{"id":180756,"date":"2016-11-25T22:03:56","date_gmt":"2016-11-25T22:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/article\/putins-system-sociologist-igor-eidman-on-putins-russia\/"},"modified":"2021-10-29T13:38:04","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T09:38:04","slug":"putins-system-sociologist-igor-eidman-on-putins-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/en\/article\/putins-system-sociologist-igor-eidman-on-putins-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin’s System: Sociologist Igor Eidman on Putin’s Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n This article was originally published in Russian by
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\n Sociologist Igor Eidman looked into the methods and individuals involved in the administration of the Russian Federation in his new book titled,
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\n Sistema Das System Putin. Wohin steuert das neue russische Reich?
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\n Putin\u2019s system. Where is the new \u201cRussian world\u201d being lead?
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\n ], which has been recently released in Berlin.\n<\/p>\n

\n Eidman, one of the most prominent researchers of \u2018Putinism\u2019 as a social and political system, emigrated from Russia to Germany several years ago.\n<\/p>\n

\n The forward to the book, published in German by the publishing house LUDWIG, was written by Zhanna Nemtsova and Garry Kasparov, and specially for Eidman\u2019s book, journalist Anastasia Kirilenko prepared insets about corruption scandals and Vladimir Putin\u2019s possible mafia connections.\n<\/p>\n

\n The researcher believes that the historical roots and ideological base for the system of Putinism stem from a loosely – knit fascist movement of the second half of the 20
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\n century. Igor Eidman stated in an interview with Radio Liberty that he sees his book as a warning about the threat that this Putinist fascism carries with it. Eidman believes that:\n<\/p>\n

\n \u2013 Western readers don\u2019t understand the depth of the threat stemming from Putin\u2019s regime. Of course, the term \u2018Western reader\u2019 is an abstraction, but on average, or better to say based on my impression from the German readership, it [the \u2018Western reader\u2019] is in principle content with maintaining a critical and skeptical attitude towards the Putin regime. Only marginal and radical individuals have a positive attitude towards him \u2013 ultra-rights and, for some reason, ultra-lefts, which is an ideological contradiction. This is as if on the principle: the enemy of my enemy is\u2026 my enemy.\n<\/p>\n

\n But the greater part of the population of Germany has a critical and skeptical attitude towards Putin\u2019s Russia, as does the greater part of the elite, who don\u2019t understand, however, the degree of threat stemming from Moscow. They take Putin for some unpleasant person, a cruel man, but as a person all the same, a person with whom one can and must have relations, seeing a need to somehow come to an agreement with him.\n<\/p>\n

\n Putin violated all conventions at some point concluded with the West. A past dictator, Alfredo Stroessner, for instance, set himself up in Paraguay for forty years. Devil only knows what he got up to there: corruption, terror against political opponents, but sort of hermetically, within Paraguay. But Putin is dangerous because he operates in the international arena. . .\n<\/p>\n

\n For example there\u2019s a very recent incident that took place in Montenegro, which took place already after I had written my book. They\u2019ve released the specific surnames of Russian citizens that prepared terrorist acts and overturned elections. The surnames are very simple, very widespread, like Ivanov and Petrov \u2013 typical surnames for undercover work. They say that these people are some sort of \u2018Russian nationalists\u2019. Well what sort of Russian nationalists? In Russia they\u2019ve all long been under the all-powerful cover of the FSB. And just think \u2013 this is Montenegro after all, not even a country of the former USSR, not a country of the CIS\u2026 There was no such audacity, say, under Brezhnev, during the time of the late USSR. Then, terrorists were given aid quietly, arms were sent to European left-radicals via Palestinians. But this was in no way the same sweep as Putin has now\u2026\n<\/p>\n

\n We can observe two periods in the history of Putin at the post of leader of Russia. In the first period, he lulled, to a certain degree, the vigilance of the Western public \u2013 because of this, there was one Putin for the Western public up until the speech in Munich in 2007, and the Western public, taken aback, was unprepared for the other Putin. Many in the West have been swayed by his simple publicity stunts: making an appearance in the German Bundestag, speaking in German. There was a long period of Russian participation in the \u2018Big Eight\u2019, on the NATO-Russia Council… and then Putin changed course, and now he\u2019s quite different. But it\u2019s hard for people in the West to understand a person schooled in the KGB.\n<\/p>\n

\n \u2013
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\n Russians were frightened, told that if Hillary Clinton came to power, she would start an atomic war against Russia. Do \u2018non-Russians\u2019 want war?
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\n \u2013 Of course not. I\u2019m thinking not only of Western countries, but Eastern as well; China for example, which is acting much more wisely than Russia. China could simply crush Taiwan with its power, and in present conditions, the USA couldn\u2019t get involved – we\u2019re not longer in that era. But the Chinese don\u2019t do this, because they understand: there will be more problems than achievements if they do this. The temptation, similar to Crimea, doesn\u2019t attract them. I\u2019m not even speaking of Europe, which is, in principle, peaceful. And the USA under Obama demonstrated that they also don\u2019t particularly want to interfere. Without question, there are some small, aggressive countries, like North Korea or Assad\u2019s Syria, but before all else, the threat to the world stems from Putin\u2019s leadership.\n<\/p>\n

\n I came up with a political concept, which is presented in this book as well \u2013 \u201cpenitent Chekists\u201d. In Russia, when I was a political consultant, I met natives of the intelligence community among politicians and businessmen.\n<\/p>\n

\n These are a particular sort of people. Of course, they are all corrupt, but at the same time internally true to their ideals as they conceive of them. And what are they repenting from? In their time, they let power slip away from them, together with the CPSU, and broke their backs with effort: began to get involved in business, in corruption\u2026 The bulk of Russian business, including oligarchic, was created under cover of the KGB. And they, the KGB folk, forgot for a time that which had been impressed on them in their youth: that the USSR is a great country with a special mission, which must emerge victorious over its Western enemies, which is called to bring light to all of humanity, having defeated the villainous America, and so on\u2026\n<\/p>\n

\n Under Putin they, like Putin himself, remember this and began to actively repent and atone for the sins of their youth. They believe, for example, that \u2018Krym nash\u2019 (\u2018Crimea is ours!\u2019) will clear them of their corruption and the betrayal of their ideals. It is precisely because of this that they are extremely dangerous. Putin\u2019s unacceptable conduct is motivated by these motives \u2013 the repentance of a former Chekist, but in his case, there is clearly something to be said for loss of a reasonable understanding of reality. This is connected with the fact that a person has spent so many years in power. Vladimir Voynovich says that a few years of absolute power are enough for a leader to lose sensibility. And when a person has been in power for 16 years\u2026\n<\/p>\n

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\n In your book you formulate an answer to the question of why Putin is waging war and capable of waging war, something which, if we leave aside Afghanistan, the communist leadership wasn\u2019t striving to do, especially Brezhnev, who signed the Helsinki Agreement on de-escalation, and actively upheld the concept of the peaceful coexistence of two systems. Why is this man, Putin, ready for war?
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\n \u2013 The Putin generation of leaders is the first generation not to have war sprung on them. War took a heavy toll on Brezhnev\u2019s generation, and for those who survived, it became a personal tragedy. And in Brezhnev\u2019s recollection, as his assistants wrote, there was, in particular, the idea of a fix: not to build communism (as Khrushchev had dreamed), but simply not to allow a big war. And at that time, the population still had a sharp sense of this \u2013 of sorrow and pain for the tragedy of war. But for Putin and co, war is parades and Victory Day. He doesn\u2019t fear war because he doesn\u2019t understand it and doesn\u2019t feel it.\n<\/p>\n

\n There is still one more source of Putinist opportunism. Putin is largely still a part of the 90s. He participated in the government then, in criminal, corrupt business, he got accustomed to resolving problems in the style of the \u201890s \u2013 impudently, audaciously, with force and threats, with the assurance that, as they say, we\u2019ll get through somehow. The pals he kept company with at that time, and the KGB folk who, together with these pals consisted a united mafia society \u2013 that\u2019s how they resolved all their problems. And it\u2019s with this mentality that he approaches the international arena and behaves himself in the exact same manner \u2013 bluffs, intimidates, threatens, and constantly lies. Putin treats European, Western leaders like suckers that need to be cheated, duped and intimidated.\n<\/p>\n

\n \u2013
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\n Putin knows that he\u2019s not getting any younger. Are the changes in him during recent years connected with the historical figure he\u2019d like to become? Are we dealing with a regime that has stolen all it can handle and is just searching for any way whatsoever to maintain power, acting out teledramas for the population about \u2018Jew-Banderists\u2019, Novorossiya, Syria and so on, with the goal of maintaining the support of the electorate \u2013 or does Putin still have an internal mission to become a hero?
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\n \u2013 I think that both are present. That is, on the one hand, he has some sort of higher purpose, and he views himself among the ranks of the great Russian leaders. But the ranks are peculiar: Ivan Grozny, Stalin\u2026 On the Internet, I saw some things developed by the pro-Kremlin youth movement \u2018Nashi\u2019 [Our People \u2013
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\n ]: pictures where Putin stands among the ranks of the great Russian Tsars as Vladimir the Restorer. I think they know how to kiss up to their master, and he clearly likes such things. Well, and there\u2019s a second side \u2013 his policies work to hold on to power, to take care of tactical tasks, and to manipulating the electorate. And successfully. Remember, not long ago it seemed that the people were turning away from the Putin regime, and sociologists confirmed that the government rating fell at that time\u2026 And all this fell apart after the start of the Crimea Saga\u2026 Similar things have taken place in history many times before Putin, this is the \u2018short victorious war\u2019 effect. History shows that what might become a problem for Putin and the Russian government is if the short victorious war leads to a large, disgraceful, lost war, which would, to a significant degree, undermine the power of the regime.\n<\/p>\n

\n \u2013
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\n Putin and Donald Trump might, as you phrased it, \u2018
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\n get along\u2019
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\n . What is the likelihood of such a friendship and why is it dangerous?
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\n I can see them coming to some sort of temporary, tactical agreement, detrimental for Ukraine, for example\u2026 They might even go so far as some sort of dividing-up of spheres of influence. Something similar would be consistent with Trump\u2019s reasoning, because he\u2019s not an idealist, but rather exceptionally pragmatic, a seasoned businessman. But for all his negative qualities, Trump nevertheless came up under the conditions of a democratic government with rule of law, whereas Putin spent his formative years under the conditions of a bandit-like, criminal government. Trump will expect that Putin will comply with their agreements, whereas Putin has never complied with an agreement, and won\u2019t do so. He complies with agreements only so long as he believes it\u2019s to his benefit. And when Trump understands that he\u2019s being scammed, then their honeymoon will be over. The separation of powers in the USA won\u2019t allow Trump to do anything that contradicts the interests of democracy, peace and good sense, including actions relating to an alliance with Putin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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