And after the latest briefing on the "Petrokhan" case, one is left with the impression that something huge is being hidden. I don't remember in Bulgaria for decades that we have had the feeling of delusions on such a huge scale, writes Evgeniy Dainov.
Immediately after Borislav Sarafov, who should have long since vacated the post of acting prosecutor general, came out to talk to us about "Twin Peaks" Regarding the "Petrokhan-Okolchitsa" case, I reminded Facebook of that phrase expressing deep distrust of law enforcement: "the hooks always lie".
In the 1970s, in some particularly dark times of communism, the Soviet dissident writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn wrote the following in an essay titled "Let's Not Live in a Lie": "We know they are lying. They know they are lying. They know that we know they are lying. We know that they know that we know they are lying. And yet they continue to lie."
Furthermore, Solzhenitsyn asks: since they know that we will never believe them - why do they do it? And he finds the answer. The purpose of their lies is not to make us believe them, but to demonstrate to us that they are omnipotent. They can lie as much as they want, and we have no right to object, because they are the power. And they can do anything to us - kill us, put us in prison, shove us into a concentration camp. And commit suicide - something that is especially popular in today's Russia: a few weeks ago, another Moscow general shot himself.
They don't expect us to believe them
In Bulgaria, another briefing on the "Petrokhan-Okolchitsa" case, which was not given the opportunity for journalistic questions, is reminiscent of the situation described by Solzhenitsyn. They tell us that they are waiting for the snow to melt so that they can see tracks underneath; and Kalushev's camper passed through Vratsa at an average speed of 156 km/h.
They don't expect us to believe them. But since they have not reached the extent of power of the Soviet communists, we can do an analysis. And for this we return to the phrase "hooks always lie", because they are always on the side of power. And the bigger the lies, the greater the power that is served with them.
For decades, I don't remember in Bulgaria that we had the feeling of delusions on such a huge scale. I don't remember even a faint resemblance to the active measure that followed – perhaps the largest since communism.
And the goal of the active measure is not to convince us that someone is a criminal. The goal is to saturate the media and public space with messages that the person in question has not had a clean shave. Day after day, he is flooded with scum and some of it will stick to him. People will start to avoid him, which makes him an easy target. The authorities will be able, without making any fuss, to make him disappear, commit suicide, or arrest him on any charges. Solzhenitsyn gives the example of a Soviet citizen who was shot because he admitted that, on the orders of British intelligence, he planned to dig a tunnel from Delhi to Bombay.
Dozens are probably involved in covering up the truth about "Petrokhan-Okolchitsa". The scale of the mobilization is enormous. Following the logic of the axioms: with this enormous scale, the feeling remains that the force that is being covered up is also enormous. We are not talking about Borisov/Peevski. Both of them hid for weeks so that something would not ricochet on them. The force that is being covered up here is clearly bigger than them. And there is no force of that size on our territory. Therefore, one might think that the covered up force is abroad. The border is with Serbia. And Serbia has special relations with Russia, which is in a hybrid war with Europe and in close relations with criminal elements all over the world.
Sometimes the truth comes out
The analysis of the case is going in this direction, following publicly available sources and elementary analytical logic. And the analysis of the subsequent active action sounds like this:
First, an attempt was made to suggest that the dead were their own fault. Sectarians - they would commit suicide, of course. What can you investigate him for? And then a strange connection was made between environmentalists and pedophiles. Something like: all those who protect nature are pedophiles - keep them!
From all this, one can come to the assumption that the sub-message of the active event is some kind of blatant destruction of nature, which is being prepared somewhere in Bulgaria for the benefit of domestic or foreign "scum".
One may be left with the impression that the state is hiding something huge and is its accomplice. Perhaps the existence of the state accomplices depends on whether they will continue to hide the truth.
But Bulgarians may at first glance look like Russians, but we are not. Here, Russian tricks only work for a short time. The truth always comes out at some point.
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This text expresses the opinion of the author and may not coincide with the positions of the Bulgarian editorial office and the State Gazette as a whole.