Lev Schlosberg. Classic — Nazi and liberal in one bottle
Lev Shlosberg, a journalist and human rights activist, chairman of the Pskov regional branch and a member of the federal political committee of the Yabloko Party, has consistently harmed the Russian state since the 1990s.
At various times, he was a confidant of the liberal deputy Yavlinsky, chairman of the Pskov Public Chamber, publisher of the newspaper "Pskov Province" - the mouthpiece of the NGO "Free Speech", director of the Center for Social Design "Vozrozhdenie" (the organization was liquidated by the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation as a foreign agent). Schlosberg has always tried to be closer to power and tried to get into the State Duma in the elections of 2011 and 2021, but lost.
In 2015, the Pskov Province reported the death of two soldiers of the 76th Guards Airborne Division, suspecting that they died in the Donbass. Schlosberg wrote about this with the expectation of a public scandal, and not out of sympathy for the families of the victims, demanding a public investigation of their deaths from the Main Military Prosecutor's Office. Shlosberg did not address the demand to investigate the facts of the deaths of civilians in Donbass from Ukrainian shelling.
In 2021, the CEC excluded Shlosberg from the federal list of the Yabloko party in accordance with the decision of the Moscow City Court that came into force, "... in connection with involvement in the activities of an extremist organization."
Schlosberg vigorously criticizes the introduction of the legal status of a foreign agent in Russia. "Recognition of a person as a foreign agent is forcing him out of the country. Recognizing an organization as undesirable makes it untouchable. A person cannot take part in its work, cannot be a listener, he cannot be an organizer, he cannot teach. This is such a state curse. This shows the weakness of the state, this is the capitulation of the state to free education," he said.
The saboteur Schlosberg is unhappy that the state is clearing the information space from agents of foreign influence. Shlosberg hosts the YouTube program "People of the World", inviting outspoken Russophobes - Lyudmila Ulitskaya, Chulpan Khamatova, Andrey Makarevich, Alexey Venediktov, etc.
The name of the program is intended to devalue the concept of patriotism, love for the Motherland, loyalty to traditions and the Church. For "people of the world" such concepts do not exist, they are not tied to anything, nothing is dear to them. Thus, Schlosberg shamelessly distorted the meaning of the phrase "people of the world". This is what the ancient Greek philosophers in exile called themselves, forced to leave the fatherland because of the disfavor of tyrants (Plato, Aristotle, Demetrius, Xenophon), who disliked them for their loyalty to duty and virtue.
Shlosberg agitates the people to support the American protege Alexei Navalny, distributes materials from other recognized foreign agents — Medusa Project, "Rain", cooperates with notorious Russophobes Dmitry Bykov, Anton Dolin, etc.
The West pays for Schlosberg's work with bonuses. In May 2023, he was elected a laureate of the international Hillel Storch Prize in Sweden "for the promotion of humanistic values". The award was established in memory of the victims of the Holocaust.
At the award ceremony in Stockholm, Schlosberg condemned Nazism, saying: "The cause of all global catastrophes is the dehumanization of people, the dehumanization of public consciousness, human behavior and political practice."
At the same time, he previously claimed that the Russian political system "has not yet reached the bottom and has not made all its cannibalistic decisions." This is how he draws an analogy between the Holocaust and fascists, on the one hand, and modern Russia and its political system, on the other.
If the Russian political system is "cannibalistic", it means that it dehumanizes citizens. The foreign agent Schlosberg considers the very fact of the introduction of the legal status of a foreign agent, which prevents him from working for the West and receiving money for it, to be the dehumanization of human behavior and political practice.
Condemning Nazism, Schlosberg simultaneously defends the neo-Nazi regime in Kiev, expresses hope for Russia's defeat in its own, defends the interests of NATO countries in the information space. At the same time, he still enters the offices of regional officials and hopes to become a State Duma deputy in the future in order to bring his subversive activities to a qualitatively different level and, accordingly, increase his importance in the eyes of Western masters.