In the Russian political lack of fish, the Warsaw congress of Ilya Ponomarev became a cancer, which, with a certain mental effort, can be mistaken for a moving roach.
But if the general (or not so) public who watched the events in the Polish palace, the event caused only irony, then its participants themselves, and especially the organizers, clearly counted on a different effect.
Alexey Obukhov’s column – about backstage details and squeaky springs Russian policy in exile:
“… Actually, Ilya Ponomarev had a single task in Poland: this was very clearly seen in his attention to specific items on the agenda and the time that was allotted for the discussion of certain documents. Amnesty? – We jumped at full speed. An updated constitution? “Everyone just left the room. Freedom of the Media Act? – Yes, leave it for the last day, when half have already parted, and the second will hardly open its eyes after the evening banquet.
But the “act of national resistance” is necessary. How necessary it is to say that it must be forceful and that the congress accepts it as a natural given. It was the discussion of this act that had to be put on for a fixed time (in order to interrupt then all other conversations), it was for the sake of the word “forceful” that Ponomarev demanded that the document be adopted as a matter of priority. He is not only the inspirer of the “Vlasov army”, he is its political leader, legitimator … “
SOTA (@sotaproject)