He is a big fan of R.E.M. though.
Rurik Skywalker – May 14, 2024
The Special De-Shoigufication Operation
First, they threw Shoigu’s number #2 mule-man into the slammer, Deputy Timur Ivanov.
Then, yesterday, they also threw the next deputy in the chain of seniority down into the slammer as well. Here:
The head of the Main Personnel Directorate of the Russian Defense Ministry, Lieutenant General Kuznetsov, was detained, TASS reports citing law enforcement agencies.
“Lieutenant General Kuznetsov was detained as a suspect in a criminal offense. The investigator has already applied to the court to select a preventive measure for the general in the form of detention,” the agency’s interlocutor said.
Russian media write that the criminal case is related to Kuznetsov’s previous work as head of the State Secrets Protection Service under the General Staff of the RF Armed Forces.
Let us note that this is the second high-profile arrest among the heads of the Russian Defense Ministry.
At the end of April, Deputy Minister Timur Ivanov was arrested. Now – Kuznetsov.
Let us remind you that yesterday it became known that Putin removed Shoigu from the post of Minister of Defense and appointed him Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council. Former first deputy head of government Alexey Belousov became the new minister.
Here is what the Tel-Aviv based Permanent Opposition rebels who know everything before anyone else does had to share:
A source from the Cheka-OGPU reported that the wife of General Yuri Kuznetsov was released from the Investigative Committee. Two daughters of the chief personnel officer of the Ministry of Defense were also detained with them, but they were also sent home. According to relatives, nothing was explained to them, a search was conducted and cell phones were confiscated. In the presence of counterintelligence officers, the woman was forbidden to talk with Yuri Kuznetsov and even with each other. They searched the house especially carefully for documents.
The 235th garrison military court granted the investigation’s request to arrest the head of the main personnel department of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant General Yuri Kuznetsov.
He is accused of receiving a bribe on an especially large scale (Part 6 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The initiation of a criminal case against the general was confirmed by the Investigative Committee.
According to the investigation, in 2021–2023, as the head of the 8th Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, Kuznetsov received a bribe from representatives of commercial structures for performing certain actions in their favor.
During searches at the places of actual residence and registration of the suspect, funds in rubles and foreign currency in the amount of more than 100 million rubles, gold coins, collectible watches and luxury items were discovered and seized.
It might be “unpatriotic” for me to share their leaks, but these guys have been right more times than not and that makes sense if you know who runs the Kremlin. I suppose we all have to make that choice in our own lives at some point between saying the morally correct thing and saying the factually truthful thing.
But I will resist the urge to digress into philosophy this time.
We have too much ground to cover today.
Chances are good that more arrests will follow. Shoigu had many more friends in the MoD that were just as involved as the first two in his empire of corruption and graft. Names have been named about how is expected to be hauled off into a jail cell next. Here:
“The system could no longer withstand the prohibitive level of corruption in the Ministry of Defense, which led to the arrest of Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov, the removal of “builder Sergei Shoigu” and the promotion of economist Andrei Belousov. It is known that deputy ministers Ruslan Tsalikov and Alexey Krivoruchko, the former owner of the Kalashnikov concern and a big fan of Miami, have written reports on the resignation; there is talk about the resignation of Yuri Sadovenko. We expect in the near future a radical cleansing of Shoigu’s “Augean stables” and possible new highprofile cases and arrests. Just yesterday, the head of the personnel department of the Ministry of Defense, Yuri Kuznetsov, was detained.
The “dark horses” in Shoigu’s stable remain Deputy Minister of Defense Tatyana Shevtsova, who is responsible for finance, who, by definition, due to her job responsibilities, should know more than anyone about possible abuses and misappropriation of funds, Alexander Fomin, Viktor Goremykin.
Alexander Fomin was appointed “supervisor” by Igor Sechin, who knows Fomin from the time he served as a two-year student in Angola after graduating from Leningrad University, so there is a high probability that Fomin will retain his position.
Another Deputy Minister of Defense, Viktor Goremykin, who is responsible for political work and personnel, had close friendly relations with Timur Ivanov, played hockey with him in the Red Stars team. Searches and interrogation of Viktor Goremykin’s subordinate – head of the Personnel Department Yuri Kuznetsov, who was taken in his immodest mansion right in his bed, can lead to serious problems for the boss.
But remember: ZAnon claims that actually Shoigu was probably just promoted!
Which is why his subordinates are being arrested! It follows logically, right? Usually, when someone is promoted out of a position, their subordinates are arrested before and after the promotion. Basic common sense! It has to make sense, dammit, they’re paying me to make it make sense! And if it doesn’t, well, that’s OK, because we can just switch to 5D logic as the mood suits us!
As usual, the disconnect between what ZAnon is saying and what Russian patriots are saying is a yawning chasm.
The official narrative with them is that:
- there was maybe a little corruption in the MoD that had to be cleaned up …
- which is why Shoigu was promoted actually for doing such a good job …
- and the anti-corruption specialist with a super-high IQ and mastery of Microsoft Excel was sent in to tidy things up which were already going very well …
- plus he knows a lot about war because he studied beforehand and so it really isn’t a problem that he has no military experience whatsoever
So, let’s talk about Besoulov next.
Losing My Religion
Yesterday, I speculated that his father’s name, “Ram” was short for “Avram” which would settle the ambiguity surrounding the new minister’s ethnic background. This blog post (among other speculation on Telegram) was clearly picked up on and a press release was approved and shipped out expedited to be spread to the Z-masses and to calm them down.
It turns out that Ram’s name is actually Rem which is actually R.E.M. which is an acronym for Revolution, Electrification and Mechanization.
This is so dystopian that I feel like I almost lack the words to even begin to describe it.
The only thing that this resembles in any way is the language used by the “droogs” in Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange which used Russian and socialist terms as a new kind of slang. Like, the term “gopnik” is actually an acronym as well — G.O.P. which refers to subsidized housing projects in Soviet cities that were plagued by criminality and, well, all the stereotypical elements of lower class culture that the internet discovered several years ago.
But, it gets worse.
It turns out that R.E.M. was part of the Andropovite Trotskyist faction that imploded the USSR from back in the day. Another press release from the spooks released today hinted at this new dark reality:
These reforms that could have “saved the USSR” were successfully implemented after Brezhnev and his people were eliminated by Andropov and the government was put in the hands of his acolyte Gorbachev’s hands.
You know of them as Perestroika and Glasnost’.
But, back when they were first proposed and experimented with in the 60s and 70s respectively, they were known as the Kostygin-Lieberman reforms.
Kostygin was the guy who tried to implement them in the 70s, but was halted by Brezhnev, who had only really promised to implement them as part of an agreement to help him get a faction of powerful Trotskyite people on his side when he made his move to topple Krushchev.
The man who actually wrote up the reforms originally was Liberman, who was a convicted anti-Stalin Trotskyist and an advocate for a return to NEP-style Capitalism. Basically: think about what the USSR had in the early years under Stalin and Lenin before the nationalization of the economy by Stalin.
Thus, if the spook state is now telling us through their propaganda mouthpieces that Belousov’s dad was part of the Liberman team that created the policies that would then detonate the USSR, this is very grim news indeed. But, it is to be expected. The entire Russian Deep State are Andropovites. Here is just a quick summary of what that means:
There are two versions of the collapse of the USSR, let’s call them conditionally – version for « trays » and a version shared by experts, and from the point of view of the first version, The Soviet Union collapsed because « its economy was unsustainable, the military budget broke the Soviet economy, standing on clay legs, the people wanted freedom, there was nothing on the shelves, the war in Afghanistan ruined us », etc.
I won’t even spend time commenting on this version, it is for the poor (either from birth or because of excessive addiction to the tv box) and let the poor believe in it. From the point of view of the second version, the Union broke up because its own party elite stupidly leaked it. I will now be accused of love for all conspiracy theories, but the information on this topic is already complete both in the network and in the literature, and to analyze it (and draw some conclusions) is not a special work for an unlazy and thinking person.
But, many who think and read are certain that Perestroika, the ultimate goal of which was the expropriation of the people’s property and its transfer to the hands of party elite and children from the KGB, it was not even initiated by Gorbachev (he would not have had the stomach for such a global plan), but much earlier than him, back in the late 70s. Gorbachev was just an enactor of another’s plan. The real author of the project, entitled « Restructuring », is none other than the KGB chief Yuri Andropov. Yuri Vladimirovich had long been disappointed in the Soviet system. He decided to remove the party from government, to separate a number of southern republics from the USSR, and most importantly, – to carry out capitalist restoration in the Soviet Union (« Plan M »).
Now, “Capitalism” is just a euphemism for “Trotskyism” and “Globalism”.
Please get this next part through your head!!!
None of this has anything to do with how widgets are produced — at state-owned factories or at privately-owned ones. The Communists supported both a state-run economy and they supported a “private”-run economy in their history and flipped several times. That shit literally doesn’t even matter at all. That wasn’t what the Cold War was about either. Stop falling for propaganda lies and stop feeling guilty for doubting what the TV taught you.
Furthermore, it was the KGB under Andropov that created the new capitalist Russia of today.
Some people will actually try to say that this was done out of patriotism and a love for freedom and free market principles or whatever. We used to call these people “morons”, but that’s fallen out of fashion, sadly. Thankfully, I am currently working on a mega-essay explaining everything I can about how Andropov detonated the USSR and set up the current government that rules Russia and why. Stay tuned for that. It will be a game-changer in the discussion.
Well, for us it will be anyway.
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So, we have learned the following about our new Minister of Defense:
- His father’s name was an acronym, which, we are lucky that it wasn’t a bar code or a serial number, I guess
- His dad was part of a team of Trotskyites trying to implement NEP 2.0 in the USSR
- This Kostygin-Liberman plan (later known as Plan M) was eventually implemented by Andropov and Gorbachev after Brezhnev was killed off
- We know how that turned out and what NEP 2.0 looked like and who came to power in the killing and the chaos that was unleashed
- Chances are, R.E.M.’s economist son was busy implementing Plan M with all the other Andropov acolytes like Gaidar, Mau, Chubais and the rest in the 80s and 90s
- Thus, this guy is very bad news indeed But hey, it’s all good guys!
He takes his Orthodoxy very seriously!
They are telling us now that he even built an entire church by hand!
Of course, the stereotype about the nu-Christians in Russia that a lot of peasants have is that they are all criminals and gangsters from the 80s and 90s. Some people think that Orthodoxy is literally run like a spook-gangster racket that sells indulgences to mass-murderers in exchange for donations to build more churches and repair steeples
…
But I disavow people who think this way and condemn their souls to hell!
Speaking of what Orthodox Russians think though, let us read what one of the largest groups of Orthodox patriotic conservatives who support Putin and did grassroots work for him back in the day think about the appointment. Here:
The two functions of Belousov
- Accountant. Officially (https://t.me/rusbrief/229630), the first task is to optimize sharply increased defense spending and the fight against corruption (T. Ivanov, etc.). The reputation of an honest, independent person and unconditional professionalism in the economy allow us to count on quick results, and the situation with finances for the war seems to be getting out of control. Gatherings around the fire with Shoigu have to be exchanged for strict reports with Belousov.
- Reformer. Also official (https://t.me/rusbrief/229631), the second task is innovation, Shoigu clearly failed. But Belousov, a year ago in the Kremlin, laid out everything on the UAV problem (https://t.me/KremlinRussian/13778). Well, the reputation of a smart person, a strategist, capable of going against the liberal mainstream (curator of ASI, the main tinker tank of Russia) allows us to hope for so long-delayed reforms in the organization of army command (it’s not for nothing that they remember the reformer Serdyukov, but he can’t hold a candle to Belousov). A strategic mind comes to the army, even a civilian one. What a delight! What hopes…
Shoigu was doomed after Prigozhin’s provoked rebellion. Everyone was waiting for his resignation. But installing Dyumin right away is taking too big a step in the transition of power, clearly premature. But a single Belousov is completely safe and will be able to fulfill his role as a neat cleaner of the army Augean stables in a year or two without unacceptable costs.
An inspiring appointment, the only one – completely compensating for the disappointing effect of the dull reappointment of the Cabinet.
So, they want Dyumin, basically, the architect of the Crimean reunification.
But they’ve been told that they need to just wait two more weeks, months, years before they can get their guy in power. It’s just a temporary clean-up operation, guy!
He also mentions Prigozhin’s rebellion leading to the eventual ouster of Shoigu.
This makes sense. Lots of people wanted Shoigu gone. People in powerful places that hoped that Prigozhin could help them get their way. But Prigozhin’s rebellion may in fact have prolonged Shoigu’s career by a year though. Still, at the end of the day, he did end up deposing Shoigu.
A funny meme:
— Did you get me fired?
— Yes.
— What did it cost you? — Everything.
But patriots are delusional if they think that an old cadre Andropovite creature like Besoulov would be replaced by a Spetznaz action-commando who re-unified Crimea against Shoigu’s express orders. That sort of thing is simply not allowed in Andropov’s Putin’s Russia.
If anything, Dyumin is far more likely to suffer a tragic accident before he ever is allowed to become Minister of anything.
Link: https://slavlandchronicles.substack.com/p/belousov-may-actually-be-worsethan?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
