The trace of the terrorists

In early April, in a number of areas of Moscow, announcements of the following content appeared: “Attention! In connection with the ongoing on 03/29/2010, we ask you to strengthen vigilance with terrorist acts on the Moscow Metro. If suspicious citizens are identified, mainly the Caucasian people, as well as the detection of suspicious ownerless objects, you need to urgently call the phones ... ”(grammar and punctuation are preserved). The following are special numbers or “02”.

The information was also unofficial that it was decided to take advantage of the “database” of nationalist organizations through the Ministry of Internal Affairs, contacting them with a request to transfer the information about the suspicious places of compact residence of immigrants from the Caucasus at their disposal.

Despite the fact that in the vast majority of Muscovites behave adequately and decent, not succumbing to free or involuntary provocations and stupidity, nevertheless, there were not without individual unpleasant incidents-I mean the beating of women in the subway.

Naturally, Xenophobic sentiments and actions such as the incident at the Kuntsevskaya metro station, when several men decided to independently check the bags of two people of the Caucasian appearance, and the police who came to understand, took only young people from the Caucasus to clarify the circumstances of the circumstances, will cause a response. And now Interfax reports that the inscriptions of Allah Akbar! Some woman saw four young people of the “Caucasian appearance” who wrote “death to the Russians!” Of the spray cans.

Ah, what a field for provocations, for permanent lovers to toss straw into the fire. In such a situation, provocateurs are no less dangerous than terrorists themselves, or rather, provocation becomes a type of terror.

In connection with what was happening in Moscow, after explosions in the subway, I recalled an episode from the last book of Romain Gary “Air Snakes”. After the liberation of a small town in Normandy in 1944, local inhabitants, who had been quietly and meekly lived under the Germans, suddenly showed unprecedented patriotism and aggressive intolerance in relation to any form of collaboration. In particular, they dragged and forcibly cut a local girl who communicated with the Germans during these years. The main character of the novel, an active participant in the resistance, the bridegroom of this girl, tearing out the victim from the clutches of the crowd, reassured her, saying: “Nothing, dear, these are just fascists. They stayed here for four years and left a mark. ”

The terrorists leave the same trace, if they do not force us to vigilance, but to painful suspicion, not to cohesion, but to disconnect, not to the desire to maintain peaceful life, but to the transition to a state of emergency, not to the manifestation of wisdom and patience.

And if such a trace is imprinted tightly, you can repeat the words of the hero Gary, who was bitterly thrown into the crowd mocking over his girlfriend: "Now the Nazis really won the war."

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