On February 11, hysteria was noticed in the “Crimean media” regarding the statements of one of Moscow’s tragicomic characters, an aggressor’s State Duma deputy, Lieutenant General Andrey Gurulyov.
Some days ago, this figure, the former commander of the southern military district, was transferred from the Duma Defense Committee to the Committee on Regional Policy and Local Government.
Moscow “rumor collectors” write that the reason was his “harsh public statements”, which “did not find support” in the administration of the Kremlin dictator. And if Gurulyov’s public proposals to “launch a nuclear strike on the Netherlands” and “introduce a tax on childlessness” were still “tolerable”, then his criticism of the aggressor’s Defense Ministry became a “red line”.
Now, commenting on his “transfer”, Gurulyov stated that, fulfilling the “party order” in the new committee, he “will continue to deal with national security issues” and will deal with “internal enemies”, and he intends to look for them in the occupied territories of Ukraine, including the East and Crimea.
At the same time, Gurulyov stated that in the “authorities” there “there are a lot of hidden enemies of Russia”, whom he intends to “burn out with a hot iron”. Among other things, Gurulyov asked a rhetorical question, “why is everything so bad with gasoline in Crimea”, clearly hinting at the fuel scams of the clan of Sergei Aksyonov that we described earlier.
However, the “Crimean media” do not write a word about this, emphasizing Gurulyov’s words that “the majority of citizens in Donbass and Crimea should be harshly taught to love their homeland”, as “offensive to the Crimeans”.
But something tells us, that in addition to repressions against the population, which the aggressor clearly has someone to do besides Gurulyov, he can really become a “large-caliber information weapon” if he chooses the field of his PR to be the exposure of the “powers that be” collaborators.
Gurulyov and his PR people have a simple calculation here: if in the eyes of the Kremlin and the broad circles of Russian Nazis he is, although “strange”, but a “federal politician”, then the object of his future exposures, like Aksyonov or Konstantinov, is comparable to him, so small that it will clearly not become the basis for a new “head-scratching” of the former communist circle from the “Kremlin laundry”.
They understand this well in the Crimea, and therefore attempts to “tame Gurulyov” will become a component of the activity of the local bigwigs in the coming months.
