The Best Places in Moscow and St. Petersburg
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Hello, Moscow. Hello, St. Petersburg. This is
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a separate message to you regarding the rally.
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January 28
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As you can see, Putin and the Kremlin, in general,
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do not consider Russia’s citizens to be human beings.
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But when it comes to the residents of the largest cities,
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they especially want to mock them.
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That is why they decided, essentially, to ban
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all opposition protests here, especially those
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against corruption, especially those
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against rigged elections. As if to say: you can
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show off all you want on social media, and we’ll
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just wave one piece of paper and, just like that,
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scare you off: we’re banning your rally.
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Stay home, and you can keep
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acting smart from there. You’ll put up with it.
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And I want to say this: don’t put up with it.
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Don’t give them gifts, and don’t
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confirm their idiotic theory that
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this is how they can defeat us.
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They want to look us in the face with a smirk and say,
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“See? We ban it, and then we just
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shrug our shoulders and say, well, all right, if
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it’s not allowed, then we won’t go.” If we want
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to achieve anything, we have to make
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an effort. And going out to a street
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demonstration with many thousands of people
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like you is not exactly some enormous effort,
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by the way. But it is absolutely
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necessary. What is at stake is
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your own life—the question of how many more
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years you will live under the rule of these
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thieves, obscurantists, and perverts; how many
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more years you will keep being underpaid;
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how many years your business will keep
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falling short of profit; how many more years you
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will merely scrape by with this backward and
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collapsing healthcare system. There is something
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worth fighting for. If you still have not left,
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if you have not emigrated, then every additional year
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that Putin remains in power is one more year
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of degradation.
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But do not give them the signal that you
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are prepared to endure six more years. You are not ready to,
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and besides, we have already endured 18 years. So, in
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Moscow, on Sunday, January 28, at 2:00 p.m.,
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we are going out to Tverskaya Street.
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Any point on Tverskaya Street, from Mayakovskaya
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to Manezhnaya. If you cannot choose a spot, then
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come to the Mayakovsky monument. I am often
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asked:
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“What should I do once I get there? Sometimes
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there is such confusion, and nothing is clear.” Well,
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coming there is the most important
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action. To come and demonstrate the
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physical presence of a person
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who refuses to turn into
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silent cattle and demands fair
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elections. In St. Petersburg, on January 28 at
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2:00 p.m., we gather at Proletarian Dictatorship Square
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(Ploshchad Proletarskoy Diktatury). See you Sunday. Bye.