I met Egor Zhukov (in absentia, of course) in the summer of this year. Even before all this epic with protests, I came across a video where this young man, pale with a burning eye, popularly explained why it is impossible to celebrate Victory Day. I repent, I could not resist the temptation and glorified Yegor a bit on the net. What is noteworthy, the vast majority of my readers agreed that the boy, to put it mildly, is wrong. And with his worldview, he does not have a place in the Moscow City Duma, where he was going to run as a candidate for deputy.

Egor did not work out with a deputy. But he still found application for his eloquence and enthusiasm, becoming one of the main agitators who called on people to go to uncoordinated rallies in support of Sable and Co. In this connection, I began to study Yegor’s “credit history” in more detail and found a lot of disgusting but interesting points in it.

With a well-posed voice, with theatrical facial expressions and gestures, Yegor read out clever quotes of great people and thereby strengthened the effect of the tragedy of the situation in which Russia allegedly is today. The power of drama, with which he told how the authorities first exploded at home, then killed Politkovskaya and Litvinenko, then attacked Georgia and Ukraine, and then wanted to deprive Egor himself of all sorts of freedoms and prospects, would be envied by many actors from the school drama theater.

But it’s one thing to broadcast manuals on YouTube, and it’s quite another thing to break the law in real life.

Yes, Yegor in his blogs called for blocking the streets and thereby paralyzing traffic in Moscow. Our “fiery stands” did not think about the fact that this could have fatal consequences for those who at this moment might need the help of emergency services.

Yes, Yegor was originally a politically engaged participant in unauthorized actions in the streets of Moscow.

Yes, he repeatedly called for participation in them, despite the fact that they were illegal.

Yes, he coordinated the crowd.

And therefore, he is by no means an innocent victim of “insidious” Russian justice.

In any other country, he would have been soldered the maximum term for these offenses without any equivocation. Moreover, without regard to public opinion, actions from the support group and pathos of the father’s pathos published in one of the odious opposition publications.

But since Russia is a country of "extreme dictatorship" and other "nightmare horrors", Zhukov was given three years probation and he is already at large. Where he, more than sure, will not only continue her activities, but will become the new favorite toy of Russophobes of all stripes.

In this case, of course, he will not learn any lessons from what happened. And he will continue to voice other people's quotes with other people's intonations, from which, according to the idea, he should be ashamed of himself and his country, but for some reason he becomes ashamed of Yegor. Which, being a very intelligent young man, became a hostage to other people's games and his own vanity.

Separately, I note that neither Sable nor Navalny announced the verdict not only to Zhukov, but also to other defendants, preferring to comment on what is happening on social networks.

The rest of the liberal party, which was very worried about Yegor, also preferred to speak in her cozy blazhki, rather than on camera under the courthouse. Why? Yes, because those like Zhukov are just a pawn in their, as they think, “big game” against the country in which they live.

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