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Kamil Galeev Profile picture
@kamilkazani
Sep 5, 2022 • 13 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
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Milchakov, commander of "Rusich" group fighting for Russia in Ukraine:

"I'm a Nazi, I'm a Nazi. I won't elaborate whether I'm a nationalist, a patriot or imperialist. I say directly: I'm a Nazi. I can raise my hand in Nazi salute"

(interview to Provsvirnin, Sputnik and Pogrom)
Milchakov, commander of "Rusich" group:

"When you are going to war, that's sexual desire, it's like wanting to fuck... When you are killing a piglet, you savour his wife becoming a widow, his family grieving , him coming back home in a coffin. You have erection, don't you?"
Milchakov, commander of "Rusich" is an interesting person. He used to be a fan of the football club Zenit under a nickname "Fritz". In 2011 he became famous after uploading a video with himself killing a puppy, cutting of its heads and then eating it (photos are googlable) Image
In 2014 the war in Donbass started. So Milchakov rallied his comrades together and founded a group "Rusich" which departed to fight in Donbass on the Russian side Image
In 2022, Rusich group also actively participated in the Special military operation. Here you can see a Russian propagandist boasting about Milchakov "de-Nazifying" Ukraine Image
In his early days Milchakov was known as "Fritz". Now he uses "Serb" or "Topaz" nicknames. Here you can see Milchakov congratulating everyone with Hitler's birthday (April 20) in his Telegram channel - Говорит ТопаZ Image
Milchakov's views have never been a problem. In 2016 Putin's deputy Vladislav Surkov organised a Council of Commanders of Donbass Volunteers. Milchakov participated of course. Here you see him shaking hands with Russia-appointed governor of Crimea Aksenov Image
When you are hearing about the "de-Nazification" of Ukraine, keep in mind who is de-Nazifying it

Warning: next photo will be graphic ImageImage
Here you see a de-Nazifier Milchakov straight after he cut off a puppy's head but before he ate it Image
Here you can see Milchakov in visible confusion after Ukrainians hijacked his Quadrocopter. He orders an immediate retreat as now Ukrainians may know where Rusich group stay and can shell them

You may have wondered where the initial videos with Milchakov declaring himself a Nazi and describing the erection he has when thinking about the grieving families are taken from. Well, from Yegor Prosvirnin (=Sputnik and Pogrom) YouTube channel of course Image
Sputnik and Pogrom used to be by far the most influential Russian nationalist media. It had tons of high profile fans (@achubays for example) as it promoted the nationalist and imperialist agenda in a manner "sophisticated" enough so that higher classes would like it Image
At this point, I'm gonna stop. I'll just ask readers to remember the keyword "Sputnik and Pogrom", because it gonna be relevant in the context of the next thread. The end Image

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Apr 12
There is a common argument that due process belongs only to citizens

Citizens deserve it, non citizens don’t

And, therefore, can be dealt with extrajudicially

That is a perfectly logical, internally consistent position

Now let’s think through its implications
IF citizens have the due process, and non-citizens don’t

THEN we have two parallel systems of justice

One slow, cumbersome, subject to open discussion and to appeal (due process)

Another swift, expedient, and subject neither to a discussion nor to an appeal (extrajudicial)
And the second one already encompasses tens of millions of non citizens living in the United States, legal and illegal, residents or not.

Now the question would be:

Which system is more convenient for those in power?

Well, the answer is obvious
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I have recently read someone comparing Trump’s tariffs with collectivisation in the USSR. I think it is an interesting comparison. I don’t think it is exactly the same thing of course. But I indeed think that Stalin’s collectivisation offers an interesting metaphor, a perspective to think aboutImage
But let’s make a crash intro first

1. The thing you need to understand about the 1920s USSR is that it was an oligarchic regime. It was not strictly speaking, an autocracy. It was a power of few grandees, of the roughly equal rank.
2. Although Joseph Stalin established himself as the single most influential grandee by 1925, that did not make him a dictator. He was simply the most important guy out there. Otherwise, he was just one of a few. He was not yet the God Emperor he would become later.
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The great delusion about popular revolts is that they are provoked by bad conditions of life, and burst out when they exacerbate. Nothing can be further from truth. For the most part, popular revolts do not happen when things get worse. They occur when things turn for the better
This may sound paradoxical and yet, may be easy to explain. When the things had been really, really, really bad, the masses were too weak, to scared and too depressed to even think of raising their head. If they beared any grudges and grievances, they beared them in silence.
When things turn for the better, that is when the people see a chance to restore their pride and agency, and to take revenge for all the past grudges, and all the past fear. As a result, a turn for the better not so much pacifies the population as emboldens and radicalises it.
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Three years of the war have passed

So, let’s recall what has happened so far

The first thing to understand about the Russian-Ukrainian war is that Russia did not plan a war. And it, most certainly, did not plan the protracted hostilities of the kind we are seeing today Image
This entire war is the regime change gone wrong.

Russia did not want a protracted war (no one does). It wanted to replace the government in Kyiv, put Ukraine under control and closely integrate it with Russia

(Operation Danube style) Image
One thing to understand is that Russia viewed Ukraine as a considerable asset. From the Russian perspective, it was a large and populous country populated by what was (again, from the Russian perspective) effectively the same people. Assimilatable, integratable, recruitable Image
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Feb 8
Why does Russia attack?

In 1991, Moscow faced two disobedient ethnic republics: Chechnya and Tatarstan. Both were the Muslim majority autonomies that refused to sign the Federation Treaty (1992), insisting on full sovereignty. In both cases, Moscow was determined to quell them. Image
Still, the final outcome could not be more different. Chechnya was invaded, its towns razed to the ground, its leader assassinated. Tatarstan, on the other hand, managed to sign a favourable agreement with Moscow that lasted until Putin’s era.

The question is - why. Image
Retrospectively, this course of events (obliterate Chechnya, negotiate with Tatarstan) may seem predetermined. But it was not considered as such back then. For many, including many of Yeltsin’s own partisans it came as a surprise, or perhaps even as a betrayal.

Let's see why Image
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On the origins of Napoleon

The single most important thing to understand regarding the background of Napoleon Bonaparte, is that he was born in the Mediterranean. And the Mediterranean, in the words of Braudel, is a sea ringed round by mountains Image
We like to slice the space horizontally, in our imagination. But what we also need to do is to slice it vertically. Until very recently, projection of power (of culture, of institutions) up had been incomparably more difficult than in literally any horizontal direction. Image
Mountains were harsh, impenetrable. They formed a sort of “internal Siberia” in this mild region. Just a few miles away, in the coastal lowland, you had olives and vineyards. Up in the highland, you could have blizzards, and many feet of snow blocking connections with the world. Image
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