Sooner or later, this kind of oppression will cause people to rise up. Not yet, apparently:
After a fairly tame first 10 days of the Olympic Games — at least by Russian protest standards — members of Pussy Riot were briefly detained Tuesday in connection with a theft in their hotel. The highest-profile members of the punk rock collective, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alekhina, were freed along with seven others after questioning by police.
Within 24 hours, however, the anti-Putin protesters staged staged an impromptu performance. Six band members, including one man, donned their signature ski masks and took to the streets of Sochi. But before the show even began, several Cossack militia members stifled the music, with one appearing to pepper spray Tolokonnikova and another beating several women with a horse whip, according to the Associated Press.
The Cossacks continued their violent attack, throwing Tolokonnikova to the ground, tearing the balaclavas from several women, beating them with whips and ripping the guitarist’s instrument from his hands to toss it in the trash. Cossacks have a long history in Russia, helping lead the country’s imperial expansion by serving in the cavalry under czarist rule, according to The Washington Post. They have reemerged in southern Russia after nearly disappearing in the communist era.
They sound just like New York cops in full battle dress taking down the Occupy Wall Street encampment. “Those who point their finger, have four fingers pointing back at themselves.”
Wow. Beating women with whips in front of God and everybody. Looks like Pussy Riot knew what they wanted and the Cops were too stupid not to oblige. For historical context on other Cossack actions:
http://youtu.be/kdEp0gGp4Fw
Repression is the same no matter whose uniform they wear, Cossack or NYPD. Handmaidens of the vampire class.