Victory shame

Everything was fine on these May holidays.

And even a idle wounded youth wrapped in tricolors and St. George ribbons did not spoil the mood too much.

So far, some kind of proud of himself and his constitution, the bureaucrat boasted that the parade on May 9 cost half a billion dollars.

And shortly before that, the new authorities of the Kirov region raised benefits to veterans of labor - by 26 rubles 70 kopecks per month. And they were sincerely proud of this, because, indeed, others could not do this, but an incomparably richer Moscow region, despite all the assurances of Governor Gromov, even began to reduce social benefits. And President Medvedev specially came to Kirov - to get acquainted with this, which is not imagined for crisis Russia, by achieving (and preparing the city for Medvedev’s visit, including rolling rails into the asphalt on current crossings through the railway, as far as possible, as much as possible, in the amount comparable with expenses for veterans).

And the Federal Center for Cardiovascular Surgery in Penza, opened in early 2008, stopped the heart operations, without which people would die, because the Ministry of Health and Social Development, having a financial reserve to expand high-tech medical care, did not allocate additional quotas. Also shortly before the half -billion Victory Parade.

On the eve of this parade, the same Ministry of Health and Social Development slowed down the allocation of funds for the treatment of children with cancer - knowing that for many of these children, a delay in treatment means painful death.

And after all, Eurovision, carried out with an indecent scope, if you recall what it took place in a country where 86% of the population does not have enough money to buy long -term goods. With television and showing mass eating on black caviar Street instead of ice cream. It is worth recalling that, for example, meat sales in a number of regions fell one and a half times last fall.

The essence is simple: in the country covered by a socio-economic crisis with a compressive economy, growing unemployment, falling standard of living and day by day melting confidence in tomorrow, the state is not engaged in supporting the economy and the population, not modernization (although the government recognized the “program of anti-crisis measures”, which could not be left from the crisis), and with massive indulgings and amusements and mass entertainments and mass entertainments and mass entertainments and mass entertainments and mass entertainments and mass entertainment and mass ritual actions.

Since the beginning of the crisis, we, as citizens of Russia, do not see real attempts to overcome it - we see a visual propaganda, designed to convince that everything is good, first of all, by its organizers and performers.

So primitive people painted on the wall of the cave of the mammoth - and believed, it is likely that the most difficult part of the work was done, that now the mammoth would not go away from them.

The current primitive bureaucrats, arranging luxurious shows, convinced themselves in the same way: since attributes of prosperity, stability and “rising Russia from the knees” are preserved and even multiplying - it means that these processes themselves continue.

In addition to public, demonstrative luxury, our leadership does not save on one more - on propaganda. The words of the victims of massive processing themselves are best said about its quality and orientation, which is imposed on the country of patriotism.

"I am glad that my grandfather died in the war!" - said one bruised by official propaganda a young miracle.

True, he really has something to rejoice: survive the grandfather to the present day, he would appreciate this “patriotism of the cattle” according to merits - in a verbal form accessible even to “patriotic plankton”.

It is very a shame that, surrounded by Putin and Medvedev, there were no people who would redirect at least a small part of the “show -off” money to a real improvement in living conditions - if not all the poor children and the elderly, then at least the same war veterans.

But the point is not only in shame.

A feast of the ruling kleptocracy during the plague is the best, fastest way to turn even a deep, but still socio-economic crisis into a genuine political catastrophe.

Guys, maybe not?

Author - Director of the Institute of Problems of Globalization, Doctor of Economics

Photos "Daily Journal" / Olendskaya Anastasia