V. Yakunin: You know, with your permission, I’ll speak completely frankly; if necessary, something can be cut out later.
V. Putin: Maybe not completely frankly—better restrain yourself a little.
V. Yakunin: I will restrain myself. Because when I hear words like patriotic upbringing and enlightenment, it naturally touches me to the depths of my soul, but at the same time I do not really understand why this is being said in such a narrow circle… That is why, for example, I fully support the very idea of fostering and restoring patriotism, of restoring the concepts of “national values,” “spiritual values,” and “national or state interests.” But I think that confining ourselves even to the framework of the great Russian Geographical Society in order to eliminate the paradigm imposed on us of destroying national self-awareness will not be enough. And I believe that perhaps now is exactly the moment when this needs to be said directly. My apologies if I’ve said anything out of turn.
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As a counterweight to the propaganda challenges identified above, it is necessary to develop purposeful pro-Russian, ethnic-Russian, statist, patriotic propaganda. It should be embodied in print publishing, visual materials, street displays, monuments, and other forms of propaganda media.
The Trap: New Technologies for Undermining Russian Statehood, V. Yakunin, V. Bagdasaryan, S. Sulakshin, Moscow, Nauchny Ekspert, 2009, p. 395
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"It was simply that we had a small group of people united by common interests and unquestionably devoted to their country, who wanted to make things work well. Not just line their own pockets, but, believe it or not, the first principle in our business paradigm was the advancement and protection of our country’s interests." V. I. Yakunin Interview with the Prime news agency, September 20, 2013
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You want to say three epigraphs are too much? Nothing of the sort, when you’re writing a post about Russian Railways chief Vladimir Ivanovich Yakunin and his ideas about purposeful pro-Russian statist propaganda. Actually, not even about the ideas themselves. About their practical implementation.
The thing is, Vladimir Ivanovich Yakunin has long been a fierce enemy of everything unpatriotic, non-Russian, and Western.
Vladimir Ivanovich even finds time to write books warning us about the looming threat from the West.
The same masterpiece with an updated cover
It is available for download in full here. I genuinely recommend reading it—it tells you a lot about the real ideologues of the current regime. For example, the word "spiritual bonds" appears 35 times, the "Dulles Plan" is mentioned in complete seriousness, and it also talks about corruption among Russia’s elites as something imposed by the West.
It is important to note that Vladimir Ivanovich creates and sponsors charitable foundations whose stated mission is to restore the national idea and instill a spirit of patriotism and love for the Motherland.
The Center of Russia’s National Glory, where Vladimir Ivanovich Yakunin serves as chairman of the board of trustees, sets itself the following noble goals:
The staff of the Center of Russia’s National Glory are united in the belief that progress toward this goal depends to a significant extent on the state of Russians’ public consciousness, their orientation toward creation, social optimism, and pride in their Motherland. Restoring the people’s and the country’s faith in themselves, in their capacity for success, and in their worthy future is one of the principal tasks of all forces oriented toward Russia’s revival and rise, toward its достойное future. The Center of Russia’s National Glory sees its main purpose in helping to accomplish this noble task.
And here is the mission of the St. Andrew the First-Called Foundation, where Vladimir Ivanovich is also chairman of the board of trustees—and also a recipient of the foundation’s own award "For Contribution to Strengthening Russian Statehood":
Thus, the preservation, strengthening, and development of the internal national criterion, the core of values concentrated in the cultural memory of the people of Russia and expressed in care for the family, for one’s native land, in respect for the state, and in fidelity to the Church is the highest-priority area of work for the St. Andrew the First-Called Foundation.
And how deeply Vladimir Ivanovich worries about school textbooks! He can hardly contain himself:
"If we do not create our own textbook, then our children will study from books written with Soros money, where the period of the Second World War and the role of the Soviet Union are given a few paragraphs, while the contribution of the Western coalition gets two full pages," [V. I. Yakunin] added. The consequences of education based on such textbooks are very sad, he noted](http://www.nakanune.ru/articles/17514)[. *http://www.nakanune.ru/articles/17514*
Let’s just say it plainly: Russian Railways chief Vladimir Ivanovich Yakunin is Russia’s most patriotic patriot.
But this post is not about Vladimir Ivanovich’s visible achievements in the struggle against the corrupting influence of the West. The Anti-Corruption Foundation has carefully examined the non-public side of this sacred war as well, and I must say, we are impressed. We did not expect such self-sacrifice even from the most patriotic patriot.
Into the ravenous maw of the hated West, stripped of all spiritual bonds, Vladimir Ivanovich Yakunin has cast the most precious thing he has—apart from his love for Vladimir Putin: his family.
Let us gather our courage and turn our gaze toward that very West. There, amid the ubiquitous and disgusting homosexual orgies. Among politicians writing the "Dulles Plan" in order to worship Satan. Amid all the horrors so wonderfully described in Vladimir Yakunin’s book. (there’s stuff like this on every page):
And among all those other manifestations of godlessness, we find Vladimir Yakunin’s suffering sons and grandsons, the whole lot of them.
Vladimir Ivanovich’s elder son, Andrei, the hotelier already known to us from behind the "impenetrable wall," lives permanently in London with his family.
Here is his lovely house in North London. He bought it in 2007 for £4.5 million and registered it to a Panamanian offshore company.
Can you imagine how much the poor man must have suffered there? An upscale London neighborhood—that’s the very center of the conspiracy against Russia!
And the one who clearly can no longer be protected from the harmful influence of money and Soros textbooks is Vladimir Ivanovich’s grandson, Igor.
It was at this prestigious London school, Highgate School, that Igor Andreevich Yakunin read his few paragraphs about the Soviet Union’s role in the Second World War:
In an attempt to wrench his grandson Igor from the clutches of the Western enemy and instill in him the foundations of fur-coat statehood, Vladimir Ivanovich did everything he could. For example, he transferred to him—when he was about seven years old—a 150 sq. m apartment on Rochdelskaya Street that had been received from the state free of charge (that is, bought with our money):
In the same building as our old acquaintances Olga Sobyanina and the beauty salon of Prosecutor General Chaika’s son.
But it did not help. Both son Andrei and grandson Igor continue their suffering-filled lives in London.
Igor has even been drawn into a disgusting Western sect: the Young Geographers community, where he takes part in the charitable project "Make Poverty History":
~~As part of the project, it might be a good idea to suggest that grandpa stop constantly raising rail freight tariffs, which make everyone in Russia poorer except grandpa himself.~~
And what about Vladimir Ivanovich’s other son, Viktor? Perhaps the head of Russian Railways spared him—saved him from the terrible West and left him in Russia to enjoy its spirituality?
Alas.
We move from London to Switzerland, to the left bank of Lake Geneva, at Chemin de Planta 45.
We carefully make our way through the elite residential complex, looking around nervously. At any second we are in danger: we could be forcibly adopted and then sold "for organs."
SUDDENLY:
What a horror: Darina and Viktor Vladimirovich Yakunin—the daughter-in-law and younger son of Vladimir Ivanovich Yakunin.
Here is the document confirming ownership of the apartment.
Viktor and Darina have an eight-year-old daughter, Vladimir Ivanovich’s granddaughter, Polina Yakunina. Polina, like her cousin Igor, will apparently also have to make do with just a couple of paragraphs on Russian history, because she studies at a prestigious Swiss school—the very kind that trains the "Western elite" dreaming of destroying Russia by godlessly tearing it apart.
An interesting detail. Apparently, a rebel occasionally awakens in Yakunin’s younger son—a man ready to challenge the immoral foundations of the West. Since he resides permanently in Switzerland, he is required to have mandatory police registration, regardless of how many apartments he owns.
Here are three documents showing that Darina, Viktor, and Polina have been registered since 2007 at an entirely different address—quai du Général-Guisan 14.
This is the building:
Anyone familiar with Geneva geography knows that this is about as fancy a neighborhood as it gets.
Besides the undeniable convenience of having a Louis Vuitton store on the ground floor of the building, there are other offices there as well:
Could it be that the entire Yakunin family, including a two-year-old child at the time, was registered at Rosneft’s office right on the shore of Lake Geneva?
Or perhaps at the charitable Neva Foundation, whose founders are Gennady Timchenko, the chief offshore trader in Russian oil, and his wife Elena?
(in the photo, Timchenko is not with his wife Elena, but with another close associate who shares everything: joys, hardships, and dollars)
The Anti-Corruption Foundation would like to know who exactly took in the young Yakunin family, and also warns, just in case, that in Switzerland living in an office is strictly prohibited and punishable by law.
To sum up: All the children and grandchildren of Russia’s chief state patriot and head of Russian Railways, Vladimir Yakunin, live permanently outside Russia; own real estate remarkable for its exclusivity and price; and study at the most prestigious educational institutions. Meanwhile, Vladimir Ivanovich wanders all alone through his fur storage palace, leafs through the unified history textbook, and thinks about the Motherland and patriotic upbringing.
That’s the story. Very revealing, I think. Yakunin—with his family abroad, his ridiculous fur storage palace, and his lectures on how we ought to live—is in fact simply a symbol of the current government and the way the country is run.
A hypocritical bastard who siphons off billions from impoverished and half-ruined Russian Railways, constantly demands new state subsidies, and launches insanely expensive projects. He has comfortably settled his relatives in Switzerland and England and still has the nerve to lecture us about patriotism in all seriousness. He declares that everyone who opposes him—Yakunin, his fur storage palace, and Putin, who gave him the ability to steal with impunity—is an enemy of the country.
People like Yakunin are precisely the main beneficiaries of this regime, of Putin, and of United Russia. And it is precisely in order to drive out all these thieves with their fur storage palaces that each of us must engage in politics. In any form.
At the very least, hand out a leaflet. The Anti-Corruption Foundation would like as many Russian citizens as possible to learn about the achievements of the head of Russian Railways. We have several ideas on how to do that, but for now we have made this website.
First, it features the amazing adventures of Little Pig Yakunin (based on the adventures of Little Pig Pyotr, a Russian internet meme character).
Second—and most importantly—we made a short, simple leaflet that any of you can print on a home or office printer and distribute wherever you can: apartment building entrances, mailboxes, offices:
Third, don’t forget to click one of the social media share buttons:
Don’t be lazy. Fifty thousand leaflets means a million people will learn about Yakunin’s tricks.
After all, the country should know its heroes, their fur storage palaces, and their children’s London mansions.
PS If you have any information about Little Pig Yakunin’s secret dealings that might interest our Anti-Corruption Foundation, be sure to send it to us at Yakunin@fbk.info We will examine everything carefully.
PPS A separate and very big thank-you to our brave Swiss agent, who provided invaluable help in gathering materials. Excellent work.