Former KGB intelligence officer and Vladimir Putin’s former KGB Higher School classmate Yuri Shvets expressed his opinion on the air of his author’s YouTube channel on the aftermath of the terrorist act in the Crocus City Hall. According to him, “the Kremlin is creeping into an inter-ethnic war”. He said: “Twelve people were arrested in Moscow following the events in Crocus City Hall. Almost all of them are Tajiks. Now what is next? [What I think comes] next is an inter-ethnic conflict that may develop into a war. This is the worst powder keg the country has. In the wake of the Crocus City events, one Russian MP said: ‘Our guys will come and crack down on you, unbelievers, non-Christians, and non-Whites’. Putin urged to rein hurrah-patriots. But those are his base, the Russian world. It [that base] is what everything began from. He [Putin] urged to roll this all thing up. And he [Putin] said: ‘When I say Russians, it means all those living in the Russian territory’. But the spark is already there, and the fire is lit. That’s why there is no calm among Tajiks, there is no calm in the Muslim community of Moscow, and there is no calm in Muslim communities throughout Russia and neighboring countries.”
Yuri Shvets’ opinion concerning the character of the Putin regime’s social base resonates well with that of one of Russia’s most well-known TV journalists and Kremlin critics, Aleksander Nevzorov.
Here’s what the latter had said long before what happened in Crocus City Hall: “The Putin regime has become an excellent hothouse for growing this very Russian racism that existed in the USSR, even though having been kept under lock and key and quite strictly persecuted. Putinism, having made a bet on the vilest trait in the character of the people, gave absolute carte blanche to Russian racism… Racism has gained strength, voice, rights, exclusive opportunities, and dignity. And I have to upset you here – it won’t be possible to push this racism back to its former place even after Putin’s death. It will take 20 years of hard, smart work to get rid of this evil, to stuff it back into the hiding cage. It’s a difficult job, and in Russia, there is no strength, nor is there any means and desire to do it”.
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