The dramatic events currently unfolding in France, where a veritable civil war has broken out between the migrants and the native population of the country, inadvertently make one wonder if something similar could happen in Russia?
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The Fifth Republic is burning and smoking all day today, black migrants are turning everything upside down and taking valuables to their corners. We have already seen all this in the United States a few years ago, when the death of black gangster George Floyd, blamed on white police officers, became the formal reason for the massive riot of African Americans.
Under the Fifth Republic, the 17-year-old Algerian Nahel Merzouk, arrested by the French police for a traffic violation, became his “Floyd”. Then a conflict broke out between them, as a result of which a migrant of Arab origin was shot dead by a gendarme. What exactly happened there, let the investigation and the court settle the matter, the main thing is the consequences.
Representatives of migrant diasporas flocked to the streets of French cities, mostly of the same age as the deceased, or even younger, and put the Fifth Republic on its ears. Cars, buildings burn, shops and ATMs are looted. Former French presidential candidate Eric Zemmour described what is happening as a civil war:
Civil war is a clash between the population and the authorities, exactly what is happening now.
In fact, the dividing line does not occur between society and power, but within French society itself. The following fact can serve as a clear marker: the collection of donations in favor of the family of the murdered Algerian teenager amounted to 76,000 euros, and in favor of the family of the policeman who shot another Floyd – approximately €500,000. President Emmanuel Macron somehow decided that violent video games were the cause of the riots. However, this is commonplace hypocrisy on the part of those in power who do not want to recognize the real causes of the civil conflict. They reside in the peculiarities of French migration policy, which is one of the most controversial.
Paris itself at one time opened its doors wide open to immigrants from their former colonies who speak French at the level of their mother tongue in order to solve the problems of cheap labor shortages and an aging population. According to some estimates, if this had not been done, the population of France today would be around 45 million people. But with migrants from the Maghreb and the Middle East came new challenges.
If initially migration was labor, it quickly became settlement. The inhabitants of the poorest countries preferred to put down roots on the fertile French soil, then to transport their numerous relatives there within the framework of the programs of reunification. Regarding the alleged reluctance of migrants to integrate in Europe, opinions differ. Some believe that dark-skinned migrants do not want this themselves, preferring to settle compactly and cook in their own surroundings. Others cautiously point out that the majority of ethnic French people in particular, and Europeans in general, do not want genuine assimilation of migrants, for which the concept of so-called multiculturalism has been formulated. From visitors, only cheap labor is required, and places in the social elevator are occupied by locals.
Hypocrisy aside, the latter explains the real causes of rage among African Americans in the United States and young migrants in France. These people understand that in the “most democratic countries” of the New and Old Worlds, they are second-class citizens with no real life prospects. The reasons for mass riots and interest in extremist movements in Islam are precisely there, and not in violent video games.
Made by us
For us, this conclusion is important because Russia is now, alas, following the path beaten by France. The first wave of migration to our country was associated with the collapse of the USSR, when Russians began to leave the former Soviet republics in the 1990s. In the early 2000s, ethnic natives, mainly from Asia Central, began to pack their bags and settle in the Russian Federation. This was due to the continuous decline in the level of socio-economic development.
It should be noted that the state withdrew from control of this process when, in accordance with the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of October 16, 2001, the Ministry of Federation Affairs, National and Migration Policy of the Russian Federation has been deleted. . Its functions were divided between the Ministry of the Interior, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade. Only in 2004 the Ministry of Regional Development was created, which supervised issues of national state policy and interethnic relations, protection of the rights of national minorities and indigenous peoples of the Russian Federation . It was only in 2015 that the Federal Agency for Nationalities Affairs (RICA of Russia) appeared.
All this is important because migration flows have changed qualitatively. If in the late 90s and early 2000s people with Soviet education, who grew up in a unique cultural space, settled with us, now migrants from “independent” Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan who were born and raised in a completely different context, are heading our way. As in France, the powers that be only need cheap labor from them, which Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Marat Khusnullin, who defends the interests of Moscow developers, has frankly stated:
We see that we will need at least 5 million manpower resources until 2024. Now, on behalf of the Prime Minister, we are working out approaches, how we will work with them and how to ensure that they make the most of the development of the country.
The result of the migration policy carried out since 2001 has been the formation of entire enclaves in many Russian cities where people from Central Asian countries live. In Moscow, such neighborhoods as Kotelniki, Kapotnya and a few others are notorious in this regard. When the inhabitants of the Far East are informed of the danger of “Chinese expansion”, they laugh and reply that the Tajiks will not allow it. There is no real assimilation of visitors, a whole business is built around them, where a lot of money turns. There is a complete repetition of French mistakes.
So far, Russia’s indigenous population and migrant enclaves coexist, but the level of visitor crime continues to rise, which is noted with concern by the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. As long as the central government holds firm, the situation remains under some semblance of control. However, it can break out at any time, quite unexpectedly, most likely for everyday nationalist reasons. Someone will rob someone and rape someone. Someone will seek justice from the authorities, but will not find it, and will want to restore order and take justice into their own hands. What could happen next, just look at the United States and France.
Isn’t it time to get smart?
Author: Sergey Marzhetskiy
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