RUSSIAN WORLD Putin in Korea and Vietnam and the cannibalism of the Russian war

Korea, like Crimea in Europe, is key to destabilizing Asia, in a context of permanent and growing war tension in all latitudes. This seems to be the true objective of Putin’s trip, who from China to Uzbekistan, from Korea to Vietnam, designs his new “world order” trying to instill fear in the East and the West at the same time.

With these days’ trip to North Korea and Vietnam, Vladimir Putin has overcome all barriers in the degradation of Russia’s reputation. According to an expression attributed to the poet Anna Akhmatova, “vegetarian times” have ended in Russia, as the great dissident of the Stalin era wrote in her diaries in the 1950s. Comparing the Leninist 1920s after the revolution with the 1930s of Stalinist terror, she said that, after the “relatively vegetarian period,” the Soviet Union had plunged, with the most atrocious repressions, into “complete cannibalism.” .

Akhmatova went beyond her own family tragedy, which in the first waves of repression dragged her husband Nikolai Gumilev – another great protagonist of Russian literature of the early 20th century – to a concentration camp along with 96 other representatives of the intelligentsija of St. Petersburg (now Leningrad), accused of participating in the “military uprising” of Professor Tagantsev (analogous to the “actions to discredit the armed forces” of Putin’s Russia), and all of them destined to be shot. As Akhmatova tells it, the “vegetarian times” ended in December 1934 with the assassination of Sergei Kirov, the rising star of Leningrad communism who overshadowed the Georgian dictator, inaugurating the years of the “Great Terror.” With the death in a concentration camp of Putin’s main opponent, the martyr of street protests Aleksei Navalny, we have returned to the sentiments of the most triumphant Stalinism, which has been celebrated in these days by Kim Yong-un and Nguyen Phu Trong.

A symbolic story illuminates precisely this dimension of the most extreme Putinism, as is increasingly evident after the plebiscitary re-election and coronation in recent months. An infamous criminal, the satanist and cannibal Nikolai “the Duke” Ogolobjak, had redeemed himself in the Ukrainian war, but when he returned home he was again arrested for drug trafficking. In 2010 he had been sentenced to twenty years in prison for the ritual murder of four people, but last year he enlisted in Storm Z, the prisoner battalion, to fight in Ukraine and later be rewarded with a presidential pardon. The “duke” was the leader of a gang of Satanists, who had enjoyed dismembering teenagers since 2008, with various bloody rituals in which they sacrificed cats, dogs and young people, then gorging themselves with their flesh and blood. Ogolobjak was the only adult in the group and received the harshest sentence.

Nikolaj fought only for six months in Ukraine, and returned home triumphant and free, but the front has no intention of welcoming him back after the new crimes, considering his decidedly terrifying behavior even with his fellow soldiers, so now He lives peacefully in his house with his mother, protected by his fame as a “hero of the country.” An even more paradoxical case in recent days is that of Andrej Orlov, a peaceful Russian citizen from the Tomsk region in Siberia, who shot his best friend with a rifle and hit him in the side after sharing a few drinks with him. of vodka. He ended up in a concentration camp, from which he was finally able to leave to earn money in the war, since he had not been accepted as a volunteer due to bureaucratic problems. At the trial he said that “if he hadn’t been drunk he would have killed him, but at least I earned a ticket to Ukraine.”

That’s why Russia’s war cannibals eagerly watch their great leader’s parades in Pyongyang and Hanoi, which Putin visited primarily to stock up on weapons and ammunition, and perhaps to project other nuclear threats a little more effective than warships. sent to Cuba, which were disassembled upon arriving at the port of Havana. Along with the “eternal and strategic” friendship with Pyongyang, the visit to Hanoi returned Russia to the glories of the 20th century of recognition of the socialist republic at war with France and the United States, when Moscow also protected Vietnam from attacks by China. , who now looks with distaste at Putin’s parades through his kingdom. If North Korea can help Russia with military supplies, Putin provides the Vietnamese with war materiel that makes up 70% of their defense arsenal, although concerns about international sanctions are pushing Hanoi toward other suppliers such as South Korea, Japan, India and the Czech Republic. But now brotherhood with Russia should rebuild a secure front against the “great colonizers” of the Western world, without forgetting that for the Russians not only the raw materials of the Vietnamese but also the attraction of Southeast Asia for tourists, excluded now from Europe and throughout the West.

In the meeting with Kim Yong-un, Putin reiterated once again that “Russia is fighting against gegemon“, the American hegemonic demon, and greatly appreciates North Korea’s support for its holy war. “I am referring to our fight against the colonizing and hegemonic policy that has been imposed on us for many decades by American imperialism and its satellites, especially to the Russian Federation,” said the head of the Kremlin. In fact, the person responsible for US sanctions in Europe, David O’Sullivan, insisted that “we must find new forms of pressure against Russia, in order to stop the war in Ukraine.” , which will only end when Putin is forced to withdraw his troops.

O’Sullivan also spoke of Russia’s “policy of cannibalism”, which must be stripped of the technologies and other structures of the war industry, which “not only make the citizens of Ukraine suffer, but also those of the Russia itself”, and actually also the South Asia and Pacific region, where Putin tries to extend his influence with these visits. On the other hand, we cannot forget that Kim Yong-un’s grandfather, the “great leader” and “eternal president” Kim Il-sung, was a captain in the Red Army, and came to power thanks to the protection of Moscow, when Stalin created the “popular and democratic republic” with the same methods that Putin uses for the annexation and recognition of the “sovereignty” of Crimea and Donbass, sending his armies to the peripheral city of Pyongyang. The only difference lies in the fact that Stalin avoided “annexing” North Korea, although he could have done so, as he did in those same years with the Mongols of the Siberian Republic of Tuva.

In the ’40s of the last century, everyone considered Tuva to be part of China, except the Soviet Union and Mongolia, whose sovereignty in turn was not recognized by anyone; but Stalin decided to gobble up these territories, which are now a problematic part of the Russian Federation, and Tuva and Buryatia are pushing for their independence. An iconic figure of the Tuvans is the former Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu, who despite the recent purges remains afloat in the Kremlin’s security council, to retain control over these Asian territories where a large part of the Tuvans come from. fighters in Ukraine. Now the visit to North Korea makes more evident the monstrous panorama of Russia’s alliances in East Asia, which could involve Pyongyang in atomic threats against the entire world.

Korea, like Crimea in Europe, is key to destabilizing Asia, in a context of permanent and growing war tension in all latitudes. This seems to be the real purpose of Putin’s trip, who from China to Uzbekistan, from Korea to Vietnam, is designing his new “world order” while trying to instill fear in East and West. Under such circumstances, the Russian population is increasingly overwhelmed by cannibalism that erases all traces of “vegetarian times.” If before the invasion of Crimea between 10 and 12% of the Russian population was interested in politics, now the percentages are increasingly approaching zero. Political psychology and social anthropology attest that the will to oppose the totalitarian regime depends not only on the fear of personal risks, but also on the aversion to alliances with the various Frankensteins of Asia, Africa and, in part, also Europe. and America. The paradox is that in Mary Shelley’s gothic science fiction novel, Frankenstein was a vegetarian.