If, as many, myself included, have suggested, the political developments currently unfolding in Russia constitute in effect a proto-fascist fundamentalist clerical revolution roughly on the pattern of the one that took place in Iran in 1979, then perhaps an interesting question to consider with regards to it would be -- who exactly is being overthrown here? Whose wanton rule is being terminated? Whose corrupt political regime is going up in flames? Who is he, the disgraced Shah Reza Pahlavi of Russia today? Well, Vladimir Putin himself, apparently -- who else possibly could it be? He, and no one else, is the profligate, luxury-loving, cosmopolitan, impeccably clad Shah Pahlavi of Russia, being violently overthrown right now by the prophetically wrathful, infinitely abstemious, fiercely puritanical, hairshirt-wearing Grand Ayatollah/Archpatricarch of Russia Vladimir Putin. In order to become the latter, he needs to kill the former within himself -- and at this time, we are witnessing just this very fascinating process of manichean transformation of the internationalist, comme il faut, surfacely civilized larva of a secular and quasi-semi-democratic sort-of-elected leader into the giant hateful obscurantist ultra-xenophobic and viciously aggressive black butterfly of Gods anointed ruthless tsar along the psychopathological lines of Ivan the Terrible. One has the strong sense that this is who Vladimir Putin has always wanted to be, in fact, ever since his unlikely ascent to power in Russia: the modern-day Ivan the Terrible ruling with ironclad sadistic determination over the teeming sea of boundlessly ignorant and superstitious, democracy-averse populace -- and that all the rest of it, all the accoutrements and vestments of the hateful and (oh yes) much-envied Western civilization, only had served their purpose on his lifes path up to the point when, with bitterness and resentment, he realized that all those polished, aristocratic, arrogant, hoity-toity democratic Western leaders would never treat him as one of their own; that he never would be good enough for them to be treated as their equal. Russia on the whole, too, has undergone the same psychological devolution, over the last decade and a half, towards the bitter realization that, no matter how hard it may try, it would never catch up economically (or in most any other respect) to the hateful and much-envied West, What we are witnessing right now, in Russia, is the modern-day reinterpretation of the famous Ilya Repin painting Ivan the Terrible Killing His Son: Tsar Vladimir Putin Killing President Vladimir Putin. Or Russia Killing Russia, if you will.
Posted on: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 19:19:32 +0000
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