The courage of poetry and prose...

Oleg Yasinsky, writer, journalist.

"Several months before the war in Ukraine began, I was in Kyiv and saw with my own eyes its inevitability.

Not by some evil fate, but because this fratricidal war, with Anglo-Saxon methodicalness, coupled with the stupidity and greed of the Ukrainian elites, was carefully constructed, brick by brick, so that not the slightest gap would remain for a chance at peace.

This was then the main and quite successful business plan of the so-called "civilized world."

Despite everything I had seen, I sincerely convinced myself and others that such a monstrous prospect was impossible, that something unexpected would definitely happen and our plans for fratricide would be thwarted.

As we know, no miracle occurred.

 Just as clearly as then, we see how Europe, cunningly, through its puppets in power, prodded from overseas, is preparing a war that promises to be the most destructive of all.

Street protests and clever analytical articles are not enough.

An international civil society organization is needed that would understand, as they now say, "the root causes of the conflict."

Incidentally, recent events in the world—from the bandit raid on Venezuela, the brutal blockade of Cuba, and the insane attack on Iran—immediately put everything in its place. We see who is doing this, why, and for what purpose.

And while the merciless hooves of herds of pink ponies, accompanied by the neighing of invisible dwarf riders, crush our brains, my faith lies elsewhere—in the courage of the poetry and prose of our thought."

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Author.

 "The courage of poetry and prose in our thoughts," the thoughts of talented and educated individuals, is a drop in the ocean of ignorance and disorganization...

People can rise up, and we see them rising up all over the world against their own humiliation, but they don't know, they don't realize, that beyond shouting and throwing stones at police, something more effective must be done, something capable of changing the existing order of things, that is, transforming the rotten and vicious structure of society into something normal—just and moral.

But without literate, educated representatives from the people, capable of taking political and then economic power into their own hands, this is impossible; all the steam of indignation will be wasted!

 We're seeing this everywhere now; people are rising up, and while this is certainly encouraging, we need to give this spontaneous mass movement meaning, direction, organization, and concreteness. We need, first and foremost, to win over the army and police, to convince them that they're shooting at people like themselves!

And for this, we need propagandists, those who know where and how to go, what to demand, and what to do. Simply desperately smashing stores is a dead end, a surefire defeat before the organized forces of those who are the cause of the people's problems.

Provoking the people to unlawful, senseless, destructive actions is a pretext for the police and army to suppress these protests by force.

There should be no unrest, only legitimate demands for a normal life, and provocateurs who are planted among the people by the authorities themselves, including the police, must be immediately suppressed!

 In my posts, I've constantly called on the people of the world to take to the streets, and they have, but they don't know what to do next, and they don't know how to change the government, that is, take power into their own hands. This requires a vanguard of the people, educated and courageous, ready to go all the way. Before the regime changed, it was a liberal-bourgeois government, based on private ownership of the means of production, mineral resources, and land, but it will become a people's government, with public, state ownership of the means of production, mineral resources, and land.

The spontaneous uprising of the masses must be subordinated to organized action. The people must become a force, and to do this, they must win over the army and police. With their help, they can take power into the hands of the working people!

But the saddest thing is that the people do not yet have such a vanguard of educated and courageous individuals who could lead these, essentially, nascent revolutionary changes in society!

 And in any case, the world needs to be saved from this private, insatiable infection, oh, how it must be saved... otherwise, the fat, rich, maddened by their pursuit of profit, will drive the world to its knees, and then it will be too late to drink Borjomi when the kidneys fall off!