The names of Russia

I might not touch this gone topic, which completed 2008, if not a marvelous case ...

On January second, my dog ​​and I slowly walked each other in the Sokolniki park. The woman who was walking towards the alley smiled and instead of “hello” said like a password: “Frost and the sun are wonderful day!”

And I laughed, because an hour before, breaking through the curtains and seeing this day, he said loudly the same words.

... Still was still an idea for Russia-to choose a name for yourself! Of course, the idea is borrowed - and the British played this toy, and the Germans ... But maybe they had something to argue about, how do I know? And Russia already has a key name - as they say, in fact ...

Pushkin.

We speak the language created by him. His lines and thoughts live in us, and even those who have not reached their thoughts know about "frost and sun." His life is the universe of a Russian man. His death is the dramatic fact of the personal biography of anyone who grew up on these magical fairy tales ... (in fact, I would determine the degree of “Russianness.” Tungus you or Kalmyk, it doesn’t matter. But if Pushkin’s death does not hurt at all - you are meaningless!)

Finally, in the main ones: Pushkin is almost the only thing that unconditionally unites Russians. (What other landmark name, both Prokhanov and Novodvorskaya will subscribe?) And if the meaning of the event were the search for a common moral denominator, support for the country for the future, then it would not be worth guessing: Pushkin, of course.

Only one name is still able to unite and express us: Gagarin! As a symbol of a breakthrough and overcoming ... But a bright smiling name, like an infection, would immediately “sit” with a communist ideology - as if Tsiolkovsky, Zander and Korolev would not raise their heads to the sky without the go -ahead of the CPSU Central Committee ...

No, of course Pushkin! In vain, is it said: “Our everything” ...

But the official event “Name of Russia” had completely different tasks, and the electoral magnetic field for the Putin years was already magnifying in a very specific way. Not a unique culture, not worldwide responsiveness, not moral and scientific breakthroughs ... Frive: Sovereign!

This hefty nail has long been sticking out of the head of the average Russian, scratching the without that low public ceiling.

We will not particularly go into the "Lyubimov" (they are "Churovsky") features of the "election campaign" and the counting of votes; In the end, the readiness for the forgery is also a reflection of our mentality. We will accept the announced results in the aggregate of circumstances - as a diagnosis; Let's look at the short list ...

Half of the first dozen symbolizes imperial hallucinations, Russia's constipation on the bolt and pure bloodletting.

Unearthly beauty List! A killer on a killer, a sadist on a paranoid! Pushkin, far behind Stalin; Ivan the Terrible, who torn, like Tuzik, the heating pad of Alexander the Liberator ... Mendeleev, mentioned by the grateful people, to see, for the invention of vodka - either Tolstoy or Tchaikovsky. At the last moment, they realized and brought to the leaders of Alexander Nevsky (four days before the finish, he went in fourth place).

Now it turned out not so scary, but funny and very symptomatic.

For the “name of Russia” was, of course, not an ambiguous historical prince-collaborator, who entered the Tatar shoulders in Novgorod, so that the “cut of the nose is cut off, and it doesn’t read the eyes of other eyes” (the population of Wikipedias), who appointed Nevsky “numbers of times”, without a doubt, were guided by a stately Cherkasy character. The hero of the Stalinist cinema won, which cleaned the Tuton Tutons, and Blind Europe!

In the thirty -ninth film they put on the shelf (they decided not to annoy the colleague of Ribbentrop). In the forty-first “get up, Russian people ...” sounded truly brilliant ...

Today, the operation of the image looks like a vulgar comedy, but it seems that this does not bother anyone.

The bronze medalist of the competition, Joseph Stalin, has every reason to grin in his famous mustache: by and large, he still won!