Strelkov's Arrest Shatters the Hope For a Patriotic Russia

It is time to face facts.

Strelkov is in a jail cell right now. His friend and partner Gubarev, who we have spoken about before here in passing, was arrested, but then released. Here is what he and the other angry patriots had to say at their presser a few months back. Worth reading. to understand what these people stand for and the source of their critics aimed at the Kremlin:

The summary of what happened:

In Moscow, on July 21, the former “Minister of Defense of the DPR” Igor Strelkov (Girkin) was detained, his apartment was searched. Girkin is accused in the case of incitement to extremism in the telegram channel (Part 2 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code). The Meshchansky District Court puy him under arrest. Near the entrance to the court, several supporters of Girkin were also detained.

Of course, when it comes to our brave dissidents in the West, we see the occupation regime silencing them, arresting them, in some cases even killing them. But when it comes to Russia, these equivalent voices are not dissidents like their western counterparts, but traitors that deserve to be shot by the government, of course.

Strelkov’s arrest was meant to have a chilling effect on patriotic voices within Russia. The government openly brags about making an example out of him:

Deputy Matveychev said that the arrest of Strelkov is a warning to those who discredit the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

"It is high time. We have a lot of people outraged that a person is engaged in extremism. That a person constantly criticizes the army, discredits the army, violates all laws and no measures are taken against him. Is he some kind of untouchable? These are the questions people asked," Matveychev commented.

The parliamentarian concluded that Strelkov's untouchability had become invalid. He also reminded the "linguistic" people who write "anything" online that they will be punished for this.

[Note: that means me too.]

Earlier, Capital Strana reported that Igor Strelkov was detained at home around noon. There is evidence that a criminal case was opened against him for discrediting the Russian army. The reason for the detention could be assessments of his public statements, as well as statements to law enforcement agencies.

Of course, the charges against Strelkov are Orwellian. He and his friends are almost all vets, to a man, who fought in the Donbass. They never discredited the military and, in fact, have always spoke up in defense of the military and the soldiers in it against the corruption and predations of the MoD inflicted upon it, the practice of contracting oligarch criminals like Prigozhin instead of investing in the army, and the attacks on the soldiers by the Liberal media.

He is being charged for critiquing Shoigu and the oligarchs who run the Kremlin, of course. Speaking of Orwellian, someone linked that sovok scumbag Martyanov’s blog in my comments section and I was not surprised to see the sadistic naked bloodlust and depraved gleeful cackling that I found in that den of iniquity and Bolshevism.

I took a few screenshots to share with you so that you get a taste of the unhinged evil that we are up against as truth-tellers here. Feast your eyes on the comrades gloating and eagerly await Strelkov’s punishment, torture and murder and pray to Lenin that the same fate befalls the other 6th columnists:

On the arrest of Russian patriot Kvachkov (we covered him here):

And there was so much more, believe me. Lots of celebrating on all the ZAnon accounts and blogs all over the internet. I warned that this would happen and that it will continue to happen. Funny enough, Western Liberals were rejoicing as well. So was NAFO on Twitter. Just a small sampling:

So, apparently, we have ZAnon, NAFO, the Russian state media, and the Western MSM all united in elation that Strelkov has been arrested and that purges are ongoing.

Does this not raise any red flags in the peasants’ minds at all?

Rhetorical, of course. The braying donkey-headed masses love being lied to and manipulated. They crave the bridle. They seek out chastisement and abuse. When their rulers trick them, they giggle with giddiness and glee.

My hope was that my voice might be able to break through the info shum and get people to wake up BEFORE the purges of Russian patriots began. I made some progress in this time, but, my modest efforts may not have made much of a dent in the end, unfortunately. Maybe if I had a little bit more time. And maybe if more journalists and bloggers had demonstrated a little bit of bravery and curiosity, we would be in a better position now. But it is what it is.

Now, many ZAnon triumphalists will end up losing in the end as well, of course.

The Kremlin will continue to betray Russia’s interests and arresting dissident patriot voices, expanding its net of enemies and demanding greater and greater mental gymnastics from their 5D supporters. Eventually, a handful of these Z-propagandists will be wrapped up as well, because slighted propagandists are always bitter enemies, so better to be careful and do away with them before they become fully disillusioned. It is standard spook state operating procedure. The gulags are always filled with yesterday’s discarded propagandists. Like my recent podcast guest said about these cowards, “soon they will have nothing”!

So why arrest Strelkov?

Some people say that it was because he critiqued Putin recently, or 6 months ago. I don’t think that this was the true trigger because there is a greater context to this. Were those 5 officers who got sacked or arrested literally days before this targeted because they critiqued Putin? No, there are two real factors at play here: the planned negotiations with the West and the Prigozhin mutiny aftermath.

So, with the Kremlin planning to sell out to the West and agree to Carthaginian terms, they need to clean up the dissenters at home before they wave the white flag. Also, Prigozhin’s mutiny showed that the Moscow elite wasn’t unified. Many want peace/capitulation. Prigozhin wanted peace as well. And now we have elites like Simonyan talking about peace. Simonyan who was suspiciously quiet during the mutiny, remember? It is all connected and I am not the only one that has noticed this.

Here is what this conspiratorial Stalinist had to say:

The logic of events is built more or less clearly.

Some time ago, the head of RT, Margarita Simonyan, threw into society the thesis that it was time to end the war and that it was necessary to negotiate with [Ukraine]. Today, Britain is lifting sanctions from its odious employee Anton Krasovsky, who, I recall, acted as a provocateur and tried to present the Russian public as bloodthirsty as the Ukrainian one.

[NOTE: I wrote about Krasovsky and Simonyan here]

They initiate cases against the most consistent critics of treaties and the methods of warfare: Kvachkov and Strelkov.

And today, Putin, in his statement, voiced the thesis that if Poland decides to send its troops to the so-called western Ukraine - the RF Armed Forces will not interfere in this process.

Don't you get the impression that the respected partners have already agreed on everything?

We will have more to say about the Poland thing in the future, I am sure.

And he continues commenting, now on Soloviev’s latest internet show, which gloated over Strelkov’s arrest and said that the purges ourght to continue. All critics of the Kremlin ought to be arrested, apparently. I wrote about Soloviev before.

Comrade Artyem again:

Look, comrades, at this creature with strong immunity. Looking at him, I understand that since yesterday we are living in a completely new realities.

Having imprisoned Strelkov, one can treat him differently, but what can be unequivocally stated is that he is the personification of the “war until complete victory over the Ukrainian” [camp]. Strelkov's [arrest] is a signal to the whole world and to us that all decisions have already been made. Most likely, a purge, monstrous in its scale, is being prepared, in comparison with which the betrayal of Novorossiya in 2014 is an innocent prank. If in 2014, in order to explain to the layman the reasons for the purge, Solovyov and other nonentities had to say "Nobody promised anything to the Donbass, the miners did not rise up correctly, not like in the Crimea, not in a single impulse, our boys should not die for lazy miners and what do you want, do you want a third world war?" back then. Now such a cynical measure will not work. Things have gone too far, there are thousands of families in the country who have lost their loved ones. Therefore, now, before the purge, they clean up everyone who speaks the truth.

Put all together, we have a lot of factors pointing at peace negotiations starting by the end of the year. Many important people seem to think that negotiations will start soon, for one.

Peace voices are starting to stick their heads up to float the idea to the public in Russia. And dissenters are being preemptively arrested. It isn’t an open and shut case, but it is starting to look grim, you have to admit.

Here are what the Orthodox patriots at the Tsar’s Cross project had to say:

Igor Strelkov was detained. He was charged under the most "Russian" article of the Criminal Code - 282, he is accused of "calling for extremism."

The regime has no complaints against the oligarchs, who enrich themselves by plundering the country. He is not afraid of those who recently, according to the President himself, staged an armed rebellion. He is afraid of people who do not have any resources and therefore cannot pose a direct threat to the political stability of the country and the government itself, but who have the determination to go all the way in upholding the truth. And not even the whole one - because no one will tell the whole truth, including Strelkov. And parts of it - but extremely unpleasant for the system. And this is an extremely disturbing symptom of an impending catastrophe.

The SMO has exposed the fundamental contradictions of a system in which there are no values, but only a balance between oligarchs and top officials who prevent each other from “cutting” each other, as a result of which only part of the budget money goes to the state, including for the needs of the army.

In our recent publication, we summarized the main thing that Igor Ivanovich said about this "SMO":

• about disinformation from the top political leadership of the country, which was falsely assured that the ability and desire of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to resist is extremely low;

• about placing support on such dubious figures as Medvedchuk and other “lame ducks” of Russian-Ukrainian politics, incomprehensible from the point of view of Russia's interests;

• about the lack of a clear legal status for the ongoing SMO;

• that the possibility of sanctions by the NATO countries and the European Union was not taken into account;

• about the absence of any responsibility for the failed actions of any of the high government officials;

• about the lack of ammunition at the front;

• on the "non-closure" of borders with the beginning of the SMO, which allowed many thousands of conscripts and carriers of classified information to leave the country without fear.

He also recalled other questions that were uncomfortable for the Russian leadership: “Who specifically made the political “Difficult Decision” to leave the heavily fortified and successfully held Kherson bridgehead without a fight? On what basis was the territory of the Russian Federation surrendered to the enemy, together with the center of the subject of the Federation?.. Kherson is now “no longer” Russia? Who decided so? On what basis?

He also spoke about the strange death of the Moskva cruiser, which went out to the open sea without escort ships, about the blatant unpreparedness of the army for war, including in military-technical terms, about the ongoing muddy “gesheft” through the territory of Ukraine, about the absence of strikes on key points of the enemy’s infrastructure, and much more, which others spoke about at the same time and even earlier. And this means that the arrest of Strelkov is not only his problem. Tomorrow it may touch others who still dare to speak the truth. If we do not show solidarity with him now, then tomorrow we ourselves may find ourselves in his position.

The fact that the regime is more afraid of the truth about itself than real dangers, unwilling to do anything seriously to overcome them (and, therefore, save itself) is evidence of its internal exhaustion and, therefore, its imminent end. This is an objective reality that concerns all of us.

But there is still some positive in what is happening. If the "top" is so afraid of the living word, then, therefore, Russia is still a logocentric country in which the public word means more than just a statement. She is still the heir to the great tradition of Russian literature, in which the poet is more than a poet, and the theater stage is not a theater, but a pulpit. So Russia is still alive. The ruling oligarchy in her distorted, defiled her body, but could not kill her immortal soul. Does that mean we still have a chance?

The salvation of Russia is the work of Divine Providence and is given only through the repentance of the Russian people. The Lord God allowed the third yoke for our admonition. If we repent for our personal, as well as national sins (https://t.me/tsarkrest/10568) for the betrayal of the Tsar-Martyr, there will be no trace of this oligarchic power. It all depends on our free will.

An interesting point was made that the Russian government still fears the Russian people enough to suppress patriotic voices like Strelkov. They are also correct to point out that the peasant uprising has to be religious in nature. All peasant uprisings are. No other kind of genuine grassroots resistance is even possible. All examples that we have from history are religious because religion triggers a switch in people that makes them willing to risk going up against frightful odds that no rational person would try his luck against, for obvious reasons. Peasant uprisings also need a lot of cannon fodder, and religion provides the warm bodies that the rebellion needs to willingly throw themselves onto the machine gun nests.

You can read my position on peasant uprisings here:

I also wrote a post explaining the concept of the “Ghost Dance Rebellion” which is really top shelf and cutting-edge and has never been voiced by any modern thinker, anywhere, before I came along:

Also, I must firmly disavow calls for rebellion or resistance or any kind of public criticism directed against the Kremlin and the spook state by genuine patriots right now for several reasons:

1. I am not in Russia at the moment and so I cannot encourage other peasants to march to their prison cells while I myself am safely tucked away in exile

2. I don’t want to get my blog shut down because I want to continue educating Western patriots, honing my craft as a writer and making money on Substack

3. I don’t think that the rebellion has a chance of succeeding because of how many spooks there are in Russia, it really is a state within a state of maybe 1 million agents all-together if we count informants and the Muslim janissaries as well

4. I am no longer an Orthodox Christian and do not believe that Yahweh will grant the Russian peasants victory through divine intervention because this demon actually supports Zionists and hates Slavs, no matter how much we cuck to him

5. I believe that a dissident Russian elite that understands how to wield populism and psychopompery effectively needs to be first be cultivated before any change is even possible and that step hasn’t been taken yet

6. I selfishly want to return to Russia and so I cannot call for a rebellion against the Kremlin and expect to have any chance of ever being allowed to come back. That being said, I think the government will be toppled and replaced by a new even more pro-Western government soon anyways. Which I disavow as well. Unless it comes to pass, of course, in which case I will disavow my disavowals and will say what I need to say to be allowed back in. Convert now, repent later - that’s my motto when it comes to meaningless secular political loyalties forced upon me by one faction of the global oligarch or another

7. I actually don’t plan on getting involved in politics myself ever again and want to drop talking about politics entirely right before GloboHomoShlomo snuffs out all resistance worldwide sometime by 2030 and focus instead on only talking about gnostic esotericism and yoga, until that becomes banned as well because of strict Biblical Noahide Law being imposed on the land and I have to flee to Mongolia

All in all, yesterday was a grim day. Strelkov will face trial in September. In the meantime, he has been removed from the public arena. Also, we have reason to believe that others will be arrested next, like Gubarev, Murz and others. That channel with all the leaks that we have talked about many times before as a potentially interesting, but dangerous source of information, released documents explaining that the purge was pre-planned and that the Kremlin is now deliberately targeting patriotic voices within Russia, with the possible caveat of disloyal Prigozhin-supporters as well.

First, they report that Strelkov is in a KGB dungeon, where the spooks are looking hard to find something to charge him with. He was already being investigated by the FSB:

"He was hidden from us at the Lubyanka... His identity has not been established. Five gratitudes from the director of the FSB have not been included... They are digging deep. They are trying to find compromising material on humanitarian aid, on collections."

Igor Strelkov's lawyer told the Cheka-OGPU the details of the criminal case. According to the interlocutor, the materials are based on the report of an FSB officer, there are two witnesses in the case (18 and 20 years old from the Belgorod region and Crimea) and the conclusion, which we wrote about earlier.

And the report on who might be targeted next. It was written by the United Russia party president:

“Putin is an undesirable figure in the leadership of the country, has led the country to a dead end ... Girkin-Strelkov, offended by Putin, works within the framework of harmful jingoistic patriotism ... We need to give them some kind of warning .... You look, they will get scared and begin to behave more quietly.”

The Cheka-OGPU publishes a few more fragments from the report to the administration of the President of the United Russia deputy Oleg Matveychev. He saw a serious threat to the Putin regime in jingoistic patriots and offered to apply repressions to Girkin-Strelkov, to recognize one of the jingoistic patriots as a foreign agent, and then others would become like silk [more compliant].

After the mutiny, this plan was put into motion. At the same time, by the way, Matveychev suggested changing the work of Rutube, Vktontake and Odnoklassniki with channels and pages of jingoistic patriots.

And the particulars of the charges:

Strelkov is charged with two posts in a telegram about Crimea and non-payments to the military as calls for extremism

According to (https://zona.media/online/2023/07/21/strelkov#56009) lawyer Alexander Molokhov, the case against Strelkov was opened because of two posts in the telegram published on May 25, 2023.

In them, he "expressed his opinion on the problems associated with the Crimea, and on the fact that the servicemen of the 105th and 107th airborne regiments are not being paid”.

“They analyze these two posts dated May 25, 2023, this Crimean problem and the question of disgrace if monetary allowance is not paid,” says Mediazone’s lawyer.

And some other names from the list include:

Andrei Kartapolov and Andrei Gurulev, United Russia State Duma deputies; Oleg Tsaryov, the former "speaker of the Novorossiya parliament", Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of RT, Mikhail Delyagin, 'A Just Russia – For Truth' State Duma deputy, who is accused of saying that the ruble might devalue, Vladimir Solovyov, who is said to host a nightly "gang rape of the authorities" on his show on the Russia-1 channel.

Again, this is just a party official report that the Kremlin read and supposedly acted on. But I doubt that this report is the real action plan. I don’t think either Simonyan or Shapiro will be arrested because the Kremlin doesn’t arrest their own. Besides, Prigozhin wasn’t touched, and was probably even given lots of money after the mutiny. No, I think the Kremlin will need these two propagandists to de-escalate the Not-War and trick their audiences when surrender talks begin.

The report also argued that the Liberals ought to be left alone because it might lead to bad PR and because they are no threat anyways and that the focus of the crackdown should be on patriots. You can see the ruling party’s Liberal bias breaking through. And the ones that the report doesn’t recommend repressing, it recommends convincing through “talks” i.e., carrots and sticks.

So the purge may continue. What can anyone do to stop it? I only hope it doesn’t escalate out of control, but it very well might. You get this happening often within crumbling political orders. They start getting heavy-handed with their arrests and this panics people who complain and who then are added to the lists themselves for complaining about. theprevious arrests, and the situation feeds on itself, spiraling out of control to a point where either all non-loyalists are purged or the government itself crumbles.

I’ll add this: if any Russian patriots die in the coming months, even supposedly at the hands of the UAF, well ... And ZAnon will celebrate their deaths as well as denying the culprit’s identity, just you watch. I think is time to give up on all hopes that Putin will reform the Kremlin and Russia’s ruling elites. We are stuck with these satraps for the foreseeable future and we are entering yet another cursed chapter in our troubled history. Truth be told, I wish I had never started blogging about this topic. Now the Russians that I read and admire even, in some cases, will be arrested, and I will feel the need to decry this because that’s just how I am. This will lead to me getting put on a list too, because that’s just the path that the Kremlin has chosen going forward, to make enemies out of Russia’s well-wishers, allies and patriots. They had a choice: purge the Westernists in the government or purge the people criticizing the Westernists in the government. Clearly, they chose the latter. Now, calling for reforms, which is what the patriot camp in Russia has always done, will be tantamount to sedition and treason, apparently. And once they surrender, critiquing the unjust peace will also be punished, clearly.

So that is where we are at now. Another “Russian Spring” turned out to be a false thaw that was used to allow voices of dissent to emerge only to be culled, just like they did in the USSR. I see no happy ending to any of this.

May God help the Slavlands.