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For what?

June 1, 2006 Viktor Shenderovich

In the report that the deputies of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg made Putin an honorary citizen of the city , nothing hurt me: the duty nomenclature vulgarity, empty chores in the state house ... Let yourself. In the end, I am not a resident of St. Petersburg; If the countrymen of Likhachev and Brodsky suits that their honor is now embodied by Putin and Verbitskaya, then to health.

But then I found out that Alisa Freindlich was among the nominating Vladimir Vladimirovich - and here I was very upset.


The fact is that I love Alisa Freindlich. The fact that tens of millions of people share this feeling with me does not make it less personal: Alisa Brunovna has always been more than a brilliant actress - from a young age she taught her fans to human dignity, to accurate moral intonation. She was believed and, of course, they will continue to believe - this is the power of talent ...

But every faith has a flip side - the same, according to eczuper, the responsibility for those who have been tamed - and now Alisa Brunovna should be prepared to answer a simple question: why?
Since there were no public comments from her, we can only build versions, one is sadder than the other.

Does Freindlich really consider Putin a man worthy to take a place in the list of the best sons of the city on the Neva? Doubtful. Of course, the actress is not obliged to keep abreast of the details, but the smell coming from the political practice of the president could have caught ... in extreme cases, to ask her scenes in the scene (Oleg Basilashvili, for example), before being near this smell.

Perhaps the own signature under the representation of Putin in honorary citizens of his hometown does not seem to Alice Brunovna something essential for her own reputation? Then she is mistaken. This is a rather significant circumstance - and in its case. When the Soviet lyceum-tsatvortis, like Igor Gorbachev and Mikhail Tsariev, publicly basked on the Bregs of the Neva and other shores, did not bother anyone: the times were relevant, and what demand is from such people? Demand with Alice Freindlich in free times - different ...

So what was it - a tea party with Putin for television cameras in the days of his own anniversary, and then this “representation” of it in honorary citizens? Ignorance? Ethical sloppiness? .. I don’t even want to think about more mundane versions, but you can’t order my head.
Sad.

I am writing this, it just so happened, on the shores of the Gulf of Finland. Next to the computer lies a book of memoirs about Alexander Volodin, who has just published in St. Petersburg. There are also memories of Alice Freindlich - warm, grateful, beautiful words ...
The words I heard from Alexander Moiseevich-and uttered just to the person whom Alisa Brunovna had just nominated for honorary citizens of St. Petersburg-I will not even dare to quote completely. I only ask you to believe that among the Volodinsky assessments of Putin and his administration the word “bastard” was most decent. Moreover, he said this even before the gases of the Nord-Ost and the flamethrower of Beslan; Knowing how Volodin reacted to the imperious contempt for human life, we can say: fortunately, he did not live up to either or the other ...
I believe that with his assessment it is worth reckoning when you position yourself in relation to power. Or to Volodin himself.

In dozens of roles played by Alice Freindlich, it did not happen that the ends did not converge - in space from Ostrovsky to the Braginsky actress always impeccably found the internal logic of the character’s behavior. In today's logic of behavior of Alisa Brunovna herself, something clearly does not grow together. Sorrow about Volodin and participation in the cheap Putin PR - I do not want to believe that these are just two other well -played roles ...
At least in the case of Volodin.
Victor Shenderovich

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