Surkov warned about the danger of “ideology of silence” for Russia

Surkov, in his column on chaos and order, warned about a repetition of the history of the 1980s and 1990s

declared the inevitability of the growth of chaos in any social system, regardless of the state system and rulers. In his column for Topical Comments, he warned that pushing such phenomena into a zone of silence, a kind of ideology of silence, threatens to repeat the situation in the 1980s and 1990s.

According to the former deputy head of the presidential administration, at the beginning of the century, the system created in the country by the current leadership stopped the unrestrained avalanche of social chaos. As a result, there have been 20 years of stability in Russia and “there will still be”. “The vertical, order and braces are guaranteed,” Surkov emphasized.

At the same time, he recalled that the disorder could not disappear anywhere, this is contrary to social laws. And if he has already been almost ousted from the Internet, then, most likely, he goes “into the blind zones of public life,” into unannounced collective practices directed not against the official position and popular opinions, but parallel to it.

For such “parallel people”, going to the elections or raising the right poster becomes a way to “give Caesar what was Caesar's” in order to then return to their universes, which exists in contradiction with the spirit and letter of the poster.

“The widespread distribution of such a pointless loyalty and one-time patriotism means that in the seemingly more monolithic structure of society, more and more gaps and cavities are formed, filling with no one knows what, ”Surkov recalled.

Because of this, the correct words become meaningless, the prevailing discourse becomes unconvincing and therefore more and more often needs forceful support. And it is not what people talk about that becomes much more significant, but what they are silent about. At the same time, up to a certain point, according to Surkov, this silence does not threaten the authorities in any way.

The use of extracts of historical memory, expired morality, administrative and spiritual values ​​and other heavy social preservatives in unlimited doses ensures the preservation of the desired stability

Vladislav SurkovAssistant to the President of Russia

However, he recalled that if the problem is ignored, then over time it destroys the existing order of things, which happened at the end of the life of the Soviet Union. To prevent this from happening, the official is sure, you should export chaos outside your own system, as was done in ancient times and as the United States is doing now.

Surkov believes that in the near future several countries will collide in the world at once, trying to endure their instability, among them the United States, China and Russia, and this will generate “devastating geopolitical storms.” After such unrest in the world, Surkov believes, Russia will receive its share in the new global gathering of spaces and will confirm its status as a globalizer. The presidential aide did not give reasons, with the exception of historical reasons, for which this would happen.

In June of this year, Surkov compared President Vladimir Putin to the Roman emperor Octavian, who combined democracy with a monarchical archetype.

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