Century of Surkov

The president’s assistant took a hundred years to the “long state of Putin”. Putin did not read his treatise "

On the eve of the collapse of the USSR, both citizens and the authorities were very fond of supernatural and paranormal. The search for a snowy man was in fashion, the secret of the Bermuda triangle and extrasensory abilities were incredibly disturbed by everyone. When public life dies, and the prospects of people and the country are zero, it's time to talk about something big, mysterious and in no way related to what is happening outside the window. For competent authorities, of course, UFO certificates were also a more profitable option compared to the critic of Soviet power. Whatever the people do, if only they would not think about political participation.

Today, the authorities take up the old.

• The Prosecutor General’s Office solemnly stated that it would again investigate the death of the Dyatlov group in 1959, about which there are more than 70 versions and almost all - mystical.

• The deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Leningrad Region Vladimir Petrov decided to look further and asked the Investigative Committee to investigate the death of Pushkin, which, according to the deputy, could become the result of the conspiracy.

• And the assistant to the President of Russia Vladislav Surkov wrote an article about the “deep people” and the long Russia Putin, whose genre should be defined as historiosophical mysticism.

If this text were published on the Internet anonymously, no one would pay attention to it. Domestic original thinkers daily on an industrial scale generate similar interpretations of the “meaning of Russian history”, which have two recognizable features. Firstly, they ignore all social knowledge accumulated by humanity by the 21st century, from the history of the economy to behavioral psychology. And they are even proud of this: since Russia has a special path, then Western clever men are not a decree for us, no Western theories are not applicable to our experience. In the sociology of science, this style of thinking is called offensive words "native science." Secondly, there is no way to confirm or refute such a historiosophy, it can only be “accepted by heart”.

Since Vladislav Surkov this time did not want to be an anonymous thinker, his publication in the “independent newspaper” is seriously considered. After all, Surkov is considered an architect of the political system created in zero and now in the survival, and in addition - the “curator of Donbass” with obscure and informal, but allegedly very broad powers. And such a person on the eve of the next presidential message to the Federal Assembly decided to make an “ideological speech” about how the “Gumilev people of a long will” built a “long state of Putin”.

The general frame of the statement is understandable: the West was mistaken, and they, that is, Surkov’s like -minded people, were always right. Therefore, in the West there is now a crisis, and we have a state on the rise. And in the West, therefore, they begin to envy us, the peoples of the world, relatively speaking, look at the Kremlin with hope. When such theses are seriously taking up the axiom in a country where an economic growth of 2% has to manually draw in Rosstat and whose economy as a whole is a few percent of the global, I want to ask: the author plans to deceive the reader or be glad to be deceived, that is, became the victim of the propaganda that was created for them? T.N. Geopolitics was already declared the reason why the poor Russia must challenge the whole world; Now, geopolitics found a twin sister-ideology. And in ideology we are strong, and therefore, invincible.

The intonation of the character of Danila Bagrov from “Brother-2” (“Kirdyk Your America”) was overlooked for almost two decades, and Surkov seems that it still sounds fresh.

Ideology, this is our costume of an iron man, turning a fragment of the USSR, 40% of whose youth dream of emigration, into a new superpower, consists for the verification of several fans. One of them is, as it were, Hegelian - "History does not want Russia to cease to exist." The other is about the “sovereign democracy”, which, having infused for thirteen years on a public stagnation, has turned into a “new type of state”, called surk Putinism. Until recently, the Putinists scolded people who think uncritically and prone to the cult of personality, but now it is time to intercept this term and turn it into a banner.

What is the novelty of the state itself, it is clearly not quite, because, it complains of Surkov, it is still little studied. But now it is clear that it will last until the end of the century - the current one. Thus, the mystical eschatology becomes the third detail of ideology. A key argument is used here: there were, they say, three historical Russia, which are associated with the great rulers - Ivan III, Peter the Great and Lenin.

There were three Russia, and now to be the fourth - Putin’s long Russia.

Explain the story through the enumerations of the rulers as a whole bad tone. Even school textbooks tried to avoid this until recently, because it is clear that the past is not great people on the throne. But if you play “great names”, it is clear that the “list of Surkov” is falsified twice. Firstly, historical names in this series are Ivan the Terrible (IV), Peter and Stalin -it is about their versions of “modernization” that is most disputes in Russian society. But the President’s assistant was embarrassed to send Putin to this company. Secondly, if we still believe in the line coming from Ivan III to Lenin, then we are now living in the "long state of Yeltsin." After all, it was Boris Nikolaevich who was the author of the “New Russia”, her constitution, her political elites and his own successor. But the “long state of Yeltsin” today will not surprise anyone, and before the message of the Federal Assembly, this metaphor is useless.

The native philosophy of history ends with an incredible conclusion about Deep State, the deep state of the West, and the deep Russian people, which somehow intersects with the “population”, but perhaps does not coincide with it. The fact is that in the West there are crafty pretensors who make democracy “according to the barnum”, that is, about the same as astrological forecasts are made (the effect of Barnum in psychology is the reason for the persuasiveness of abstract predictions). But Russia is inhabited by a simple and strict deep people, which is not alien to political exhibitionism. If in the West everyone is hiding behind fake smiles and even more false democratic institutions, then

Russia showed the world the nature of the military police apparatus as the only function of the state, and the world gasped from our new sincerity.

But, having stood so over the abyss for some time, having opened a cloak of the amazed world, you need to think about the following steps - and not a word about this.

Without a doubt, having read the treatise of Vladislav Yuryevich, you can argue with what his hardware meaning, whether the president’s assistant intends to “intensify” through this publication, and whether Putinism will now be the official ideology of a “long state”. Dmitry Peskov has to report whether Surkova Putin read (not yet, has not read). But all this, it seems, makes sense only in the world that has come up with Surkov for himself. Where ideology wins the economy and common sense. And where conversations about the meaning of history allow you to forget for a while that for six years in Russia people are becoming poorer every year.

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And about how the “deep people” actually lives, read in the materials of Alexei Tarasov and Nadezhda Andreeva.