Can resistance emerge in Russia — or is the system too tight
Pedestrians walk past a board glorifying a service member of the Russian armed forces, who was involved in the country's military campaign against Ukraine, in a street in Moscow, Russia, April 1, 2026. The board displays a portrait of Guards Sergeant Chingis Namzhilov and bears the slogan "Pride of Russia!" REUTERS/Ramil Sitdikov
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A train derailed in Russia. Seven carriages. Of course, dozens of people were injured. The cause was the poor condition of the railway track. The problem was discovered six months ago, but repairs were never carried out because they couldn’t find the money (as their media reports).
Instead, today, Russia has found millions of dollars to bomb Ukraine with missiles. It completely demolished a veterinary clinic where animals died, wiped out an entire street in Korosten, and bombed the Obukhiv cardboard and paper mill, which has already announced a halt to production.
And she called it all an “act of retaliation.”
In some of its territories, floods are washing away entire streets right now. Local authorities cannot cope. And the word “flood” is not even uttered in public. Everything has been replaced by the term “difficult operational situation.” And the central authorities, on the contrary, are taking money from the localities and throwing it into the hell of war.
In other regions, livestock is being massively exterminated on private property. People are pouring gasoline on themselves and trying to set themselves on fire because, without their own, even small farms, they will not be able to feed their families.
And despite everything the Russian authorities are doing to them, we don’t see any mass protests. The only thing that caused outrage was the fact that mobile internet didn’t work in Moscow for several days.
The outrage was *unheard of*—the outraged even filed an application to hold a legal protest. But the police quickly rounded up everyone who filed the application. So the protests didn’t take place.
To know that the money that was supposed to save your city from flooding flew like missiles on the heads of Ukrainians, to understand that the amount of money for repairing railway tracks was spent on one launch from a fucking MiG over residential areas of Ukrainian cities, but to keep quiet! …
I am often told, “Ukrainians were also silent when the USSR sent troops to Afghanistan or when it imprisoned Ukrainian artists.”
But I always answer that those who were intoxicated by propaganda were silent. But there were always those who were not silent: for example, Stus or Chornovil. It was the Ukrainians who raised all the uprisings in the camps! No Russian was capable of that.
And now Russian oppositionists are making a video about how the Russian language was “banned” in Ukraine, speaking at the Oscars, and saying that some missiles are just flying—it’s not clear whose they are or by whom they were launched. And they are also seriously discussing whether war automatically makes the attacked side better off.
There simply is no more cannibalistic collective consciousness in the world. There are no more weak-willed people.
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