The Troubles are Upon Russia
This little note appeared today on the resistance page Rospartisan. It alludes to the well-known period known as the Time of Troubles. Was that a civil war? Could Russia have fallen apart at that point? It does make for interesting speculation; however, let’s turn to the present:
Do you remember the sentimental story about the Pechenegs and Polovtsians? You’ve been warned — this is what it’s all about. Russia will fall through the war, through Yezhovism and the suppression of peasant uprisings — lower and lower. To the Pechenegs and Polovtsy.
The governors are already building the Great Barrier Line. Already the Zemstvo militia is being assembled. The county princes are already preparing their own squads.
Ahead is the church tithe, cholera and copper riots, Domostroy, a decree on the protection of the Church Slavonic language from foreign influences, the harem of Prince Vladimir, polyudye, oprichnina, the Novgorod pogrom, our land is great and plentiful, but there is no order in it, troubled times, natural exchange, flow and plunder, smerds and serfs. From time immemorial we have been in evil, but in a whisper, under the icons in black soot.
They are not talking of that long-gone era. The Time of trouble is in the present. Governors are raising a militia. Disease is spreading across the land. Granted, this is not the…