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Gigantic Nemtsov trampling Putinism

March 4, 2019 Sergey Mitrofanov

Of course, Putinism should be dealt with quickly and harshly. That is, to write it off historically - as a dead end branch of the unsuccessful construction of a democratic state. Or even bring to Nuremberg, as I. Yakovenko dreams. But while it is not possible to write off, we are forced to see Putinism in thousands of manifestations. And about how he is refracted in certain events, I wanted to write.

On February 24, the annual march of Nemtsov’s memory was held in Moscow. In general, a political carnival - and this, of course, is a carnival, when activists pull the prepared witty anti -Putin slogans ahead of time and call on Putin Kara - this is a fairly unique phenomenon of developed Putinism. Almost the last remaining indisputable mass event of opponents of the regime in the center of the capital. Moreover, agreed with ideologically hostile authorities. Something like the production of Shakespearean “Othello” in the SS concentration camp.

However, I find it difficult to choose an adequate analogy, when one regime is visible from behind the second, and the first for a while selects fangs and strokes the younger generation of opponents on the head, and the SS men in the camp, in truth, did not have amateur performances.

Under Stalin, they also did not put plays of freedom -loving content and did not read Mandelstam's poems from the camp scene. Rather, the fact that today is more like a black blues slaves. Or to the celebration of the anniversary of the revolution in the country, which killed its revolutionaries and canceled the revolution once and for all. The left march of Mayakovsky from the reproducer in the interrogation.

One way or another, but the march of the memory of Nemtsov is one of the unique (since the analogy is not at once) of the manifestations of Putinism, which is to some extent to preserve the liberal showcase, while the content is becoming less liberal.

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So, while people gathered mournfully, then passing through the police frames and the personal inspection procedure (the proud A. Podrabink did not go this time-it was because of intolerance for the search), the correspondent of the MBH Media website interviewed the avant-garde of activists.

And here is the second visible phenomenon of Putinism, which consists in the fact that inside the party itself, a fenced framework and autosaks with police officers ready to attack, something like a liberal oasis arises. Here you can rest for two hours from the press of militaristic propaganda, drink liberalism and talk among your own on prohibited topics.

"Tell me, would I be the Nemtsov president?" - the correspondent addresses the Sedovlasoma veteran of street protest. And he is glad. "Oh, we would be in gold now!" - He is dreamily vanging, starting to talk about how good a person was Borya and what a wonderful democracy would be with him. Undoubtedly, at this time we are witnessing the acquisition of a liberal myth in the best sense of the word. And although the word “gold” was somewhat scratched, we are inappropriate, we are sure that the myth of “gigantic Nemtsov, which tramples Putinism” could really become a dramatic weapon against the regime, come to the march of several tens of thousands of people. But how much came, and the question "Why?" applies both to compulsory aftertaste and taste for the future.

Who is the mirror of the Russian revolution? Facebook we have a mirror of the Russian revolution. Therefore, let's try to spy the answers there.

"Maybe all these cute people will understand that they are in the minority?" -For some reason , the left publicist Lev Sigal, like all the “left”, interested not so much in the death of the “anti-people regime”, but so that there is no liberal or pro-Ukrainian agenda for a shift. For some reason, it is easier for us to be “left” with an oligarchy than with liberals, which makes the promised “left turn” complicate.

Another characteristic user with whom we dispersed on the problem of the implementation of the Minsk agreements (it turns out, there are people who believe in their panacea), reasonably, as it seems to him, the opposition for “lack of a positive image of the future”.

Here Putin will die, ”this kind author suggests,“ and with what will you enter the political market? ” “Do we have an opposition with a positively future and constructive action plan for such a case? I'm afraid that we do not have such an opposition. In this ideal case, the opposition, having quarreled because of the “division of portfolios”, in the future government, will not be able to offer society to society, except for compromising evidence, ”he ends his passage.

In fact, such criticism is not quite without reason. Indeed, in addition to manifesting the rejection of Putinism, thinking to the public, I would like to receive a proposal for institutional changes, which no one does for some reason. However, the need to create a “positive image of the future” usually says only the short -sighted technocrats who have mastered the basics of PR and believed in the construction of the world by political technological means of proper propaganda. Since, in order to get their minds to the upcoming need to dismantle fascism (a new trend - people do not believe in the existence of fascism) and frank wildness, such as ritual burning of camels alive, “positive images” are not very needed.

And, right, we absolutely do not need to demand the “positive images of Russia of the future” in order to return to an understandable normality and maintaining citizens focusing on freedom and prosperity. That is, to normal diplomacy, promoting peace and cooperation policy, the normal economy of goods and the market that stimulates entrepreneurship, normal and wide training in the population of modern life. Another thing is that at the same time, the country may be broken and depressed in the form of a mental disorder, when it realizes that no one attacked it and for two decades, she fought violently with a non -existent enemy - shadows projected from the presidential film booth.

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In my last article “Social Contract in the rear of the warring country” there was such a “visionary” passage: “... the addressee of the Message Surkov soon decided quite clearly: this is a manifesto for his own. Not for the "only reader", as they thought before. And not for stupid quilted jackets. And not for troll. On the contrary, the psychotherapy of the upper elite. Guys, we came here for a long time - such is its meaning. Russia is not ready for Western type democracy and will always try to restore the option of a kind of monarchy within itself, and we are here, as here, providing for this a universal platform with ready -made high -paid personnel. ”

I wrote so purely theoretically. But one such prepared frame of despotism and quasimonarchy did not force himself to wait long, rose from the trench. It turned out to be Alexei Chadaev, “Director of the Institute for the Development of Parliamentarism”, who decided to repeat the success of Surkov, although in a much less intelligible text , entitled “Putinism’s questions”. At least, he convincingly proved that Putinism is not the nonsense of our inflamed objection, but the phenomenon given in sensations and propaganda . In general, everything that Alexei writes, choosing the necessary beams and words for this, I most often do not understand. This is his special talent for the notebook, when separately everything seems reasonable, and together it is incomprehensible. And even then I don’t understand him when the respected newspaper tries to retell him, any kind of mystery remains. It seems that, on behalf of the collective Putin, he offers us some new social contract, but then let it hold it in your hands or something? Chadaev hints that they, upstairs, were somewhat recalled and now do not mind reducing the just tragically increased retirement age again. So tell me directly and where to sign in this contract? However, the last paragraph of the Chadaev Declaration is quite clear: “If in the future we will be able to create one or two generations recognized by everyone as the best system of relations in the world of human-state relations (and this is not by chance not fascism?-S . m .)-this will be an unconditional confirmation that we fought for Russia’s vain for Russia.”

And how cool they fought! With America, Ukraine, Syria, pension and cheese ... and everyone won. And now we are invited to wait for one or two generation instead of taking and just this rotten, corrupt, deceitful, militarized and completely economically ineffective system to throw away from sin away from sin. So I see: we are sitting and waiting for several generations ...

"The best system of relations in the world ..." - you can’t say better! As you can see, Putinism is not going to give up and leave without clown crook.

Photo: 02.24.2019. Russia. Saint Petersburg. During the memory of the policy of Boris Nemtsov on Lenin Square in front of the Finland Station. Peter Kovalev/TASS