Not all as one

The word spoken against aggression will not stop the armored personnel carrier and warships, will not return the troops to the barracks and will not give the criminals on trial. But it saves the honor of the country and proves that our society does not consist entirely of crooks and crooks. Until now, the thieves from United Russia robbed our country, you and me; Now they reached for neighboring countries. On March 15, in Moscow and other cities of Russia, conscientious people showed that they do not support the national thief and international bandits.

There have been no so many demonstrators for a long time. From 60 to 80 thousand people passed a march of protest from Pushkinskaya Square to Sakharov Avenue. When the first ranks of the demonstrators were already approaching the purebred boulevard, people who wanted to get to the procession still stood at the framework of metal detectors on the passionate. The unusual situation was found at the exit from the Pushkinskaya metro station, where the station duty officers asked passengers due to the sharp increase in passenger traffic to occupy the left side of the escalators. Just like a peak hour. True, only half worked, as always, from all the escalators. But this is an unshakable Moscow tradition, like doors in which only one half of the wings is open.

Passionate Boulevard was scored by the people. In line to the framework of metal detectors, they stood for 30-40 minutes. The demonstrators patiently lined up for a search, which, of course, strikingly distinguishes humble Muscovites from freedom -loving Kyivans. No matter how sad it is to recognize, but even a million obedient demonstrators will not be able to do what a thousand rebels are capable of.

However, the protest was sincere. What did homemade posters cost: “psychiatrist or narcologist, take the patient a nuclear button from the patient”, “Stop the second Crimean!”, “Hell is empty, all the demons went to the Russian government”, “1956, 1968, 2008, 2014. Enough!”. The memory of the past military aggression of Russia is alive. Obsessing state propaganda is not able to represent the intervention as an act of patriotism. Not everyone can cloud your brains.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alekhina, still recent political prisoners, who performed at the rally, recalled the demonstration on Red Square in August 68 and solidarity-they then understand its significance well. They understand it well in Ukraine. It is not for nothing that the Verkhovna Rada interrupted the meeting, and the deputies watched the broadcast of the Moscow rally and, standing, applauded its participants. In Moscow, the demonstrators went under Ukrainian national flags, sang the Ukrainian state anthem and carried posters “for your and our freedom!”.

The solidarity with Ukraine and the clear liberal position of the participants in the procession were cut off from the demonstration of traditional parasites of protest - communists and nationalists. Where it comes not so much about Putin, but about the fate of the country, with the protesters not on the way. If they were on the procession, then in the form of single interspersed. But the rally was performed by representatives of the Maidan, well understanding the meaning of everything that was happening in Russia and Ukraine.

The Kremlin, of course, and this time tried to portray public support. Members of the Primrevsky movement “The essence of the time” were tidying in the same red jackets and allowed the right square along the Moscow streets to portray a spontaneous protest and patriotic delight. It all looked stupid and funny enough. They are not able to equalize Russian titles of a genuine public protest. And no matter how he splashes the saliva at his rallies Kurginyan, no matter how much the bile on the pages of Izvestia is lemons, and on the streets of Moscow, the number of those who sympathize with Ukraine are many times more supporters of the occupation of Crimea. This gives some hope that aggression will eventually choke, and Russia will someday become free.


Photos of Maria Olendskaya / Hedgehog