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Hello, North Korea!
I can’t say that this plot struck me greatly. Rather, on the contrary, it was brought from him by something deeply familiar, as if related to ancient instincts. In Sochi, employees of the FSB border service were detained by the crew of the American television channel HBO, the one that is famous for the series “Game of Thrones”. This unimportant event happened in the village of Veselny, which is not far from the Olympic Park. Why was they detained? Yes, for a very simple reason: because suspicious foreigners shot something. But the border is nearby. And where the border is, there the clouds go frowned and the enemy put a barrier. Something like that ...
True, I could not immediately remember what border passes nearby? Yeah, with Abkhazia, which seems to be going to join Russia and where Russia supplies weapons and agents. Still, however, there really is Türkiye across the sea. There is a real enemy. He knocks down Russian peaceful bombers who fly there in their anti -terrorism affairs. However, this is all only across the sea. That is, from the point of view of spatial geometry, the distance to hostile Turkey from the village of Veseloy and from the hotel room, for example, Pullman is approximately the same, which is why the difference can be neglected. From the point of view of logic, both from there, and from here you can equally give a sign to which a submarine with spies and saboteurs will sail in the village of Veselny. Moreover, it is even more convenient to give from the hotel window it is even more convenient, because it is really close to the shore, and the village is cheerful - a little deeper ...
The border guards, however, have another logic. In Russia, the border runs literally everywhere. And, of course, they were not afraid of submarines with spies. After all, in general, the Olympic Park in general, where, in theory, in good weather, clouds of foreigners with handkerchiefs, flags and cameras should walk in good weather, sending secret signals at least submarines, at least satellites into space, even green little men. In general, to be honest, absolutely everyone in Russia understands that if there is a goal to turn the depressed region into a machine for tourist fees, to recapture costs, then this is, as it were, the regime of secrecy and hostility to everything foreign. Despite the fact that in the civilized world no one has long been catching foreign tourists on the borders - not in Venice, where you swim on a submarine - I do not want, neither on the border between France and Belgium, nor where the allies landed during the Second World War. Moreover, in Russia it is imagined to many that it will soon become a tourist Mecca of all progressive humanity, in anticipation of which billions of nesting dolls and balalaikas, duplicates of Faberge eggs are made and churches are built - real and cardboard , square kilometers of tiles are laid.
No, our post -Soviet border guards are afraid of completely different. By tradition, they are afraid not so much saboteurs as it was informed with a movie camera, which can remove some anti-Russian dirty tricks. He will remove it, and then over it will be fun in the evil West. This is what our border guards are afraid of.
And you don’t have to go far behind the curtains. For example, a good dirty trick about the fact that after the Olympics are empty apartment buildings in the manner of a zombie apocalypse or "as if he had killed everyone a mysterious virus." It is very funny, just for the "Games of Thrones". You can add a malicious political comment here. Like, the new Russian does not want to live in boring under the supervision of the FSB. He is no longer allowed to Spain in Spain, and Sochi is not an alternative, too in sight. And this means that state money was wasted or stolen, and the entire pairs of the Putin’s economic miracle went into the beep of the Putin armored train. So our border guards guard not so much the border that passes literally on anywhere in the country as a kind of terrible anti-bourgeois secret of the boys-kibalchis that the mess in Russia is invincible. Who knows superfluous, he will say that enemy.
In the system of totalitarianism, it’s generally more important not what , but how . The camera in the hands of the dissident can peep at all not what is in the hands of the faithful. And this greatly reminded me of the episode of my distant youth, when they gave me a narrow -minded movie camera and I decided to go to shoot a May Day demonstration. I seemed to suspect that someday there would be no them and all this would become a story. So my loved ones, especially the young wife, got up with a wall so that I would never go, since all this, in their opinion, was very dangerous. After all, it is one thing when all these load -bearing placms are removed by the same joyful plague peasant, and another - when a stinging long -haired type in black glasses. This will surely notice and notice! And the most curious thing is that they really almost swept me. And now this is a glorious past, which has never been special nostalgia, breaks into the present. Like "Hello, North Korea!"
Not only do our cinematographers-investoists have handcuffed and took them into the hobby-they were only in entertainment, visited the Jurassic Park! But at the same time, the Russian blogger-translator, which is somewhat more serious, because everyone applies to the ladder. He, apparently, objected and was indignant, for which he was given five days of arrest and a thousand rubles of a fine in court , supposedly for disobedience to the “legal requirements of the police” under Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (“violation of the established procedure for organizing or holding a meeting, rally, demonstration, procession or picket”).
It is appropriate to recall again that when this odious article in the Code of Administrative Offenses appeared, many anti -Dyuman comedians joked that now, for a family campaign in the Sokolniki park, a bureaucratic resolution would probably be required for “procession”, and for drinking beer with shrimp in the circle of friends as a “meeting”. However, the malice of the day is not very different, since our blogger-translator was only in the fact that he arranged an unauthorized collection of resort landscape with the subsequent unauthorized march to another landscape. An interview in the Jurassic Park is also not welcome . As a result, he legally paid. Not much, but the dashing trouble has begun. So the joke about North Korea is also eventually, it may cease to be a joke. In any case, even today she has very much lost in her metaphoricality.
Photo by Oleg Porokhovnikov and Nikolai Adamovich/TASS
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