There are no heroes in their fatherland

The famous pilot, without five minutes, the Hero of Russia, who shaved NATO Major Valery Trojanov, whose fate, as the Chelyuskin, was monitored a year ago, was watched from the army. The story would be funny if it had not been so sad: the pilot and his wife who devoted his whole life all his life even to live.

The Su-27 fighter Troyanov, as we all remember, got lost exactly a year ago on the road from the Leningrad Region to Kaliningrad and fell on the territory of Lithuania. While the pilot managed to eject the Lithuanian authorities, sitting in the Vilnius hotel under house arrest, in his homeland for his fate, was no less than now for the fate of the GRU officers arrested in Georgia. With the only difference being that the speaker Mironov did not promise to declare war on Lithuania, because she, after all, enters NATO. The Foreign Ministry wrote notes, the Minister of Defense promised to reward the pilot upon his return, and the commander in chief of the Air Force, Vladimir Mikhailov, forgave Trojanov the hero of the hero for managing to “check” the NATO air defense system. In the Leningrad Region, where the pilot served, schools have already entered the “Lessons of Courage with the pilot Troyanov” in their curricula, and support rallies throughout the country - in St. Petersburg, for example, the fellow citizens were so violently expressed in the Lithuanian consulate that they had to be dispersed with risers.

But, returning to his homeland, the major did not remain a hero for long. About a month later he was found partially guilty of the accident, promising Valery Trojanov, the Glavkom of the Air Force, said that the “army was offended”, then he was transferred from the pilot of the first category to the pilot of the second (despite the repeated assurances of the same chief men that he would not be subjected to any disciplinary action). Now he was completely kicked out of the army.

Do not ask what Major Troyanov committed the heroic. To set fire to peasant houses in a fierce winter is also a dubious achievement, but Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya is still one of our main characters in the 20th century. Agree that at least for several days of his Lithuanian imprisonment he was a real, full -fledged hero recognized by such both the official authorities and the people. Why, now people who rally under the doors of Lithuanian diplomatic agents, do not picket the Ministry of Defense or the General Staff demanding that Major Trojanov give a new plane and allow him to fly to Kaliningrad and vice versa?

I am trying to remember who has recently become a hero with us recently. Well, it is clear that the GRU officers recently detained in Georgia. Two more FSB agents who blew up the former Chechen president Zelimkhan Yandarbiev and sentenced there to life imprisonment, but then transferred to Russia. The sailors caught for poaching off the coast of Norway trailer "Electron" could become heroes, but they were released too quickly. All these heroes are united by one thing: they gave the state of greatness to the state to play with muscles, to the good joy of the people yearning for the great power. Show them all that we are still “wow”! That the spirit of the USSR has not yet died in us.

The spirit of the USSR really did not die: the hero is valuable only at the moment when he is a demonstration of our "sovereignty". The hero himself, no matter what he does, like any citizen of Russia, has no value. At the time of Lithuanian captivity, the State Academy of Sciences vied with a vying, how a brave pilot, risking his life, drove a falling car from a farm to a clean field. Now, at home, it can even be imprisoned by the state of material damage on an especially large scale - this does not bother anyone.

And Major Troyanov, not only has no value, he also “offended the army”: he told the NATO henchmen that his annual raid was 5 hours. Or maybe he also outlined the most likely version of his disaster-the A-50 radar plane, which was supposed to help pilots to navigate in space, left the place of exercises for the sake of fuel, when the fighters have not yet reached Kaliningrad.

So Troyanov, one might say, was still easily escaped.