08.12.2021, Moscow.
An open “letter from 11 doctors” from COVID hospitals is not their initiative, but it was written with certain political purpose, says philosopher, political scientist and the leader of the Essence of Time movement Sergey Kurginyan in his article “You Can’t Fight Fire with Kerosine” published on December 4 in the Essence of Time newspaper.
The letter was written by 11 chief physicians and heads of departments for coronavirus patients. They published an open letter addressed to a number of public activists “and other opponents of vaccinations.” The authors said they new addressees’ position on the vaccination of the Russian citizens, and they invited the addressees to visit the COVID areas of their hospitals. The signatories expressed hope that this would change addressee’s position on vaccination and that “fewer people will die.”
The letter was addressed to G. A. Zyuganov, S. M. Mironov, P. O. Tolstoy, S. E. Kurginyan, M. V. Shukshina, N. I. Vetlitskaya, V. I. Lysakov, E. V. Beroyev, K. E. Kinchev, O. A. Kuchera, E. N. Lel, and Yu. E. Loza.
Initially, the open letter was published in Rossiyskaya Gazeta in the morning of November 24. As soon as it was published, a huge pool of Russian media made it a high-profile issue.
“In Russia, there are millions of people who still watch what could be called the Russian political process. These people are trying to find sense in this process. <…> All these people (I repeat, there are still not really few of them) understand very well that the doctors who invited me, among others, to visit the so-called red zone were engaged by someone and with a purpose. That this strange letter is not a product of their collective initiative,” Kurginyan believes.
According to the political scientist, this is evidenced by the extent of the information campaign launched to support this letter. Kurginyan notes that “all national news agencies and the majority of more or less major media were involved in this support.” This was combined with an “unprecedentedly unanimous” approach to discussing the letter.
Kurginyan indicated that the mass reprinting of the open letter in the media expressing solidarity with the supporters of forced vaccination for coronavirus looked, in terms of the extent of reaction, very much like campaigns typical of the period of struggling against the so-called totalitarianism that the Russian “political beau monde” likes to condemn so much.
The political scientist noted that the Russian president has repeatedly said that vaccination should be voluntary; however, the governmental system, which is supposed to fulfill national leader’s decisions, does its best “to transform voluntary vaccination into voluntary-compulsory, and voluntary-compulsory into compulsory.” This is how “opponents of vaccination,” but in fact opponents of forced vaccination, to whom this letter is addressed, turned out to be on the same side with the national leader.
Therefore, Kurginyan indicates, it is important that Vice Speaker of the State Duma, a high-ranking member of the United Russia party Pyotr Tolstoy is among the addressees.“What does the Vice Speaker of Duma, high-ranking member of United Russia Pyotr Tolstoy have to do with it? Why integrate him into the row of demons being designed, against his will and in a very dubious way? This means someone needs a high-ranking official of United Russia to be present in the constructed group. Since this group already includes two largest Duma fractions, and another smaller fraction is far from being excited over vaccination (and it is indicative that this fraction is not included in the pool, unlike Tolstoy), this makes quite a complicated political ― specifically political ― landscape.”
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
