Putin’s Authorities Reshuffles: What Does the Appointment of Andrej Belousov Imply for Russia’s Aggressive Army Coverage and Safety in Europe?

Reshuffles within the Russian authorities had been anticipated, as Vladimir Putin, even after the current fraudulent elections, nonetheless had to supply that there was a distinction between his earlier time period and his new time period. president. Probably the most attention-grabbing factor for us, from the standpoint of the struggle in Ukraine and, subsequently, from the standpoint of the safety of Latvia, is actually the substitute of the Minister of Protection Sergej Shoigu with the 65-year-old economist Andrej Belousov , which is It doesn’t say a lot to large circles, and the set up of Nikolai Patrushev within the present place of Secretary of the Safety Council, shifting Patrusheva himself to the place of presidential adviser. What does it imply, I repeat, that the 2 closest individuals to Putin to date have been transferred? As a result of at the very least within the case of Patrusheva, there are additionally very reverse assessments. And what does the person Belousov let you know, simply from the standpoint of the struggle in Ukraine and the continuation of the aggressive army coverage of Russia?

I believe that these modifications present the consolidation of all imperialist, conservative, reactionary forces round Putin’s persona. He isn’t going anyplace far, which is totally different from his ideological assumptions concerning the empire, concerning the state, concerning the USSR. Look who’s Belousov! Belousov’s father’s title is Removich, his father’s title was Rem, which interprets as ‘revolution, Engels, Marx’ – REM. He labored within the State Plan (USSR State Planning Committee, who managed the Soviet deliberate financial system – ed.) and was among the many fathers of the Kosygin reforms (an try and reform the Soviet financial system based mostly on tips and implementation of plans within the Nineteen Sixties, together with parts of revenue, high quality and promotion of supplies – ed.), who thought of, that the Nationwide Plan additionally has a job within the arms race with the USA. Why am I mentioning this? As a result of it’s believed that the USSR collapsed as a result of it couldn’t stand up to an arms race with the USA. Subsequently, an economist ought to come to the fore.

Belousov’s father was an odd socialist, and Andrei Removich is a staunch supporter of the empire. If we take analogies from historical past, it repeats Mussolini’s thesis about it a totalitarian state, that’s, a totalitarian state. The primary factor is the nation and never some type of democracy, human rights, and so forth. A very powerful factor in Russian historical past is the state, and Belousov presents it now as a contemporary strategy to the whole lot. It was the one who requested, a 12 months in the past, that the income of all metallurgical vegetation in personal palms could be taken away and returned to the state.

Such a spirit in the course of the Stalin period of the Second World Battle “all to the entrance, all for victory”?