Yes, two events,... no, rather phenomena characterize with a special power, hiding a huge (for now only potential) energy what is happening in Mordor, in the land of the rashist orcs.

⁕ The first of these two phenomena is illustrated most grotesquely by the video wall of the recent meeting, on which He, Putin, is seen on the screen between two Jesuses.
Putin commits an insanely gross mistake!
Putin incites Great Russian, imperial-expansionist, ethno-orthodox chauvinism!
And he does this in a country made up of a huge number of ethnicities and religions; in a country that is among the most numerous Muslim (populated by believers in Islam) countries!
Apparently Putin has misplayed all his other cards and is betting on the last one he has left. And this can unleash terrible ethnic conflicts and religious clashes throughout the territory of this black hole that Putin has turned into the Rashist Feudalization.
Obviously, Great Russian, imperial-expansionist, ethno-orthodox chauvinism is the Scoundrel's last refuge.

Let's note the following, it is fundamentally important.

First on Socialism:
--- It was internationalist as an idea, and to some extent as a realization.
The important thing is to "build socialism" in your country, and if you want, serve it there with any local spices – Hungarian (goulash-socialism), Polish (Catholic socialism)...
--- It pretended to be philanthropic, supposedly consecrated in the name of the people, in the name of man; although in fact it was offering his subordinates and yoked people a Mephistophelian bargain - security (the golden cage of security) for rights (too few rights left to them and too many rights taken away).
--- It preferred to surround itself with Walls, did not hesitate to isolate itself and was content to control its peoples despotically and harshly, with soft (propaganda) and hard (repression) violence.
--- It was based on some supranational ideology – Marxism-Leninism (soaked in dialectical and historical materialism and rotten by scientific communism).

And now for Great Russian, imperial-expansionist, ethno-orthodox chauvinism.
--- It is ultra-nationalist;
--- It is misanthropic;
--- it is aggressive, conquering, invading other countries to seize territories and enslave peoples, and if they do not want to be enslaved, it slaughters them and turns their country into ruins or brings them hopeless backwardness.
--- It is devoid of any ideology, and if it talks about ideologues, it covers with its claims that it is an ideology only obscurantism, brutality, barbarism and being rooted in the past, turning only to the past – and not as it was, but as the despotic regime wanted it to be.

A small address to the BSP (there are still quite a few completely sane people there) and "Vazrazhdane":
Do you realize what a monster you are pushing Bulgaria into????

⁕ The second of these two phenomena is the movement of the wives of the mobilized rashists that is beginning to gain strength.

I remember once in Kharkov the silent procession of the mothers of ordinary Russians – with black headscarves, with immeasurable, galactic grief, with broken faces, with lowered eyebrows, with candles in hand – suffering for their children who died in the war in Afghanistan. They walk, walk, walk, walk, and the people on the side have tears flowing...
I have sometimes said (to myself) that it was primarily the mothers of the murdered and flayed alive, returned in leaden, unopenable coffins, Russian youth who brought down the USSR, collapsed the Soviet Empire, ended Soviet socialism and won the Cold War.

Notice the change now, it is telling.

‣ Earlier, during the Afghan war, it was mainly mothers who protested. They protested because their sons were killed.
‣ Now, during the Ukrainian war, mainly the wives are protesting. They are protesting to get their men back from the battlefield.

‣ A mother's love and grief are always unconditional and endless.
For the mother, with the death of her son, life actually ends, the world collapses, the abyss of suffering opens with terrible force, everything loses its meaning.
The mother of the slain soldier does not want any more sons of other mothers to be killed.
‣ The wife's love and grief are, as a rule, conditional and temporary.
It is a great misfortune for a wife to lose her husband, but for her life goes on. It is not for nothing that folk songs sing that the wife grieves for 3 years, the sister grieves for 9 years, the mother grieves to the grave.
The wife of the soldier at the front does not protest that there are no other wives whose husbands are at the front, she wants her husband no longer at the front.

Regardless of what has been said so far, the protests of the wives of the soldiers who were mobilized more than years ago and have no right to demobilization are intensifying.
This is the first serious challenge for Putin and his horde of sleazy oligarchs, politicians, high-ranking military officers and greedy corrupt people.
There are elements of panic. Obvious panic.
They try to buy the wives with generous money and privileges. Sometimes they succeed.
They are trying to hide from the eyes of the public the rising wave of discontent. But they almost always fail.
How to succeed when literally in every school, in every university there is a board with photos of rashists who died in Ukraine.

The authorities initially reassured themselves that at every protest, mainly through videos on social networks (but not only there and not only in such a way), the soldiers' wives swear that they are not against the war in Ukraine, they just feel lied to, that precisely their husbands have been fighting and rotting on the battlefield for more than a year because they are screwed (they directly use a much more cynical expression than "screwed").
But gradually it becomes mercilessly clear that this knee-jerk application of the wives is more and more a smokescreen to avoid judicial reprisals. Direct accusations are already being made against the authorities and even, imagine, Putin!
Wives of front-line soldiers are the first supporters of Putin's regime to voice harsh accusations against Putin – that he is lying, that he is waging a futile war, that he is sending their husbands to apparent death, that he is ruining the lives of their children.

It is not clear what will come of these protests. The hope is that mothers will join them en masse. Until then, there is always the possibility that the wives will back down.
Wives have children with whom they can pressure them.
Wives have needs for living and survival that can be "cashed in" – in exchange for silence.
Wives only want their husbands back.
Wives are just ... wives after all.

And mothers – mothers are the most holy and great thing in this world. They are ready to go to hell for their sons to get them out of there.
All mothers are like that.
Why Russian mothers are not like that today (yet) – my mind cannot contain it.
But I hope that Russian mothers will prove again, as they did more than 40 years ago, that they too are mothers. That they are also Mothers!

12/02/2023