Dispatches from Soviet Britain - Konstantin Kisin

0:00Dispatches from Soviet Britain.

0:06The year was 1981 and Marina was excitedly filling out her application to join the chemistry faculty of Moscow State University. For a girl from an industrial city in rural Ukraine, the opportunity to study at the best university in the Soviet Union was a dream, although her ambitions were met with suspicion by many around her. But Marina was bright and seemingly destined for the top. Little did she know that she was seconds away from destroying her chances of a successful application. What the hell are you doing? Her brother-in-law asked, peering over her shoulder as she went through the form.

0:40What do you mean, middle class? He said, exasperated. Marina may have been smart academically, but she was young and naive. Clueless about the social realities of the communist society she lived in, Marina was proud that her parents had managed to secure good jobs, despite coming from peasant farmer stock. Her mother was a teacher while her father worked in a factory. Listen to me very carefully, her brother-in-law implored in an authoritative tone. Your family is working class and so are you, he said with the air of someone imparting wisdom to the next generation. Dutifully, Marina scrubbed out her previous answer and wrote in the only correct response in the class background field.

1:23Workers and peasants. If she hadn't, she almost certainly would have been denied entry into Moscow State University, never met my father, or given birth to me a year later. The Soviet Union was a society which believed in uplifting the oppressed and tearing down their oppressors, and it was willing to do as much social engineering as was necessary to achieve these lofty goals. Last week, Britain's Labour government announced that the civil service internship program will only be available to those from a working class background. Thanks to the genius of Sakhir Starmer, the child of a self-employed plumber or a train driver making£80 ,000 a year will finally have the opportunity to join the civil service, while the offspring of nurses, teachers and junior doctors who make half that will be rightfully denied the unjust expansion of the ill-gotten privilege.

2:10By coincidence, that same week, the Online Safety Act came into force. Introduced by the last Conservative government and implemented by the current Labour government, the act purports to protect children from harmful content. Meanwhile, Section 179 of the act makes it a criminal offense to say something false that causes non-trivial psychological harm, while Section 44 gives a government minister the ability to change censorship rules without parliamentary scrutiny. Online platforms will be legally forced to abide by their decisions. Videos of protests outside migrant hotels and other harmful content are already being censored by social media platforms as the law stipulates fines of up to 10 % of their global turnover and criminal prosecution of their members of staff.

2:58WhatsApp and Signal have already warned that the British government is also seeking to access your encrypted chats. Children are of course not remotely protected by any of this. Demand for VPN apps which allow users to pretend they're accessing the internet from a different country has surged in the last couple of weeks as people seek to circumvent the restrictions. Far from protecting children, the government is in fact pushing them into the unregulated internet with gusto, as this brilliant article explains. In the meantime, the government is launching a new policing unit to monitor social media for early signs of protest activity and dissent.

3:33While the Sovietization of Britain continues at a rapid pace, one area appears to have been neglected. The one good thing about the communist society my mother grew up in was that it at least came with the benefits of authoritarianism, stability, safety, and the prevention of disorder. In modern Britain, by contrast, petty crime is effectively ignored, while tensions caused by large-scale illegal immigration and the perception of two-tier policing are at fever pitch. Few remember this now, but shortly before the riots last summer, a brief clip of a police officer stamping on a suspect's head in Manchester Airport was released on social media.

4:10It was, we were told, a case of police brutality. And since the suspects were Muslim, it was also racist. The usual suspects in the media and on X went into meltdown about our terrible country. It was only later that the full video and details of the incident were released, which showed that the two men had, in fact, assaulted armed police officers, breaking a female officer's nose. The man who did this was found guilty last week. I don't expect he will get anything like the prison time most British people would want him to, But my point is something else. We keep being told that some mythical far right is stoking tensions in this country.

4:45But who actually is it that lies about the police being racist when they're just trying to detain incredibly dangerous and violent people? Who is it that covers up racially aggravated, i.e. racist crimes like grooming gang rapes? Who is it that thinks people should be treated differently because of their skin color, religion, or social class? Social engineering is a disaster that has proven to destroy social solidarity and cohesion the world over. Britain must return to the pursuit of colorblind, classblind meritocracy and justice for all. If it does not, no amount of social media censorship can stop the ugly consequences of dividing the country against itself.

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7:04Thank you.