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| The Elite's New Responsibility - And Don't Say You Weren't Warned |
| 2023-03-31 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Petr Akopov [RIA] Where are the arrests? This question has been repeated by many of our citizens for a year now. I mean the officials, military and entrepreneurs responsible for what is happening at the front and in the rear - for illiterate military operations with serious losses, thoughtless non-deployment of personnel, lack of certain types of weapons, and so on. The indignation is understandable: military actions reveal all the problems, and we (with all the efforts to build an effective control mechanism) had a lot of them. Not only problems, but also birth traumas, characteristic of the entire post-Soviet socio-economic system. And corruption here is one of the strongest diseases. There was intolerance towards it even in peacetime - and the consistent tightening of the fight against embezzlement could be observed throughout the previous decade. But in wartime, corruption literally becomes a betrayal of the Motherland - and the fact that in legal terms it is not equated with it, in fact, does not change anything. Both society and the highest authorities treat those who, in the most difficult time of trials, think about how and where to snatch from the treasury, including from the money allocated for the army and security. Therefore, the news of recent days about arrests in Moscow and Bryansk is perceived not as one-time actions, but as signs of work already gaining momentum. In Moscow, two days ago , the head of the department of the Naval Directorate of the Russian Guard , Sergei Volkov, was arrested , and on Wednesday it became known that the Investigative Committee accused the colonel of supplying faulty Orel-UAV complexes to guard the Crimean bridge. At the same time, we are talking not just about the supply of faulty weapons - but also about their purchase at obviously inflated prices. In the capital, they also took two deputy governors of the Bryansk region - Tatyana Kuleshova and Elena Yegorova. Here the scheme was not related to wartime, officials in the capital received four million rubles from the daughter of the chairman of the regional Public Chamber. For what? The tangle may turn out to be confusing, because on the same day another deputy governor, Nikolai Simonenko, was already arrested in Bryansk. And he, in particular, oversaw the construction of a "protective line" on the border with Ukraine . The nuances here, of course, are significant, but something else is even more important. In the border region of the Bryansk region, officials wanted to live as before - not realizing that new times were coming. In which they will not only find themselves under the close control of law enforcement agencies (this happened before, but nepotism and local orders often did not give rise to an investigation), but they will also receive their hands in an accelerated mode, not having time to turn on unofficial mechanisms of bureaucratic protection. Because wartime is not in the Bryansk region, but in the country as a whole. This is not a new 37th year. Then the bottom line was that after the first repressions against Stalin’s rivals who had lost the struggle for power, the state apparatus in a fit of denunciation began to grind itself up (as a result, several compositions in the leaderships of the regions, including the NKVD departments, changed). The flywheel of repression literally got out of control not only of the security forces, but also of the country's leadership, including Stalin (although they continued to approve the lists of the repressed sent to them, they could no longer help but see the absurdity of the accusations). Now we are not talking about intimidating everyone in a row, and even more so not about fighting the opposition or conspirators (real or imaginary) - it is necessary to adjust the entire nomenklatura (that is, the management elite) to the standards of work of the new time. They are very simple - responsibility, honesty, professionalism, efficiency. Only one thing differs: the degree of responsibility of the nomenklatura for their observance. Therefore, you can, of course, call postmodernism the gesture of Dmitry Medvedev, who read Stalin's telegram to the leadership of the defense industry, which he sent to the directors of military factories in September 1941 - the secretary general asked to fulfill orders honestly and on time, threatening otherwise: "I will start smashing you like criminals neglecting the honor and interests of the Motherland". And you can understand and accept that only that part of the elite that will take everything (including warnings about responsibility) as seriously as possible will pass through the current tests. |
| Posted by:badanov |