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Mechanism
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Mechanism
December 15, 2011 Viktor Shenderovich
A few months ago, the Student Union MGIMO invited me to speak in this glorious institution with the lecture "Democracy as a mechanism." The invitation was agreed with the vice-rector for educational work. Shortly before the day of the lecture, it turned out that to meet with me at the institute “there is no suitable audience” (I still remember, cranked from the subtlety of formulation).
After some time, the question with the audience, but, was resolved-and the students invited me again. The lecture was scheduled for December 16. I waited with excitement if something would happen to the audience.
It happened - with a training schedule.
Two days before the date, the rector Torkunov instructed the cancellation of my lecture, because during the session it is not worth distracting students from studying! Last year it was, and now-no, no.
Well done Torkunov, saved innocent students from the molester Shenderovich!
But what was worth it to come to my lecture and spread a couple of powerful arguments on the walls of MGIMO, huh? But in this banal story, as in a drop of water, the whole squalor of the current (and expiring, I hope) time was reflected: the rector’s mushroom chores to prevent the cherished walls of an individual journalist are perfectly rhyme with the federal nomenclature defense in the swamp era ...
Have you noticed? They cannot object to us in general, in general. They poke the facts in their nose and are called thieves in their nose, and they only turn away and are silent, and if they open their mouths, then they lie. Plus sabotage sorties - well, here, as they say, in the specialty ...
The collapse of sites, wiring, underestimation of some numbers, the overpoint of others, sending Cossacks to the mayor's office for rally, the official transport of miserable and migrant workers for depicting folk support ... and - a stupid nomenclature pressure, which they achieve, of course, completely opposite results!
It is said that shortly before the election on December 4, the Minister of Defense Serdyukov flew to Severomorsk in order to carefully explain to his subordinates the importance of proper voting. By six in the evening, all the highest officers of the fleet arrived at the headquarters, to meet with the Minister - and as asses, they sat in this cage until midnight, because Serdyukov flew at midnight.
Excellent agitation for United Russia: “Bears” received five percent in the Northern Fleet, and I had to cut personnel heads ... well done, Serdyukov!
Agitation continues every day - and the dumber, the more effective. I am happy that from time to time, not wanting it myself, I work as a detonator on this powder warehouse of the mind.
Last spring, I remember, I wanted to perform in St. Petersburg - an ordinary aphage concert, four hundred spectators, a drop in the sea. But the governor Aunt Valya saw the poster, and a circus with horses began: calls, prohibitions, lies, even lies, exposure with a scandal ... In short, instead of one peaceful concert for four hundred people, I had two thousandth of Anshela in St. Petersburg with a political subtext, plus approximately a millionth audience on the radio ...
Well done, Governor Aunt Valya!
Well done and rector of Torkunov.
One and a half hundred students signed up for a meeting with me in MGIMO. To put it mildly, not regulars of rallies and not activists of opposition movements - just curious, ordinary guys and girls ... I don’t know what from what I said and to what extent would it be sunk into their brains - the process is a slow, there is no direct result and cannot be.
But the rector of Torkunov, on behalf of and on behalf of the authorities, twice gave a light, but quite tangible slap in the face of his own students. They decided that they were cattle - and solemnly insisted on this decision.
It seems that in MGIMO I can no longer come.
And the topic “Democracy as a mechanism” in the near future, I think, will reveal life itself.
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