The Kremlin Campaign Against Russian Z-Patriots Is Intensifying

What is it all leading up to?

Now, I haven’t been covering the news coming out of Russia because there hasn’t really been any. Or rather, there is news, but it is the kind of disturbing domestic developments that I actually prefer to write about like the continued attacks on patriots by the Putin government and other forms of betrayal that seem to be pointing towards an imminent crackdown and shutdown of the Z-effort.

My last selection of blog posts about Russia chronicled the anti-Russian financial system and continued pressure being put to bear on Z-volunteers and Russian patriots. I posed the question to my readers: does this seem like the behavior of a government that is seriously preparing to wage a war against the West?

The torrent of bad news coming out of Russia proves to me that the purpose of the Not-War is not to gradually mobilize society and slowly achieve a kind of victory over the Globalist-Satanists, but that the complete opposite is, in fact, the goal.

The Kremlin is trying to walk a delicate tightrope of using patriots as cannon fodder in the Not-War and also keeping the spook boot on the neck of civil society, lest the peasantry begin organizing itself and getting uppity. They don’t want to just raid and arrest patriots if they can help it, but they do want to keep applying pressure on them.

Take the latest wave of propaganda unleashed under the direction of the Kremlin’s #1 narrative specialist, Vladimir Shapiro/Soloviev against the Z-samizdat community of bloggers and volunteers. Allow me to summarize the latest attack and cyber-gossip making its rounds on Telegram to you. I consider it a personal privilege, actually.

Let’s dive in.

Professional propagandists who work under the Kabbalah rabbi much-beloved by the Kremlin launched a metaphorical wave of missiles strikes at key nodes of the Russian volunteer network. Here:

The year 2024 began not only with the most massive attacks on the infrastructure of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, but also with another blow to our own network. First I, Romanov and Zhivov came under another an information attack (https://t.me/romanov_92/43591), and then it was followed up with a separate attack on Alexey Zhivov (https://t.me/zhivoff/12389).

He was accused of allegedly siphoning money from crypto wallets somewhere (https://t.me/zhivoff/12382).

So, the two volunteer Z-bloggers and Z-volunteers are Romanov and Zhivov. We’ve covered them before in our Sberbank article.

They were shut down and their volunteer funds frozen by the Russian quasi-national bank run by known Kabbalist queer, Herman Gref.

I was not too lazy to check through the telegram channel “ZHIVOV Z”, and, as it turned out, it does not charge fees for its crypto wallets, and those that do have fees are reposts from other comrades’ channels.

He means that they weren’t taking a cut from people’s donations using a kind of crypto transaction fee tax. Anyone who knows how to send crypto knows that this is a bullshit claim anyway. Yes, you have to pay fees to send money. No, you cannot redirect network fees to your own wallet. That would be the hack of the decade, and would essentially sink Bitcoin or the other major coins.

If this is the charge leveled at the Russian volunteers, it is truly stupendous.

That is, it turns out that the attack on Alexey Zhivov was clearly an order and the [discreditation effort] was carried out by non-professionals who cannot distinguish between self-posts and reposts.

By the way, remember the attack on the channel, Two Majors (https://t.me/dva_majors)? - They do not charge their own fees, but informationally support the costs of other volunteers.

Although, maybe this is not unprofessionalism at work, but simply a bet on the stupidity of their audiences. Those who spread this disinfo, they think that people are stealing from them and the main thing is to blurt it out confidently and emotionally.

So, basically, there are channels that ask for donations to maintain the volunteers themselves. This is not theft of money either way, but even if it were, the cancelled volunteers weren’t even the channels that were asking for their audiences to provide them with living costs. It was a strange guilt-by-association smear.

I get smeared a lot too because I, horror of horrors, ask people to pay to read some of my content and to support me. Does that make me a traitor and a scammer too?

Why do only state or corporate-approved journalists deserve wages?

Why do the rest of us have to work for free?

Ridiculous.

Another question that military bloggers and military analysts are now asking: why only Zhivov? Everything is easy to explain here - this is the simplest attack strategy, which involves hitting one at a time in the hope that the others will not join [in their defense]. There is such a stratagem: pull brushwood out of the fire, that is, pull out one log at a time until the fire withers. First they start with small ones and go up. This is exactly how this strategy has always worked and continues to work.

So, the goal appears to be to isolate and neutralize patriots one by one through financial lawfare and using approved news personalities to attack the credibility of these volunteers.

I have more information to share on this topic, actually, but it is contained in an interview with a media personality working in Russia that I am preparing now. In short, my media “insider” claimed that there would be a major sweep-up effort of independent media personalities within Russia after everyone sobers up from the holidays.

Those who haven’t managed to secure themselves a krisha will be swept away.

The spooks would prefer to use the softer, less coercive methods that their Western colleagues have pioneered such as character assassination, and financial pressure and other forms of manipulation instead of publicly rounding up Z-personalities in the dead of the night, KGB style. More on that soon.

We continue:

But the main question is: who launched this attack? I will say that the biggest stupidity was to make this video with a real actor (https://t.me/romanov_92/43591), whose path, like his patrons, is not difficult to find in the digital world. So far, no one is sharing details, since the military bloggers are under serious [spook] supervision. Also it is very difficult to earn a reputation as being a professional, and they are not accustomed to indiscriminately blaming people without reason, as their opponents like to do.

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God, Russians are obtuse writers, aren’t they? I blame Dostoevsky. Every Russian tries to be Dostoevsky despite not being able to write at the level of Dosoetvsky. An entire nation attempts to write at the level of the greatest novelist in history and fails miserably every time. I’m forced to do more than just translate this blowhard, but also arrange his Russian ramblings into common sense down to earth Anglo-Saxon speak.

*sigh*

OK, so, the Russian government released a PSA featuring a couch potato watching Russian samizdat war-correspondents and falling for their disinfo. The clip featured the two samizdat Z-bloggers and Z-volunteers who are now being targeted by Sberbank, Romanov and Zhivov. You don’t have to remember these names, just the general gist of what is going on, OK?

In other words, the Kremlin-sponsored media arranged a character assassination hit on the samizdat community, warning average Russians to not fall for their alleged propaganda. They then followed up with a financial attack via Sberbank.

The signal is clear: cease and desist.

We continue:

And now an important explanation to our opponents, that is, to those who decided to fight the volunteers and the military bloggers.

Despite our conditional independence, even we understand that now any active war between officials and patriots and patriots against patriots is a blow to the President. We are trying to smooth out any information as much as possible, looking for opportunities to interact and find solutions to pressing issues, without putting everything in the information field, so as not to harm our Leader, and therefore the Motherland, which is in a state of war. But we will be forced to defend ourselves, because we are not sheep and will not silently allow ourselves to be taken to slaughter. It is very strange that opponents do not understand all this, just as they ignore the interests of the President.

PeasantSpeak translator: “The Tsar is good! He does not know what his ministers get up to behind his back! We rebel against the Tsar’s officials in the name of the Tsar!”

I too support Putin on this blog, by the way.

They also threatened to release discrediting information about the government, essentially. Hard to discredit the Kremlin any more at this point, frankly.

You can try to discredit us, but there will be no result gained from this, or rather, it will only be negative. The fact is that people who help the front through us will most likely not go to help through [government]-controlled structures and will become disillusioned with the authorities.

We won’t lose anything, because everyone makes money in completely different types of activities, for which more time and resources will appear because of the closure of our volunteer projects. Yes, today we often do things despite the obstacles put in our way [by the Kremlin], but when it becomes impossible to work at all, we will return to our families and our civilian work, which we abandoned.

And most importantly: the greatest manifestation of the stupidity of an official is to start a war against patriots who help the state during a foreign war. In peacetime, it is also not out of great intelligence that an official chooses to fight without trying to talk and find an opportunity to cooperate, but during war such behavior is the height of stupidity, pride and exaltation of one’s interests over state and public ones.

I don’t know exactly where the wind is blowing, but I hope that the bosses of those who started this trouble will sort things out, because we need to become stronger, more united, smarter, and not weaken due to internal struggle.

Yes, it does seem like attacking your own network of volunteers is not a wise move to make if you are a government fighting a war of survival against Satanism.

These Z-volunteers are political moderates, by the way.

There are still many Z-patriots in Russia who try to maintain the line that I cling to on this blog as well: begging Putin to save Russia from his own government and the West. When the SMO first began, this was the position of almost all the conservative or Orthodox publications. But, one by one, they all started getting disillusioned.

I think they all thought that if they refrained from attacking Putin personally, they would be spared from harassment by Deep State goons. It doesn’t seem like this is the case though, and people like Strelkov are the canary in the coal mine in all of this.

The evidence points to one troubling conclusion: that the Kremlin is planning a clean-up and a clampdown of the samizdat community.

We pick the story from another source with fresh developments. Another Shapiro network propagandist decided to accuse Z-personalities of being frauds. She took it to the next level though by accusing them of being pro-Kiev spies. This is quite the escalation:

A certain Shafran lives in Moscow, who is known in this life for her two accomplishments - that she hosted the program “Nightingale Trills” with Solovyov and the fact that Solovyov kicked her off of his channel.

Shafran posted a video on her website (https://t.me/annashafran/11018), in which she urged readers not to fall for scammers operating from places of imprisonment and ex-prisoners.

Ukraine posted a video insert of comrades Romanov (https://t.me/romanov_92/43591), Zhivov (https://t.me/zhivoff/12320) and Alekhin (https://t.me/Alekhin_Telega), with a link alleging that they are rats [for Kiev] who pose as [pro-Russian]. These are people who spent the entire last year traveling along the front line, delivering humanitarian aid worth more than a hundred million rubles each.

And some Moscow scum decided to compare them with scammers from Ukraine. Are you dogs completely crazy?

I sincerely hope that the comrades will bring this case to trial for libel.

So, in other words, Shapiro ordered his underling to attack the samizdat community and then pretended that she had gone rogue and fired her for doing so. The video is now deleted and I couldn’t find the copy. It turns out, the attack was so blatant and so absurd that it was deemed a failure and memory-holed.

But there are some more details about how the attack-video that was put together that are rather hilarious in a grim way. It concerns the paid actors, all hirelings of Shapiro/Soloviev that put the project together:

Some of the group of characters in the network of Solovyov decided to slander Alexei Zhivov (https://t.me/zhivoff/12389).

Zhivov constantly delivers aid to our soldiers to the most difficult sectors of the Front.

Alexey does not conduct training camps. That is, he purchases technical equipment for the front using his own funds and funds from a limited circle of his personal contacts.

But these degenerates have no time for these details.

Something else is interesting here - my colleagues and I delved into the past of those actors who decided to play this grunt, and found:

- actor No. 1: until 2019 lived in Nikolaev, supported pro-Ukrainian movements;

- actor No. 2: publicly rejoiced at the murders of Igor “Bereg” Mangushev and Vladlen Tatarsky;

- actor No. 3: “claime to be an emergency worker” and immediately asks for money in his profile.

No names will be named yet, but I’m sure these actors recognized themselves.

The icing on the cake is that the attack was actively supported by enemy [Ukrainian] info-channels.

The question arises: who did Soloviev keep in his network and for what purpose?

So, this isn’t surprising at all.

The mainstream media within Russia and the journalist/entertainment community is overwhelmingly pro-Kiev and pro-West and pro-SJW. It is no surprise that they banded together to film a propaganda attack against Z-personalities using government resources. They probably even called up their colleagues in Ukraine and asked them to amplify the story accusing the Z-volunteers of being thieves and informants for Kiev.

Also, everyone understood what this propaganda hit piece means for the Z-cause and what the Kremlin is doing. From a Ukrainian news portal:

The Kremlin has declared a “hunt” on Z war correspondents

Yeah, that does indeed seem to be the case.

And just look at all of the frightening examples of Z-personalities dropping dead or narrowly avoiding assassination attempts. It is a repeat of what happened to the Donbass militiamen. Just think: who benefits if Z-celebs start dropping dead?

Sure, Kiev benefits because they strike a morale blow against Russia and eliminate people who rally Russian society in support of the soldiers. But, if you were looking to wrap a war up and were scared of raising the ire of your own citizenry, wouldn’t you need to do away with these Z-personalities too?

Food for thought.