RUSSIA The ‘regionalists’ want a Russia dismembered and subjected to international control

The proposal was presented by the journalist Maksim Kuzakhmetov, exiled in Prague. A consequence of the possible defeat in Ukraine. Like post-Nazi Germany, the country must accept international control for a period of time. The “Moscowcentric” oppositions.

Moscow () – Opinions and proposals continue to spread for a future that foresees the disintegration of the Russian Federation and the organization of various ethnic and state structures. In this regard, the journalist Maksim Kuzakhmetov (see photo), exiled in Prague, creator of the “Naiznanku” (On the contrary) project, who is considered the main inspiration of the “Ingermanlandi” movement, the Scandinavian separatists on Russian territory, spoke in Idel.Realii.

Kuzakhmetov asserts that the consequence of the Russo-Ukrainian war must be the division of the empire and the introduction of an external administration for a transitional period, to avoid the dangers of revanchism and ultranationalist drift, and to “guarantee the security of the whole of Europe”. .

He compares it to Germany in 1945, and “it will be a big psychological problem for the Russians for sure, but there should be no violence, no riots, no concentration camps.” Post-Nazi Germany had to accept external control after the capitulation, and in the meantime the Allies worked to guarantee democracy, without reducing the country to a colony: “You can bear it, and everything will be better afterwards.”

For his part, Putin has urged the internal secret services of the FSB to persecute all those who support separatist and disruptive “Western-inspired” projects. According to the journalist, “it is clear that the FSB will try to fabricate false accusations, obtaining confessions through torture, as in Stalin’s time.”

In reality the “regionalists” do not commit crimes against the law and do not constitute a real threat; “They do not threaten anyone’s property, but rather they intend to apply in practice the constitutional right to decide their own future.” The Soviet Constitution, for its part, enshrines the right of republics to self-determination.

If you look at the map of the Russian Federation, the vast majority of federal subjects enjoy a different set of rights, from national structuring to regional administrative autonomy. For example, the enclave of Kaliningrad, the former East Prussia between Poland and Lithuania, is a “little European country already formed,” Kuzakhmetov insists: “There is no way to hold it by force, if you want to separate.”

Actually, not only the leaders of the federal state are against the disintegration, but also a large part of the opposition, including those who follow the great “liberal” exiles like Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Garri Kasparov, or those persecuted like the movement of Alexej Navalny.

Kuzakhmetov admits that there is a strong division between the “Moscowcentric” opposition, which wants to preserve the current borders of the empire, and the regionalists. In his opinion “it is undoubtedly a serious defect of Muscovites, but this is not the time to discuss what should come first, we must get rid of the sad reputation of the aggressor who tramples the blood of his neighbors, we must think about how to be reborn later of defeat.”

In the scheme he envisions, the regions will be able to reunite after the period of external administration, if allowed, or allow time for each to organize and then decide, as the Czech Republic and Slovakia did for example.

Putin’s crimes, according to the separatists, somehow compel Europe to forcibly divide Russia at this stage in its history. “It is an empire that was born 500 years ago, and if it has the strength it will rise from its ashes, as it happened in the times of the tsars and also in the Soviet times.”

The West, and Europe in particular, “does not have a single center, we have seen that the Eastern European countries that were subject to the Muscovite empire made decisions based on their own security needs.”

Before 1991, even in the West, a catastrophe was feared in the event of the dissolution of the Soviet empire, some did not even want the reunification of the two Germanys. It was feared that 15 uncontrollable nuclear powers could emerge, and that “it is better to deal with one madman than with 15 different ones.” The USSR actually dissolved quite peacefully, despite various peripheral conflicts, and now “we must banish the phobia of the Kremlin and everything will be fine,” concludes Kuzakhmetov.