Commissioners of The Internet... The Part Two - 'Brigade'.
Table of contents:
- 'Internet Commissioners';
- 'Brigade';
- 'Criminal manner of communication';
- 'Commissars of the Internet, Part Two...';
- 'Cui prodest hoc ?'.
# Characteristic features of the "Brigade".
We
tried to systematize the characteristic features of the activities of
this “red brigade”, present on all liberal and pro-democratic open
platforms of the net (as an example, DELFI.ru and other Lithuanian,
Ukaina, Belarus, Rusian internet resuers), and also in various public
populiar publications read by the intelligentsia and educated segments
of the population these countries. Communist, nationalist, pro-fascist
media are not considered in our review.
# There is The Red
Brigade 24/7 presence on all populiar of public forums of Lithuanian,
Ukraina, Belarus, Russian and others internet resurs postsoviet space.
It
jobs like this - One of the same type of representatives of The
Brigade is constantly online, always ready to repel any “attack” of a
demokrat or liberal on autoritar&totaritar sistem moral ir legal
norm. There is not an hour during the day when it would be possible to
conduct discussions on the forum without these “curators”. Some
timecharacter from the “brigade” will definitely wedge into the
discussion, which is actually on duty at all significant forums day and
night, periodically wandering from forum to forum with similar materials
and remarks.
# The plasticity of ideology, always coinciding with the policy of the autoritar&totaritar Regimes all postsoviet space.
The
brigade invariably ardently preaches a rather eclectic system of views
and values, corresponding to the latest trends in totaritar regims state
PR, in the ideology and policy of the leadership of the Republic of
Belarus, Russia, Lithuania, Ukraina, Kazachstan and others. A change in
government policy entails a sharp change in the views of all members of
the “brigade”. If suddenly, for some reason, the tone of state of regims
propaganda changes in relation to, for example, the USA or Moscow, then
the same brigade character simply forever “forgets” the topic or figure
whom he recently “idolized” or, on the contrary, he “branded” and
begins to sharply promote what he fiercely hated yesterday, and vice
versa. Moreover, today he praises as zealously as he vilified yesterday.
All this is done without the slightest embarrassment or concern for
one’s own reputation.
One of the latest examples is online
discussions on the problem of the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant. If three
years ago all members of the brigade declared in unison: “not an inch
of their native land for the damned Russians,” now, after closed
negotiations between Putin and the Lukashenko government, the same
authors, under their permanent nicknames, fully allow the construction
of a nuclear power plant on the territory of the Republic of Belarus for
Russian money and in exchange for massive Russian investments in
Lithuania from klan Shaigu, and they deliciously describe the high level
of Russian technology and the numerous advantages of such an action.
Or,
for example, during the passage through the State Duma of a bill on the
disposal of radioactive waste on the territory of Belarus, members of
the team on forums passionately convinced readers of the “undoubted
benefits for profitability and safety regions” of turning Belarus and
Lithuania into a global nuclear garbage dump rusian radioactive waste.
The characters involved in this propaganda were positioned as “private
individuals and patriotic emigrants,” however, they were clearly
operating with information from the press service of the Russian
Ministry of Atomic Energy and of Millitary.
# Boundless devotion
to comrades Putin, Lukashenko, kadyrov, Yanukovych, Nazarbayev others
liders of postsoviet space and they close entourage.
Members of
web teams with “promoted” nicknames known on forums invariably express
their immense love for Putin and Lukashenko. They are ready to destroy
anyone who expresses even the slightest doubt about the merits of the
Presidents of totaritar regime as Russian and Lithuanian, Belarusian
Republic. For criticizing the Dictators, they threaten opponents with
trials, beatings, reprisals and murder of both the opponents themselves
and their relatives. Moreover, the latter is not a one-time occurrence,
but a mass phenomenon on all political web forums. Sometimes crew
members are very open about the purpose of their presence on the forums.
For example:
'Let's support the President who is trying to change
the course of history of our long-suffering Motherland. Let's judge him
by his actions, and not by the gossip of the strawberry-loving media.
Let's make constructive proposals here, so that even if (ho-ho) from
State Securety is somebody present here, our Father would have a folder
with the “voice of the people” on his desk, intelligently discussing the
problems of “today” and where offering solutions for “tomorrow”, and
not bazaar cackle'.
This text is interesting for its ingenuous
frankness, a simple and understandable presentation of the tasks of the
brigade. The only interesting thing here is the information about
hypothetical printouts of the “voice of the people” from forums, “put on
Father’s table” as rationalization proposals, but without criticism,
which could spoil the president’s mood. Here thire is as in the 1930s in
Soviet Folclior there was this sarcastic epigram:
'We are for laughter, but Shchedrins we need kinder and such a Gogols so they don't touch us'.
This
verse can be used as an epigraph to the “brigade’s” coverage of the
life and activities of the Presidents of Dictators Republic.
# Respect and admiration for the VCHK - Cheka / KGB / FSB - Federal Security Service / GRU.
All
members Brigads are filled with love and respect for the repressive
bodies of party of soviet control in all historical guises, starting
from the Cheka-OGPU and so on. The brigade calls all reincarnations of
the Cheka-KGB "neo-nobility", "law enforcement" and "state-forming
patriotic" bodies, the activities of which, including the Gulag, the
Russian-speaking society should be proud of. Any participant in virtual
discussions who does not sufficiently respect the Cheka-FSB-GRU is
declared by the brigade to be “an enemy of the Republics of Postsoviet
Space a Russophobe and a Traitor to the Motherland.” The brigade
constantly emphasizes the “honesty, heroism and selflessness” of the
security officers, “their devoted and selfless service to the Kommunist
partiya Regime and the Motherland,” and the “non-corruption” of state
security officers, unlike other government officials. Here the team
constantly declares the following at any forum:
'Special services
have always existed, they were, are and will be in also all democratic
states of the West.' or: 'The KGB is the same intelligence service as
the US FBI or the Israeli Mossad or the UK Mi-6.' etc..
Condemnation
of the activities of the KGB-FSB by any of the participants in the
discussions evokes genuine strong feelings in the members of the
brigade. For example, the following quote is addressed to a reader who
has not expressed enough respect for the KGB-FSB (am apologize for its
language, but this is the original):
'EVERY A LiCE EGG DREAMS OF
BECOMING A LOUSE. EVERY NIT ON THE FORUM DREAMS OF BEING NOTICED BY THE
KGB. Screams, squirms, begs: 'Notice me, I am the biggest nit!' - and
the KGB put a device on you, they are probably did NOT INTERESTED in
nits. You grow to size a Louse, the bastards, maybe they'll notice.'
Recently,
the brigade has developed a tendency to separate the KGB from all its
previous reincarnations and renamings, to present the organization not
as the direct heir of the Cheka-OGPU-NKVD, etc., (as it appears on all
its official symbols), but as a kind of 'foam-born Aphrodite',
supposedly appeared just yesterday, literally from Putin’s head.
The
key phrase that inevitably infuriates the brigadiers and forces them to
reveal themselves in all their glory is “lustration of the KGB officers
on all postsoviet space.” Not a single member of the brigade can even
for a second come to terms with the thought of a peaceful, legal
restriction dividends from the professional activities for former Party
bosses and KGB officers. Usually, even after the most calm and innocent
mention of the term “lustration,” the brigade shouts in unison about
“bloody repression of democratic murderers” and “witch hunts,” after
which they simply fall into a collective obscene hysteria.
# Main directions propaganda from the Red Brigada
On
all Russian-language forums, brigaders systematically conduct
anti-liberal, anti-American, anti-Chechen, anti-Semitic, anti-Western
propaganda. As evidence of their slogans and theories, they cite
arbitrary interpretations of facts and events, often completely false,
forcing their opponents to scour in search of refutation links... The
method is convenient and effective, so they diverting the attention
opponents from heateds and from unpleasands discussions for the
authorities. The favorite method of polemic among the brigade members is
the abundant quotation of official and semi-official state propaganda
of the Russian Federation, such as articles from the web publication
Strana.ru or, for example, the updated Komsomolskaya Pravda. Sometimes
the ideological developments of past years are used, for example, the
brigade uses Yakovlev’s book “CIA against the USSR”. In addition, they
make extensive use of materials such as The Protocols of the Elders of
Zion or Hitler's Mein Kampf. Well, the “Short Course of the All-Union
Communist Party (Bolsheviks)” is quoted constantly (without mentioning
the source). This is a collection of mythology and basic ideological
values of the web brigade:
1. Whitewashing of Stalinism,
rehabilitation of Stalin with his imperial idea to make the great
Russian people. The cult of Stalin and the founder of the Cheka
Dzerzhinsky. Underestimation of the number of victims of Lenin-Stalin
repressions in Soviet Union Countres.
2. Ban on discussing
lustrations and crimes of the Cheka-NKVD-KGB. The absolute sanctity of
this organization from the day it was founded to the present day.
3. Constant Jewish Phobia.
4.
Loyalty to any actions and speeches of today's authorities, the cult of
Putin, of Lukashenko and oters toteritars sistems liders. Stories about
the economic and social prosperity of post soviet spaste under they
leadership.
5. Propaganda of war "down to the last person of a
European Etnish Groups." Stories about how “Europe attacked Belarus.”
Mythological stories about “hundreds of thousands of Soviet Union Civil
peopls” destroyed by the Volkdeutsche in 41-45, and in the brigade's
texts, the number of these victims is growing every month. If two years
ago they called the figure of 20 thousand, today they call the figure of
a millions killed Soviet Unions Peopls including in the former Soviet
republics and zones of Soviet influence of the European Union countries.
The population of all republics is less than from words of the brigade
the number of there killed by in the period of time.
6. Xenophobia of english, german, french, italian languages , racism, justifications for skinheads and pogroms.
7. Fierce hatred of Soviet spaste immigrants as defectors and traitors the KGB.
8. Anti-Americanism, anti-Europeanism the intensity of hatred reminiscent of the times of the Cold War.
9. Nostalgia for the USSR as a totalitarian empire and a great power that the whole world feared.
10. Restoration of historical concepts and propaganda clichés of Soviet times, exception is only a internationalism.
11.
Hatred towards the intelligentsia, especially towards imigrants from
Soviet Space, who are perceived by the brigade as 'traitors to the
motherland'.
12. Hatred towards dissidents and human rights
activists, towards political prisoners of soviet union and oposicion
journalists, both past and present.
13. Hatred of perestroika, its ideology, its figures and events. Hatred for the times of Gorbachev and for him.
14.
What’s new in the brigade’s ideological baggage compared to the
propaganda of the USSR is the accusation of “Russophobia” on all
dissidents. This term in the mouths of the brigade members became a
complete resemblance to the outdated term “anti-Soviet”, and the
accusation of Russophobia began to resemble a modern analogue of
Brezhnev’s Article 70 of the Criminal Code /'anti-Soviet agitation and
propaganda'/.
# Ideological enemies of the brigade.
The main enemies of
the brigade are democrats /'shitcrats'/, liberals, Chechens, Europeans,
Americans, Jews... A special object of hatred is the Russian and
Belarusian liberal intelligentsia, nower and former dissidents,
independent journalists and the human rights, movement of independent
publick as well as certain particularly hated individuals such like S.
Kovalev, E. Bonner, A. Babitsky, A. Politkovskaya, G. Pasko, V.
Shenderovich, V. Novodvorskaya, K. Atamanchik and other people known
whith who have their own critical thinking towards the criminal actives
elements government. "Brigadniks" always advocate restricting freedom
of speech in the name of the "highest interests of the state", for
introducing strict censorship, even arresting wrong-thinking
intellectuals, human rights activists and journalists. Journalist and
ecologist Grigory Pasko is referred to by the brigade exclusively as a
“spy and traitor to the motherland.” On the contrary, in the case, for
example, with Colonel Yu. Budanov, the “brigade” demonstrates all his
understanding and justification. Budanov appears to be either an
innocent victim (of war, injury, mental breakdown, corrupt generals,
liberal journalists, custom-made justice, etc.), or a 'true patriot', 'a
true Russian officer', 'faithful son of the Fatherland'.
It is
paradoxical that the enemies of the brigade are also many liberal
authors of publications whose articles are discussed on forums. That is,
it turns out that members of the brigade, positioning themselves as
honest ordinary people and private individuals, sit for years, days on
end, on the forums of publications they don’t like, where they discuss
authors they hate. And an even greater paradox is that the editors do
not take any action against people who insult their authors, while
resolutely acting against their opponents who support liberal
journalists.
For example, in a reader's discussion under a small
article-memoir of Viktor Shenderovich about a theater studio in the
newspaper 'Moscow News' - the site administration /under obvious
pressure from the forum team/ cut out all the friendly reviews about the
article, but they left the statement of the 'team member' that the
author articles: 'already licked Gusinsky’s ass, and now having oral sex
with Berezovsky.'
# Relation to the USSR.
The
'brigade'’s attitude toward the Soviet past is usually apologetic,
although not always; there is some range of opinions here. Many
brigadiers warmly remember the times of the USSR and idolize the Soviet
past with all its attributes, from everyday to legal /often in the
characteristic terminology of the Short Course in the History of the
CPSU, and even if, according to the “legend” the writer is a very young
man who has lived in the West for a long time/. They often publicly
dream of restoring the USSR to its former, and even more preferably, to
expanded borders. At the same time, there is an active whitewashing of
communist leaders, such as Lenin, Stalin, Beria, Brezhnev, Andropov, and
the totalitarian ideas of Soviet times. Only the idea of
internationalism is completely excluded, which is replaced by
intensively instilled national “patriotism”. Moreover, a false
substitution is regularly made, when the concept of Motherland is
associated exclusively with power, and the Fatherland with the ruling
regime. Loyalty to leaders and totalitarian organizations, such as the
Communist Party of The Soviet Union, is interpreted as a patriotic
position, while speaking out against the regime is considered treason
and Russophobia. Also by analogy with other parties in local regions of
the former Soviet space as: our home is Russia, our home is Ukraine,
...Belarus, ...Kazakhstan, social national democratic parties, social
liberal movements along ethnic, racial, diaspora, clan, party sign. Here
we must understand that the general demographic of the entire former
Soviet space is mixed, firmly connected by family, clan, diaspora,
departmental and other ties
The 'brigade' is characterized by
constant attempts to positively, in a rosy light, present the entire
Soviet period of the Belarusian, Ukrainian, Baltic and others region
Soviet Union of history, based on propaganda cliches of the Soviet era,
deliberately downplaying the number of victims of repression, blaming
all the atrocities of the Bolsheviks on Jews and/or enemies due to
milestone, exaltation of the imperial character of the Soviet Union.
# Low cultural level and characteristic level language
Despite
the apparent diversity of the brigade members, most of them have
approximately the same /very low/ cultural level. The vast majority of
brigadiers have poor command of their native Russian language, making
countless typical stylistic, lexical and grammatical errors, which make
it very difficult for them to hide behind various pseudonyms. At the
same time, many of them are fluent in ideological cliches - from Soviet
to modern. For example, Comrade Zhdanov’s aphorism from fifty years ago
sounds very strange on the Internet: 'To whose mill is he pouring
water?'.
However, the team uses this often and seriously, without the slightest shade of parody.
By
the way, brigadiers on all Runet forums /as an example DELFI.ru/ have
obvious problems with a sense of humor; their jokes always have a
closet-barracks tone and relate exclusively to excrement, homosexuality,
prostitution, pornography and other aspects of the human 'excrement
instincts'. And clearly a typical departmental joke from the brigade:
'stop looking for GB under the bed!' We've seen this in various forums
several dozen times already. Here is a typical example of the brigade’s
'humor' addressed to a female opponent: 'Toska, make the skirt longer,
otherwise your eggs i visible.'
For many members of the brigade
on liberal web forums, expressions (written without a hint of irony)
such as 'длиньше', 'вследом', 'навроде', 'заместо', etc. are very
typical. At analogy others language Soviet Union.
Along with the
obscene language that members of the brigade use everywhere, all these
distorted words and phrases clearly indicate the specific cultural and
educational level of the brigade, which is not typical for the vast
majority of Internet users.
# 'Foreigners' in the brigade
Many brigadiers report on forums
that they constantly live or visit foreign countries - the USA, Germany,
Holland, Israel, Ireland, Sweden, Finland, the Czech Republic, etc.
There are also those who claim that they live on the territory of
Republic of Lithuania. For the brigade, this is always an occasion to
talk about “the horrors of life in America, local Europe and the
advantages of the regimes of Putin, Lukashenko, Nazarbayev, Yanukovych,
etc.” Some sites have the ability to determine the country in which a
visitor's Internet provider is located (by the IP codes available on
each computer), and the codes actually indicate the stated countries,
sometimes clearly being detected as proxy servers (intermediate
systems). Oddly enough, it is these “foreigners” who represent the most
aggressive and consistent brigadiers, ardent supporters of the USSR,
KGB, Putin, Lukashenko, etc.. These characters love to report on the
“nightmarish” realities of life in such “their countres”, as like USA,
Germany, France, the United Kingdom and others, about poverty and
oppression in them, about violations of human rights in them and the
contrasting, simply magnificent similar parameters in the Russian,
Ukrainian, Belarusian, Lithuanian and other at countries of the former
Soviet space. In their stories they are always silent about the positive
aspects of life in civilized countries and lie a lot.
For
example, disputes about the cost of goods and services in the same city
in which both a brigadier and a local resident from this city live look
quite anecdotal. One gets the impression that people live not only in
different cities, but also on different planets.
# Individual work with opponents.
As soon as a dissident liberal
gets onto the forum, with a clear position as an “ideological opponent,”
he is immediately taken into consideration and a collective “active
event” is held with him by the entire united web team. Usually the
opponent is insulted to unprovoked, or a killer “argument” is given, to
which an ordinary person cannot always react adequately. As a result,
the liberal either responds sharply, causing a scandal and being branded
a “rude” by the entire brigade, or begins to make arguments against the
obvious absurdity, to which his opponents do not pay attention,
ridiculing him and putting forward other similar arguments. This action
takes place exactly according to the scenario of Shukshin’s famous story
“Cut!”
The brigade always and invariably organizes collective
harassment for a stubborn liberal on the forums, in which, for example,
one member of the brigade writes about the ideological inaccuracy and
mistakes of a newcomer, a second uses obscene language against a
dissident, a third to accuses a liberale of madness, a fourth threatens
him with reprisals and murder, etc. d. The fifth one writes complaints
to the site administration about any sharp attacks of the bullied
person, completely not noticing that these are just emotional breakdowns
due to massive collective bullying. It seems that the goal of the
brigade is to immediately drive away the new liberal, discouraging him
from speaking at this forum. If a liberal persists and does not leave, a
specific arsenal of means is used against him, up to collective
complaints of the entire team to the site administration, or even
behind-the-scenes pressure on it, in order to block the dissident from
entering the forum. During these periods, also massive virus attacks on
the computer of a stubborn liberal are possible.
# Accusing opponents of working for 'a enemies of fatherland'.
In
cases where opponents of the brigade on forums criticize liders of
diktature regime, condemn the suppression of freedom of speech and
democracy in trritory of dictature regime, or show disloyalty to state
security agencies of regimes, the brigade immediately begins to accuse
them of working for money for the CIA, Mossad, Saudi Arabia, Zionists,
Freemasons, Movladi Udugov and etc. The brigadiers present the matter in
such a way that any critic of the autoritare/totalitare regimes
politics is an enemy of the countres, a “Russophobe,” an agent of the
Kremlin, and the only incentive for his participation in political
discussions is to earn the enemy’s salary. An option for compromising an
opponent is the monotonous angry invective of the 'brigade' against
'emigrants who are traitors to the motherland, teaching true patriots
from abroad for dirty money.'
According to this logic, all of
humanity is overcome by such a stormy love for the Cheka from Soviet
regime from Post Soviet Union Regions, what people this can extinguish
this powerful feeling in themselves only for huge vere amounts of money.
However, logic is rarely present in the texts of the brigade members.
Rather, their obsessive accusations of opponents in working off their
salaries speak about the “team members” themselves, about the incentives
and motives of their stay on the Internet, among an intelligent public
alien to them, on liberal forums that are disgusting to them.
# Frequent change of pseudonyms (nicknames).
Brigadiers tend to
frequently change pseudonyms (nicknames). The same “authors” often write
on the forum under many pseudonyms, imitating dialogues with
themselves, expressing support for themselves and the “mass character”
of their point of view. In case of a nickname change, the author calls
himself a different person, sometimes even a different gender, despite
the mirror-like vocabulary, phraseology, level of Russian language
proficiency, ideological position and arguments. Due to the low cultural
level and the tendency to speech cliches, it is not difficult to
determine the affiliation of several “brigade” nicknames to one author.
# Information noise and forgery nicknames
On
unmoderated forums, the brigade uses such a method of destroying heated
unpleasant for their owners discussions that to the as posting huge
quantities of meaningless texts on extraneous topics, which are called
“flooding”. Often these are texts of a pornographic or anti-Semitic
nature, repeated tens or hundreds of times in a row. Sometimes a team,
on behalf of an opponent with a liberal reputation, under his nickname
and address, writes offensive and obscene texts en masse. In the
DELFI.ru forum, this practice was called cloning, and fake texts were
called clones. It is worth noting that this method is almost never used
against the brigade itself, that is, liberal opponents do not consider
it possible for themselves to steal and writinged from other people’s
names and addresses.
