Victory!

On my long -long century by Russian average standards, I remember only two such days in Moscow (May 9, 1945 and April 12, 1961). Of course, in one historical series with a great victory in the war with fascism, even the exploits of Yuri Gagarin and Ilya Kovalchuk cannot be put. But the atmosphere of glee, unity, sensations of themselves the great people was the same on the night of May 18 to 19, 2008.

Everything was somehow mystically united - the half -century rivalry of Russia and Canada in the most courageous sport, Canadians - the current world champions, the final on their site, in the third period we lose 2: 4.

It was hard to come up with the best thriller to demonstrate the triumph of the Russian spirit. And that carnival atmosphere of glee, which the country replied to victory, tells us how the people were hungry on the holiday.

It was a very bright holiday. I have not seen so many beautiful, friendly, self -confident faces for a long time. There was no gloating over defeated "enemies", there was pride in victory over a very strong opponent.

How good it would be to maintain this atmosphere of worthy generous self -confidence, the confidence of the winners. The authorities, of course, will do everything to effectively use this victory for its propaganda purposes. And it will be right. Any other power in any other country would have done the same.

But responsible power can do more, it can act generous and wise and try to extend that amazing and rare instant of the unity of the whole people, using its positive energy for the good of the country and for its own good.

Such a step - an animator that ozonizing our society - would be the release of all political prisoners in the near future: Khodorkovsky and its employees, scientists, “spies”, Limonov, Stomakhin, Storchak, Bulbov and many others, especially in regions whose names are not so well known.

Let's try, after our victory, try to open a new page together in our political story. Believe me, this will bring us many more new victories.