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Exact rhymes

October 6, 2015 Viktor Shenderovich

What, however, there are intricate plots! And what rhymes inside them ...

Sorry that you will have to “load” you a little history of the question, but you can’t do without it. So.

In November 2010, I wrote a text for the site "Daily Journal". In it, I mistakenly attributed to Mr. Kashin, once the deputy chief editor of the Russian Life magazine, involvement in the murder of National Bolshevikhchkin-an article published after the murder of the National Bolsheviks, in 2007, in the Russian Journal.

And both of the media, as you noticed, “Russian”, Posoputinskoye and the letter “g”, and in the other Mr. Kashin worked, and moved from one to another shortly before-so I “leaned”, saying the Pushkin syllable. (By the way, not me alone - but this, of course, is not an excuse.)

The error was discovered a few years later, in the winter of 2014, in the process of Facebook discussion of my other text, already on the New Times ...

That same evening I brought my public apology to Mr. Kashin-first on Facebook, and then on The New Times . I note that at the magazine apology, Mr. Kashin did not generously insisted-this decision was made by Evgenia Albats for reasons of professional ethics.

It seemed to me that the incident was exhausted, but the plot was more intricate.

I recalled him recently, after the memorable “July dialogues” in St. Petersburg, when Mr. Kashin publicly attributed me to what I did not say.

Well, it happens, I know by myself. "Turned off." Quits. I turned everything in jokingly ...

The important difference between these two episodes was, however, that Mr. Kashin (in the same place, under the laughter of the audience caught in the train), never apologized.

And I honestly waited.

(I generally treat people well, and is inclined to romanticize them.)

I only waited for the new Kashinsky post about the affairs of the long -past days:

“It turns out (what charm this“ turns out ”after publicly brought apart! - V.Sh.) , in November 2010, Shenderovich in the“ Daily Journal ”wrote that Kashina, of course, is a pity, but we remember the article about“ This is politics, children ” (the same article about National Bolshevchkin - V.Sh.) , now let him feel ...”

This, you know, is something new in the portrait of the hero. Forgetting about the apologies already brought to him, Mr. Kashin prudently avoids quote, as if retelling me in his own words.

And again lies.

For I did not write anything close to the gloating "now let it feel now."

This is what I wrote in that article - and about what I wrote.

I wrote about the fact that neither Mr. Kashin, nor his then comrades in the “patriotic” pro-Kremlin journalism (nor,, alas, liberals) went to the protest picket after the murder of National Basil Chervochkin (as they went out in Medvedevsky on November 2010, after attempt on Kashin).

He wrote about the crippled ordinary Sychev, whose trouble at that time Mr. Kashin “met with an indicative composure, accusing the“ soldiers' mothers ”of dramatizing this story, of direct lies and provocations against the authorities.”

I paid attention to the indicative rhymes: “The same vile version,” I wrote, “about the false democrats who are trying to get hold of political capital on someone else's misfortune, almost literally sounded from the lips of Maxim Shevchenko in the days when Kashin himself was in intensive care, balancing between life and death ...”

In this, so rich in roll calls, the context, I summed up: “I hope Oleg has enough distance vision to evaluate the trajectory of this boomerang.”

Feel the difference between this phrase and - “Let it feel on yourself”?

I wrote: “Now that his life does not threaten, you can take a breath, mentally turn the binoculars - and try to consider the situation again and entirely. (...) When, not choosing a vocabulary too much, he (Kashin - V.Sh.) spoke to the opposition, they objected to him - in words. When the authorities became the object of a journalistic attack, Kashin received a reinforcement on the head. ”

Here's how - and here's what - I wrote in the fall of 2010 ..

I apologize for abundant self -focus: it was necessary for you to feel more distinctly between the intonation and the message of my old text - and a cynical grin, reproduced in the Kashinsky blog, as it were, on my behalf .

This is called forgery, Mr. Kashin.

And here's what I think about this.

I think you should apologize to me - and for this forgery, and, to the heap, for the public onhole lies that you allowed yourself during our dialogue in St. Petersburg.

Apologize for the lie, and then ironize to your health at my address. It seems to me that the correct order of action looks that way.

Not that I needed it-rather, you, here, by golly.


Photo by TASS/ Alexandra Krasnov