Bad news for the Chekist regime — while it was «fighting international terrorism» in Syria, ordinary Russian youth started taking up arms right under its nose. Sometimes, as in Kerch, these weapons are turned against their own peers, and sometimes, as today, against their fellow Chekists.
In Arkhangelsk, 17-year-old Valeryan Panov entered the FSB building and activated an explosive device in his pocket as he passed through a metal detector. As a result, the young man died and three checkers were injured. Before carrying out the action, the young man left the following message in one of the anarchist chats:
«Comrades, very soon there will be a terrorist attack in the FSB building in the city of Arkhangelsk, and I take responsibility for it. The reasons should be clear to you. I have decided to do this because the FSB has gone crazy, fabricates cases and tortures people. Most likely, I will die because of the explosion, because the explosive device will be triggered directly by me by pressing the button attached to the lid of the bomb. So I ask you to spread information about the attack: who committed it and why.»
What can we say? Perhaps we should refrain from commenting so as not to fall under the influence of any article of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation… We will only note that the wave of violence, whether political or simply maniacal, emanating from ordinary Russian youth may become a much bigger problem for the ruling regime than the so-called «Islamic terrorism». While in Iraq or in regions with a compact Muslim population the latter can turn into a full-fledged guerrilla movement with the support of the local population, it has no prospects in most of the Russian territory and only incites the population against Islam and Muslims, playing into the hands of the regime and its special services.
However, it will be much more difficult for the Kremlin to deal with the youth of the country’s main population, who are supposed to play the role of the glue of the empire and its «Russian world». And most importantly, they will not even be able to understand the connection between the policies they pursue — starting wars, militaristic propaganda, threatening the world with nuclear war, witch hunts, political terrorism, tightening the screws, etc. — and the fact that their own youth eventually takes up arms and uses them inside the country.
On the contrary, one can be sure that in response to recent events they will take steps that will only make their situation worse: more control, more repression, more mind-numbing propaganda. As a result, there will only be more terrorism — this time Russian, the history of which, by the way, goes back more than a hundred years and is not inferior in scale to the same «Al-Qaeda», a banned organization in the Russian Federation.