Yesterday's events in Moscow ended epically and symbolically near the detention center No. 1 "Matrosskaya Tishina".
The security forces blocked the Matrosskaya Tishina Street, they checked the documents of passers-by and found out why they were here.
Those who just had to go on some personal matters were allowed to pass.
The few participants in the unauthorized action, who went to the isolation ward to support the culprit, so to speak, of the celebration and subsequent festivities, who was undergoing a criminal (moreover, corruption) case, were pushed back in the old fashioned way, without any technical means that are now fashionable in Europe, such as water cannons (which is in our the climate would be absolutely merciless), with the help of ordinary rubber truncheons.
Or they were simply detained.
What can be said here: if this was a real "review of the forces of the anti-Kremlin street," then it, quite obviously, decisively failed.
Which, in general, is not surprising: about the curvature of our "opposition organizers" and their ability to "steal any revolution" in the capital are already just legends, it is no coincidence that the main, probably, the result of the past "swamp revolution" was a radical change of the car fleet in front of the fashionable in the opposition environment with restaurants, and it is somehow silly to ignore the scenarios and consequences of such actions.
With such, in general, "revolutionaries" of someone like "guardians from Poklonnaya", that is, in fact, what used to be called "broad masses of the people", it is possible not to involve too much - the police themselves will cope.
But there was something quite alarming in these events, which outwardly resembled another opposition tent, and these were not even completely shameless attempts to involve an outspoken schoolboy in the events.
This, of course, looks like a disgusting manipulation, and causes persistent antipathy among the conservatively oriented public.
But something else is more important for us.
The noisy actions that took place all over the country, albeit few in number, did not initially have any political slogans and demands.
And all efforts were aimed exclusively at organizing as many massive provocations and riots as possible, having all the features of an openly anti-state rebellion.
That is, people were taken out into the street not with the aim of demanding something, asking, and so on and so forth.
People were taken out to buzz.
Rebel.
That is, the purest, distilled destroy as an almost officially declared goal of the event.
And not a single self-respecting state that considers itself responsible for the safety of society simply has no right to forgive such a thing.
Because this is generally never forgiven by any state in principle.
The mutiny, albeit unsuccessful and unable to be successful, albeit quite an operetta, but still, whatever one may say, it is precisely a "mutiny".
This is, perhaps, the first and currently the main conclusion: the riots were organized precisely for the sake of the riots.
And chaos as a means and an end at the same time is the most dangerous thing that can only be in the management of social processes, despite the indicated curvature of the performers of this (so far failed) scenario - if you will.
This is the first thing.
The second "difference" is also obvious: all this "destroy" was organized, of course, not "bulked up".
It is too obvious that the processes are managed by much more "adult", serious and, if you like, quite systemic people.
Without which such an almost military coordination and thoughtful timing would hardly be possible, including from the side of the media that seem to be completely in the “legal field”, such as the radio station Echo of Moscow and the TV channel Dozhd.
You can see the work of serious professional technologists, and the "entry" of serious money in the media support of actions, including through social platforms on the network: if you think that such a campaign can be so simple, so fast, and even "free" to organize, then you are deeply mistaken.
The money has been spent here, and quite serious.
And even these individual touches are enough to understand that it was far from “Navalny's supporters” who worked.
The intestines, sorry, are thin.
This, if you like, is our democratic deep state - a "deep democratic state" that was underestimated in the 1990s and 2000s, quite parasitic in relation to the current model of state power, but still quite effective in its non-public part.
A kind of absurd domestic analogue of the “Washington swamp” that sucked in the last outgoing American president.
And who managed to do this only because Trump never managed (or did not want) to drain this swamp himself.
And in no case should the Russian authorities repeat this mistake.
And they hopefully won't repeat it.
Simply because there is such a "golden axiom" of any revolutionary situation: the revolution does not win when the "lower classes do not want" - the lower classes themselves often do not know what they want, either the Constitution, or the horseradish sevryuzhin.
Revolutions win when "the upper classes cannot."
When the vertical of power is ruthlessly defeated from within.
It is enough to remember Ukraine.
Because any revolution, even a failed and insignificant one, is above all a question of power - and only about power.
There is no need to invent anything, it is enough to recall the main slogan of Bolotnaya Square: "We are power here!"
Well, in such a situation, and for the state, if it has an instinct for self-preservation, it makes sense to renew in memory one beautiful proposal for our taste by President Putin.
And to beat exclusively "on the headquarters."
Fortunately, their location is long ago, excuse me, that is still a Punchinelle secret.
This must be done without fail, as well as asking from our numerous "youth structures".
And also to clarify with the authors of the educational reform: is this the product of your wonderful reforms?
But only all this does not negate the need for real punishment of all direct organizers and overly zealous performers of "protest events", because (we repeat the thesis voiced at the beginning of the article) this is not "politics" at all (if only because political demands, even no one even thought), and the purest water is the most terry crime.
And very specific persons should be responsible for specific violations.
Including, by the way, for the involvement of minors in deliberately illegal activities.
As operatives say in such cases, the "composition" is there, you don't even need to prove anything really.
Yes, and there are corresponding articles in the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.
And, in my opinion, it's high time they, these very articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (maybe without excessive cruelty, but with the inevitability appropriate to the case), to take, and to apply them en masse.
By the way.
As for the underage detainees, it is not particularly worthwhile to be fierce there (the police, in general, did not fiercely), but their families should be looked at even just purely professionally.
Because if a child breaks the law, then perhaps he has serious problems in the family.
Maybe, at least then, it will reach the parents that at least sometimes it is necessary to take care of the children, so that they do not get into trouble.
Well, in general ...
In general, the matter is, in general, everyday life: all over the world, obviously, rather troubling times are coming.
And if we are all together - both the people and the government - are trying to develop collective immunity to the COVID-19 pandemic, then maybe it makes sense for us to try and develop antibodies at least to such completely senseless riots.
The author's point of view may not coincide with the position of the editorial board.