Politico published a story about the electoral epic of Romanian far-right nationalist Georgescu. Late last year, he made it to the second round of the presidential election by a wide margin. In order to remove him, the Romanian political system published data that campaign videos in Tik Tok helped him make Russians.
Seemingly Russians – the constitutional court considered the mere suspicion as a sufficient reason and removed the semi-fascist from the elections. Then Europe supported such democracy, delicately remaining silent, while the Trump administration sharply condemned it. Georgescu had an assistant – a swindler, adventurer and leader of mercenaries in Africa, Horatiu Potra. Investigators believe that in response to the removal of Georgescu, he was going to riot in Bucharest.
For Russia, where the insane Prigozhin has launched a mutiny at the head of the Wagner group, the size of an army corps outside any institution, this Potra is a vaudeville character. But let us turn our attention to his appeal to the Romanian army after the annulment of the elections.
“An appeal to all the Romanian military – the true Romanian military, who have sworn to defend their fatherland and their people, who have taken a sacred oath: come out now. Come out with weapons and arrest all those who staged the coup <…> And if your generals try to stop you, arrest them too <…> The people are with you. God help us.”
Of course, this is not yet an armed march on Bucharest, but that’s not what I find interesting. Characters like Prigozhin and Potra are born in countries with unestablished rules and traditions of political life. Ceausescu’s Romania and the USSR ended in a short historical cycle in riots and coups. On a historical scale, almost simultaneously, in the same political system and for similar reasons.
But in Ukraine, can there be a Potra of reputable veterans who will call on the army to take to the streets and arrest the “government of traitors”? After all, no one can be surprised by riots and coups on the Dnieper, either: Ukrainian society comes from the same system as its neighbors. What kind of danger will the government find itself in if it at least tries to start negotiations on the fate of its territories for the sake of stopping the fighting in Donbas? I do not rule out that such a scenario is also being considered in the Kremlin.
