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Reservation

September 6, 2007 Natella Boltyanskaya

On September 7, 2004, a 130-thousandth rally of Russia against terror was held in Moscow. Information about the event was distributed only on September 4. On the same day, federal television channels launched videos with the participation of film and TV stations, which turned to the Russians with a persistent request to come to the Vasilievsky descent on September 7. As it became known, for three channels - "First", "Russia" and NTV - the order for the manufacture of rollers was received late in the evening of September 3. Moreover, from the presidential administration. In general, the official application for the Rossiya against Terror campaign was sent to the Moscow City Hall on August 27, 2004. It turns out that the idea of ​​holding an anti -terrorist rally occurred to the organizers - the Moscow Federation of Trade Unions, the Committee of the Veterans of the War of Moscow and the Public Center “The Right to Life” - even before the disasters of the two Russian airliners were recognized as attacks on the “Riga” and before the hostage captures in Beslan. In many cities of Russia, where in September 2004, protests against terrorism were held, they did not hide the fact that these events were organized under the strict leadership of United Russia and the party and non -partisan chiefs joined it. And there is nothing wrong with that.

It was bad that the students designed to participate in the rally explained: if you do not go, there would be problems with the session. The state employees were launched by sedimentation for a certain number of those present. That is, they acted according to the good old KPSS recipes: your lantern at the house number 5, you will leave before - there will be no run. Is it necessary to be surprised that, according to eyewitnesses, those who came to the shares were occupied by their own affairs, they were anymore and not very mourn. Forcibly, you will not force anyone to feel sorry for the strangers of the dead. Here is just this strange concept - "their own - strangers." On the same days, in European cities, tens and hundreds of thousands entered the processions of the memory of Beslan children. For some reason, without any efforts from the "United Russia". The candles cried and lit, without waiting for the instructions from above ... Really, then, on the steaming ruins, a cynical thought occurred to someone in Russia-it is necessary to force the tragedy. And the best way to make you forget is to oblige to remember.

For me, the beginning of September from now on and forever will be a nightmare of the tragedy in the Beslan school number one. Not because I am so sensitive, but because no one delegated me anywhere, because each release of news on Echo spoke with internal pain. Is this a pathology? No, of course, moreover, I am not the only one. But the trouble is that the next year, 2005, the Moscow City Hall did not consider it necessary to modify the celebration of the City Day. And no one canceled the slogan of “bread and spectacles”. Again, not by virtue of spiritual callousness, but because of a healthy nonsense. And after three years, it is even uncomfortable to say that this memory does not heal. And now you go through the amused Moscow on September 1, 2007, you go through metal detectors in Bolotnaya Square and think that you are in the reservation. Reservation of a deliberate minority. Reservation, fenced not only with the framework of the notorious metal detectors and police outfits. This reservation is also fenced by the then - three years ago - the desire to immediately put a checkmark in the column “National Woe”. And it is not surprising that those who really lost loved ones-in Beslan, in the Nord-Ost, during explosions of houses-someone dares to be considered speculators on their own mountain. And even just crazy. After all, no one announced the days of mourning. The days of mourning - were three years ago, by order. Today, according to the Supreme Commander -in -Chief, "no matter what happens in the country or in the world, life goes forward."

We assume that this is a go -ahead. Stop despondency. And those whom for some reason does not let go of the feeling of internal sorrow for the victims of terror can come to their reservation and marked. The space of sorrow is carefully formed precisely as a reservation. Barriers and metal detectors - for safety. A pre -declared number of people is for her. Andrei Naletov, the organizer of the memory rally of Anna Stepanovna Politkovskaya, submitted an application to the city hall by 500 people, but he was advised to reduce the number. They clearly explained to Zalutov: you do not want problems with the rally - write “100 people”. He, as the organizer, was in advance in a situation of conflict with the law. If the rally is open, to some extent, even a spontaneous act of civil society, then the organizer cannot say to those who came: “Sorry, you are one hundred and the first, goodbye!”

Moreover, there are absolutely no need to stop the law enforcement officers of law enforcement agencies who came to the STO second or one hundred and thirty. And then there will be a case of an offense.

There were no such problems with the rally of memory of Beslan’s children - the organizers managed to reach the number “up to 500” without problems. Why is it so, and not according to the scenario of the rally of Politkovskaya's memory? There are several answer options, one more disgusting than the other. Separate and rule, appealing to the worst sides of human nature. It is enough to honor the memory of a journalist. And to honor the memory of dozens of dead - let there be a little more people. And God forbid the mourners will unite. And they are divided by administrative slingshots. The second version - the Moscow authorities knew very well that there would be no more people to Bolotnaya Square than stated. Since the holiday is in Moscow ... since we are indifferent. In the meantime, we are indifferent, we can take us with your bare hands. And replicate the rotten formulations of the type "speculate with their grief."

Those who calls us to remember the untimely death of the innocent, not only splash out their huge grief, but also warn: repetition is possible! And in response they are explained: you who remember this should be a certain number that is convenient for chicken with internal organs.

And what do you prefer to choose the motivation of your well-fed unconsciousness-your own infinite indifference or someone's skillful manipulation of our worst qualities?