Putin's principle

*Let's come up with a despot

So that he reigned alone in the souls

From the age of the children's

And until noble gray hair.* Bulat Okudzhava

“Brilliant victory”, “crushing”, even “absolute” ... What kind of fables you can’t read in Putin’s agitrope. It seems that these texts were composed and approved by higher authorities before the elections. 36 percent of voters is "crushing"? The rules of arithmetic still, thank God, have not been submitted to the referendum.

The power of the Troechniks failed another examination exam. There are three of its faults of its own main qualities: arrogance, stupidity and mediocrity. I suppose they now regret that this booth has arranged. It would seem that the threshold of turnout was canceled - why to arrange a struggle for a high turnout? But without a single, in three faces of the president, the Party of Damens would not have gathered the fifth share of these votes. And since Putin himself is elected, here to take out and put crushing interest.

They drove themselves into a corner with their slogan about the referendum (not about trust, notice, but in support of the president) and were distraught with fear when they realized that the people did not show proper electoral enthusiasm. Not without reason, even before voting, they began to discuss what to do with Putin’s enemies, and they proposed to arrange cleaning in the ranks of his supporters , ready to immediately write each other in the creptive lists.

Enemies were millions. And this is with total control over the press, at the cost of the maximum stress of the administrative resource, as a result of a frenzied intimidation and threat campaign. The vertical of power bent and creaked under unprecedented overloads. But this is not a test of strength - the most ordinary elections that in a democratic country cannot and should not turn into a political crisis. Elections are a way of resolving and preventing crises.

But in such an extreme mode (the president calls it "manual"), one cannot rule the state. This means simply that the regime is ineffective, that he has exhausted himself, was blown away. The country fell off a short leash. It remains to recall the advice of Bertolt Brecht to the leaders of Eastern Germany: if the government does not like the choice of the people, it must dissolve the people and choose a new one.

Among the megabytes of the servile Beliberda, written by the cultural players of Putinism, the text of the classic of the genre is distinguished - the one where Putin is compared with the antique model, and to the disadvantage of the latter: "Putin is undoubtedly the first citizen; he is modest, as Caesar, and even more modestly."

The author of this Panagirik loves parallels from Roman history. In September 1999, next to the uninterrupted ruins of Moscow explosions, he wrote about the Catilin’s conspiracy - then he defended his family and his pamphlet methyl in the leaders of the anteltsian hardware opposition of Primakov and Luzhkov, "from where he got to the elections - the terrorists emerge, frightening the layman of explosions."

Since then, both past conspirators have demonstrated laudable loyalty and the task has changed: if then it was not necessary to bring Putin to power, now by hook or by crook it must be left in power. And again, the story of Rome was used, this time - the political system of the principle .

The principle is a republic in an emergency, a transitional stage to the empire, when the national leader, the only member of the triumvirate (the only candidate of three people), was called as an honorary decorative title Princeps Senatus (the first in the Senate). We are now also convinced that it does not matter what to call the leader: "... will pick up some kind of work to himself. But ... they will not give him at the place of work."

In fact, the present moment is more like the beginning, but at the end of the principle, when before August the problem of the successor and transferring his political heritage to him acutely arose. He personally wrote the “brief course” of his rule - the “act of the Divine Augustus”, where he charged with his opponent “clique” - supporters of his opponent Anthony into a special merit.

If August was returning to Rome to the civilian world and the ideal state system, which reigned to Troubles, to the traditions and moral foundations of his ancestors (the official slogan of his reign was the words Respublica Restituta - the “restored republic”), then his successors returned the country to Augustian idyll. The concept of returning to the " Golden Age " of Augustus became the basis of the Roman social imperial idea for a decade ahead.

In the same way as we are now called to stay where we are - they say, it will not be better and cannot be - in Rome the vertex of social and state development was considered the blessed era of Augustus. At the same time, of course, there was no continuity of political speech. In the Soviet Empire, there was a deity in the form of a mausoleum mummy, but the years of its reign were years of deprivation and trials, but not a golden age. Only when the living memory of the calamities of Bolshevism was almost erased, the time has come for "old songs about the main"; On this wave, Putin came to power persistently imposed on top of nostalgia for a good old scoop. According to this doctrine, the "Golden Age" we have now, and Putin’s successors can only lead society back to the unattainable ideal of the past. After all, it is impossible to imagine that Russia someday in the future will have at least someone equivalent to the current "sun" and "gift of heaven."

The subject of two Roman opuses of one author is different, but their quality one remains unchanged - complete contempt for the people. In both cases, it is called a blame for the live "ink" and "plebs"; In the second, a mention of the rebellion of the Roman tribune of Apuley Saturnin , which issued the law on the distribution of cheap bread, was assigned to the second historical surroundings.

This episode is equated with a recent food jump in food prices: “The battle for cheap fast food for the Russian demos unfolded in the days of the ancient anniversary: ​​exactly 2110 years after the same debate in Rome - about the benefits of low bread prices for the stability of democracy. Which led to the laws of the stands of the Saturnin and, as it turned out later, to the end of the republic.”

Roman plebs is a crowd ready for any atrocities and therefore appealed by cheap bread and spectacles. Recall Juvenal :

"So, I understand, everything is clear. But what is going on

With this crowd? " -" He runs for happiness, as always, hating

Fallen ... "

(Translation by F. Petrovsky)

Since then, the word "plebeians" has become synonymous with the immoral and impudent paraffin. It is necessary to lose any memory of what a conscience is to put people who have suffered from a sharp rise in the cost of food in Russia on one board with Roman plebs. Plebs - these are you, parasites of power, warming like cockroaches on a warm Kremlin stove. Look, they ran up ... Looks, baked.