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I think you're both right and wrong. You're right in a sense that all influential groups are:
1) identified by regime
2) forced into submission & cooperation
But that's totally normal. And many of them can and should become nuclei of new political order(s)
There's no one else
1) identified by regime
2) forced into submission & cooperation
But that's totally normal. And many of them can and should become nuclei of new political order(s)
There's no one else
Your observation is right, you're just making wrong implications out of it. If you study history of most anti-colonial movements, both successful (USA) and failures, you'll see that local notables well-integrated into a previous regime were very prominent in almost all of them
I would even say that popular imagination tends to exaggerate the "people's rebellion" factor and simultaneously underrate "notables changing colours" factor when studying most political changes, either anti-colonial and not
Notables who had been well integrated into the previous regime changing colours factor may be one of the most underrated driving forces of political change. And any, literally any, political changes on the Russian/post-Russian space will include this at least as an element
Notables changing colours is how political change happens, for the most part. These changes can be positive or negative depending on yr perspective. They may bring fundamental transformation of political order or not. But almost all of them will include notables changing colours
Reasons for notables changing colours may vary: from well-calculated move to petty personal vendetta (X chooses this side, so Y chooses opposing one). Usually it's combination of many pragmatic considerations, rationalised later with some convoluted rhetorics
That's also normal
That's also normal
Normalise notables changing colours and rationalising it later with some mental gymnastics (usually done by paid hirelings, notables are not very good in that)
That has been normalised in reality for millennia, now we just need to normalise it in our Netflix-spolied brains
That has been normalised in reality for millennia, now we just need to normalise it in our Netflix-spolied brains
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