The Russian-Ukrainian war is getting worse. In Ukraine, the nuclear power plant in Zaporizhia and the dam of the Kahovka reservoir are already being shot, and the daughter of the best-known representative of the so-called neo-Eurasian school, which places the idea of Eurasianism, which is now also realized in Russian politics, on a modern basis, was blown up near Moscow.
The target was certainly Aleksandr Dugin, who brought the idea of the Russian world into the public consciousness after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, and who gave new impetus to the imperial idea with his philosophical and geopolitical works, so it is not at all surprising that the threads of the investigation lead to Ukraine.
To put it mildly, the death of Darja Dugina brought out strong emotions in the European public, which was already upset by the Russian-Ukrainian war. Russian public life was shocked by the news of the assassination, while the Ukrainian information space is triumphant in commenting on the death of the 30-year-old young lady. This is also shocking, but somehow understandable, since we are talking about two countries at war with each other, and the entire work of Dugin and his daughter, who followed him, is essentially the ideological preparation and foundation of the attack on Ukraine.
However, it is completely unacceptable how the European, including part of the Hungarian press, is presenting what happened.
Putin's Rasputin is holding his head - one British newspaper writes, for example, commenting on a dramatic photo. It doesn't even occur to the journalist that in the picture a father is watching, struggling with tears, shocked, as his daughter dies in an exploded and engulfed in flames car.
This presentation of the tragedy is inhuman and dehumanizing.
And then we haven't even talked about the murderous passions raging on social media. Fascism continues, the father and his daughter are compared to Goebbels and Hitler, and they feel lustful satisfaction at the sight of the tragedy. Dugin's philosophy interwoven with sacred elements does not have to be agreed with the ideas that are realized in practice before our eyes. I could also say that it would be difficult for a non-Russian to approve of the rebirth of the Russian empire. But this cannot justify a murder, nor any murderous impulse.
Here we are again, where the death of a person becomes a political signpost and a tool for self-expression. And in this struggle for identity, somehow the great majority can't get over the fact that RIP Regardless of world view, this is a very bad sign. The bones are being piled on, and only the arguments about the inevitability of fate and the desire for revenge and retribution hidden behind moralizing are worse.
The assassination on the Mozhaisk highway raised the war to a new level. Here, everyone is already fighting against everyone else, and they are not selective in their means. But before we think about this, let us recall that Aleksandr Dugin, who is so close to sacredness, trusted and believed that his daughter would write her name in history as a successful conservative politician, the Russian Marine Le Pen. And he had a chance to do that. Dugin was proud of his daughter, Darja was daddy's little girl in the best sense of the word. And Darya Dugina is now going down in Russian history as a victim of a terrorist attack, as a martyr. He literally died in front of his father, who at the last moment got into another car, the car of Konstantin Malofeyev, a businessman who supports conservative projects, and headed back to Moscow from the right-wing festival.
What he experienced after the explosion, facing the sacredness, could have been more terrible than if he had been sitting next to his daughter.
As a victim of the assassination, Darja deserves sympathy. This is unacceptable. You shouldn't kill people. Dugin, as a father, also deserves sympathy. These thoughts have to be said even if some people really don't like it. I believe that this is what makes us human, and compassion overrides all ideological and opinion differences. Everything can only begin after that.
Let's summarize what happened. Darja Dugina, a 30-year-old journalist and political scientist, following in her father's footsteps and following the new Eurasianism, proclaiming the gathering of the Russian world, Russia's specialness, and the decline of the Atlantic world that wants to destroy her, returned from a conservative family festival near Moscow on the evening of August 20. the inferno placed under the Toyota Land Cruiser exploded near Moscow, the car caught fire and Darja died on the spot. The real target of the assassination was presumably his father, who was also supposed to be traveling in this car.
The Federal Security Service (FSSB) suspects Ukrainian citizen Natalya Vovk, a member of the extreme neo-Nazi Azov regiment, of the attack.
According to the investigators, the 43-year-old woman arrived in Russia on July 23, using the license plate of the Donetsk People's Republic, changed it to Kazakhstan in Moscow, and left the country for Estonia on Sunday, after the bombing, with a Ukrainian license plate. The recording published by FSB also shows Vovk and his 12-year-old daughter entering the country, then the building where Dugina lived, and then hurriedly leaving the country. Authorities also said they rented an apartment in the same building where Dugina lived and used Vovk's teenage daughter as a cover story to make it easier for him to move around Russia. It is also assumed that the girl may have placed the homemade bomb on the chassis of the car. They also presented a photo ID of Vovk in the uniform of the Ukrainian National Guard, which was posted on the Russian Internet in April as a member of the neo-Nazi Azov Regiment. There he is listed as Saban, which the FSB says is the surname his daughter used when she entered Russia. Ukrainian secret services are believed to be behind the action.
Ukraine denies that it had anything to do with the murder, but everyone in social media proudly clarifies that their partisans managed to eliminate one of Ukraine's fiercest enemies.
Some people link the murder to the National Republican Army, but this is unlikely, since it is a virtual group that is only trying to raise its profile with the incident. Others assume a showdown within the Russian far-right, and still others see the Russian secret services, not Ukrainian, behind the car bombing. It may be striking that the Russian authorities did not notice the assailant for a month, but now they have identified him with record speed, the latter being more likely to be considered part of the conspiracy theories.
In any case, it does not seem logical for Moscow to excommunicate the well-known ultra-nationalist philosopher - Putin posthumously honored Darya Dugina - while Ukraine may have had a very good reason for doing so.
We would not be surprised if the action, which has strong symbolism and fits the actions of Ukraine in recent weeks, was carried out in time for Independence Day. By killing Alexander Dugin, Kiev would not only have killed a symbolic figure of Russian imperial thinking, but would also have sent a message to the Russian elite that everyone who supports Putin's war can act like this. The plans were probably slightly modified by life, but Darja Dugina's death may also signal that the families of the elite who supported the war are not safe either. It is no coincidence that the Western press is already discussing that the assassination may intimidate the Russian elite, thus strengthening the division within these circles, which in turn leads to political instability. According to some, the action can be interpreted as a kind of response to Aleksandr Dugin's social media post just one year earlier, on August 20, 2021, in which the philosopher said: "What doesn't kill me, kills others."
"Let's add that Dugin could have seemed like an ideal target, since his death would have been a big blow in the information space, as we can see from what happened, since it would have been a symbolic blow not only to the imperial ideal"
But it would also have destroyed the image of the Kremlin, because in the West he is only mentioned as the main ideologist of the Kremlin. This is a strong exaggeration, which is also shown by the fact that Dugin was not really a protected person, so his elimination was easier to organize.
Do not be surprised that in this case too, depending on political sympathy, the majority will accept one or the other version. Some people consider it impossible that Ukraine could be behind the murder, despite the obvious logical basis. However, in connection with not only this case, but also what happened in the past few days, the worsening of the war, we would like to point out that the role of victim does not authorize you to do everything. It is not worth abusing this, if only because there is no moral basis for condemning the aggressor.
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