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Pogromers

August 11, 2011 Anatoly Bershtein

The riots in England, in which, according to the first reports, are involved in color youth, who took advantage of the moment of criminal groups and anarchists who joined the pogroms, cannot but be projected into our Russian soil and not respond with a very definite anxiety. Recent events on the Manezhnaya Square are not forgotten by anyone, as, indeed, and atrocities of a ten -year ago - when the Russian national team lost at the Japanese national football championship. Then a crowd of teenagers also also unexpectedly and also destructively walked along Tverskaya and Pushkinskaya streets in the center of Moscow, louding Asian restaurants and beating individual, who did not have time to hide passers -by.

There are many reasons for such outbreaks of mass violence, and they are different. But the reasons and participants of the pogroms are almost always the same.

I already once wrote that “guys from Forstadt”, that is, the guys from the outskirts, literally on the side of the road, are a special type of hard, sometimes cruel people with installation on survival at all costs. This happened in their life. And it could not work otherwise. Those who had a well -fed and kind childhood constantly and happily recall him. And those who had an orphan, hungry and broken, do not really like to remember about him, so as not to give an occasion once again to their anger and aggression.

Former dysfunctional children, as a rule, are better prepared for life, are more unpretentious and patient. Of these, strong, targeted, persistent adults, who can achieve their own. Despite everything. But they also have weaknesses. People of deficiency, they cannot but experience constant itching of material envy. And they are very vulnerable and touchy. Especially when they are humiliated. They are sensitive, but do not sympathize, worry, but do not empathize.
But they are not to blame for this, because they cannot change anything, because “Forstadt” is not only an image, a way of thinking, aesthetic norm, a boxing pose, but also a certain emotional chain of reactions; “Forstadt” is that which is stronger than a person, which determines his actions regardless of will.

Young uneducated and angry guys, like all teenagers, are not independent. They are susceptible to loud slogans, external tinsel, despise weakness. They are easy to deceive ...

For a long time in Russia, the image of a sort of positive ambal was cultivated and cultivated. "Poyage" for a healthy lifestyle or for military sports education. He was convinced all the time and convinced that he is special, courageous, elected from birth, with an unusual fate, with a universal mission. His strength is heroic, military, patriotic. He believed and forgave everything: hunger, repression, and ignorance, and barbaric living conditions. He could be condescending or arrogant, generous or in wararine rude, but in his soul he almost always remained a chauvinist. He is the older brother of all "chocks and hacks." He patronizes them, but does not respect. They are clearly lower than the race. So it is not surprising that today such a rocking can consciously or unconsciously play for the Nazi idea. Although he does not have any “pros”, some “against”.

These guys from the outskirts come not to conquer cities, but to destroy them. Because they are offended precisely that they live on the outskirts. And they, first of the head, take revenge on all of humanity for their disdain childhood, and do not fight for the best future. They are annoyed by wellness and gloss, and they are excited from the sound of broken glass.

It seems that they should feel pain, they know a lot about her. They survived so much. But you can’t pierce them with tears, you will not be fragmented at all. (How can you “cry in a body armor”?!) Their philosophy: an eye for a tooth; A direct -acting school that rejects the context, reading between lines, halftones and nuances. After all, they cannot do not give back. Any other reaction for them is a manifestation of weakness, loss of survival coefficient, which is tantamount to losing life. More precisely, honor. If they leave, then he must “slam the door”, saying “the whole truth-uterus”-“so that in fairness”. They are able to love and hate with the same force. Because their love is rather a variety of possession. The guys from the outskirts always assert themselves, and this, as you know, does not do without pain for others.

Of course, not all briefly cut, shabby -headed, put on the faces of the mask, and the same filling inside the hood inside. We are talking about those considerable heads that, as Zamyatin wrote, a special square form. These "square heads" are a much more convenient container for angular ideas. They carry with them a charge of an unsuccessful aggression that has accumulated over many years. It is such a head that does not give rest to the hands. The style of the owners of such heads is a simplification in everything, militant anti-aesthetics, the culture of Barbara-warrior, whose ugliness is an element of intimidation. Their mentality is primitive-patriarchal, directed deep into centuries, to pagan sources, to the cult of ancestors, rigid justice, simple, but understandable thoughts and decisions, simple, but understandable courageous rituals.

... The suburbs strives for the city. The dysfunction is knocking on a fist, or even a foot in the door, behind which wealth reigns. Resentment splashes out onto the streets with boiling lava out of pain and envy. Injustice is acking a flash of rage and violence. In countries such as England or France, where there are a lot of dissatisfied and offended, but still a minority, there is a state that can hardly and at the same time adequately extinguish such massive outbreaks of violence. We have the presence of the state itself, especially its adequacy - under a big question. As for the hidden resentment as a reaction to total injustice, it has accumulated no less than the old weapons in numerous Russian army warehouses. And if it torn from something and even detonates-trouble.

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