Soviet and American scientist Sergey Lopatnikov believes that the Russian authorities are most likely creating conditions for a popular uprising - similar to what happened before the collapse of the USSR. The goal is to 'prove to the masses that there are enemies of the people and madmen in the Kremlin. And this needs to end,' the analyst believes.
Professor Lopatnikov writes: "I have completely stopped feeling what is happening in Russia in the 2020s. I understand the 1920s of the 20th century, but not the 2020s of the 21st century.
I have already written - I suspect that the Internet blockages (which, as far as I understand from the sausage scraps, the country is largely unprepared for) have the same goal as Gorbachev's anti-alcohol campaign of the late 1980s. Namely, to 'prove' to the masses that there are enemies of the people and madmen in the Kremlin. And this needs to end...
Moreover, today the situation is worse: limiting alcohol is a blow to (questionable) pleasure. Restrictions on the Internet are a direct blow to jobs and, therefore, to wallets. Moreover, it hits the 'advanced class' - unlike 'I can dig'.
I understand the idea. I do not understand the execution - unless we consider that the goal is to create conditions for a rebellion."
Sergey Lopatnikov is the head of the American laboratory for mathematical modeling methods at the University of Delaware (USA), and a former leading researcher at Moscow State University (MSU). He has been living in the USA since the early 2000s.
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