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The results of the week. Olympics scoreboard
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The results of the week. Olympics scoreboard
February 22, 2014 George Satarov
On Friday, February 21, a female relay race in Biathlon should take place in Sochi. This is the last chance for our athletes of both sexes, who everywhere go with skis, to win the promised gold for the homeland. The whole country will wait for this moment with trepidation, discuss the chances, make bets, store a beer. On the same day, the verdict is expected to be announced to prisoners of Bolotnaya. Since February 6, these two motives are closely intertwined, showing a new “face” of the political regime.
While we were all clinging to television screens, fascinated by Putin’s spectacle and intensity of sports passions, we ousted “rain” from these very screens here, leaving the only honest and professional television channel a tiny reservation on the Internet. At the same time, an attack on Echo of Moscow began. As adopted, journalists will be twisted with financial levers. To do this, a change of general director has already been made in whose hands these levers are located. But at the same time, an information attack on the station and its chief editor, at times implemented in the most disgusting forms, was started. Venediktov believes that this is the work of Lesin's hands . Both that and the other are just part of the cleansing of the information space. Nothing personal.
On February 10, Rear Admiral Apanasenko died, after he shot himself from award weapons. He suffered from pain that everyone in the severe stage of cancer. But he and his family could not buy painkillers. And the Motherland was not up to him. She was sick. Exactly on this Olympic day, the chief oncologist of Moscow said that in Moscow they are treated for cancer no worse than in America, and besides, for free. A little earlier, the chief pediatrician explained that it is wrong to send our sick children abroad, as this discredits Russian medicine. Nothing personal, just mercy and pride in the homeland. So it should be. On this day, Victor AN, a sports immigrant from Korea, brought Russia bronze in Shorttrek at a distance of 1,500 meters.
On February 15, it became known that in many universities an entrance exam in a foreign language is canceled. In what language do they give orders from us? That's right, in Russian. So on the line in the country that goes to obscurantism and self -isolation of foreign languages? In parallel, the folding of mathematics at school is discussed. You cannot learn people to know and think people. Nothing personal, just security. On this day, our men took silver in a ski relay.
On February 18, bloody clashes between the demonstrators and the “Berkut” began in Kyiv. You ask: what does the Olympics in Sochi have to do with it? Then answer me: what did Surkov do there? "Whoever has dinner is dancing her." Putin dined Yanukovych luxuriously. Now he is dancing. On the same day, the girls from Pussy Riot were taken to the Sochi police, supposedly for interrogation about theft in the hotel. Then they released, saying that they had no complaints. True, they beat Tolokonnikov. On the same day, the head of the Duma education committee, Vyacheslav Nikonov, said that the emphasis on the citation of Russian scientists, especially in the humanities, helps foreign special services. Nothing personal, just the Middle Ages. On this day, our hockey players defeated the Norwegians.
On February 19, the Federation Council approved the amendments to the legislation on NPOs. Now public organizations can be checked without restrictions, at any time, as often, by any denunciation, and without it too. Now you can bend everyone, without restrictions. And not surrendering - destroy. Nothing personal, just stability. On the same day, the Foreign Minister Lavrov (claim that he is very smart) assigned responsibility for what was happening in Ukraine to the opposition and the West. I do not claim that this is a kind of striptease in the form of setting a hat on your own head. But I remind you what is known from history: in all clashes of power and citizens, power is the guilty side. There are no exceptions. There is also nothing personal, we just get up from the knees. On this day, another immigrant brought us the only gold medal. This time from the USA. And hockey players flew out of the quarterfinals.
But this is eternal, which is outside the specific dates: the anti -Semitic campaign is rapidly flared up in the country. The reason was bold and accurate, as usual, the words of Viktor Shenderovich, who will now go down in history not only with his “dolls”. Indeed, a new glorious page of the history of the Putin regime is connected with his name. But estimate, gracious sovereigns and sovereigns: only a blind fool (or a stupid blind?) Will not see the obvious similarity. The 1936 summer Olympics glorified the Nazi lifestyle, and the 2014 Winter Olympiad of the hot fogs glorifies the Putin's lifestyle. In the literal sense of the word: only a dictator, absolutely indifferent to his country, can spend time at the qualifying competitions of “his” Olympiad, attached to one of his estates.
But I will return to the anti -Semitic campaign. Everything went to this. It is extremely organic to the Putin regime. But estimate, cute and intelligent lovers of majestic sports spectacles: why did she fall at the Putin Olympiad? And why was one of the first to bring his torch to the fire a symbol of the hysterical obscurant of the Putin regime - a certain Kiselev? And why, right away, VSTOK, he receives from the autocrat the order “For Merit to the Fatherland”? And is it not that the likelification made by Viktor Shenderovich is not confirmed? And after all, no one, my God - no one! - Putin did not return his one, ruined now, the Order. Stench time. Unfortunate Fatherland.
Long before the breathtaking (I use this adjective literally) discovery of the Putin Olympiad there were many forecasts, according to which, the end of the Olympiad and the traveling of guests, both high and sports, will marked the sharp tightening of the Putin regime. Like most forecasts, this one has not been confirmed. The explosion of this whole giant pit with shit fell on the Olympics. And there is something truly Chekist in this. Agree: after all, it’s nice not only to attach all this to your estate - with saliva shown on TV, but to invite a bunch of people to celebrate a housewarming, and even under the noise of the holiday, using it as a distracting event, to start everything that has been dreaming about so long: openly and recklessly frighten, plant and dishonor. Nothing personal. Just a business.
I don’t know how you are my dear and intelligent fans, but I will go to listen to the sentence on the 21st. I have been ill all my life for ours. Well, maybe only in the 68th-for Chekhov. And it’s too late for me to wean from my harmless patriotic habit. But the salutes of the sports festival did not beat the smell and did not remove the eyes of the eyes. I know that not only a group of wonderful young people will say there. They will say my country there. I don't exaggerate. They so planned it - to judge all of us, to judge everything living, independent, worthy. To judge everything that remains here and prevents them from calmly and impunity to finish their robbery. This is not their, but our country. Therefore, they say it. Because they do not give a damn about all of us on her. And so I will go there. That's all I can do is very little, but I will go.
PS I know how the first two beats of the bells will sound, announcing the funeral of our country. First: on the 21st on Tatar Street, the verdict ordered by the authorities will be read out. Second: not a single Russian athlete, climbing the podium, will raise, standing on it, a hand clenched into a fist with a bunch of white ribbons. Yes, no one remembers what this should mean.
Photo by ITAR-TASS/ Anton Novoderezhkin
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