this Oleg Matveychev, who is the deputy governor of the Vologda Region and a former employee of the Domestic Policy Directorate of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation, and who in his little blog calls for crushing people with tanks:
***you know what I dream about? that one fine day all of you would gather in one big maidan (public protest square) all the loudmouths, screamers, online hamsters, anti-corruption fighters, supporters of people’s power, envious bastards counting other people’s money, manipulated suckers and losers of every kind who blame anyone and everyone but themselves that you’d all gather with all your flags foaming at the mouth and shouting officials to the lampposts!!! no corruption! power to the people! that everyone would come out that not a single bastard would stay home the main thing is that all of you crawl out it’s just a shame there’s no square like that in China had it good Tiananmen Square holds 1 million people and then when all of you had come out a tank army would roll in and grind all the scum, all the filth of the nation, into its tracks burn it all out with red-hot iron and then, just like after Tiananmen in China, we too would have 20–30 years in a row of economic growth at 10 percent a year ***from here People had been sending me links to his little blog for a long time. Mostly in connection with his claims that everyone calling for a fight against corruption is an enemy of Russia, and so on. There’s a lot of interesting stuff there. I didn’t post it because I seriously doubted that a sitting deputy governor would openly write such insane drivel, and lace every other word with profanity. The internet is the internet, but if you’re a government official, you should at least have some basic filter on what comes out of your mouth. And in general, the little diary gives off a very strange impression. So I thought the blog was fake. Now it’s become clear that Matveychev is real. This really is the blog of Oleg Matveychev, a former employee of the Domestic Policy Directorate of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation (he was kicked out after he screwed up over the Kaliningrad protests), a State Councillor, 3rd Class, and deputy governor of the Vologda Region. Interestingly, here on the Rumol website, he is called an Adviser to the President of the Russian Federation. Here his nasty mug is sticking out from behind Surkov’s back:
What I want to say is this: I’m not even going to comment on those statements. He’ll delete them soon enough and say he was joking or that he was “deliberately provoking the hamsters.” The bitter fact is that Oleg Matveychev is simply a half-crazy idiot. Scroll through his journal. The way he writes. The number of question marks and exclamation points. The different fonts, the constant CAPS LOCK. He’s just an idiot. He belongs in a sanatorium, not in government service. But this hellish freak is actually very useful, because he gives us an excellent idea of the kind of people who hold top government posts, and who work in the Presidential Administration in particular. A great many people imagine them as some kind of highly sophisticated villains, devising elaborate multi-step intrigues. That’s not the case. What works there are Oleg Matveychevs: ordinary crooks and half-crazy idiots who put seven question marks after every word. The only notable thing about these idiots is that they are extremely aggressive and cynical. Matveychev’s biography is absolutely typical too: a prominent political consultant. Along with other crooks, he traveled around the country pasting fake photos of rival candidates hugging Berezovsky onto fences, and called it “manipulative technology.” Then crooks on a larger scale picked him up and “put him in the service of the state.” And so he serves. On taxpayers’ money, he does bullshit and writes that they—the taxpayers—should be crushed with tanks. And by the way, the biggest idiot in this whole situation is Vologda Region Governor Pozgalyov:
the senile old stump has started a Twitter account and writes spectacular nonsense there, like: *Yesterday we launched construction of a berry-processing plant. We’ll have our own natural vitamins instead of imported chemicals. *He’d be better off keeping an eye on his subordinates’ mental health.