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June 14, 2012 Viktor Shenderovich

Before the match with the Poles at Euro 2012, the TV pleased the eye with a domestic banner for half a tribunes-a terrible knight with a sword was depicted on a banner. And for the stupid, if anyone did not understand the image, below the inscription, which is characteristic, in English: "this is Russia."

"This is Russia."

We agree: such a product can hardly be a private initiative: neither the person nor a group of citizens will pull this either financially or organizational.

This impressive event, with all its undoubtedness, goes into the bowels of our state ideology, somewhere in those heights and depths where Fursenko, Medinsky and other KOs, who are in charge of patriotism and access to the bins of the Motherland live.

This is their idea of ​​Russian patriotism and its transportation to create an appropriate image of Russia outside.

"This is Russia." It is this.

Not Gagarin, not Leo Tolstoy, not Chekhov, not Tchaikovsky, not Vernadsky, but this character from a bad computer game for sixth graders with inhibited development.

This is such self -identification.

This is, in their opinion, Russia.

To a psychiatrist - haven't you tried it?

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