In the opposition

Curtain?

March 28, 2014 Natella Boltyanskaya

The question on duty is who is to blame? He pops up with useless ballast through the current irritation ...

I constantly hear from the honored Sideltsi of the Brezhnev era that among those who sympathized with human rights ideas there were a small number of those who were ready to have troubles, lose their jobs, make contacts with the KGB, go to prison or psychiatric hospital. There were no those who would dream about it. But they were ready to pay such things for their beliefs. The Gorbanevskaya and Litvinov, published on Red Square in 1968, said that they were driven by a purely selfish sense of shame. I - silently - I can’t.

The rest talked in the kitchens, listened to the "enemy voices", quietly cursed from the next reports of the information, and then they walked and voted, as they were ordered. Among them were quite pretty people who reasonably thought: yes, everything was bad around us, but ten to twenty years ago it was much worse and fighting it-it is like his forehead to break ... this did not start with us, we cannot bear responsibility for the mistakes of previous generations. We will just live and quietly hold the figure in your pocket. There is nothing special bad in this position. Equally, like nothing heroic in a different position. Never demand heroism from anyone. But the trick is that you and I are contemporaries of the system. In which much does not suit us, but we ourselves put it on our heads. We arranged it ourselves. Moreover, very capacious things can be invested in the concept of “themselves”. They themselves put it - this is a rebuke to the so -called young reformers. Which did not explain the devil, having in their hands all means of communications. Who decided something for us. And we, by the prevailing habit, scolded them on certain sidelines. And, in general, they prepared a situation where our opinion generally ceased to interest those who make decisions. A couple of years ago, at the 35th anniversary of the Moscow Helsinki group, Priest Georgy Edelstein said that there is no one in the State Duma today, representing him, Edelstein, point of view ...

Daver, Ilya Ponomarev, presented the point of view on the Crimea, different from the opinion of the aggressive-listening majority, and immediately the idea arose to deprive him of the mandate. But this is a point of view of a number of Russian citizens. Spit. Deprive the mandate, and that's it. Information portals that gave an alternative to the first television channels a vision of the situation, for two weeks, have been limited in access. And what? The world did not collapse, we found a means of receiving this information ... Moreover, all the readers of the same “hedgehog” are aware that no clearly formulated reasons for “access restrictions” (and, in fact, the abolition of this access) did not make public. So it is necessary. Look for “mirrors” ... tolerate ... and do not endure how? And how to resist how? Does anyone have the right to call for an ax? No, of course, and not even because of the aggravated sensitivity of the authorities to the so -called extremism. But today it turns out that a ghetto simply arises. A few years ago, when there were not millions of marches, but at best, marches of hundreds of people, when the site opened on the computer without problems, this ghetto also existed. But less clearly designated. Then there was no acute confrontation modeled by the authorities. Then you and I were a demrine, but not enemies of the people. Today we are already offered a harsh thread to sew yellow stars. And the first step along this path is the information blockade. No third -party thoughts. Washing of the brain. Politinformation at school. And polarization, reaching complete idiocy. Yesterday I go to the store and ask a certain product. It is not, similar, too, there is no third, we can hardly find a certain alternative to the desired. The saleswoman sadly says: “They stopped importing ... what do you want, the war ...” And suddenly, severely: “But they will play out!” Me: "Who will play?" Salesman: "EU". Curtain.


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