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    Donbass Voters Committee, Ukraine
    Dec 10 2004

    Orange political technologies of Ukraine: «freedom management»


    Valiriy Panyushkin, the well-known communist, expressed in the
    brightest way the delight of Russian near-political public concerning
    the events in Ukraine. «I was in Kiev, - Mr Panyushkin writes. - I
    saw exulting city. I saw the square full of people in orange scarves
    and coats. There were so many people that I could not cover them with
    my sight. I saw cars running along the streets and horning in time of
    slogan «Yuschenko! Yuschenko!» This was not going on just in the
    center, but also in any street, i.e. not for the sake of greeting the
    supporters but just to express their joy. People were sitting on car
    roofs waving flags and also shouting. Together with revolutionary
    rapture I felt the bad envy of the fact that I will not be see
    anything like this in Moscow for a long time. I was praying to God to
    allow me to live on two more years in order to see in Moscow events
    similar to those I see now in Kiev».

    Actually Mr. Panyushkin need not wait for two years. He can go to
    cinema archive and take video tape, for example about celebration
    twenty years since the foundation of NKVD bodies (People's
    Commissariat of Internal Affairs) (Moscow, 1937) and see the same
    events: sincerely delighted people, ecstasy of the revolution,
    scansion - just of joy -not «Yuschenko!» but «Stalin!» and «Yezhov!».


    At that time another person of international importance - Lion
    Feuchwanger - wrote an enthusiastic book «Moscow, the year 1937».
    There are also narrations about free people, about kind and wise
    leader, foreign liars who simply could not - provided they come to
    joyful Moscow and look into the eyes of soviet people - understand
    sincere outburst of repenting people's enemies at the absolutely free
    and open proceedings on the «Right-Trostkist Center».

    1. What and how to seize.
    In fact in Ukraine we faced a phenomenon that is partially new and
    partially eternal. We speak about usurpation technologies, about
    technologies of seizing the power. The question is what can be
    usurped and in what ways can the power be seized. This is closely
    connected with the character of power legitimacy and the basis of the
    generally recognized principle of sovereignty. During the monarchy
    epoch, when the power was a divine attribute, the overturns resulted
    in seizing the throne, and some symbolic excuse for seizing the power
    was important (blood relationship with more legitimate monarch,
    crowning in the Reim Cathedral, etc.). As it was correctly noted by a
    well-known political technologist - Lenin, during the New Time epoch
    the state acted openly as a system of violence. That is why XIX and
    the first half of XX centuries became the period of military juntas,
    dictator regimes basing on the right of force. Correspondently, the
    overturns resulted in seizure of control over «military structures»:
    effective military and police formations.

    At the end of XX century the generally recognized principle of real
    legitimacy has changed again under the powerful pressure of
    American-European civilization. This change resulted in geopolitical
    competition. It turned out that the authoritarian regimes opposing
    the USA and Western European interests could be effectively destroyed
    and the corresponding territories could be taken over «the external
    control» after launching certain programs insured from the outside by
    superior military and technical power and supported by public opinion
    of the «civilized countries». Now the only principle of the power
    legitimacy - including under the menace of direct use of military
    forces on the part of «world community» - is the principle of support
    by the majority of population expressed via free voting at elections.
    «Democratic values» are the only currency for which one can buy
    international acknowledgement of legitimacy of either one or another
    new regime. However, violent introduction of «western standards» as
    the only legitimacy criterion did not exclude revolutions, turnovers
    and putsches of the political everyday life. The goal of seizure has
    changes. The only thing officially acknowledged by the «West» is
    public opinion expressed via «free democratic election». This means
    it is necessary to ensure hold of control over the public opinion.
    The usurpation of a throne as a purport and a goal of violent
    revolutionary turnovers was substituted by usurpation of the power.
    Usurpation of the power is the usurpation of free choice. Moreover,
    it turns out that one can ensure usurpation of freedom and the
    following control over such freedom by the similar rough, violent and
    manipulative measures as in case of palace or military revolutions.
    It turns out that stratocracy can be successfully substituted by
    mediacracy.

    It turns out that manipulation by «free democratic choice of
    population» is as technological process as many other managerial
    schemes nowadays. The technology of the power usurpation is based on
    a set of measures using which at first the will of a certain group of
    people is declared to be the will population majority, and then the
    population majority equate this will with their own. In modern
    «orange» reality this is ultimately confirmed by free democratic
    election with involvement of international observers. In fact these
    are sect-totalitarian technologies, political habbardism, because
    they come to excluding even the possibility of real choice, to the
    reality falsification and turning it into the reality without any
    alternatives.

    Certainly, they are much tougher and inhuman than the most uncivil
    administrative technologies, e.g. the election falsification. Because
    by using those technologies they try to correct the reality by
    applying the force and they try either to overcome or to subdue the
    other people's will. In this case both events take place - to cancel
    and nullify.

    The scheme of such technologies implementation is the following. It
    is required two preconditions: first, real public dissatisfaction
    without any good «power-community»channels of interaction, second,
    infrastructure of the revolution. The above mentioned political
    technologist - Lenin described these conditions in his famous formula
    of revolutionary situation: negative self-impression of the
    population should be «increased» excessively i.e. to produce evident
    social discomfort; the power inability to function in line with
    former regime should be generally acknowledged; at last there should
    be initial organizational group which shall be producing the process
    (e.g. «new type leading party») as well as more wide community to be
    used as an «incubator of revolutionary mood» (as a rule the
    «intellectuals in opposition») and constantly operating
    information-communication channels via which these ideas can be
    effectively broadcasted outside (kitchens, mosques, underground
    leaflets, western radio via jammers, internet).

    In Ukraine in 2004 as well as in Russia in 1917, in Iran in 1979 and
    in France in 1793 etc. dissatisfaction, forced public inactivity,
    irresponsible arrogance of the self-confident power and lack of
    opportunities to really control communications ensured such
    preconditions. Then next four technological stages follow (they are
    included one by one but then they are implemented simultaneously).
    The first stage: it is claimed a simple formula of the truth «enemies
    are against our people». Patriots are against aristocrats (France,
    1793). «Bourgeoisie and proletariat. The one who is not for one class
    is for the other» (Russia, 1917). «The faithful against American
    devils» (Iran, 1979). «There is the only conflict in Ukraine now:
    between the population and the criminal power» (Mr. Yuschenko,
    extract from his speech at the meeting on the occasion of his
    nomination to the presidential election, 2004).

    The second stage: leaving the dialog via nullifying the enemy. The
    enemy is claimed to be not just an opponent or adversary and
    certainly not a competitive part of population: it is declared to be
    the enemy of people, an obstacle to be eliminated. The enemies of
    people «should be swept away» (1937, Vyshinskiy). «Each vote for
    Yuschenko is another «no» to criminals» (quotation: TV advertisement
    of Mr. Yuschenko). «Yanukovich is a choice of deceived slaves»
    (quotation: slogan at the meeting near the Ukrainian Embassy in
    Moscow).

    The third stage: active and aggressive promotion of «our» brand.
    External signs of «our people» and aggressive everyday revolutionary
    fashion play the important role («Sansculottes» and Ohrygian caps in
    revolutionary France, «Islamic clothes» in the days high society of
    Iran, roses and flags with crosses in Georgia, «red» in Russia in
    1917, «orange» in Ukraine in 2004). Moreover, the key advertising
    slogan of the campaign promoting this brand becomes «our people are
    good!» («Proletariat is the leading class», «The faithful will live
    in paradise», «We are sincere, conscious, clever and kind people, and
    that criminal power is a monster hiding in its thievish shelters»).
    The public opinion - at the average man's level - is imposed the
    threat of being out of «fashionable party» (red, orange, etc.).

    The fourth stage: the information image of inevitable victory is
    implemented. It can be motivated on the religious bases (this is
    Allah's will) or on the scientific bases (proletariat victory is
    historical regularity), or it can have no motivation at all (creeping
    line on Yuschenko web-site: «40...30...5 days till Yuschenko's victory»).
    But the key thing is that the expectation of catharsis, inevitable
    and joyful regeneration of all society «immediately after the
    victory» is being forced. All these set together ensures the mode of
    manageable collective excitement. Certainly, it is necessary to set
    the race and the rhythm to the process and to ensure spectacular
    drama. In fact, psycho-technique of mass hysterics is rather simple
    and effective.

    2. What is the result and how is it received. During some time the
    situation undergoes «initial warming-up». The basic formula «our
    people against enemies» is completed with emotions, examples and
    obligatory «evidentiary facts» (tyrants' victims - they were six all
    in all in France in the Bastille captured on July 14, 1789; people
    shot down in Timishoar - these were they, thousands of dead bodies,
    who caused Ceausescu quick overthrow and putting to death, however
    later on nobody could find any dead bodies there; Russian
    revolutionaries exhausted by barbarous deportations; Ayatollah
    Khomeini exiled to Paris; Gongadzhe killed personally by Kuchma).
    Then the process launches. At first dissatisfaction and accuses are
    synchronized. More and more people are involved into a single moment
    and joint «knowledge of what is good and what is bad». Formula «our
    people - enemies» becomes the constant source of interpretation
    allowing transferring of any event into another illustration of the
    only true doctrine. So, the interpretation dictatorship is
    established in the society very soon and a new language is introduced
    specifying only those thoughts which are in line with the «truth».
    Thus, «White Guards» ideologists use the terminology of «class
    struggle», though it is impossible to introduce the territorial
    integrity ideology within such terminology. So, such words as
    «power-oriented candidate Yanukovich» and «people's candidate
    Yuschenko», being absurd and stupid when repeated so often, penetrate
    into the speeches of neutral commentators as well as into the
    speeches of «power-oriented candidate» supporters, just because there
    are no other interpretations in this new language. Then restrictions
    are withdrawn from the enemy. Very soon acknowledgement of the enemy
    as a human being becomes impossible. In the event that the enemy is
    the present power, any self-equating with the power becomes
    impossible - psychological base of the internal legitimacy of any
    political regime. The enemy becomes an object of biologically alien
    view - American devil, aristocrat, bourgeois, Donetsk criminal and he
    can only get «Out!» Thereby all moral and instinctive limitations of
    methods and scale of intragroup struggle are eliminated. In this
    regard, Gebbels's statement that: «Jews look like all other people,
    but actually they are not human beings», and very brave idea of
    liberal Yelena Tregubova that Kremlin is populated with «mutants»:
    «Outwardly they sometimes remind people a little, but in fact they
    are not human beings at all, they are completely another biological
    type that can not be interbred with us» - these are links of the same
    chain, «mantras» effectively releasing either one or another «our
    person» from chimera of conscience.

    It is important to emphasize the fact that at this stage the
    involvement of «criminal power» into sparkling of the revolutionary
    enthusiasm is invaluable: less and less popular elite is getting less
    adequate and more odious; the least attractive people and the most
    disgusting characters are brought to the forefront (actually, at this
    stage those elite representatives, who are still able to normal
    counteraction with population and to hear and listen to people,
    undergo heavy influence of mass mood; the most odious scoundrels only
    stay on the power's part, this fact causes even greater irritation
    and aggression in the society). At the same time self-equating with
    «our people» grows in geometrical progression. Belonging to «our
    people» is becoming more fashionable and prestigious. Homeless
    people, blue blood princes and confection-manufactures with slightly
    criminal background decorate themselves with red carnations and
    orange stripes. Quantity of «our people» is growing very quickly. The
    recently marginal sect is increasing the number of its allies.
    However this is not the majority. The majority appears at the next
    stage.

    The victory announced in advance always faces serious obstacle. This
    obstacle is common people who are not engaged into the revolutionary
    process yet (indifferent to politics Russian, Iranians of high
    society, Russian speaking Ukrainians, etc. and ordinary political
    opponents who are not united by extensive feeling of hysterical
    solidarity). As a rule, there are many such people; the majority is
    passive in the society where unpopular authoritarian government
    rules. In this very moment explosion takes place!

    Postponing of the victory announced in advance whatever it was caused
    by (by conciliation, the power's attempt of finding a compromise, and
    finally by the winning of a candidate from the «party of the power»
    let alone such gift as a winning of this candidate) is declared to be
    the very grave crime of people's enemies, a theft of this desired
    victory.

    Then follows immediate and mass outburst of indignation transferring
    into mass inspiration of people who are not majority yet but they are
    very numerous! The great affect of sudden mass mutual identification
    turns the minority into victorious, aggressive and powerful crowd.

    Here the last transformation takes place. Common people «accused» of
    «stealing the victory» have to make their choice - when they are
    either with «our people» i.e. with «the nation» or they are with
    «enemies». So, this «obedient» passive majority, which was crying
    «Viva the King!», was voting for retention of USSR and for the party
    of Shevardnadze supporters, suddenly falls into millions of lone
    persons ashamed of themselves, feeling outcast, worthless and weak,
    who have the only chance to avoid disgrace and obstruction - to join
    «the nation». Moreover, to make everyone including this person sure
    that he/she has always been together with them!

    ...In 1978-1979 before the ceremonial return of Ayatollah Khomeini
    from long Paris immigration, Iran was an exited, adverse, but
    developing Asian state still belonging to high society. «Brutality of
    sheikh security» has never resulted in mass public hanging of the
    «oppositionists» on street lamps. The majority supported the public
    reformer Mehdi Bazargan, who was appointed as a Prime Minister under
    the pressure of opposition. The situation reached the «street lamps»
    stage very quickly; they started from the «sheikh security». Within
    several months westernized, high society kingdom turned into
    monolithic, fanatic theocratic republic under the total control of
    Shiite mullahs.

    The presidential supporters won the parliamentary elections with
    slight preponderance in Georgia in autumn 2003. The parties in
    opposition also won about 10-20% with the winners. After the «Rose
    Revolution» which befell the population's anger upon «falsifiers»
    (and falsifications, even if they really took place - there was no
    legal proceedings on this issue - can not have turned 10% into 20%,
    and 20% into 50%) after Shevardnadze renunciation of the power, after
    a month mass euphoria, Mikhail Saakashvili («Misha! Misha!»), the
    democrat, got 96% of votes at the extraordinary presidential
    election. After the re-voting of parliamentary elections (the court
    abolished the results of elections based on the parties' lists) only
    the union of former oppositionists led by Saakashvili, Zurab Zhvania
    and Nino Burdzhanadze managed to overcome the barrier.

    In August 1991 the aggressive crowd of supporters of so called
    «United Committee of Chechen Nation» (OKCN) initiated voluntary
    resignation of Chechen-Ingushetia Administration headed by Doku
    Zavgayev (due to his support of GKCP), then, with «arbitral»
    involvement of democratic Russia leaders, they dissolved the republic
    Parliament and assigned the authorities to «temporal committee»
    headed by Lechi Magomadov, USSR deputy, (this was done in compliance
    with the legislation, formally, according to the resolution of the
    dissolved Parliament). Soon afterwards, against all agreements,
    «democratic presidential election» in Chechnya Republic was held; the
    minority of Chechen population of the integrated, at that time,
    Chechen-Ingushetia Republic took part in this election. The election
    winner was claimed to be Dzhokhar Dudayev, the General and OKCN
    Leader. Later on there was an attempt of stealing the «victory of the
    proud nation». Having examined the reports on the «democratic
    election» and protests of law-abiding Chechens, RSFSR Parliament
    tried to support the initiative of Mr. Rutskoy, the Vice President,
    and to restore the law in the republic. It turned out soon that
    Dzhokhar Dudayev was supported and had always been supported by all
    population in Chechnya.

    By the way, Yuschenko team is absolutely correct, demanding immediate
    re-voting of the second round. The decision on the re-voting itself
    against the background of orange unrest will become the germ of the
    «orange majority» crystallization, irrepressible and totalitarian
    majority.

    3. Freedom epidemic: reality and prospects. Avalanche-like mass
    synchronization is a menacing, dangerous and ancient event. The power
    seizure via freedom usurpation has more ancient history than
    «democratic values» in their «politically correct packing» on the
    verge of XX-XXI centuries. Powerful national revolutions such as
    Great French revolution, Great October revolution and Iranian Islamic
    revolution are the signs of approaching epoch of orange
    totalitarianism.

    The orange political technologies introduce the only but very
    important novation in the totalitarian revolution practice.

    In fact, the role of the «crystallization germ», of being the
    initiative group is very important for any mass movement. Formerly
    such group used to evolve from the people mass under the influence of
    public mood, and it used to win pre-revolutionary tender so to say.

    Very many things depended on its composition and the style. Thus, the
    American Revolution was headed by people of a respectable type, who
    immediately set up a barrier against the revolutionary disorders.
    Neither «ayatollah» Franklin nor «fighter» Washington used the energy
    of the wave of mass inspiration of colonists for elimination of all
    restrictions. The similar situation saved Russia in 1989-1991. There
    were also very few «really impetuous» people, and Boris Yeltsin who
    took the position of the leader, being authoritarian, turned out to
    be a spontaneous democrat who was not able to intensify mass
    hysteria.

    Bolsheviks and Iranian mullahs are completely other type of winners,
    having used money of German Joint Staff, anti-American political
    support of USSR, etc., they managed to reach a long-term mass
    hysteria and established the totalitarian dictatorship, the power,
    which is more frightening, dreadful and despotic than any stratocracy
    or monarchic tyranny of distant past. «Orange political technologies»
    begin when a tail waving the dog is held by somebody's brawny hand.
    So called «orange political-technological group» (OPG) is in the germ
    of «orange revolution crystallization», this group is motivated,
    organized and financed by an external center.

    Unlike «new type parties» and «Islamic revolutionary advices» OPG
    does not participate in the tender on psycho-technical efficiency,
    where the accepting party is represented by population. They are
    selected by those people who set tasks to them.

    We do not speak here about any kind of conspiracy: «external
    centers», which catch the tail of «non-democratic state» in order to
    twist it and throw the «authoritarian power» against the wall, emerge
    depending on the situation and in the natural way. Thus, in case of
    Georgia, Serbia and Ukraine the political will of the USA government
    is combined with European bureaucracy on the one side and specific
    initiatives of certain financial-political speculators (such as Boris
    Berezovskiy, George Soros or Milan Panich) on the other side, who are
    interested in the power overthrow in some countries based on their
    personal reasons of economic and political character.

    The peculiarity of the orange political technologies is not in the
    fact that they result in crowds of exited and inspired people in the
    street, but in the reasons of such excitement and inspiration. The
    religious delight of a respectable Christian or Buddhist reminds the
    religious delight of «Aum Shinrikyo» sect member or scientologist to
    the extend as drugs ecstasy reminds the delight of a happy person.
    The key difference is that: in one case we speak about strong and
    natural emotions and in the other - about dirty and criminal
    manipulations aimed at obtaining the definite business benefit by a
    transnational corporation of Habbardists or international drug mafia.


    The orange political technologies put into production a very
    profitable business of manipulative freedom management. It is worth
    listening to Yulia Timoshenko warning: «the orange revolution will
    become the worldwide freedom epidemic». It will become dangerous,
    highly infectious and pathogenic epidemic.

    Actually, «orange plague» epidemic is a hurricane dissemination of
    total non-freedom, replication of spiritual slavery, enslavement of
    people at the level of their personal everyday consciousness. After
    another outburst of the orange revolution, instead of ineffective
    police-military states and administrative-bureaucratic states the
    exited, hysteric communities of inadequate people, who lost their
    ability for critical analysis of reality and guided by fascist
    regimes having signatures on their standards about «democracy and
    freedom» instead of swastika, stay on the earth surface.

    Inadequacy and hysteric character of population make them directly,
    drug-like dependant on the «sponsors of the democratic process».
    Having lost their ability to alternative thinking, they sink into
    their historical childhood and turn into half-colonies on their own
    initiative. Thus, a new world colony is founded; it is controlled by
    midiacratic methods and is expanded due to such «orange revolutions».


    This is a serious threat for the worldwide stability.

    Just as drug addict unlike a happy person loses the feeling of
    reality and dies very soon, the «orange world» is doomed to collapse.
    The drug discredits emotions, undermines the ability of natural
    positive human feelings. The orange political technologies discredit
    the democracy, undermine its base -trust in the procedure, ritual,
    free political competition. After several violent captures of «free
    people's will» the contestation of the election results become
    generally used practice. So, together with Ukraine Roumania and
    Mozambique demand recounting of votes. However, the most interesting
    thing is that such «freedom epidemic» will stop neither on these
    countries nor on Armenia, Kazakhstan or Russia. Yes, the developed
    countries seemed to be protected so far by the immunity from the
    orange plague- by the developed democratic system and a high living
    standard. The orange political technologies first of all work for
    destruction of the reality as it is, and all immunities of the West
    are based on the reality. Moreover, mediacracy has its peculiarities
    - information and communication channels always work both sides. So,
    the triumphal presentation of «Fahrenheit 911» film throughout
    pre-election America is just a forerunner of the return to its native
    country of the interpretations describing «election falsification»
    and «criminal power». The second drug threat connected with orange
    epidemic is non-controlled expansion of symptoms. The inflammation
    can not last forever, and even if it lasts too long, it transfers
    into suppuration and disintegration. Now Kiev streets do not look as
    festive as they were a week ago. Today faces of «orange» mothers,
    fathers and children begin to express gloomy dissatisfaction. These
    faces will become even gloomier after the «victory», because the
    paradise will not come instead of the hell, just OPG people will come
    to the power. The inspiration inertia will be requiring an outlet,
    and it will be necessary to recruit the new «people's enemies»
    instead of the nullified ones. In case of Ukraine, this will result
    first of all in political disunity and later on in the increase of
    territorial conflicts on the very small scale. Thus, the
    confrontation between the «orange Center and West» and «white and
    blue South-East» will be substituted by the war of indefinite color
    against all.

    As for Russia, there is already some embryo of «orange
    infrastructure» here.

    First of all, regular communication channels between the power and
    society are blocked. So called control over mass media does not solve
    any political tasks, it is impossible to block Internet, and it is
    there where the initial bouillon of the future «formula of the truth»
    of «our orange people» is cooked. The key thing is that the power
    refused the sound sensible relations with the society. The only
    representative of the power, who sometimes addresses the population
    directly on some important issues, is Vladimir Putin. As for the
    rest, the «orange» were given all freedom for creation of the power
    information image in the form of homunculus with Fradkov's charisma,
    Gryzlov's intellect, Surkov's democracy, Mironova's beauty and
    Ustinov's incorruptibility, taking into account the fact that the
    power, having established control over the federal TV channels,
    relaxed and lost the ability to resist in the serious information
    struggle.

    Second, there are several applicants for OGP role, they are: «Comitet
    - 2008», «Yabloko», «Otkrytaya Rossiya» (by the way, the orange color
    as a brand was developed by «Otkrytaya Rossiya» designers three years
    ago). The «initial bouillon» of mass dissatisfaction is ready -
    «democratic intellectuals» of large cities, the audience of «Ekho
    Moskvy» radio voting month by month at the virtual election between
    Putin and Khodorkovsky with 80% result in favor of Khodorkovsky.
    There are communication channels, but the power does not understand
    that on the eighth year of active Internet existence mass media of
    «calibration resource» turned into first class mass media making
    public opinion in the most active circles. We need not speak about
    external sources of political will and financing.

    The «development testing» of orange technologies already took place
    at the Governor election in St. Petersburg in 2003. The truth formula
    is getting more concrete taking the form of a primitive but very
    consecutive putinophobia. The specific motive for orange avalanche
    can always be found, for example, at the next parliamentary election.


    One fact makes us a little quiet: Russia still has active immunity
    from the orange epidemics. Having passed the euphoria of democratic
    revolution in 1991, exasperation of communist putsch in 1993 and a
    long train of doubtful presidential, parliamentary and governor
    elections, Russian population managed to enter «post-democratic»
    stage, having exhausted all illusions allowing transformation of
    «democracy and freedom» into fetish. However, this does not mean that
    the «orange threat» to freedom, democracy, human rights and
    historical fate of Russia can be regarded as less serious.

    Dmitriy Yuriev.

    http://zadonbass.org/en/news/message.html?id=7441
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