Shoigu's Purge of Patriots Intensifies

It isn't just the military anymore.

Funny enough, the only guy who might end up with his head still on his shoulders after all this purging is done is the guy who launched the mutiny in the first place, Evgeniy Prigozhin, on account of his lawyer blood and inner circle oligarch privilege.

You have already probably heard all about the officers that have been fired so far. All of them were somehow related to Surovikin or had critiqued Shoigu’s disastrous handling of the Not-War. The Western media is happy to report on this, because it makes the Kremlin look like incompetent cretins, but the reality of the matter is that they’re actually quite competent at what their primary task actually is: destroying Russia. Based on this criteria, they’re actually doing a great job.

Keep that in mind as you read on:

Russia sacked two generals in the past week, as Moscow’s Ministry of Defense reportedly continues to purge its top officers, pointing to a growing disarray in the military leadership following the aborted rebellion by the Wagner mercenary group.

Russian Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu canned Maj. Gen. Vladimir Seliverstov, commander of the Tula Airborne Division, this week, according to Belarusian news outlet Charter97.

The governor of the Tula region, which borders Moscow, Alexei Dyumin, tried to stand up for Seliverstov, who was involved in the battles in Bakhmut, but to no avail, according to the Russian publication VChK-OGPU.

Seliverstov’s reported firing comes days after Maj. Gen. Ivan Popov was sacked following a recorded tirade he went on against the Russian government, in which he raised questions about high casualty rates and lack of artillery support, echoing the themes of some of the tirades posted by Wagner Group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin in the weeks leading up to last month’s short-lived mutiny.

Popov, 48, claimed in a voice recording published by Russian Politician Andrew Gurulyov that he was fired as head of the 58th Combined Arms Army in retaliation for his criticism.

“I had no right to lie in the name of you, in the name of my fallen comrades in arms, so I outlined all the problems which exist,” he said in the recording.

Major General Vladimir Seliverstov was removed from the post of commander of the Tula 106th Airborne Division.

“The Ukrainian army could not break through our ranks at the front but our senior chief hit us from the rear, viciously beheading the army at the most difficult and intense moment,” he continued.

Popov also said it was Shoigu who approved his dismissal.

“The senior chiefs apparently sensed some kind of danger from me and quickly concocted an order from the defense minister in just one day and got rid of me,” he said.

Popov’s firing also points to a growing resentment Russian officers have against Moscow’s top brass, according to the UK Ministry of Defense.

“Popov’s comments draw attention to serious disaffection many officers likely harbor towards the senior military leadership,” the agency said in an intelligence update Saturday.

“Direct criticism from subordinates is likely to become an increasing problem for Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Chief of General Staff General [Valery] Gerasimov,” the agency added.

The high-level griping came as Russia lost two more generals to the war in the past week, bringing the total killed in battle to 10.

The casualties among Russian commanders include Lt. Gen Oleg Tsokov who died on July 11 in a strike on a hotel housing military commanders in Berdyansk on Ukraine’s occupied southern coast, the BBC reported.

Tsokov was deputy commander of Russia’s southern military district and the state-run Rossiya-1 media channel reported that he was killed by a Storm Shadow missile that had been given to Ukraine by the UK.

Some people say that Tsokov’s location was deliberately leaked to Kiev. Who knows.

All we know is that we are finally getting that purge that we were hoping for, only it is of Russia’s patriots by Russia’s traitors, and not the other way around.

OK, but I also don’t want to over-exaggerate the patriotic credentials of all of the fired officers. If you noticed, the source that the NY Post relied on was VChK-OGPU. This is a Telegram channel that always seems to have the most interesting insider information about what is going down within the military, the Kremlin and in top oligarch circles. I have discussed this source in the comments section with my Stalkers before and I said that I was loath to rely on them as my primary source of information because, while the stuff that they were reporting was sensational, I didn’t know enough about the project to rely entirely on their exclusive scoops. If you want to, you can read their stuff on your own and decide for yourself. It will make your skin crawl to read the information that they reveal about inner circle shenanigans. If even 50% of it is true, then the picture I paint on this blog is too optimistic by far.

For example: their contention was that Surovikin and Prigozhin became friends while fighting in Syria together and cemented their alliance by pocketing a lot of loot while there. This could be true, and would explain a lot, in fact. Just so you know, the Syria campaign was run like a Blackwater or Dutch East Indies trading company corporate raid and not like a traditional military intervention. This is because Russia is run like a corporation, a LLC, a conglomerate of commercial interests that use goon squads of spooks who put down patriots who object to this state of affairs and hide behind the mask of Liberal values to justify their profiteering. Actually, in my political paradigm, this isn’t really a mask, because looting and oligarchism and spookery are the key pillars on which Liberalism stands, always. Regardless, Putin, as CEO of Russia LLC agreed with Assad that the liberated natural resources in Syria would then be up for grabs.

Which, fair enough.

Russia shouldn’t spend blood and treasure abroad for free. It would actually anger me more if they didn’t demand payment for their services from Assad. Besides, who cares about dead ISIS fighters anyways?

Now, Russia LLC engages in similar operations in Africa as well. There, they battle it out against hostile corporate interests to secure lucrative security contracts and raw resource monopolies. Even now, while the Not-War is raging, we are hearing that even more Russian fighters will be deployed to Africa. Wagner never stopped hiring soldiers for their African operations, even during the worse days of the Bakhmut siege.

What does this tell you about Russia’s priorities? Rhetorical.

While there, “Russian” oligarchs justify their operations by appealing to Third Worldism (legacy of Communism) and, bizarrely, to Orthodoxy. The Western powers appeal to bubblegum and blue jeans, I suppose. And China, well, I’m not sure how China runs their operations, but I assume that their approach is heavy-handed and ineffective and wasteful. You have to understand that second-tier oligarchs like Prigozhin and, say, Constantin Malofeev are sent off to the dirt world so that they don’t cause trouble at home. That is why Prigozhin ended up in Syria, where he managed to make a tidy profit and enlist officers like Surovikin into his faction. But now, it seems like whatever deal Prigozhin cut with the Kremlin didn’t apply to Surovikin and all the officers that have critiqued Shoigu. They are being left to fend for themselves.

But wait, that isn’t all!

Now, one of Russia’s most colorful retired officers, Vladimir Kvachkov, is being persecuted for discrediting the military at home.

With regard to retired GRU colonel Vladimir Kvachkov, a protocol was drawn up on the “discrediting” of the army (Article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses), he himself told Kommersant.

According to Kvachkov, the denunciation was the reason for initiating the case. “The administrative material was received by the department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Tverskoy district of Moscow. It was compiled after the appeal of a certain citizen, whom exactly, I don’t know, ”he said.

Kvachkov also does not know what specific statements of his were considered “discrediting”. The ex-colonel intends to go to the police with a lawyer and sort everything out.

In the meantime, Kvachkov suggested that dissatisfaction could be caused by the appeal of the "All-Russian Officers' Assembly", in which he and his associates criticize the situation in Ukraine, and also call for "transition from a special operation to a full-scale war."

The text was posted on social media. Kvachkov himself believes that the appeal is "criticism of the actions of the political leadership of the country and the military command of the Russian Federation, but does not discredit the Russian army."

The retired  colonel faces a fine of 30,000 to 50,000 rubles. “Despite everything, I will continue to speak out about current events, about the war, about the political situation in Russia,” he said .

74-year-old Kvachkov served 30 years in the special forces of the GRU and in the apparatus of the General Staff. He participated in the Afghan war and armed conflicts in Azerbaijan and Tajikistan. In 2005, Kvachkov was charged with an attempt on the life of Anatoly Chubais, but the jury acquitted him.

Then the military created the "People's militia named after Minin and Pozharsky", which was later recognized as terrorist. In 2013, a court sentenced Kvachkov to eight years in a strict regime colony for attempted armed rebellion. He was released in February 2019.

Ex-State Duma deputy and retired aviation colonel Viktor Alksnis expressed confidence that he, as well as the ex-Minister of Defense of the self-proclaimed DPR, Igor Strelkov (Girkin), who was sentenced in absentia in the Netherlands to life imprisonment for destroying a passenger Boeing » in 2014 were next. Aksnis noted that he was ready for such a development of events, and "a bitter truth is better than a sweet lie."

Kvachkov repeatedly participated in the broadcast of Strelkov, where they together criticized the Russian authorities and the leadership of the Ministry of Defense. At the same time, before the rebellion of the Wagner PMC headed by Yevgeny Prigozhin, law enforcement agencies did not pay attention to such statements if they came from supporters of the war with Ukraine. However, after an attempted armed uprising by mercenaries, the situation changed.

In early July, the security forces tried to disrupt Strelkov's speech at the Listva bookstore in St. Petersburg. First, the police brought a warning about the inadmissibility of illegal actions, and on the day of the event, the building was evacuated due to “mining”. As a result, Strelkov performed at another site.

People like, say, Aussie Cossack perhaps, will try to frame these purges as if people like Kvachkov were anti-Russian. Nothing could be further from the truth though. Kvachkov’s patriotic credentials are platinum-grade. Impeccable. This is the man who attempted to assassinate Anatoly Chubais, the Western spook who was sent in by Langley along with Gaidar, Mau, and all the other creatures who inhabited the Kremlin for many years (most still do) to destroy Russia with their Liberal Democratic (read: pro-looting) policies in the 90s. If there was anyone who ought to be assassinated (Disclaimer: I disavow and condemn and am morally appalled, ofc) it would be someone like Chubais. There is simply no case that anyone could make for how and why Chubais was actually secretly a Russian patriot working to checkmate the West. From a patriot persective, Kvachkov chose a legitimate target (Disclaimer x2: I categorically condemn any and all violence and radicalism and unfashionable opinions on this blog).

They couldn’t even get a jury to condemn him because he was so sympathetic!

Now, Kvachkov is a former GRU guy and further proof of my thesis that of all the agencies and institutions in Russia, only the GRU was in any way shape or form patriotic. I hope to go deeper into explaining this thesis, but to do so, we have to dive back into Soviet-era conspiracy theories. When we do, I WILL paywall the article, so may as well bite the bullet and sign up now if you want to learn something of actual value instead of being lied to repeatedly by ZAnon. Or, idk, maybe you get a sick sexual thrill from being treated that way. I assume that if you haven’t signed up yet, you’re probably a sexual fetishist of a kind. No other explanation makes any sense to me, really.

Also, if we consult the short list of GRU people who are visible in this conflict now we find Streklov, Utkin, Kvachkov, and other less visible names. These people are all critical of Shoigu and the handling of the Not-War. Oh, and we can even add Viktor But to the list as well. Kvachkov even used to appear on Streklov’s show. He is also involved with the veterans organization that condemns the Kremlin for being Western agents and for demographically genociding the Russian people. I wrote about them before:

So, this guy is definitely /ourmadlad/.

The law against discrediting the military isn’t a law to prevent the troops from being spit on in the streets like Vietnam vets in America were. Why would they be? Russians are proud of their soldiers and support them. No, the law is designed to silence critics of Shoigu and the web of intrigue that he spun around the various so-called “towers” (centers of influence) in the Kremlin.

The Black Colonel, a very interesting and patriotic Nationalist voice from the old days, who we have met before, came out and said that he thinks that he and Strelkov are next. Here, read up first:

And the Black Colonel’s warning:

Vladimir Kvachkov has just confirmed to me by phone that a case has been opened against him for discrediting the army.

https://t.me/russia_and_anvil/5853

The following will be reserve colonel Strelkov I.I. and retired colonel Alksnis V.I.

I lived and will continue to live by the principles:

Do what you must and be as it will be!.

Better a bitter truth than a sweet lie!

I am not the first to answer for discreditation.

"There are forces that destabilize the situation in the country. These forces exist both in society, and at the plenum of the Central Committee, and in the Supreme Soviet. These are deputies Alksnis, Blokhin and others."

From the speech of the President of the USSR M. Gorbachev at the meeting of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on June 21, 1991.

There are two months left before the State Emergency Committee is convened.

As you will recall, many people like Strelkov and others were very against Prigozhin and, at the same time, copied the same critiques that he had against Shoigu. It was a powerful proof that they were telling the truth because even though the two groups hated each other, they were saying remarkably similar things.

But, despite this, the temptation to remove these critics might prove too great now that there is a flimsy pretext to do so.

We will see what happens next.

But, if these voices are indeed silenced, I sure as hell won’t stay silent and pretend that these were CIA or SBU spooks that had been miraculously discovered by Shoigu in the nick of time. I will always say the opposite of what ZAnon says.

Always.

Count on it.

The real question we should be asking ourselves is: who are the real traitors to Russia?