Russian rebels have urged the West to help foment social unrest in Russia to bring down the Putin regime. They claimed that the resistance movement was gaining a mass base and was ready to exploit any domestic unrest to ignite a civil uprising that could sweep away Putin and his cohorts.
In a recent interview with the New York Post, Volodymyr Zelensky said that imposing crippling sanctions on Russia’s economy could help create a “social explosion”. Noting that ordinary Russians were currently too afraid to speak out, he argued that if they started to lose their jobs as the economy implodes, then conditions would be ripe for a “social explosion”. A Russian rebel group calling itself the United Resistance Front was quick to endorse the Ukrainian President’s message.
“Economic sanctions in themselves will not strangle Putin’s Russia,” they said in a polemic published on their website.
“But they can throw it into a frenzy, and the frenzy will grow into an uprising. When the Kremlin has to fight off the Russians, there will be no time for attacks on Ukrainians. Volodymyr Zelensky has actually acknowledged the importance of the internal front. For Russia, the war will change its character – it will finally become civil.”
The rebels accused the Kremlin of leading the country into an “organised descent into poverty” and said Putin and his regime would not hesitate to condemn people to death and hunger for the sake of power and war.
They warned that Russia was on the threshold of mass tragedies, with vast provinces of the country turning into “dead lands” and that the same fate awaits the large cities.
The rebels warned the Kremlin that anti-state discontent was breaking through into society, and that the moment for revolutionary change was fast approaching.
“The time is not far off when resistance, even the most vicious, will become a condition of survival,” they said.
“Those who do not want to helplessly watch their loved ones die will take up arms. It is important not to miss the moment.”
The task before the Resistance was to now exploit the social explosion referenced by Zelensky in order to “demolish the anti-human state.”
They concluded: “Revolutions are often equated with national catastrophes. But there are historical circumstances when only a catastrophe is salvation.”
