Russia is returning to the kingdom of fear - VIDEO

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia has launched an investigation into the rector of the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts, Grigory Zaslavsky, and at first glance this story might have seemed like yet another bureaucratic settling of scores. However, behind it lies something far more serious. It reveals how far the system in Russia has gone, where simply being loyal to the authorities is no longer enough. Now a person is required to demonstrate ostentatious, exemplary devotion. Not just compliance and obedience, but enthusiasm, unconditional support, and fanaticism.

This is stated in the latest episode of the Caliber.Az YouTube channel.

"And here the paradox is especially important: this is not about a dissident or an opponent of the Kremlin. Zaslavsky openly supported Russia's war against Ukraine, but apparently even that was not enough.

The rector's 'crime' — in quotation marks, of course — is that he did not turn the university entrusted to him into a branch of the military recruitment office, did not drive his students to the front with a whip, and did not demonstrate the maximum degree of zeal. This is precisely where a truly alarming question arises: 'If even loyalty no longer guarantees a person's safety, then who in Russia today can feel protected at all?'

History has already known such a system of coordinates. During the Stalin years, yesterday's comrades-in-arms were turned into 'enemies of the people' within a matter of months. Bukharin, Rykov, and Kamenev were committed communists. But the system required ever more proof of loyalty, and at that point, mere membership in the party ceased to be a safeguard against repression. Today's order in Russia brings to mind those long-forgotten mechanisms of destroying people, killing the human being within them, and turning them into slaves of the system," the material states.

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