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On January 31, 2022, a retired Russian Colonel-General, chairman of the All-Russian Officers’ Assembly, posted [justsecurity.org] an appeal to Putin not to invade Ukraine. That appeal ended with a call to Putin to resign.

On March 10 of this year, the same All-Russian Officers' Assembly, published a new appeal. This appeal is a little more harsh, and rather informative (source [www.ooc.su]. The latest appeal is signed by 32 majors, captains, colonels, lieutenant-colonels and one (lost?) private of the Russian Navy, Army and GRU.

The All-Russian Officers' Assembly is not just any right-wing and anti-Jewish organisation within the Russian Army: one of its members is Igor Strelkov, alias Igor Girkin -- a murky character who ended up coordinating the 'little green men' in the 2014 Krim invasion.

Below is a translation of the March 10 statement:

Statement of the All-Russian Officers ' Meeting of March 10, 2023

We, veterans of the Russian Armed Forces and special Services, united in the All-Russian Officers ' Assembly, have carefully analyzed the current military-political and military-strategic situation after a year of the so-called special military operation, discussed the Message of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin to the Federal Assembly and carefully studied the assessment of past events by various political forces and public organizations, we came to the following conclusions.

Hypocritically confirming in his speech on February 21 the satanic origin of the deadly threat to the very existence of historical Russia, Putin, as the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, publicly evaded making appropriate moral, political and military-strategic decisions to protect the integrity of Russia and the way of life of the Russian and other indigenous Russian peoples.

He cowardly lowered the level of our global confrontation with the world forces of Satan to the trade and economic stage of his clan interests and, thereby, revealed himself as an opponent of the struggle for a united Russian world.

It became clear: Putin and Zelensky are of the same, non-Russian blood, and the restoration of Russian peace in the lands of Great and Little Russia is equally unacceptable for them. Zelensky will fight to the last Ukrainian, and Putin will "consistently and carefully" replace the Russian and other indigenous population of Russia who are dying at the front with millions of immigrants at the rate of 1 million per month (in 2022, their number increased by 5 million). The war showed that it is he, Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is the hidden but true head of state Russophobia in Russia, and nothing Putin, Putin or pro-Putin can be Russian by definition.

Putin's refusal to appeal to the people and the army for a Patriotic war in the face of deadly danger drew a moral and political line under his state activities. After such a Message, there is nothing more to expect from him: neither he himself will stand up with his chest to defend the Fatherland, nor will he raise a huge country to a mortal battle.

The continuation of Putin's political life means the physical death of the Russian world from national suffocation. However, neither the supreme constitutional body of the representative power of the people represented by its two chambers of the Federal Assembly, nor any political party represented in the State Duma, or any other party, nor any of the many public and veteran organizations, including the military, dared to openly give a harsh but objective assessment of the actions of the country's political and military leadership during during the war and declare the inability of the current state authorities to win. Our Russian victory.

At the same time, the past year has shown the correctness of the assessment of the military-political and military-strategic situation given in the Statement of the All-Russian Officers 'Meeting of May 19, 2022:" The Special Operation is over! A full-blooded war has begun! In its spiritual, moral, national, political, and socio-economic essence, this is a new Patriotic war of historical Russia against the global infernal forces of the so-called "new world order".

The Statement also made concrete proposals to the highest officials of the State and the Church to radically correct the situation on the front of the fight against the Zionist-Bandera Nazis. However, neither the political nor military leadership of the Russian Federation, nor the Church has taken the necessary decisive measures proposed by us.

Now we responsibly declare: the strategic military actions that have been carried out since February 24, 2022 by the Armed Forces and other troops of the Russian Federation, as well as the People's Militia corps of the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics, private military companies and various volunteer formations, have shown a clear inability of the current top political and military leadership to correctly assess the current geo-religious, geopolitical and geo-economic situation in the world and properly manage the country in wartime.

Not quite adequate behavior with the beginning of military operations of the President of the Russian Federation and the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, citizen V. V. Putin, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, Chairman of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation E. S. Nabiullina, Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu, Chief of the General Staff V. V. Gerasimov and other top officials of the Russian Federation over the past year has turned into deadly a dangerous threat to the very existence of Russia as the backbone of the entire Russian world.

In addition, some of the actions and hidden omissions of these individuals showed obvious signs of high treason and national treachery.

President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, in violation of the law, evaded the duties of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, which is provided for in Article 87 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, and arbitrarily transferred these duties to the Minister of Defense.

As the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, citizen V. V. Putin failed to fulfill the following duties assigned to him by the Federal Law "On Defense".

According to paragraphs 3 and 4 of Article 4 "Powers of the President of the Russian Federation in the field of defense", it is he who exercises leadership of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, other troops, military formations and bodies, and in the event of armed conflicts – declares general or partial mobilization, introduces martial law and orders the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces However, with the outbreak of hostilities, none of this was done.

Having been convinced of his 3-month inactivity, the All-Russian Officers ' Assembly called on citizen Putin V. V. to fulfill these duties of the President of the Russian Federation in its Statement dated May 19, 2022.

However, in response, I received a cynical refusal from his Administration to even consider this issue, falsely referring to the fact that these issues belong to the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Defense, where our Application was forwarded, which ultimately remained without any response at all. As a result, partial mobilization was carried out with a six-month delay, which led to an unacceptable superiority of the enemy over Russian formations, units and subunits at the front in personnel and equipment and, accordingly, to unjustified losses.

The lack of a clear and open order from the Supreme Commander-in-Chief to the Armed Forces on the goals and objectives of the combat operations that began led to subsequent evasion of commanders and commanders of all degrees from issuing corresponding written combat orders to their subordinates.

It is quite obvious that the absence of a written combat order or a written combat order inevitably creates a lack of responsibility, both for those who verbally gave them and for those who verbally received them.

As a result, oral, often obscene, swearing and profanity everywhere replaced the procedure for preparing and conducting operations and combat strictly defined in the charters and manuals. In the combat practice of the troops without a written order, a monstrous immorality of their assessment of the losses incurred was introduced: the greater the losses, the greater the rewards and the higher the assessment of the will of commanders and superiors.

V. V. Putin's public refusal to confirm his duties as Supreme Commander-in-Chief is caused by his cowardice and unwillingness to bear personal responsibility for the Plan for the Construction and Development of the Armed Forces, which, according to paragraph 7 of his duties in the field of defense, he approved even before the start of the current military operations as President and Supreme Commander.

It is already obvious that the concept of military construction in the Russian Federation as a whole and the development of the Armed Forces in all areas of military operations – on land, at sea, in the air, in space, in the field of electronic warfare and cybernetics, as well as in the management of troops and weapons – did not correspond to the modern development of military art.

The State Armament Program approved by Putin in accordance with paragraph 8 also showed its complete failure: we are forced to purchase unmanned aerial vehicles for military purposes abroad, collect money from the population to purchase commercial drones and send them to the front, and bring our soldiers thermal imagers, sights, communications equipment, equipment and other things they need.

According to paragraph 11 of his duties, citizen V. V. Putin approved the structure and composition of the Armed Forces and the full-time number of military personnel up to and including the army level; the failed discrepancy between the approved structures and the staff of army associations is confirmed by emergency decisions of the expanded board of the Ministry of Defense in December 2022.

It was citizen V. V. Putin, as the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, who, in accordance with paragraph 7, approved the Mobilization Plan of the Armed Forces and, in accordance with paragraph 11.1, made a decision on the composition and condition of the mobilization human reserves that existed on February 24, 2022, indicating the number of reservists and their distribution between the types of Armed Forces and branches of

A glaring discrepancy between the approved Mobilization Plan and the decision taken at that time on mobile resources to the real needs of troops and forces in conducting strategic combat operations was shown by the partial mobilization carried out.

In addition, the actions of the President of the Russian Federation, citizen V. V. Putin, contain signs of crimes against state power in the form of high treason, provided for in the following articles of the Criminal Code: Article 275.1 "Cooperation on a confidential basis with a foreign state, international or foreign organization".

These suspicions are confirmed by the following facts:

• participation in the Istanbul negotiations of the odious Zionist-liberal Abramovich and the subsequent withdrawal of Russian groups of troops from the liberated lands in the Kiev, Chernihiv and Sumy regions allegedly "voluntarily" by citizen Putin;
• refusal of a decisive breakthrough of the enemy's defenses on the flanks of the Donbass operational direction, followed by encirclement and destruction of its groups on the left bank of the Dnieper and the establishment of a line of contact 40-50 km to the west to avoid artillery and MLRS fire on Donetsk; instead, months of scattered, unsuccessful and bloody attempts to attack small units "head-on" on reinforced concrete fortifications, as a result of which the enemy is given the opportunity to increase artillery and rocket attacks several times in order to systematically destroy the city and population of Donetsk-truly the current capital of Russian Russia, the entire Donetsk People's Republic and the frontline territories;
• the treacherous retreat of our troops from the Kharkiv region with the enemy's access to the state border of Russia and getting them the opportunity to organize sabotage operations on Russian territory and the beginning of systematic mortar, artillery and rocket attacks by the enemy in the Belgorod, Kursk and Bryansk regions;
• unexplained, from a military point of view, leaving the enemy without a fight a significant part of the territory of the Russian Federation - the right-bank part of the Kherson region, together with the regional center of the city of Kherson;

In the actions of the President of the Russian Federation, citizen V. V. Putin, there are also signs of a crime under Article 300 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "Illegal exemption from criminal liability". On April 17, 2022, the official representative of the Ministry of Defense of that time, Major General I. Konashenkov, reported that on the territory of the surrounded Azovstal plant in Mariupol, in addition to the marines of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the Nazis of Azov, there are up to 400 more foreigners and conversations between them are conducted in six foreign languages.

However, after their capture, the same R. Abramovich in September, on his plane, took out of Russia foreign mercenaries sentenced to death in the DPR. according to the law of the Russian Federation, no one can pardon criminals and give the command to release them. Nobody. Except for the President. And Putin did it.

Everyone knows Putin's catchy expression "We don't give up our own people!" Only for him, the Russians and other indigenous peoples of Russia are not his own; the people who were killed by "Jewish Bandera" in Bucha, Izyum,Kherson and other places where people believed in their liberation by Russia from the Nazi regime were not his own.

Putin has proved that 21 officers of the Israeli army, the IDF, captured after the bloody assault and liberation of Mariupol are" his own " for him. The reason is brazen and cynical: these officers allegedly did not participate in military operations against the Russian army.

It is quite the opposite – Jewish officers in the basements of Azovstal have been organizing communications, navigation and control of formations, units and subunits of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, determining the coordinates of our command posts, communication centers, firing positions of rocket troops and artillery, accumulations of weapons and equipment, warehouses and other important Russian targets using satellite navigation. Starlink systems and strikes on them have caused more defeats to our army and killed more servicemen and civilians of Donbass with rockets and artillery than all the captured Ukrainian Marines and Azov Nazis combined.

But by Putin's "good will" they all returned to Israel. Serve further. Surely their combat experience in organizing combat operations against the Russian army will be in demand against our Khmeimim air base and the Tartus Fleet logistics center in Syria.

Thus, the real activity of citizen V. V. Putin as the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces turned out to be inconsistent with the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the requirements of the Law "On Defense" and has signs of treachery and high treason.

There is every reason to believe that the Zionist-Bandera regime of Zelensky and the Zionist-liberal regime of Putin in this "strange" and deliberately prolonged war are actually jointly disposing of the manpower of the Russian world.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has so clearly demonstrated his inability to manage the Armed Forces both in peacetime and in wartime that this raises concerns for the entire moral and mental level of the current state administration as a whole. However, to the same extent that Putin, as Supreme Commander-in-Chief, "directs the Armed Forces," Shoigu also "manages them" (article 13 of the Defense Law). This "non-military couple" has already shown their incompetence in the field of defense.

The treacherous and treacherous nature of the goals and objectives of the operational and strategic actions of the Russian Army, emanating from the Supreme Commander-in-Chief V. V. Putin, is confirmed by the testimony of citizen S. K. Shoigu himself at an expanded meeting of the Board of the Ministry of Defense on December 21, 2022, at which he explicitly stated that "in general, all the tasks defined for 2022 Completed by our own forces."

Now let's clarify these "completed tasks" in the style of Putin's state propaganda:

- during a year of continuous combat operations, the "world's second most powerful" Russian army did not allow the enemy to retreat at least 30 km from Donetsk, than to stop rocket and artillery attacks on the city and, moreover, did not allow the Ukronazis to withdraw and leave the occupied lands of Donbass, which are now the territory of the Russian Federation;

- the Russian Navy also completed its tasks: the Black Sea Fleet, which the enemy sank the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet, the missile cruiser Moskva, the large landing ship Saratov and a number of other ships, managed to return to the base in Sevastopol and from there stand threateningly in the roadstead, turning into a naval extra on the Black Sea;

- the Russian space orbital grouping of the Russian Aerospace Forces still makes thousands of orbits around the Earth, heroically flying beyond the reach of Ukrainian air defense and, at the same time, being out of the operational availability of space information for Russian units, units and formations on the line of contact.

These are the tasks of the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, performed by the Armed Forces according to the report of Defense Minister Shoigu. And all this was done according to the "cunning Putin plan"!

In addition, at the specified meeting of the Board of the Ministry of Defense, citizen S. K. Shoigu officially stated the following:: "The combat capabilities of the Armed Forces have increased by more than 13%."

However, the All-Russian Officers ' Meeting asks to clarify the following::

- By how much % have the combat capabilities of the 76 Pskov and 98 Ivanovo Airborne divisions increased, especially the Kostroma Regiment, 31 brigades in Ulyanovsk and all the glorious Airborne Forces in general?

- By how much % have the combat capabilities of the Black Sea, Northern and Pacific Fleet marine brigades taking part in combat operations increased, especially the 810th brigade of the Black Sea Fleet MP, which stormed an enemy several times larger than the Marines in Mariupol?

- How much % did the combat capabilities of the 1st Guards Tank Army increase after it urgently abandoned its combat positions along with weapons, equipment and warehouses in Izyum, Kupyansk, Balakliya and other places in the Kharkiv region? The same formidable military equipment that we were shown at parades in Moscow? But, by the way, the famous Armata tank was not there-neither at the front, nor in the rear, nor among the Ukrainian trophies. Where did he go? What a cunning Putin he is…

- By how many % have the combat capabilities of the Russian Black Sea Fleet increased, after inflicting known losses on it? Maybe we should sink everything at the Black Sea Fleet in general, in order to increase the percentage of combat capabilities of the fleet that was at the bottom by 100%?

- And most importantly-by how many % did the punitive capabilities of Citizen Shoigu himself, the First Liar of the Ministry of Defense, as well as his First Liar in the Information Department of the Ministry of Defense, increase?

Objective conclusions of the All-Russian Officers ' Meeting on the activities of the Ministry of Defense over the past year of the war are as follows.

1) The main tasks assigned by the Russian legislation to the Ministry of Defense were not fulfilled:

- the state defense policy pursued for decades turned out to be criminally unprofessional, incompetent and erroneous – the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation were not ready for modern warfare on land, at sea, in the air, in space, as well as in the cyber sphere. - the actual organization of the use of the Armed Forces in real military operations showed a clear inability of the Ministry of Defense leadership to understand the nature of modern warfare and armed struggle at the strategic, operational and tactical levels and to reflect this in manuals, combat regulations and other guidance documents, which led to the loss of proper command and control of troops and weapons (military districts, fleets), in operational associations (armies), in operational-tactical (corps) and tactical formations (divisions, individual brigades), in units (regiments and individual battalions, divisions) and in subdivisions – in battalions, companies and platoons up to the squad (crew, calculation). You can't fight like that!

2) The powers assigned to the Ministry of Defense by law for the development of the military-industrial complex and the formation of the state defense order fell into the wrong hands and into the wrong heads.

As a result, the federal state armament program developed and submitted by the Ministry of Defense to the Government of the Russian Federation during combat operations showed its inconsistency with the real needs of the Types of Armed Forces and branches of the Armed Forces in fulfilling the strategic and operational tasks assigned to them, as well as the combat tasks of formations, units and subunits in modern conditions.

It is the incompetence of the leadership of the Ministry of Defense that has become the main reason for the backward military-technical policy in creating and improving weapons and military equipment. The strategic military operations that began a year ago and are currently underway have shown that the Ministry of Defense failed to cope with this task either by February 24, 2022, or by now: the defense industry products were not in the quantity, nomenclature, and quality that both the Ground Forces and the Navy require and the Air and Space Forces.

As a result of the incompetent management of the Armed Forces by citizen Shoigu after a year of war, the common people of Russia are still forced to raise money, find forces and resources to properly supply their army with modern intelligence, communications, target designation, personal and group equipment items. We know how the political and military leadership of the Soviet Union, headed by J. V. Stalin, was able to move thousands of defense enterprises to the east of the country in a few months after the start of the war in the most difficult conditions of 1941 and put the economy on a war footing. They couldn't, and they can't do anything anymore.

3) The past year has shown the blatant inability of the Ministry of Defense to urgently develop and make the necessary changes and additions to the programs of research and development work performed by enterprises and research organizations of the Ministry of Defense, as well as to organize the placement and payment of orders for the purchase of new samples developed taking into account the experience of and organizations on their own initiative.

Moreover, being the main manager of the federal budget funds provided for the maintenance of the Ministry of Defense and the implementation of the powers assigned to it, the bureaucratic apparatus of the Ministry prevents the urgent purchase and delivery to the troops of these new types of military equipment that have already been developed and passed the necessary tests, requiring developers to set and troops.

4) The people and the army need to know that it is the Defense Minister who directly reports to the Main Directorate of Combat Training of the Armed Forces (GUBP of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation), which is designed to organize combat training of troops (forces).

The past year has shown the actual level of combat training of the Russian army: it turned out to be extremely unsatisfactory. GUBP is also responsible for managing the development of the training and material base of combat training, technical training facilities. We were able to see the real state of the training centers and the degree of organization of training during the combat training of the mobilized.

In contrast to the Great Patriotic War, when the draft new Combat regulations of the infantry (part I-fighter, squad, platoon, company; part II-battalion, regiment), taking into account the changed conditions of warfare, appeared already in 1942 and after personal amendments by I. V. Stalin were put into effect, over the past year in the troops did not receive even a single training manual on the combat training of units, units and formations, taking into account the mass use by both sides of drones, thermal imagers, night sights, other means of reconnaissance and navigation, the saturation of combat formations directly on the line of contact with mortars, artillery, ATGMs, MANPADS, the need to disperse personnel, weapons, etc. equipment, as well as other changes in the preparation and conduct of combat in modern conditions.

For reference: from 2013 to the present, the head of the GUBP of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation is Colonel-General I. A. Buvaltsev, under whom this department successfully completed the tasks of organizing various international army competitions and building the Patriot military-patriotic park.

5) In the last 15 years, the Russian Armed Forces have been subjected to two stages of their degradation:

Stage 1-Putin-Serdyukov conflict, which resulted in the liquidation of the organizational system of the USSR Armed Forces and the loss of military security of the country;

Stage 2 – Putin-Shoigu, which resulted in the construction of ostentatious circus information sets on a military wasteland, supposedly the second most powerful Russian army in the world. But the circus was burned down by ukro-Nazi saboteurs, and who was left there...?

6) The personnel policy created and implemented by the Main Personnel Department of the Ministry of Defense in the Armed Forces has shown its inferiority and inability to prepare the officer corps to perform the tasks assigned to it for the armed defense of the Fatherland.

But after all, there was such a profession – to defend the Motherland... However, the military academies that were reorganized and moved from Moscow to various regional cities lost their high level of academic science and turned into provincial training centers.

The liquidation of 67 military schools and dozens of military departments led to the destruction of the entire former state system of training cadre officers and accumulating reserve officers. As a result, the current troops are actually fighting without a platoon, company and battalion level of officers. It has come to the point that companies from several groups of mobilized people are already commanded not even by sergeants, but by ordinary soldiers who have received combat experience: there are practically no officers on the line of contact.

Citizen Putin, do you really know nothing about this? Citizen Shoigu, at what distance from the Ministry of Defense building on Frunzenskaya Embankment does combat operations management actually end? According to paragraph 9 of the Regulations on the Ministry of Defense, the Minister is personally responsible for solving the tasks and exercising the powers assigned to the Ministry of Defense and the Armed Forces.

Military actions showed that citizen S. K. Shoigu failed to fulfill his duties. According to the All-Russian Officers ' Assembly, his continued tenure as Minister of Defense of Russia is an insult to all personnel of the Armed Forces and other troops of the Russian Federation fighting on the front of private military campaigns and other volunteer formations.

General conclusion.

The refusal of the President of the Russian Federation to officially declare as the main political goal of the war the complete liberation of Little Russia and its capital Kiev from the Zionist-Bandera Nazis up to the borders that passed along the western borders of the USSR deprives the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation of early strategic planning, the possibility of proper training and operations, and the personnel of the Armed Forces and other troops of the Russian Federation, private military campaigns and volunteer formations have clear national, political, and military goals and objectives in the ongoing war.

Moreover, the rejection of the People's Liberation campaign in Little Russia with the complete elimination of the existing foothold of the globalist liberal-fascist regime against Russia inevitably leaves a hotbed of deadly danger for the entire Russian civilization.

This should not be allowed in any case, but within the framework of the existing socio-political system, there is no solution in sight.

To recognize Putin's plan of military operations in the former Ukraine, voiced in the Message, to consistently and permanently oust the enemy from the occupied territories and destroy its manpower and equipment on the line of contact, as sabotage, deliberately prolonging the war and harming the national interests of the Russian world.

The military-economic potential of NATO, led by the United States, is many times greater than the capabilities of the Russian military-industrial complex and will provide the enemy with an immeasurable military-technical superiority both in the quality and quantity of weapons, especially in drones, communications, navigation, electronic warfare, long-range artillery, Hymers-type MLRS, and in the long term and beyond. aviation.

The very fact that the West supplies an almost unlimited amount of weapons and military equipment, and with an increase in the range of enemy weapons in the future to the entire depth of the European part of the Russian Federation, makes such a Putin plan criminal, inevitably leading to defeat and only postponed and stretched out in time. It is absolutely impossible to prolong the war.

The All-Russian Officers 'Assembly defines the current situation as" The Fatherland is in danger! " and on this basis writes: :

1. Declare the military (combat) actions of the Armed Forces and other troops of the Russian Federation that began on February 24 last year as the Patriotic War. On the basis of Articles 3 and 4 of the Federal Constitutional Law No. 1-FKZ of January 30, 2002 "On martial law", introduce a martial law regime on the entire territory of the Russian Federation.

2. To declare that the Liberation campaign of the Russian Army is aimed at establishing Russian socialism in Little Russia: restoring Little Russia as an integral part of the historical Russian world-the Union of Great, Small and White Russia, which has joined the fight against the world zion-liberal backstage for the spiritual values of Orthodox Christianity against Satanism, medical and biological terrorism, digital concentration camps, sodomy and other LGBT abominations; the abolition of predatory privatization in the 1990s and the return of national natural resources, as well as energy, communications, transport, large industrial and agricultural enterprises to public ownership; the establishment of a multi-layered economic system with the dominance of the socialist way of conducting the national economy; the replacement of the former bourgeois party-parliamentary system with a system of Zemstvo-Labor Councils at all levels of national representation; establishing the family as the basis of the Russian way of life, curbing population decline and increasing the number of Little Russians by 6-7 times by the end of the 21st century and bringing the number of the entire Russian world to 1 billion people; introducing universal free health care, including high-tech medical care; introducing free higher, secondary technical and secondary education, as well as preschool education in state control of all monetary circulation in the country; cancellation of all previous financial debts on mortgages and all other loans; establishment of a single price for gas, gasoline and other energy carriers throughout the Russian world; establish the right to citizenship of Little Russia only for people of the indigenous nationalities of the Russian Union – the Union of Great, Small and White Russia.

3. Establish the State Defense Committee (GKO) as an extraordinary supreme body of state administration and the Headquarters of the Supreme High Command (Stavka VGK) as an extraordinary body of the supreme military administration, which assign full power and responsibility for the conduct of war.

4. Declare a general mobilization throughout the country – moral and political, religious and spiritual, military, scientific, industrial, food, cultural.

Form three full-fledged and modern operational-strategic associations on the basis of the Moscow (Western) and Southern military districts with the involvement of strategic reserves:

1st Little Russian Front,

2nd Little Russian Front and

The 3rd Little Russian Front with the creation of groups in them that provide multiple and overwhelming superiority over the enemy in personnel, weapons and all types of equipment in order to dramatically reduce losses and shorten the time of the People's Liberation Campaign of the Russian Army.

5. In order to deprive the Zionist-Bandera regime in Kiev of its internal ability to conduct any armed struggle on the line of contact, strictly stop any foreign supplies of weapons and equipment. Russia's plan for strategic military action is based on the complete isolation of the territory of the former Ukraine from any transport connection with neighboring states – air, sea, rail, automobile, horse-drawn, or on foot. The immediate strategic objectives are: a complete naval blockade of the entire Black Sea coast and the implementation of a no-fly zone that includes the entire territory of Ukraine and the adjacent maritime zone, especially in the areas of the Polish and Romanian borders. Simultaneously conducting an air offensive operation, a special sabotage operation and a cybernetic electronic warfare operation: to disorganize the control of enemy troops and weapons; to prohibit any television and radio broadcasting, stable Internet communication, to stop all transport operations on railways; to prohibit the movement of all trucks and off-road cars on highways; to disable the power supply system, pipeline system, major industrial enterprises. The implementation of subsequent strategic and further operational-strategic tasks should be initiated only after the implementation of a critical reduction in the combat potential of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Further operational and strategic tasks should be determined by::

1st Little Russian Front-conducting an air-ground offensive operation to liberate the Lviv region with access to the state border of the former USSR with Poland and moving to joint protection and defense of the border with the Special Carpathian Border District as part of the Border Troops of the FSB of the Russian Federation; further liberation of the Kharkiv, Sumy, Chernihiv, Kiev, Zhytomyr regions and capitals of Little Russia Kiev;

2nd Little Russian Front – after reaching the borders of 50-70 km west of Donetsk, by conducting active defense, prevent the transfer of enemy troops to other operational-strategic and operational areas with the subsequent liberation of the occupied lands of the Donetsk People's Republic; further liberation of the entire right-bank part of Zaporozhye, Dnepropetrovsk, Poltava, Cherkasy regions;

3rd Little Russian Front together with the Black Sea Fleet - conducting an offensive front - line and air-sea amphibious operation to liberate the Odessa region and reach the state border of the USSR with Romania and then move to the joint protection and defense of the border with the Special Odessa Border District as part of the Border Troops of the FSB of the Russian Federation; further liberation of Mykolaiv, Elizavetgradka (former Kirovohrad), right-bank parts of Zaporizhia, Dnipropetrovsk region, and Vinnytsia region.

6. On the remaining material and technical base of the disbanded military schools, form: 3-6-month officer courses for platoon commanders (motorized rifle, tank, artillery, etc.), as well as Advanced officer training courses (company and battalion commanders); the teaching staff of the courses should be staffed only by officers and other categories of instructors who have combat experience.

7. Establish by law in the Armed Forces a two – year (in the Navy-three-year) term of conscription with the mandatory provision of a planned 21-day (in the Navy – a month) leave after each year of service with free travel to the place of its holding. The draft age is 21 years.

8. In order to dramatically increase the combat potential of formations and units of the Land Forces, Airborne Forces, Special Forces and Marines of the Navy by one-third, switch to a four-company organizational structure of motorized rifle, tank, parachute, amphibious assault battalions, marine and coast guard battalions, artillery and mortar divisions, forming each company with personnel of one period of service; in the staff of regiments and brigades of constant readiness to introduce combat training (in wartime – spare) battalions (divisions), completed by conscripts.

9. In order to develop Russian military-historical traditions, start forming military Cossack formations, units and village divisions, as well as units and divisions of the Zemstvo People's Militia, people's squads and other organizational structures of territorial defense.

10. For sabotage, reconnaissance and other special actions in the operational and strategic rear of the enemy to the full depth of the theater of military operations, create a separate branch of the Russian Armed Forces-Special Forces (forces), combining in their composition the existing separate special purpose brigades (obr SpN) of military districts and fleets, forces and facilities of the Special Operations Forces Command that are subordinate to the organization and operate under a single control, with the inclusion of the corresponding aviation and naval components in the regular composition of the Special Operations Forces.

11. On the basis of paragraph 4 of Article 13 "Powers of the Government of the Russian Federation" of the law on martial law, urgently organize the development of a Military-economic plan that provides, first of all, all the needs of the Armed Forces and other troops of the Russian Federation with a directive and indicative indication of economic indicators for all industrial, agricultural and other enterprises, regardless of property ownership.

Introduce direct management of production enterprises of the defense sector, all types of transport, as well as agricultural and other enterprises that ensure the country's food security under the control of GKO. Restore the State Planning Committee and the State Grain Inspectorate.

12. Carry out a radical reform of the monetary and financial system: nationalize all banks and transfer them under the jurisdiction of the State Bank of Russia, which in turn is completely subordinated to the State Defense Committee; introduce a state monopoly on foreign trade, production and sale of alcohol and tobacco products; stop any free movement of foreign currencies both abroad and within the country. foreign exchange transactions of the state, as well as legal entities and individuals under state control; non-cash payment between economic entities within the country, regardless of the form of ownership; cash payment of the population (not excluding its electronic form) for goods and services. Restore the system of control and audit activities in the country, for this purpose, disband the current Accounting Chamber and create the Main State Control and Audit Department of Russia with its regional departments. In the Ministry of Defense, accounting should be maintained only in central divisions, with the widespread restoration of separate accounting of any monetary and all material resources in units, institutions,formations and associations.

13. The State Defense Committee should organize the preparation and immediate adoption of a law that removes from all military personnel of the Armed Forces and other troops of the Russian Federation, fighters of private military companies and volunteer formations directly involved in hostilities, all debt obligations on all loans, mortgages and other mandatory payments at the expense of the financial assets of nationalized banks and the State Bank Russia.

14. The State Duma and the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly should immediately adopt a resolution on lifting the moratorium on the death penalty; as a matter of priority, consider and adopt the necessary amendments to the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, which provides for the liability of military personnel and other persons for crimes committed in wartime on the basis of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR of 1990.

15. Introduce mandatory polygraph testing of all persons before their appointment to any public office, starting from the district level of administration, including candidates for judges. All judges must be elected by their respective deputies and report to them for their activities. In order to restore order in the country, restore state and military administration in the conditions of a full-scale war for the life and preservation of the Russian World on Earth, the State Duma and the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly should consider creating a Special Military Tribunal; a Special Military Tribunal should be tried as part of the first batch of probable state and war criminals in the future in accordance with the procedure established by law give the following former gentlemen: Putin V. V., Medvedev D. A., Nabiullina E. S., Shoigu S. K., Serdyukov A. E.

16.On March 9, 1953, the leader of the Soviet people, Generalissimo of the Soviet Union and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, was buried in a Mausoleum on Red Square in Moscow. In honor of the 70th anniversary of this historic event, taking into account the outstanding contribution of Stalin to the state and military construction of the USSR in the pre-war years and during the Great Patriotic War, as well as as a sign of Stalin's return to our lives as a symbol of the upcoming Victory of the Russian World, the All-Russian Officers ' Assembly burials and buried under a bush in the Mausoleum with the restoration of the inscription: LENIN STALIN.

17. Members of the All-Russian Officers ' Assembly and the Army of Defenders of the Fatherland should open a discussion "On the civil position of the Russian Officer Corps and soldiers of the Army of Defenders of the Fatherland in the context of the self-removal of the President of the Russian Federation, citizen V. V. Putin, from the duties of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces and the loss of confidence in the Minister of Defense, citizen S. K. Shoigu."

18. Open this Application for personal signature by all citizens of historical Russia.

In a not unexpected move, the Russian government has outlawed news outlet Meduza.

Anybody inside Russia who reads Meduza, writes about Meduza, talks about Meduza or who has contacts with anybody who does so, is now automatically a criminal, and could be punished with up to 4 years in prison.

To conclude, just a quote taken from Everything Flows, by Vasili Grossman:

I too was influenced by it, I was just a young woman, and you heard it at meetings, at special instruction gatherings, on the radio and in the movie theatre, and from the writers, and by Stalin himself, always the same: the kulaks were parasites, they burned the grain and kill children. It was said directly: we have to raise the anger of the masses against those damn kulaks and destroy their whole class. I too became bewitched, I too thought: everything is to blame on the kulaks, and once they are destroyed, there will be better times for the peasants. You shouldn't feel pity for them, they weren't humans, but god knows which creatures.

"Russia has always won any war if this war became a people's war. It has always been so. We will definitely win this war: both the "hot" and the economic, and the very psychological, information war that is being waged against us. But for this it is necessary that it be a people's war, so that everyone feels their involvement ... so that everyone has the opportunity to contribute to our common victory."

(Sergey Kiriyenko, First Deputy Head of the presidential administration of Russia, as quoted by Kommersant)

It looks like the mobilisation of the Russian populace is going according to plan, just like everything else in the 'special military operation'. As long as you have exemption letters that you're working a critical important job, or are supporting three (or more) kids, or you don't have the Russian nationality, you're pretty safe.

Still, the mayor of Moscow found it necessary to declare all quota had been reached and this-was-it for the mobilisation, you can neglect your mobilisation orders, after "men were massively handed summonses at the entry to metro stations. In turn, in St. Petersburg, eyewitnesses reported mass roundups with summonses for reservists in large residential complexes." (lenta.ru, Oct 14, "Partial mobilization has been completed in Moscow").

The family tried to bring him home after the conscription. Did he try or obediently went to the slaughter himself?

(Surviving comment on a lenta.ru report about a retired father of three, Dmitry Garashchenko from Proletarsk, Rostov region, who nearly survived a month after being drafted. Nearly all comments -- quite a lot of them pretty graphical -- on lenta.ru which have to do with the draft, or the 'special operation', have been removed due to "not being relevant anymore".)

To ensure the enthusiasm stays high, Putin declared martial law on October 19. Rumor has it that there will be a second round of mobilisation, starting on November 2. It has been denied officially, so it is highly likely to be true.

We've talked a bit, in the past, about the possibility of a nuclear bomb signal/demonstration by Russia, in its conflict with Ukraine and the West. The thought there has always been about a demonstration explosion, probably with a low-yield weapon, on or off the battlefield, or a nuclear power plant 'incident'.

Now, Global Times, a mouthpiece for the more right-wing within China's CCP, has described an alternative scenario. That scenario is provocatively titled Note to the US - a nuclear war can be won by rivals [globaltimes.cn]

The scenario looks simple: detonating one or multiple nuclear bombs in the stratosphere, creating an electromagnetic pulse (EMP), that would cause nationwide electrical grid anomalies, cascading systems failures, and ultimately unravel the fabric of American society. (Or, more likely, European society -- but then the Global Times is rather obsessed with the US, and counts the EU among future third-world nations anyway.)

Even non-state and rogue state actors could defeat the US with only a small number of EMP weapons, is noted, and one of the advantages of such an attack is that attribution is rather hard to do:

At least 15 nations can access low earth orbit, and many have access to geosynchronous orbit. The real nature of every object launched cannot be known with certainty. Nuclear weapons can also be concealed in and called down from the clutter of the super-synchronous graveyard orbit for surprise use.

And thus the MAD aspect is removed from nuclear weapons, argues Global Times: it's hard to bomb the real culprit back to the Stone Age, if you don't know who to blame in the first place. To end with some good news: luckily,

... the electrical infrastructure designs of Russia and others have spared no expense in applying Cold War civil defense lessons. Command economies, long range planning, hardened grids, and stability of centralized leadership further aid their societies in surviving any potential EMP attack. Given their histories and traditions, those cultures are probably more adept at continued functionality in the absence of amenities and infrastructure than the US.

Pfewww.

Sittin' in the kitchen, a house in Macon
Loretta's singing on the radio
Smell of coffee, eggs and bacon
Car wheels on a gravel road

(Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, Lucinda Williams)

So the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, as well as the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions are now a part of the thousand-year old Russian state, simply by putting a couple of signatures on a piece of paper.

You can find a link to the text of the speech given by Putin for the happy occasion here, but suffice to say that about 3/4th of the material is about how the West is responsible for genocide, shelling, blockades, criminal policy, hatred for Russia, hatred for everything Russian, attempts to break up Russia, dreaming about breaking up Russia, condemning the Russian people to poverty and destruction, condemning the rest of the world to poverty and destruction, plundering the world, total de-sovereignisation, destroying entire states, humanitarian disasters, devastation, ruins, millions of wrecked and mangled human lives, terrorist enclaves, social disaster zones, protectorates, colonies and semi-colonies, nonsens, utter deceit, double or triple standards, dirty deception, wants to turn us all into soulless slaves, denying national sovereignty, denying international law, has features of totalitarianism, despotism, apartheid, political nationalism, racism, started its colonial policy back in the Middle Ages, followed by the worldwide slave trade, genocide of the Indian tribes in America, the Wars of England and France against China, the plunder of India and Africa, got entire nations hooked on drugs and purposefully exterminated entire ethnic groups for the sake of grabbing land and resources, hunting people like animals. And they probably tripped your grandmother down the stairs too.

Perhaps a couple of pictures speak louder than all those words. Did you know Putin likes to tickle big people?

The festivities ofcourse couldn't pass without the casual mentioning of nuclear war, and were given extra stature by raping a critical poet with a dumbbell.

Just another day at the Kremlin.

It's not a war, but a Special Military Operation. And that operation goes so well, it is now time not to call a general mobilisation, but only a partial mobilisation.

On Wednesday September 21, at 09:15h, Russian President Vladimir Putin made the announcement that was rumored since days: all members of the Russian Army's reserve, as well as anybody who has ever served in the Russian military, are called upon to do their duty in the Special Military Operation, fighting the Nazi-Ukrainian forces.

Refusing to report will result in 15 years prison. Skipping out during service will result in 15 years prison. And surrendering to the enemy without being incapacitated will result in 15 years prison, as will not trying to flee from a POW camp.

The move is not unexpected. The Ukrainian counter-offensive triggered the first comments on Russian television about the need for mobilisation, and it was just waiting until Russian regional elections had passed, last week. On top of that, the recent meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation didn't go to plan, apparently.

First there was India's Modi publicly stating that this ain't a time for war, and that he had repeatedly asked to stop the whole thing. Then there was a falling out over the same subject with both Turkey and Kazakhstan, to which Putin apparently reacted very agressively. All combined might perhaps explain the rather confused press conference afterwards.

Immediately after the end of the SCO Summit, one Nikolai Patrushev stepped on a plane to meet with Chinese colleagues to discuss strategic stability and public security and law and order. He returned after 2 days, on the 19th. On the 20th, a statement by Putin was announced for the evening, but that was postponed for reasons unknown.

In a first phase, 300,000 reservists are being called up but, as Russia's Kommersant business newspaper noted, the total number of people who will be called up is secret, hence open to modification.

Do I need to add that it all ended with the threat to use nuclear weapons?

Official announcement here.

On August 20, Daria Dugina, daughter of an extreme-right ultra-nationalist Russian ideologue, was killed in a car bomb explosion. Speculation abounds who was behind the bomb attack, with the Kremlin claiming it was an act of Western-sponsored Ukrainian terrorism.

Now Russians-in-excile news site meduza has published an intriguing interview with Ilya Ponomarev, a former (Russian) Duma lawmaker who claims to be fighting on the Ukrainian side. According to him, the attack was an action by a resistance group within Russia calling themselves the National Republican Association (NRA).

In how far Ponomarev is a reliable source, with his family having (had) extensive connections within the Russian power elite, is unclear, but two items sprang to my attention in the interview. First is that he mentions the detail that Dugina wasn't the only victim, and that there was another, unreported, person killed too.

The second is that Ponomarev used to work closely with Vladimir Surkov.

Surkov is a long-term Putin associate, the man behind Russia's so-called "managed democracy". The last week of April this year he suddenly got house arrest, being accused of corruption and looting in Donbass, of all places (Surkov was already fired of his Kremlin job in 2020 and has held no official positions since, let alone had any presence in Ukraine's Donbass territory).

The week after Surkov's arrest, an odd article appeared in the online version of Pravda, which is owned by another associate of Surkov. That article heavily criticized the Putin and Medvedev administrations, calling them parasites clinging to power by any and all means.

An article, heavily criticizing the Putin and Medvedev administrations of the last twenty years appeared on pravda.ru, a pro-Putin online newspaper and descendant of the USSR Pravda newspaper. The article is titled (in translation) Russia is destined to be at the head of the Slavic civilization, and allegedly written by Oleg Podgoretsky, a hardline anti-NATO, anti-Western commentator.

A couple highlights:

Bureaucracy has grown uncontrolled under the governments of the last twenty years. While most of the blame is to be put on the Medvedev administration, Putin was the one promising drastic civil service cuts in 2000 and 2002. Neither administration carried through: instead the number of bodies filling desks more than doubled in the past 20 years, draining the budget of necessary funds to increase the economic well-being of ordinary Russians.

"According to Rosstat, in 1999 the total number of officials in Russia reached 1 million 133 thousand people.

Already in March 2000Vladimir Putin spoke about the need to reduce their number by 10% and in April 2002, calling the state apparatus "cumbersome, clumsy and inefficient", instructed Prime Minister Kasyanov to develop a concept for administrative reform, which in the same year took the form of the federal program "Reforming the civil service of the Russian Federation" (2003-2005).

So what did it turn out to be? As a result of optimization, the number of ministries was reduced from 23 to 16 in 2004, but the total number of federal departments increased from 58 to 85. The total number of civil servants also increased — to 1 million 462 thousand, or by more than 25%. Over the next four years of Medvedev's presidency, the number of civil servants grew by more than 1 million. Regional and municipal authorities swelled by 2.25 and 2.07 times, respectively. No wonder the regions can't make ends meet. At the federal level, the number of civil servants increased 1.6 times. As a result of cuts and optimizations, according to the Ministry of Finance, there are currently 2.4 million civil servants in Russia."

These officials are useless parasites, and the same is true for the broader government:

Such an "army of eaters" needs not only to be fed, but also to be occupied with something. And the government is traditionally engaged in lawmaking, and the upper and lower houses of parliament churn out their legislative initiatives.

In 2020, the Medvedev government instructed to develop 230 draft laws. And all in about 250 working days a year. The speed of production of legislative semi-finished products is truly hypersonic. It is known that the higher the speed, the lower the quality, and vice versa. No wonder they say: measure seven times, cut one off. If you think that new laws are developed on the basis of studying and understanding world experience, then I will disappoint you. Everything is much simpler. The purpose of the laws is to introduce various types of requirements, restrictions and reporting, each of which justifies the need to increase the staffing table. Let me remind you that the same government planned to double GDP by this time.

Not only have the Putin and Medvedev administrations not fulfilled their promises, but they've created a system putting people to sleep:

" We live in a kind of" kingdom of crooked mirrors", a reality made up of" deception for good", hypocrisy, empty promises, exaggerations of one and understatements or silences of the other. The reality that is presented to us from TV screens is full of optimism and confidence in the correctness of the chosen path. Just remember the sessions of illusory reality on Channel One, where the president is given wishful thinking by the head of the FMBAVeronika Skvortsova, talking about miracle vaccines, and RDIF CEOKirill Dmitriev, striking the imagination of viewers with test systems for COVID-19 of unprecedented performance and accuracy. "

The solution lies in engaging with the old communist ideals again, but the European Union is much closer to some of these ideals, while Russia is a kleptocracy:

"Given the extent to which society is stratified by wealth, the immutability of the ruling class for twenty years, the proximity of business to power, and the intolerance of alternative opinion, I assume that we are much closer to what is called "kleptocracy."

Communist relations will come together with the economic concept of "unconditional basic income", which has long been seen as an inevitable state of evolution of the European social-capitalist model of development. The inevitability is due to the unprecedented pace of computerization and robotization and the subsequent release of labor resources.

...

The implementation of an unconditional basic income will automatically entail free education and health care for all those who are already present in the EU countries. In Russia, where instead of the European model, a very one-sided and ugly approximation to the American model of capitalism has been created, this can only be dreamed of."

I have no idea what to think of this article -- pravda.ru always has closely toed the official Russian propaganda line that all is well at the home front and beyond, apart from the Ukrainian nazis and the West-in-decline supporting them. Perhaps this was/is a (smart) hacking attack to influence public opinion in Russia, but the article is apparently already online since April 27th, and hasn't been removed since the first time I encountered it, about 6 hours ago.

Link to a translation of the original article (through Yandex) here. Original article (in Russian) here. For those interested in doing Russian/English translation of other Russian sites, link to Yandex' translation engine (far better than Google Translate) here.

Meduza.io is a Russian/English news website. It has now been blocked by Russia's Roskomnadzor (Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Telecom, Information Technologies, and Mass Communications) inside Russia. Roskomnadzor is the same agency that has it declared unlawful to call the Russian invasion in Ukraine either an invasion or a war.

They're not the only ones suffering this fate: here is a list of Russia's independent press outlets that have been blocked in recent days.

Being based in Latvia, Meduza thinks it can circumvent the blockade. However, ninety percent of the donations that keep the site alive came from within Russia. That stream of funds is now blocked, and they request help from international donors.

That's about all I wanted to say, or ask, in this journal entry. If considering a donation (or not), you might want to read the following articles first: Why no mass protests in Russia? and Putin's last stand: how to lose a war by simply starting one.

Either we slap a stiff tax on surveillance data, or we learn to love the panopticon.