A dying sin

On the night of March 4 to 5, 1953, a negligible part of the Soviet people, dreaming of getting rid of the monster, for the first time in many years, if not decades, looked into the distance, having heard tragic words on the All-Union Radio about the leapness of the leader, who was erupted from the weakened chest of the leader, while the great Soviet people refused to believe the hearing and was preparing to beat in the heated. hysteria, ride on the floor and choke in the queue to look at the cold body for the last time.

There was simply no other way to get rid of the cannibal except physiological. It’s like in an ancient fairy tale about a dragon: he lives in a cave, lives, rape girls, eats children, maybe he will choke and die.

The situation is similar to Hugo Chavez. The Venezuelan dictator, who intended for oil money to build socialism in the state entrusted to him, can hardly come to his senses after a difficult oncological operation and cannot even come to Karakas at the ceremony of his own inauguration. But the president remains: as they say, mentally with you. It does not occur to the chavez itself, exhausted by a terrible disease, it does not occur to his associates to let his deadly ill person rest. Someone will say that this is a rare courage-unless you imagine your own father, husband or brother, who, a week after the operation, needs not to lie in bed and take medicines, but to expose for hours on protocol ceremonies, sign documents, hold meetings, meetings and negotiations. Would you think that this is courage? No, you would definitely understand that this is suicide, that this is insanity. And they would never believe in the rationality and verification of decisions made in a similar state.

To the one who still believes that “strong hand” or “controlled democracy” is better than ordinary democracy, I would advise to follow the difficult fate of Hugo Chavez, who canceled all restrictions for being in power, only to satisfy his manic ambition and greed. He leaves a ruined country without a steering wheel and without a windbreak in the hands of the rogue and for its future - a stable future - will not give a broken penny itself. Therefore, it does not leave.

Well, you say, have you have been sick presidents in democratic countries? Of course, there were. Even in our memory. President Ronald Reagan, for example, modified his second term when he was already beginning to suffer from Alzheimer's disease. President Francois Mitteran until the last day of staying on the post of head of state did not report oncological disease. But both politicians were precisely that they completed their stay in power. None of them would have occurred to a run for the next period - even if there was a constitutional opportunity - to spend it in a hospital bed. Both Reagan and Mitteraran showed precisely that courage, having finalized the mandate - was respect for both himself and the presidential institute. And Chavez ran for the next term, already deadly ill - and lied to the fellow citizens about his recovery. And there is an obvious difference in this - however, well familiar to the Russians.

Authoritarian rule always ends with insanity primarily because it is continuous and irremovable. Energetic young people come to power, who in their absurd desire to rule forever, in their paranoid identification of themselves and the state simply do not notice any diseases or old age. And Grandfather Putin, and grandfather Lukashenko, and grandfather Nazarbayev, and other post -Soviet old people think of their energetic young leaders - but their youth has long been behind. If a system of replacement of the authorities really worked in post -Soviet countries, these people would be honorable - or not so - pensioners, senators or presidents of funds. And so their subjects can only measure the levels of insanity on the political thermometer, realizing that this breath of Chain-Koksa will never end.