Our Blue Thief (be sure to read Max Mironov’s post on this topic) is setting new records for hypocrisy:
They dragged out approval of the completely legal application for today’s march, which was submitted on time, until the very last moment, and they’re still jerking us around over where the stage will be placed, even though it needs to start being assembled in just a couple of hours.
Across the country, people are being pulled off trains, and buses carrying those traveling to Moscow are being delayed.
But then they SUDDENLY remembered the anniversary of the creation of their disgusting All-Russian Occupation People’s Front, which of course SUDDENLY has to be marked today with a rally of 50,000 employees from Russian Railways and Russian Post (this has absolutely nothing to do with our march, no, of course not).
Since all the deadlines for filing a formal application have already been missed, the Crooks and Thieves found what they think is a brilliant way out: they declared that a 50,000-person gathering with a stage and sound amplification is not a rally at all, but a "cultural mass event," which requires no permits/approvals whatsoever.
Just lovely. Some people get three days in jail for a one-person picket, while others—hell, they could burn down Moscow and it would be called "festive illumination."
Yet another excellent reason to come to Yakimanka/Bolotnaya/Manezhnaya today.
But the point of all this is that the use of political euphemisms has become one of the government’s main technologies.
"United Russia" has become indecent, so let’s call it the "All-Russian People’s Front."
"An unauthorized rally" sounds bad, so let’s call it a "cultural mass event."
You can’t say "the police are full of bandits," so instead we say "the police are a cross-section of society."
and so on
Fighting such euphemisms and exposing them is extremely important.
As soon as people started saying that the Blue Thief’s political base would be the ONF, not "United Russia" (where they’re dumping Medvedev, who is no longer deserving of any sympathy), it became completely clear that the only purpose of this was to get away from our meme: "United Russia is the party of crooks and thieves."
That cannot be allowed.
Working people, and the broad masses in general, must understand that these are the same crooks, just repainted.
I asked Viktor Leontyev from RosAgit to make a couple of posters on this subject (the creative idea was mine—don’t judge too harshly).
Dedicated to the anniversary of the ONF:
in high resolution Further takes on the theme are welcome; you can post your work in top-level comments. We’ll use the best ones for DMP. But remember: you should only get carried away with graphic editors until 2:30 p.m., because by 3:00 p.m. all honest citizens (from Moscow and the Moscow Region) are gathering at Oktyabrskaya metro station. Anyone who stays home will turn into a pumpkin.