When did Russia not turn there?

Therefore, they are certain - the turn "not there" happened on February 24, 2022, when Putin launched a large -scale offensive on Ukraine from north, east and south. Video of the day is a very convenient version for those who continued to keep their friendly and business relationships with Putin until the last moment.

Despite the fact that it has passed almost eight years after the occupation of Crimea, the capture of part of Donetsk and Luhansk regions, thousands of people and not only Ukrainians have been killed. Remember the Passenger Aircraft Mn17 shot down by Russian terrorists. But the turn of the Russian Federation in the direction from a normal country, which is valid in accordance with international rules and norms, did not even occur in 2014.

Not that year, she for the first time brazenly and frankly violated international law, resolving the war against a sovereign state. Remember Georgia aggression in 2008. Although his goals to restore Russia's world role, and therefore to restore influences on the post -Soviet space, Putin has frankly declared a year earlier at the Munich Security Conference.

And in 2005, a few months after the victory of the Orange Revolution, he stated that "the collapse of the Soviet Union was the largest geopolitical catastrophe of the century. " So Putin never hid: the goal of his foreign and domestic policy is to settle the consequences of this "catastrophe", to bring the world back to the situation by 1991.

So, maybe the Russian Federation came down from the democratic path, choosing President Vladimir Putin? Undoubtedly, the KGEBIST, headed by the state, personally attacked her reversal back to the USSR. So December 31, 1999, since Putin manages Russia (first as the Presidential Acting, then, the President, then the Prime Minister, and then again and for life) - a turning point in the history of this country. But not Putin determines the moods of society - he rather adapts to them and uses them.

And irreversible changes from democracy in Russia began even earlier. Maybe during mass falsifications and manipulations in the 1996 presidential election? So organized the second term for Boris Yeltsin, and the Russians were silent. But no, even earlier. In 1994, the Kremlin unleashed a bloody war against the Chechens who sought independence.

The then President of the Russian Federation, who for many in the world was still associated with the struggle for freedom, one who thwarted communist put in Moscow three years earlier, the same Boris Yeltsin decided to drown in the blood the desire for the freedom of proud Caucasian people. But even before this war, the President of the Russian Federation fired the threat of loss of power in his own people.

In October 1993, in the midst of the political crisis, a conflict with the Russian Parliament, which announced it from the release of the duties of the head of state, Yeltsin issued a decree to dissolve the legislative body. The unwillingness of the deputies to execute the unconstitutional decision of the President pushed Yeltsin to use force. Parliament and his public defenders were shot from tanks. Official, probably low, estimates, killed one hundred people.

It seems that these events have become the last mass protest of the Russians against the abuse of power, where they found the courage to stop the security forces. Since then, all other actions of disobedience end with the mass and almost unobstructed arrests of protesters. In October 1993, the power of the Parliament was ambiguous in Russia and the world in October 1993.

After all, on the one hand, it looked wild and cruel, but on the other - the political opponents of Yeltsin are communists and other unpleasant characters for Democrats. Perhaps, for the sake of further democratic development, it was worth doing so with them? However, we see Yeltsin's victory in political confrontation, obtained through tanks, has taken the Russian Federation from the Democratic Way.

In Ukraine, a similar political crisis (confrontation between the President and the Parliament) was resolved differently: early elections of the legislature and the head of the state. President Kravchuk lost power, but Ukraine has retained democracy. Meanwhile, the "honeymoon" of the Russians with freedom ended in two years. This time it was longer, as in 1917, when it lasted from February to October.

Further, the country's movement developed on the usual track of the collapse of freedom: the second term of Yeltsin's presidency, the second war against Chechnya and destroyed its capital, the election of Putin, which turned out to be a lifetime, the war against Georgia, which turned out to be another, and the war against Ukraine For Russia, the last. Ukrainians will win because we are not just not one people - we are quite another people. Because Ukraine is not Russia.