinus is such a ragged drinker of an average height, with no distinctive features, married to a pretty much similar femoid. Not rich but materially concerned. Small-minded. Cynical but one that crosses himself meticulously when passing by the church. He believes that he carries light into the world while really carrying fascism into it. A slave of mortgage and television, he mumbles something about greatness, but not even capable of normality.

In the beginning was the Word — and the word in this case was a swear. Deep people are sons and mothers, parents and kids, husbands and wives who communicate with one another with the help of a Russian swear word. Through it, they express the whole spectrum of feelings available to them. Thoroughly, family-like, they compose the lists of the stolen and what still needs to be stolen. “Our boys” who rape women and even children and firmly believe that the right to defecate in the middle of a burglarized apartment is among human rights. And their “girls” who excitingly bless the “boys” to all the vilest that exists in human nature. “Kill khokhols (a derogatory Russian term for Ukrainians) if they are like that.” “Rape the khokhol women but do not tell me.” “Bring me a fur coat…” and many other things we heard in the intercepted conversations of the Russian army.

Farewell of Buriatka

Sometimes I want to look inside the souls of these beasts, who have the first, middle, and last names, like we do, among whom are so many of our relatives, former classmates, college buddies and even friends. I would like to understand, to feel this moment when they stopped being homo sapiens and became the Horde. Was it in 2014, when the West let Putin know and Putin let his people know that Russia can allow itself to defecate in the middle of the European apartment? Or did this devilment pop up gradually, like a turnip, every day fertilized by Solovyov and Kiselyov? Or nothing new, only the greatness of this country has for centuries brainwashed it, making it seek magnificence and blame the whole world that there is no such magnificence, such real happiness, as it had not been there before?

I once listened to a hit-parade of songs most often played in Russian headphones. Well, they play about whatever but not the war. There is no Farewell of Slavianka, Chechenka, or Buriatka, there is even no miserable clownish “goida” (abstract “call to action,” in wartime – to kill). But there are a lot of songs about luxurious life, Dubai, and Monaco. Tons of talentless vulgarity. Sometimes there’s talented, gloomy decadence. However, I repeat, there is no war (especially a sacred, patriotic one). This is music in the spirit of the late USSR multiplied by half-eaten leftovers of sweet life of the last years, minus inspiration, minus depth, minus desire, or anticipation of change.

The time of drunken tears is passing. Now, they are coming to a foreign land to kill with the words “strength is in truth” (a Russian propagandistic catchphrase) but no longer with confidence that their cause is just. However, as we know from hundreds of intercepted phone calls of the soldiers — with the great lust to make some money on this war. And also, with the belief that, big deal, there is nothing special, everyone sometimes attacks, robs, and murders their neighbors. It happens, everyday things.

Those sleeping against those having woken up

In today’s world, if they support Russia, it is not out of love for it but out of hostility to the US. It should be recognized that this is a factor, too. A wave of Americanism in the whole world (including, no matter how paradoxically, the US itself) is what Russia can cultivate and use first of all in the Global South.

Really, many do not like the US. The word ‘imperialistic’ is often perceived as a synonym to the word ‘American.’ And that is why Putin’s war, the most imperialist in modern history, is perceived by these ‘many’ (that Global South) as a challenge to imperialism. For Ukraine, this is the issue but not an insurmountable one. Like Ukrainian and Russian soldiers have different motivations (payment of mortgage versus the protection of the Motherland), those supporting Russia and Ukraine have different motivations, too. Some hope to annoy the US; the others are capable of empathy. Hence, the West gives us almost everything, but that China just allows Russia to play against the West.

Anti-Americanism gives many a reason to vote in international organizations against resolutions unfavorable to the Russian Federation. It also brings the freaks akin to North Korea and Iran under the Russian flag. But it does not awaken the millions from sleep, as the sense of injustice of this war did. Those sleeping stand for Russia, and those having woken up stand for Ukraine. That is why the energy, and the activeness of support are different.

Another bet of Russia is to destabilize the world and expand the circle of war. That is why their gnashing of teeth was so loud when China, beyond expectations, did not attack Taiwan this year. Well, they will probably pray to all their Orthodox icons for the next year to be different. It is possible that they will try to destabilize Africa and the Balkans. However, bitter disappointment awaits them here as well. Because everyone wants Russian money, but no one wants to be the meat in the furnace of Putin’s global ambitions.

Putin + people + the war

Surkov was right when he wrote that the core of Putin’s state is the trust between the deep people and the supreme leader, and the function of the state apparatus is to maintain this trust. Or, at least, stay out of the way. From the beginning, the war was about just that — about the final chord of the love affair between Russia and Putin.

For him, the war was supposed to become the last feat of Hercules, for her — a springboard to the future. It turned out exactly the opposite. It has become a shame for Russia, and this war has walled Putin himself in politics until his last dying day. Russia has turned into a trinity – “Putin + deep people + war”. There will be no war, there will be no Putin. But something else is more important for us. As it seems to me, there will be no Putin, there will be no war.

Putin’s devilry has many evil spirits and metastases. However, the metastasizing tumor is, after all, Putin himself. Yes, he may be replaced by an even more cruel devil, but the deep people will no longer follow him so slavishly and silently. They will start asking questions. They will begin to pull the blanket over themselves.

Evil, like good, is a magnet that turns the human mass sometimes to the Devil, sometimes to God. Without the magnet effect, it is just a human mass, people as people. Homo putinus, who asks the question, is simply the hero of Zoshchenko’s (a Soviet satirist who ridiculed the circumstances and people of the Soviet system) stories. Sometimes even hilarious. But if there is a magnet of evil nearby, then it is already a rapist, marauder, occupier. A short Horde with tenacious hands and greedy eyes.

As long as Putin is alive, the war will be alive, and the Horde will be alive. And the main issue of international politics will be how to remove the tumor.

What the future brings

Now about what awaits Ukraine. Its choice is the simplest and at the same time infinitely, painfully complex.

Simple — because it stands on the side of good and became its magnet by itself. Its heroism is the justification and atonement of humanity before God. For “pragmatism,” which captured the whole world and forced it to forget that it is a world of people, not interests. For the endless emptiness of beautiful phrases. For useless multilateral diplomacy. For religion and the church, which all over the world have turned into a tool for justifying inaction and making money on Christ.

Ukraine’s choice is simple because it has already made it. But it is also the most difficult because it chose the bloody path, the path of heroism and often misunderstanding on the part of the “sleeping” part of humanity. Those for whom the truth is always in the middle.

By and large, Ukraine chose Golgotha. A torment, a labor, after which there will be a resurrection, a new beginning, a new reality, where its fate will no longer be determined by its historical sins, but by the greatness of its sacrifice. At a certain point, it will even become a “city on a hill” for the world before which evil proved powerless. And even if this moment is impermanent (humanity has poor concentration of attention), it will still be historical, and historical moments do not pass without a trace.

The West and Ukraine

Putin still hopes that the West will retreat from Ukraine. It will not. Imperial arrogance is a bad counselor. Ask Nicholas II about it, for whom the war, as he put it, with “Japanese macaques” was the first step to death in the Ipatiev mansion. Putin’s way to his Ipatiev mansion will be even shorter. Because – I repeat: neither the West nor, especially, Ukraine will back down. Dmytro Kuleba said, if we have to, we will fight with shovels. Now it is already clear that it will not be necessary.

No matter how much someone wants to turn away from Ukraine, to ignore it, Western politicians know that they have entered a phase when their legacy is measured not so much by the number of re-elections, the state of the economy, and percentages of GDP, as by what the history books will write about them. And textbooks will almost certainly be written about them.

A politician who stands on a neutral position may not be noticed by history, but a politician who supported Ukraine and then retreated from it will be noticed and condemned. Therefore, there will be those on the international arena who both supported and did not support, and those who are neutral, but those who supported and then retreated will be very few. The dice has been rolled and the Rubicon has been crossed. Now, everything is in the hands of the Ukrainian defender and the Russian occupier.

Unfortunately, it is no secret that experts and advisers, who rotate in parallel orbits next to Western politicians and dream of becoming the new Kissingers, are usually endowed with immeasurable pride. From the beginning, they did not believe in our victory and are afraid of Russia, especially at the stage of disintegration. And here, Ukrainian diplomacy should have its say. Convince the doubters. Persuade narcissists. Encourage the weak in spirit. Expose and shame the already completely unconscionable. As Anatoliy Zlenko wrote, diplomacy is the human factor raised to an absolute. At the moment of the decisive battle between Good and Evil, appealing not only to pragmatic interests but also to the conscience of those who make or prepare decisions is not naivety but a right and a chance.

While the balloon is deflating

Democracy, in general, differs from tyranny in that it believes in the good in man, and tyranny celebrates the bad. Democracy believes that a man is, by and large, good, and will use freedom for good, while tyranny takes away man’s freedom because it is sure that he is inherently vicious and will use it for evil. Democracy, despite all its faults, appeals to the good in man, and tyranny focuses exclusively on his vices, on the desire to dominate others, imperial arrogance, greed, and stupidity. This strategy has been the key to Putin’s success for a long time. But now it will become his stranglehold.

During the years of its rule, Putin’s regime has carried out the same manipulation not only with Russians, but also with the mass of people outside Russia – it has fooled, bought, and intimidated people. There is no idea, no rightness, or even conviction in this regime. Therefore, its course of action will be unchanged until the very end, namely to kill Ukraine, to bribe China, Turkey and other “neutrals;” to fool Western societies and the Global South with their propaganda (we are waiting for desperate attempts to win back the space lost in social networks); and to scare the world with doomsday.

In the new year, Surovikin will pelt the front with cannon fodder. Gloomy Lavrov will bombard international platforms with gloomy content. Simonyan will flash her cleavage on the fields of genocide and sprinkle jokes on the verge of insanity. Solovyov’s voice will drop to such a roaring bass that the birds will fall dead upon hearing it. But with Rogozin’s voice, there will most likely be the opposite dynamic.

Putin’s Russia is, in a spiritual sense, the walking dead. And in all other senses — a balloon that is deflating inevitably and irreversibly. Slowly but surely, money for bribery, military potential for intimidation, and power of propaganda for deception are coming out of it. On the other hand, unfortunately, this “balloon” is beyond enormous. And these ghouls will drink a lot more of our blood.

Happy upcoming…

On 1 January, the Devil will raise a glass to Russia, and God will raise a glass to Ukraine. The Land of heroes, hard workers, and martyrs. That did not break in the face of the Horde, did not get scared, did not quarrel. That defended Europe. It woke up honest nations, honest people of the world, and became a reproach, a log in the eye of the dishonorable.

I do not know what our victory will look like, but it will happen. Slippery state-security-guy Putin, sullen Lavrov, Shoigu who hides his eyes, Surovikin who does not look like a human being, Mikhalkov who mumbles, “Life begins at forty” Zakharova – all this rat race will never win. And in the full sense of the word, to all appearances, they are no longer going to win, rather to wait. According to the principle, “we will bury our future in the ground, but we will not loosen our grip around your Ukrainian throat.” Forgetting that Ukraine also has fingers to do grips, and Russia also has a throat. And also, about the fact that strength is nevertheless in the truth, and the truth is never on the side of the occupier. After all, we all have already seen who is fighting in this war, and who is doing botch job and paying the mortgage.