800 years before Manezh ...

The history of mankind is a thing not only terrible, but also mocking. She does not want, despite the famous phrase, to repeat herself like a farce, but strives to turn into a tragedy over and over again. Alas, the current surge of fan violence, unexpectedly a large extent of teenage, has already missed his chance to stay in our memory of Fars.

All this was already, it was; Not quite so, but with such impressive parallels and intersections that you are amusing. For example, one of these "was."

We make a reservation right away - a large -scale tragedy similar to the one that took place almost 800 years ago, has not yet happened. So until it ended ... And then, in the 13th century, it also began with small victims.

The Crusades that followed the appeal of the pope of Urban II at the Clermar Cathedral, for one and a half centuries turned into an obsessive idea of ​​the then Europe. There are many reasons, not the last of them is the indignation of the Christian world by the fact that the Palestinian shrines were in the hands of the “arrived” Muslims. Actually, before the first campaign, small groups of knights went into a pilgrimage to weapons - to bow to the holy places and fight, to the great glory of the Lord, with the infidels (in fact, a significant part of the football fans, going to the stadium, is unknown what is more pre -looking at the victory of their favorite team or the fight with enemy fans and police; however, it is known that ...).

Of course, the church had their own species of the crusader movement. The prospect of the reunification of Eastern and Western Christianity, the next arguments in the dispute about the primacy of spiritual power over secular with the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire and other monarchs and much, much more moved by Pope Urban II and his successors. It remains to guess (well, to guess, of course), what prospects and cunning combinations make our power not only be tolerant of a fan rampant in the form of “Russian marches”, but also flirt with this terrible element; One thing is certain - there is not a simple spiritual kinship, these prospects - there are ...

At first, on the side of the crusaders there were a lack of unity among Muslim rulers and her Majesty. Holy places were liberated, Christian states arose in the Middle East. Europe, so to speak, “rose from the knees” under the enthusiastic hooting of the crowd and healthy residents from the amvones. However, the unity of the enemy turned out to be a matter of time, and luck-in general, the lady is changeable ... the failure of the third campaign, led by the most brilliant Kings-people, and the nightmare of the fourth, ending with the plunder of the Christ-loving army of the unanimous Constantinople, sowed in the society that not only in the Danish kingdom, but south is not well. “Seeing how the Christian faith is infinitely trampled by everyone - both the clergy and the laity, how the sovereign princes are constantly fighting for themselves, then some, in the expanses with each other, neglect the world everywhere, many are unjustly kept in captivated, they are thrown into the terrible dungeons, forcing themselves to buy themselves up an exorbitant fee, or by exposing triple torture there, that is, hunger, thirst, cold, and they die in obscurity; Seeing how they indulge the violently, plunge into the fire of monasteries and villages, not sparing any of the mortals, mocking all the divine and human ... ” - this is how the educated contemporary describes the atmosphere and the situation, as if ours are with you?).

The wealth of the Church grew, as on yeast, and the heresies were multiplied by this, calling for the poverty of the priesthood (and they were already perceived as a threat to the existing well -being of all decent people); Warriors, who founded the spiritual and district orders, took up the accompanying pilgrims and cargo, earning a lot of money on this. The split inside the Christian world (well, just like in the post -Soviet space) increased, and Muslims, on the contrary, overcame their, and the territory of the Middle Eastern Christian kingdoms was steadily reduced.

The church, led by one of the brightest dads, Innocent III, made great efforts to breathe life into a crusader movement. However, these calls did not meet any response, except for the approving Reva of the crowd, and even he became quieter. The belief was spread that only those from whom the Lord did not turn away - the poor and the small ones could save the holy cause.

In May 1212, in Central France, a twelve -year -old shepherd named Stefan appeared a wandering monk, who told the boy that he was chosen by the Almighty for the Holy Delivee - at the head of the unprecedented children (because “the strength of the infants came from the enemy”) the army to liberate Jerusalem. Do not take weapons (victory is not for force, but for holiness), go to the sea, and it will part in front of the sinless. He handed a letter to the King of France and disappeared to a numb boy. The next day Stefan went to the Abbey of Saint-Denis near Paris, where he spoke in front of pilgrims and their children for several days in a row. The result of his sermons was the spontaneous formation of children's detachments throughout France. When Stefan called the gathering place - the city of Wandom - thousands of children went there. In the villages and towns through which they passed, other children joined them (what statistics can we answer us, how many teenagers came to the manna “for the company”?), And tens of thousands have gathered in Vandom.

And now - attention! - The main thing: the reaction of those in power of adults. The King of France Philip II first approved the event. He was interested in the support of the Holy See in the fight against the eternal enemy - the English king, the brother of Richard the Lion's Heart, John the Landless - and was not averse to organizing his Crusade (especially since he himself had sunk out of the third campaign at one time, which he spoiled his reputation a lot), but the knights did not burn with enthusiasm and did not have enough strength. However, when a groan of tens of thousands of parents rang out in the country, the king decided to insure him and turned to theologians from the University of Paris; They resolutely called what was happening by the intrigues of the devil (and, one cannot help but notice how they looked into the water). The king issued a decree commanding the children to go home. The children did not disperse (they still do not like to disperse by order), Rome did not approve, the emissaries of the papa were extremely active in strengthening children's souls in their good stubbornness, and the king washed his hands. In other words, it was possible to stop children; This was required by parents and some prudent priests. However, “based on the current situation, it was considered inappropriate” ...

In parallel, similar events took place in neighboring Germany. There appeared his leader named Nicholas (after he heard about the initiative of the French peers, he was a vision of the cross in the sky), gathered about 20 thousand children under his banners. With two columns, they moved through the Alps (!) To Italy, where they were hostile to the local population, Germans for a number of reasons who did not like. Thousands were lagging behind, thousands died of cold and deprivation, several thousand reached the sea.

The sea did not part either in Brindisi, nor in Genoa, nor in Pisa ... It did not part in front of the little French in Marseille. It’s strange, because they believed so that they were chosen, that they were going to save the world at the direct direction of God ...

The further fate of these children is terrible. Two merchants “from Christian feelings” provided seven ships to the small Frenchmen. In fact, they have already agreed with their Muslim counterparties (trade is not a hindrance) on the sale of children in slavery. Two ships crashed near the shores of Sardinia during a terrible storm. Five others sailed to Algeria. None of the little “warriors of Christ” returned to Europe, all of them remained slaves - servants, workers, concubines and concubines in Algeria, Egypt and even distant Persia. German children were dismantled right in Italy: girls - in the brothel, boys - for work. These are the results that then historians will call children the crusad of children.

At all times, it is easy to deceive children. They easily believe in their high mission, they are down to the flattery of adults, they are equally easily ignited by the calls of both good and dirty ones. They are interested in being with each other, and not with boring, angry, teaching them adults (many of these adults, in truth, are really inexpressibly boring).

And they invariably become victims. At all times, in any case; Even when fate is personally merciful to them, and instead of death in a roadside ditch or on the seabed, they are just in the brothel ...