A-Infos (en) Russia, Avtonom: The state as a dam in Orsk: "Trends of order and chaos", episode 153 (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

In memory of a comrade ----- The week in which this podcast episode will 
be published will mark a year since the death of our comrade, anarchist 
Dmitry Petrov. He died with weapons in his hands in the Bakhmut battles. 
Perhaps Dmitry is the only or one of very few anarchists of the current 
generation who will be remembered by his comrades even in a hundred 
years: communes, squats and punk-hardcore ensembles will be named after 
Petrov. ---- Unfortunately, there are few people like Dmitry now: those 
for whom anarchism is not an element of a subculture, not a distant 
utopia. He said: if we are anarchists, we must strive to build anarchist 
communism not sometime there, but during our lifetime.

Any of his actions emanated a bit of reckless sincerity: some kind of 
fight with the Nazis in the 2000s, everyone ran away from the cops, and 
Petrov had to be pulled by the scruff of the neck from the Nazi he was 
beating on the steps of the subway with a metal chain.

But with no less temperament, he organizes elderly women protesting 
against the cutting down of another Moscow square. Petrov was one of the 
best polemicists in anarchist discussion clubs. Having become interested 
in the Kurdish movement, he became one of the best specialists on this 
topic in Russia.

Putin's 2022 invasion found Dmitry in political relocation to Ukraine. 
And he not only joined the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, but 
also tried to organize a full-fledged anarchist unit there: something 
like how the Russian Nazis turned out to be the "Russian Volunteer Corps".

The war, which almost no one believed in on February 23, 2022, has been 
going on for more than two years. It is unknown how long the 
Russian-Ukrainian war will last, and even more so it is unknown when and 
how it will end.

But the impulse with which the anarchists went to the Armed Forces of 
Ukraine, and remain there to this day, is not about Ukrainian statehood, 
internationally recognized borders or anything like that. People went to 
take up arms in the path of Putin's shit empire. Whatever the outcome, 
it was definitely not in vain.

Gnawed by rodents
The main Russian news of the past week was the flood in the Orenburg 
region. How many people remember that the Urals are not only mountains, 
but also a river? But it overflowed so much that thousands of people 
lost their homes and almost all their property. The state promised the 
victims only 50-100 thousand rubles in compensation. The regional 
governor, at a meeting with residents, ordered the removal of phones so 
as not to film the meeting. The cause of the disaster, according to the 
builders of the dam, which could not withstand the spring melting of 
snow, was... rodents that gnawed through it.

Shortly before the flood in the Orenburg region, 13 gold miners who were 
buried alive in the Amur region were declared dead. They mined gold 
underground, and the owners of the mine knew about safety violations: 
now a criminal case has been opened against them.

In winter, as we remember, boiler houses began to break down in the 
cold: for many years the state was greedy to invest normal money in 
repairing the housing and communal services infrastructure.

There is still a lot of uncertainty about the events in Moscow at 
Crocus. The terrorists obviously underwent some kind of training: if 
only because they moved in a well-coordinated group, fired at the same 
time and did not kill each other.

But when they were detained, they appeared in the image not of tough 
saboteurs who staged the largest terrorist attack in modern Russian 
history, but of some comical suckers from the series "Our Russia", to 
whom the "preacher's assistant wrote in a telegram" and offered to earn 
money, and who did not They even bothered to change cars while fleeing 
the crime scene.

Many questions arise: was the terrorist attack at Crocus really so well 
planned, or is it possible to enter any shopping and entertainment 
center in the capital with machine guns, kill dozens of people on the 
spot and set it on fire so that the death toll exceeds a hundred?

Maybe all crowded places in Moscow are protected in much the same way, 
and the cladding there is made of flammable materials, contrary to fire 
safety rules?

In Moscow, every minute some driver receives a fine for minor 
violations: a "smart" video camera records, for example, illegal 
crossing of a lane on the road, and identifies the owner of the car. But 
the terrorists from Crocus left in the same car in which they arrived, 
hundreds of kilometers from Moscow. Now the cops say that they 
specifically detained them in the Bryansk region... But I don't really 
believe this.

Considering the kind of public torture the detained thugs were subjected 
to, obviously, they will now confirm any version of the cops: even to 
the point that the leader of their terrorist cell was Taras Bulba.

It is known that although there were a lot of cops under Putin, in fact 
there is a shortage in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The cops have a 
lot of bosses and bosses of bosses, a lot of idiots who screw people 
over for reposting, but the cops who really keep order on the streets, 
according to various estimates and in different departments, are missing 
from 10 to 40%. And something suggests that this is one of the main 
reasons for so many victims in the terrorist attack in Moscow.

Natural disasters or failures of the cops happen in any country. But the 
Russian state persists in complete absurdity: it spends thousands of 
lives and billions of dollars trying to "bring the Russian world" to its 
Ukrainian neighbors, persecutes gays and Jehovah's Witnesses, and much 
more - you all know it yourself. Instead of helping their citizens.

Before our eyes, the Russian state is forgetting how to do anything 
useful for people. And it becomes like a dam in Orsk: which, perhaps, 
was destroyed by some unknown ferret or beaver.

Well that's all for today! We remind you that in Trends in Order and 
Chaos, members of Autonomous Action and other authors give anarchist 
assessments of current events. Listen to us on YouTube, SoundCloud and 
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Issue prepared by Listyev

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