Quoting: joepilsudski
Well, of course...corruption at the top can't work without corruption at the bottom...same in the USA...police mentality is sometimes borderline 'psychopathology'.
Joe,
There is a great difference between you and ordinary Russian. Russians think The top of political system is responsable for everything. People should only follow chiefs or reject superior authorities if they "are agains people". New heroes wil come to power and nomine good leutenants, they in turn will choose their commands and the man in the street will be protected.
Russians think they should work and pay taxes and public servants, police, secret service and army will become their
servants. They have arms, force, system but they can't use it against defenseless middle classers by any instinct. And President always has force over them and they can't rebel against him except his policy is antipopular.
No one can deny such rule doesn't work. February revolution 1917 was a pure praetorian rebel that opened way to Russia to Communism. Andropov mentioned by you was for Soviet leader Brezhnev smth like Hoover for US presidents, i.e. blackmail professonal.
Russians know that but for them it is only an injustice against them without any idea that middle classers (not invalids, sick people unable to move) may controle streets and towns and in this way prevent any preatorianism upstairs and Human Rights violation on their level. They don't even imagine that during war soldiers are against
soldiers not generals. No, they think they must support some upper "Patriotic Forces" in their struggle against oligrchs by voting only and everything will be OK.
Every time such campaign fails Russians are sad. They behave themselves as if they are little babies abandoned by their parents. Parents forgot their duties and a little baby isn't capable to do anything by himself.
That's common Russian psycology. Pardon Poles but I'm sure you have the same psycology.
It should be noted that not only domestic politicians exploit it but also foreign ones as for example author of coloured revolutions Sharp.
That occures because first we were taught as slaves.
Besides that any efficient militia ended here in 18 century it was developping in UK and USA
American intellectuals like you who know American history realize well that each duty of public servants any law on Human Rights is only a sheet of paper for wc if they are not supported by even some 10% of population organized as minutemen.
People like you know that if there is an hierarchy of armed men parallel to other social hierarchy, if some salaried and organized people exist to "defend" defenseless and unorganized people, sooner or later they will become their masters.
It is not important to spend much force to Americans like you that oligarchs upstairs are less dangerous than lumpens nearby. And that middle class militia is the only efficient way to make lumpens work without claiming to share with them manufactured by other people.
Joe, you are free American. You know American history. If you share you knowledge on algorytms of local defence with Russians that may be the greatest contribution any American did for Russia.