How this fool became a deputy is a rhetorical question. By any of our concepts, Poklonskaya is, of course, a complete fool! ← Hodor
The Russian "deputy" of the State Duma Natalya Poklonskaya on the radio "Vesti FM" attributed the phrase "I would be glad to serve, it's sickening to serve" Alexander Chatsky - the hero of the comedy "Woe from Wit" - Alexander Griboedov to commander Alexander Suvorov. The writer Marina Yudenich drew attention to this in her Facebook. Following Yudenich, the topic around the quote attributed to the wrong person became discussed by other bloggers as well.
Russian sociologist Igor Eidman imagined what happened in a slightly different light: "The Feast of the Spirit continues. This radio dialogue is known to everyone. Polonskaya: Our great commander Suvorov said: "I want to serve, but it's sickening to serve." Presenter: "I would be glad to serve, it's sickening to serve." "Not Chatsky at Lermontov's by any chance?". Poklonskaya: "apparently, both of them - both Chatsky and Suvorov said this." And here is a new radio broadcast with the participation of Polonskaya. Intellectual show "Feast of the Spirit".
Host: "Our talk show is attended by the best minds Russia, high intellectuals, powerful scholars. Today we have a prominent lawyer, politician, deputy and, I'm not afraid of this word, a genius of thought, Natalia Poklonskaya. Hello, Natalia! According to the Russian tradition, an intellectual conversation goes well with vodka and snacks."
Poklonskaya: “Hello. I’m coming to you directly according to the recipe of Field Marshal Kutuzov: from the ship to the ball. Thank you for the treat, but, as our great commander liked to say, I don’t have a snack after the first glass.”
Sorry, but this is not Kutuzov said. “After the first puck I don’t have a snack,” our great hockey player Dostoevsky liked to say. As you know, he could outdrink a whole team of Canadian professionals.
Apparently they both said so. They used to drink together and talk, talk... In general, today I would like to remember the two most terrible villains of Russian history.
Ivan the Terrible and Stalin?
- Well, what are you - those were saints. I want to remember the villains Zoshchenko and Akhmetova.- Akhmatova?
- No to Akhmetov. That's what my teacher, the outstanding intellectual of our time, Professor Yanukovych called her. And he won't lie. So, as you know, it was Zoshchenko (Ukrainian) and Akhmetova (Crimean Tatar) who killed our good Tsar Nicholas 2 and his family in the Crimea. Akhmetova was a sniper, and Zoshchenko finished off with control shots. Stalin punished them for this.
- Tell me, but our other great commander Anton Chekhov was right: "it's hard to learn, easy to fight."
- (overturning the second glass) Chekhov, as you know, was not a commander, but a Ukrainian poet. Professor Yanukovych himself spoke about this. And I don't want to know what the Ukrainian nationalist poets said. Quickly stop Bandera agitation. Otherwise, I will ask the relevant authorities to check your program as anti-Russian.
- Excuse me, but Chekhov was still a commander. Everyone knows: together with Zhukov and Nikolai 2, he took Berlin.
- Chekhov - Ukrainian nationalist
- Commander.
- Nationalist.
Screams, swearing, sounds of breaking dishes, breaking furniture, falling bodies. After some time, the presenter, who has not yet recovered from the fight, reads the announcement in a broken voice: "Dear listeners of our intellectual show, we apologize for minor technical problems. Our program will soon resume work on the air. Feast of the Spirit in Russia continues!"
Wangyu: the next "great tsar of Russia" will be the offspring of the biker "Surgeon" and Natalia Poklonskaya. They will conceive a child in an Orthodox church to the remix of "God Save the Tsar" and "the anthem of the USSR", they will call him Stalin II and he will have 666 signs all over body!” predicts the blogger. Dmitry Zolotukhin.
Journalist Yuri Romanenko drew attention to the fact that there is too much informational noise around Poklonskaya: “Guys, you are glad that Poklonskaya blurted out something about Suvorov. definition, even if it's a chick with big eyes and firm breasts third size. This is a tool. We needed such a tool, they poyuzali, tomorrow they will remove it. There will be another the day after tomorrow. Everything has been clear with Russia for a long time. Modern Russia has made its civilizational choice. They have Ivan the Terrible and other murderers in favor in this choice. I am more concerned when our minister at a meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers does not know that the Zhytomyr region borders on another state. And sincerely surprised when he finds out the opposite. This is trouble. Because as long as we have such a quality of power, the Russian Sharikovs have a chance to carry out evil here. Better the Sharikovs there than the Sharikovs here. Although... maybe that's why you rejoice?"
People's Deputy Borislav Bereza meanwhile is indignant: " The tape is discussing some regular in *** p Poklonskaya. What's the point of discussing this animal? Are there any other problems? The only information I'm interested in about this sh*** is her confession. But not her appearance in a brothel, but in the law enforcement agencies of Ukraine. All gone."
"Poklonskaya cannot be given a word. Otherwise, the Duma will soon abandon it and it will return to the Crimea. She is glad to serve, but "she is sick," as "our dear and great Russian poet and commander Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov" said. By the way, it's good that she was not at the opening of the monument to "Vladimir the Great" in Moscow. Suddenly she would say that this is a monument to the Great Vladimir. Which - Lenin ... What if she really believes that Krupsky Rus baptized? That's how he decided to cure the childhood disease of leftism in communism, so he immediately baptized, "the blogger jokes Elizabeth Bogutskaya
Deputy Chairman of the Donetsk Regional Civil-Military AdministrationIgor Stokoz decided to stand up for the unfortunate connoisseur of history and literature: “And why did everyone attack Poklonskaya? It’s a big deal, you think, well, Chatsky slept with Kshesinskaya. Ty, he doesn’t see the difference between Pushkin, Lermontov and Griboyedov? and that's enough. But he knows who Alexander Suvorov is. Apparently, I also read "Icebreaker" with "Aquarium". And then, we also have governors who do not know all the letters. " from your post.
The deputy of the State Duma, recognized as illegitimate in Ukraine, the ex-"prosecutor" of Crimea annexed by the Russian Federation, Natalia, asked Roskomnadzor to remove from the network a caricature of her depicting the Russian Tsar Nicholas II.
It is known that the second drawing is the artist Denis Lopatin, who depicted Poklonsky in a holy image with a dildo in the form of a former Russian Tsar. The caricature is accompanied by the text: "Find a stupid man!"
This creation greatly offended Poklonsky and she intends to ensure that he is removed from the Internet.
"Today I sent a request to Roskomnadzor to remove from the Internet such a portrait, if I may say so," she said.Earlier, investigators refused to open a criminal case against Lopatin. Therefore, Poklonskaya invited them to order portraits from the artist for themselves. At the same time, in her statement, she called the former Russian tsar "an Orthodox saint."
"If our law enforcement officers with experts - philosophers, philologists - believe that this abomination is the norm, and as they call it "genre specificity, fits into the cultural norm of aesthetic reaction": order your portraits and portraits of your loved ones in the same see how an Orthodox saint is presented, and have fun from the heart with what he saw," Poklonskaya said.
In addition, earlier Poklonskaya sent a request to the chairman of the Investigative Committee (IC) Alexander Bastrykin, and the chairman of the Kamchatka branch of the All-Russian Parental Movement Oleg Kulikov, together with the Cossacks, filed an application with the IC and the police with a request to initiate a criminal case against the author of the cartoon. However, the investigators did not find in her "manifestations of a negative attitude towards a representative of the authorities" and other signs of a violation of the law.
It is worth noting that the previously scandalous "nyash-myash" Natalya Poklonskaya commented on her photo taken at the next inauguration of Vladimir Putin on May 7. She has stated that she supports healthy humor. Poklonskaya told the well-known Russian media about this.
"I'm not surprised that my photo aroused interest on the Internet. Everyone has their own interest, and if it's healthy humor, I'm glad and support it. But once again I surprised our" opposition gentleman "Aleksey N. reproaches with an unrealizable blue dream to walk along the Kremlin carpet path to the podium with the Constitution, he involuntarily continued to expose "the best of the best" of his qualities. Like a petty dirty trick, wanting to hurt me as painfully as possible, he inopportunely remembered in vain the name of Emperor Nicholas II, canonized as a saint and respected throughout the Orthodox world " , she said in a commentary to the propaganda publication RT.
At the same time, she was outraged by Alexei Navalny's comment about her photograph. Poklonskaya also ironically answered the oppositionist, suggesting that the politician actually dreams of "an unrealizable blue dream to walk along the Kremlin red carpet."
Many are sure that Ukrainian by birth Natalia Poklonskaya(Natalia Volodimirivna Poklonska) from a young age was a patriot of Russia. You have to disappoint them.
As a prosecutor, Natalya Poklonskaya demanded maximum terms of punishment for opponents of the “Westerners” in Crimea. That is, with all the severity of the law, she judged the pro-Russian citizens of Ukraine).
Before the change of power in the Crimea, the current ardent admirer of the "Russian Imperial House" diligently served the followers of Hetman Mazepa (V. Yushchenko and Yu. Timoshenko).
And, if not for chance, it is quite possible that with no less enthusiasm she would now announce the myrrh-streaming of the bust of Stepan Bandera.
However, judge for yourself: in 2005, acting as a state prosecutor in court, she demanded 7.5 years in prison for the activist of the Russian Community, Viktor Sazhin. (According to the official biography, at that time Natalya Poklonskaya worked as an assistant prosecutor Krasnogvardeisky district Crimea, which was then part of Ukraine).
7.5 years she demanded prison for the fact that after the first Maidan in 2004, Viktor Sazhin and his comrades didn't miss to Crimea convoy of members of the "orange revolution" and supporters of Viktor Yushchenko, who went to "re-educate" the Crimea!!! 
The "orange" went to "enlighten" the Crimeans and inspire them with due respect for the new president of Ukraine, Mr. V. Yushchenko, who lost in the presidential elections, but in the end came to power as a result of the Maidan. (Recall that in Crimea, in those elections, 52% of the population voted for Yushchenko's competitor, Viktor Yanukovych. Viktor Sazhin, a 23-year-old member of the "Russian Community" of Crimea, a resident of the city of Armyansk, was then a supporter of V. Yanukovych.
On December 17, 2004, he and 300 other local residents, having learned that a road train with Maidan participants from the Pora! organization was moving to Crimea, went to the side of the Kherson-Simferopol highway near the Armyansk bus station in order not to let the “orange” into the Crimea. 
Participants of the road train, among which there were many people from western Ukraine, were also determined. The collision was inevitable - and it happened.
"They were inadequate, with glassy eyes,- says Sazhin. - They threw oranges at people, a verbal skirmish began. I had the imprudence to shout “We are with Russia, we will not tolerate Americans here!”, and they tried to run me over with a car!” .
The Crimeans were still able to organize a rebuff and the "orange" were forced to leave, they failed to penetrate into the Crimea. A year later, in December 2005, Viktor Sazhin was arrested on charges of violating public order.
Sazhin's arrest 
“At the time of my arrest, I had already been working in Simferopol for a year,” says Sazhin. - Moved up the career ladder, became the director of the store salon cellular communication. Rented an apartment, lived with a girl. One fine day, an investigator came to my work and said that I had been wanted for several months..
An activist of the Russian community came to the Crimean Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, where he was told that he is accused of organizing an illegal rally and hooliganism. It turned out that there had already been several trials in his case, while Sazhin himself could not be found in any way. The activist is given a written undertaking not to leave Simferopol. And after a while they are sent to trial in Armyansk.
“I hand over my passport, I go to court,” recalls Sazhin. “The judge, a young guy I saw a couple of times in the gym, recuse himself, saying that he supposedly is on friendly terms with me – after which the previous judge’s sentence of detention comes into force.”
It turns out that while unsuspecting Sazhin was working in Simferopol, someone forged his signature under a written undertaking not to leave Armyansk, where the defendant had not been for almost a year.
So in the life of Sazhin began a nightmare.
He is locked up in the Armyansk temporary detention center with nine tuberculosis patients in the cell, mattresses on the floor and a bucket for defecation in the corner. From there, Sazhin was taken several times in the "Stolypin" carriage to court hearings at the City Court of Armyansk, where N.V. appears. Poklonskaya. At that time, he did not pay attention to the name of the state prosecutor.
The fact that it was she, he learned ten years later - already under Russia. Friends sent him a copy of the verdict, in which the surname and initials are written in black and white, in Russian, completely coinciding with the name of the ex-prosecutor of Crimea, and now a deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation. 
Sazhin himself remembered the accuser as "a red-haired girl, in a sweater under her throat ...". 
"Their paths crossed in December 2005 in the hall of the city court of the city of Armyansk Autonomous Republic Crimea.
Young, 23-year-old Viktor Sazhin was a pro-Russian activist tried by the Ukrainian authorities for this. And the young (only two years older) Natalya Poklonskaya is the state prosecutor in his criminal case from Ukraine.
- You know, when our local journalists unearthed all this, I was very surprised. I don't remember her at all. That is, I remember that I had three prosecutors at the trial, by the way, all women, and one, the very last, a girl, red-haired, thin, in a turtleneck. She was so modest, she read out the accusation in a boring, monotonous voice, - says Viktor Sazhin. - The only thing that stuck in my memory was how she, all in jewels, came to the courtroom, on each finger a gold ring, or even two, a gold chain two fingers thick, even the lads did not wear such. But I don’t remember her face at all, and, to be honest, I don’t even remember her last name.
- And how did you know that this is the same Natalya?
- Yeah, I didn't know. For me, all this is in the past. I even lost my sentence somewhere. In all the years that have passed since the trial, I have never needed him.
Then one of my subscribers sent me an electronic copy on the social network. Well, he threw it off and threw it off. Then Crimean journalists unexpectedly turned to me to tell me about those events, and in the end they suddenly ask: “What about Poklonskaya?” I ask: “What is Poklonskaya?” They say: “Well, your public prosecutor, Ukrainian prosecutor Natalya Poklonskaya, who demanded seven and a half years for you! Because you are for Russia and against Ukraine.” And I have nothing to answer ... Although yes, the document really says: public prosecutor Poklonskaya N.V. But I honestly don't remember it." http://www.mk.ru/politics/2017
The "red-haired girl" played a cruel joke on him: as a public prosecutor, she could release Sazhin on bail. But instead, she demanded that the defendant be given the maximum sentence: 7.5 years in prison!
Poklonskaya motivated this demand by the fact that activists by their actions infringed on the “right of citizens to free movement” and violated public order- recalls Sazhin. According to him, there were also accusations of infringement on the territorial integrity of Ukraine...
Sazhin was then very lucky that the court included people who, unlike Poklonskaya, treated Russia with sympathy, without waiting for a change of power in the Crimea. As a result, Sazhin was sentenced to 2.5 months in prison on charges of disturbing the peace. He was credited with the term of stay in the pre-trial detention center and released in the courtroom.
Sazhin's associates are sure that he would have spent all 7.5 years as separatist, if not for a wide campaign in his defense in the media of Crimea and Ukraine. In their opinion, another factor also played its role: Yushchenko's associates were afraid that the activist thrown behind bars would acquire the status of a hero in the eyes of the Crimeans. And so he quietly went out like criminal hooligan. However, Victor was fired from his job immediately, without waiting for the trial.
“I worked in Simferopol at UMC, and our boss was from Lviv, very pro-Ukrainian,- recalls the activist. “He didn’t need a supporter of Russia at work”. Because of this conviction, Sazhin still cannot become a deputy, although he always wanted to ...
The situation is egregious and wild, but Sazhin is not alone in the Russian Crimea. With an unrepealed Ukrainian conviction "for pro-Russian separatism", Valery Podyachiy, an activist of the popular front "Sevastopol - Crimea - Russia", has not been able to get a job in his specialty for the third year already. He taught mathematics and worked at the university, but in 2016 he was fired due to a criminal record: this is the requirement of Russian law.
On the territory of Crimea, there are now several dozen people of the same victims of Poklonskaya, who actively advocated the reunification of Crimea with Russia even before the summer of 2014 and were convicted of "appeals and actions aimed at the reunification of the territory of the Republic of Crimea with the Russian Federation" .
Now they all have lost their civil rights, but they are unlikely to be rehabilitated.
When journalists got through to Natalia Poklonskaya and asked if it was true that in 2005 she acted as a public prosecutor at the trial of Viktor Sazhin, an activist of the Russian Community of Crimea, she replied: “You would have remembered about the 95th, - Do you know how many defendants I had? ... I had so many defendants in a year that you probably had fewer articles”.
I believe that the above is quite enough for the thoughtful reader to think about the depth of the pro-Russian patriotism of Deputy Poklonskaya. And whose interests does it really serve!?
Today I happened to read an article by my friend Vitaly Chumakov: https://cont.ws/@vita1chuk/719592, in which he also mentioned Natalya Poklonskaya. 
At present, a flurry of publications has fallen on the topic of the odious, extremely harmful for Russia film "Matilda", supported by the Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Vladimir Medinsky, especially since the attitude of the Russian authorities to this problem, as well as the attitude towards criticizing Judaism and the reactionary sect Chabad, six months before the presidential election, may have a negative impact on the elections for those in power.
This film is not just an innocent fun about the romance of a crown prince and a ballerina, it is more dangerous than a nuclear bomb explosion, as it sowed the teeth of the dragon of a new ideological Civil War in the country.
The society has already split into adherents of the director Alexey Uchitel and People's Deputy of the State Duma Natalia Poklonskaya.
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And then, to the misfortune of all of us, film director Alexei Uchitel, with his film, woke up a little-known organization before the emergence of "passions for Matilda", which has existed since 2010, and since 2013 it has received the name "Christian State"(KhG), as if by analogy with the well-known extremist organization "Islamic State" (ISIS).
Members of "HG" have already begun to actively oppose the showing of the film "Matilda" in Russia. 
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Pretext - Nicholas II was canonized by the church as a martyr, which means he is a saint, and therefore - hands off him. And they began to speak harshly and uncompromisingly.
It is they, the members of HG, who send letters to cinemas warning that for the rental of Matilda, some caring Christians can burn the establishment to the ground. Moreover, it is not the "Christian State" that threatens with arson. "HG", on the contrary, - only "caringly warns" that some fanatics. They have nothing to do with the organization, of course.
And this is a very smart and comfortable position. The security forces have already visited the members of the "Christian state" when they were resting in the house of their leader: https://cont.ws/@slavikapple/719939
What kind of fanatics were hinted at by the leaders of the "Christian State" became clear just yesterday. 
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The press secretary of the Christian State organization was related to the Ukrainian nationalist grouping "Right Sector" banned in Russia. This is stated in the Reedus investigation.
Two people appear in publications about the new organization: the self-proclaimed leader Alexander Kalinin and press secretary Miron Kravchenko.
The publication's source in the Moscow Patriarchate stated that both organizers are "mishandled Cossacks."
About the leader of the "Christian State" Alexandra Kalinina not much information. He himself claims that he comes from the Lipetsk region, and studied at the Azov branch of the RSSU of the Rostov region. Local priests have not heard of Kalinin in any of these regions.
About the press secretary of the organization Miron Kravchenko more information. In 2006, he was called a member of the nationalist right-wing radical organization Russian National Union. The group gained notoriety after detonating an explosive device at the Cherkizovsky market. In 2009, the organization was recognized as extremist and banned in Russia.
After that, Kravchenko went to the Cossacks. Its ataman was the infamous figure Pavel Trukhin, who called himself a "Russian Orthodox fascist." Under his leadership, Miron Kravchenko even became captain. In 2010, the future press secretary of the Christian State left for Murmansk, where he organized the nationalist movement and took part in organizing the first Russian March in the region. At the end of the Euromaidan, Kravchenko left for Kyiv, where he took part in "Constituent Conference on the Creation of the Anti-Putin Information Front". There he appeared as "scenario coordinator civil war in Russia". After this activity, photos of him “zigzagging” against the background of the banner of an extremist organization banned in Russia remained on the network. "Right sector".
The publication notes that it is likely that Kravchenko is the real leader of the Christian State, using Kalinin as a cover.
It is curious that in an interview with a correspondent of the Pskov Province edition, Miron Kravchenko, when asked about Poklonskaya, stated the following:
- ... We have a division of labor. Everyone is doing their own thing.
Have you contacted her? How supportive are you? How supportive is she?
- We are not yet acting in conjunction, because each must advance along its own front. We indicate the intentions of the activists, it comes on the prosecutor's part. Of course, it would be strange if Poklonskaya took a Molotov cocktail and went to throw it at the cinema. Yes? But Orthodox activists, especially young guys, younger than us… They are ready to act with radical methods…
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Of course, it is most convenient now to think that this Miron Kravchenko, the main fighter against the film "Matilda", maliciously substitutes Natalia Poklonskaya, saying that they have a "division of labor" in the field of organizing a civil war in Russia.
However, be that as it may, whether this is a coincidence or not, the actions of both of them: both Miron Kravchenko and Natalia Poklonskaya, are actually diverse active work about bringing Russian society into a pyrophoric (self-igniting) state.
It is possible that the ex-prosecutor N. Poklonskaya, who is a big fan of Tsar Nicholas II and actively supports the idea of returning the monarchy to Russia today, does not realize this and, as they say, "does not know what she is doing." Maybe! Then she just a dangerous person, dressed with a mandate of a deputy of the State Duma of Russia! 
Poklonskaya and Maria Romanova (Bagration-Mukhranskaya).
Not only did Poklonskaya create enormous social tension in Russian society on the 100th anniversary of the 1917 revolution with the film "Matilda", raising an unprecedented hype around it, but in parallel she created no less social tension with her support for the adventure to revive the monarchy in Russia in the person of some leftist "heirs" of the Romanov dynasty - Maria Vladimirovna Romanova (after her mother Bagration-Mukhranskaya) and Prince George. 
I talked about it in detail in this article: “I respect Putin as a person, but before the 2018 presidential election, I would like to ask him as a politician: “WHAT IS IT?” and “HOW TO BE WITH THIS?”
And now I want to ask my readers already: for Natalia Poklonskaya alone, who quite recently changed her Ukrainian citizenship to Russian, isn’t there too much political events related to her going on in Russia, moreover, extra-class events?!
“This is a clinic, it is necessary to treat!”: State Duma deputies condemned Poklonskaya
The State Duma Committee on Culture discussed the situation around the film directed by Alexei Uchitel "Matilda" and condemned the deputy Natalya Poklonskaya, who opposes the release of the film. Committee members decided to watch the film before the premiere at a private screening. 
The film is slated for release on October 25th. The deputies decided to discuss it now after cars were set on fire near the house of Uchitel's lawyer and a minibus with gas cylinders ran into a cinema building in Yekaterinburg.
In addition, this week Russia's largest cinema chain "Formula Kino" and "Cinema Star" announced that it would not show "Matilda" because of the threats. And Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky called attempts to put pressure on cinemas "pure lawlessness and censorship." At the same time, Medinsky condemned State Duma deputy Natalya Poklonskaya, who became the film's most outspoken critic:
“I don’t know what considerations the respected Mrs. Poklonskaya is guided by, starting and supporting this hubbub.”
At a meeting of the State Duma Committee on Culture, its head, director Stanislav Govorukhin, also connected the incidents with Poklonskaya: “All the dark forces, all the hysterics, madmen, vandals, anti-Semites, obscurantists have revived. mini-ISIS begins."
"At the beginning of the 20th century, there was already such a story. We had the Black Hundred organization, which, from the best Orthodox position with banners, started pogroms. So because of" Matilda "pogroms have already begun, and it will be worse. This is a terrible trend"- said the first deputy chairman of the committee, Elena Drapeko (Fair Russia).
"If this is not nipped in the bud, we will get ISIS, only Orthodox, she added. “We all condemn our colleague Poklonskaya, because it was she who initiated the driving of a wedge into a crack in our society.”
(definition from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia)
Fascism (Italian fascismo, from fascio - bundle, bundle, association) - ideology, political movement and social practice, which are characterized by the following [six] features and traits:
Justification on a racial basis of the superiority and exclusivity of one, proclaimed by virtue of this ruling nation;
Intolerance and discrimination against other "foreign", "hostile" nations and national minorities;
Rejection of democracy and human rights;
Imposition of a regime based on the principles of totalitarian-corporate statehood, one-party system and leaderism;
The assertion of violence and terror in order to suppress a political opponent and any form of dissent;
The militarization of society, the creation of paramilitary formations and the justification of war as a means of solving interstate problems.
Which of these canonical signs of fascism are absent in Putin's Russia?!
Down with the fascist junta!
British political scientist Lawrence Britt, having studied the experience of seven fascist regimes - from Hitler to Pinochet - formulated their common features*.
Along with political aspects, they also include social tendencies: nationalism, militarism, sexism.
The famous Chilean psychologist and thinker Claudio Naranjo, citing this list in his presentation in the book “Heal Civilization” (Klass, 2014), notes that fascism, constantly improving, captures the modern world.
It is not just about the loss of freedom, but above all about a certain collective mentality.
And here are 14 of its signs.
1. Vivid manifestations of nationalism.
The solemn display of flags, pride in military achievements, calls for national unity against this background are characteristically linked with suspicions of everything foreign and with outbreaks of xenophobia.
2. Contempt for human rights.
Human rights under the fascist regime were devalued - they prevented the fulfillment of the goals of the ruling elite.
By using propaganda, such regimes ensured that the population dutifully accepted human rights violations, socially isolating and demonizing those who were the object of these violations.
3. Search for "scapegoats".
One of the most significant common features of all fascist regimes was the search for enemies - to make them responsible for their mistakes, distract the population from other problems and channel social frustration into a controlled channel. People who opposed such regimes were labeled "terrorists" and treated accordingly.
4. The dominance of everything military.
The ruling elite has always identified itself with the army.
A huge part of the national resources went to military spending, even if it was difficult to provide for the internal needs of the country.
For fascist regimes, military power was an expression of national superiority, and they used it at every opportunity to intimidate their neighbors and increase their power and the prestige of the ruling class.
5. Pervasive sexism.
Fascist regimes saw women as second-class citizens, maintained a strong anti-abortion stance, and encouraged homophobic sentiment in society.
This was reflected in the draconian laws supported by the country's traditional religion.
6. Control over the media.
The mass media under fascism were often under the strict control of the authorities and could not step aside from the party line.
Control methods included not only the issuance of permits and access to resources, economic pressure and persistent calls for patriotism, but also threats.
7. Obsession with national security.
The national security apparatus served the fascist regimes as a repressive tool that operated in secrecy and without restrictions.
At the same time, any doubt in his activities was branded as a betrayal.
8. Relationship between religion and the ruling class.
Propaganda maintained the illusion that fascist leaders were defenders of the faith and their opposition were godless.
People got the feeling that opposing the ruling elite was like rebelling against religion.
9. Protecting the power of corporations.
While the private lives of ordinary citizens were under strict control, large companies could operate with relative freedom.
Corporations not only guaranteed powerful military production, but also acted as an additional means of social control.
10. Suppression of workers' associations.
Labor movements were seen as a force that could challenge the political hegemony of the ruling class and the entrepreneurs who supported it.
Such movements were suppressed and equated to criminal groups.
The poor were looked upon with contempt and suspicion.
11. Contempt for intellectuals and art.
Intellectual and academic freedom was seen as a threat to national security and patriotic ideals.
Freedom of thought and expression was condemned and suppressed.
12. Obsession with crime and punishment.
The prison population under fascist regimes was very high, while the police received a heroic reputation and almost unlimited power, which led to many abuses.
To justify the expansion of the powers of the police, the authorities stimulated the fear of criminals, traitors and enemies among the population.
13. Protectionism and corruption.
Entrepreneurs close to power used their position to enrich themselves. Corruption developed in both directions: the fascist regime received financial assistance from the economic elite, and that political favors from the government.
Members of the power elite often used their position to appropriate national resources.
14. Election fraud.
Allegedly free elections were, as a rule, fictitious.
In real elections, the ruling elites sought to manipulate the candidates in order to get a favorable result.
* L. Britt "The 14 Characteristics of Fascism", Free Inquiry Magazine, 2003.
Which of these features are absent in Putin's Russia?!
