Chmorik

Official propaganda—through the efforts of the workers of the Rossiya TV channel or Komsomolskaya Pravda—explains to us that the Sychev case was deliberately fabricated in order to discredit the honor of the uniformed Ivanov, who takes a lively part in the casting of successors. The participants in the anti-Ivanovo conspiracy are indicated directly - this is the military prosecutor's office, which took private Sychev's suffering to heart, or indirectly - this is the apparatus of Dmitry Medvedev, also a participant in the race for the main prize of the Russian Federation. The Ministry of Defense finds thrombophlebitis in Sychev and does not find hazing, forensic medical examination, on the contrary, does not find thrombophlebitis either in Sychev or in his parents. Immediately after the broadcast of Brilev’s Vesti Nedeli, which famously worked for Ivanov, Sychev himself developed gastric bleeding, and his mother Galina says that her son’s phrase, which sounded all over the country from TV, “as if no one beat”, was torn out of context: “They didn’t beat me half to death, but kicked me in the legs and, under the threat of beatings, forced me to sit in one position for a long time.”

Sychev still does not know what propaganda is, the Minister of Defense generally wanted to spit on what, how and where he says. And who is listening. His favorite expressions—in the style of a patron: "nonsense," "nonsense," "nonsense"—were enriched with one more: "artistic whistle." According to Ivanov, the "artistic whistle" is the demand of 10,000 people who put their signatures for the resignation of the defense minister. The open letter addressed to the president expresses the indignation of the nascent, hopefully, civil society at the critical state of affairs in the Russian army, hazing, the victims of which are thousands of conscripts. It was this action that the Minister of Defense and candidate for successor called "an artistic whistle."

The response was received fairly promptly. Already in early March, Sergei Ivanov was sharply elevated personally by the president. Putin created a practically independent office under the government with huge powers in the field of the military-industrial complex, which was headed by Sergei Borisovich. The new body is actually not accountable to the government, but manages the amount of $25 billion. Plus, Ivanov demanded a national defense project, the fifth in a row. Let me remind you that so far four projects have been supervised by Medvedev, Ivanovo's main rival, but he has been left far behind—he oversees an amount five times smaller. According to bureaucratic laws, about the same number of times he was "lowered" - in terms of authority.

Now, logically, we must wait for Medvedev's revenge. Especially since the shamans of Russia are on his side. Despising the opinion of potential voters about him, Ivanov recently publicly stated that positive materials about the state of affairs in the army are incorrectly placed on newspaper pages: “Sometimes there is a paradoxical situation when a good article is published in newspapers next to advertisements for brothels, shamans and other swindlers.” He publicly said this in vain - it would be possible separately and quietly, by way of a courier, to talk with Sungorkin, the editor-in-chief of Komsomolskaya Pravda, to put good army articles not on those pages where there are naked girls, but at least on those where thematic boys . He would understand. And so, for the mention in the same row with brothels, the shamans were offended and demand an apology. The supreme and life-long shaman of Tuva, Mongush Kenin-Lopsan, immediately sent a public protest to Ivanov, and ordinary Tuvan shamans promised to curse him. It's a serious matter. It becomes even more serious if we take into account the fact that Ksyusha Sobchak's mother herself, who turned out to be a senator from Tuva by chance, also threatened to curse. And this is no longer a joke.

For Ivanov, as well as for Medvedev, this whole torturing race could end just like a new play in the Chelyabinsk theater ends. The play is called "Chmorik", this is a tragic farce directed by Yevgeny Gelfond. In the play, a boy nicknamed Chmorik, who is also a violinist, is drafted into the army. He begins to be tormented by "grandfather" Khrustyashin. A lyrical heroine appears - Chmorik's sister, who comes to visit her brother, and the "grandfathers" try to rape her. In the finale, Chmorik and his tormentor Khrustyashin die together at the hands of drunken construction battalions.

Ivanov, as a result, can also be smothered together with Medvedev. Most likely it will. Would anyone be surprised if Surkov or the quietest Yakunin becomes the successor? A party builder and a railroad worker—why not a construction battalion?