Basics for those lagging behind

Russian Efimova, booed in the Olympic pool, is a victim of propaganda. The American athletes who refused to congratulate her on her medal behaved like beasts.

These simple Ostankino postulates from the text by Alexei Osin seem to be absolutely shared by the majority of Russians - and this brings us back to the need to return to the desk in elementary school: we must repeat the basics.

Well, let's start from the very beginning, my little ones.

So. Cheating is not good (your parents should have told you this). Anyone caught cheating, and caught more than once, acquires a bad reputation, and other children, having encountered such a bully in the common sandbox, have the right to turn away from him and not want to play with him.

They are not brutes. The beast is the one who insults people for their unwillingness to have common games with deceivers.

Moreover, if there are a hell of a lot of deceivers, and all of them, having been caught, as if nothing had happened, are now pretending that they are in chocolate, and all around are enemies who dream of humiliating their great country, whose intelligence services have learned to substitute urine.

Whistling from the stands is the response of normal people to the smell of this urine. The presence in their home of someone they would not like to see. That's all.

Children! If we want people to want to play with us, so that when we appear, they don’t whistle from the stands, and our outstretched hand doesn’t hang in the air, there are two ways to achieve this goal.

The first is to occupy them all, plant a diuretic agent from the Russian special services next to each sports fan and tell them to rejoice in the tricolor. This path seems unattainable for now.

The alternative path is quite achievable, but requires serious effort, mostly mental.

We must try to return from the cozy darkness to the real world, children. Face the truth - and feel personal shame about what you saw. Agree with each other that cheating is not good. Don't wink while doing this. Break the mutual responsibility. Punish the deceivers yourself. Apologize loudly and unequivocally. Confirm the vector change more than once, not twice. And then...

I was daydreaming about something.

Sorry, children, for distracting you from the patriotic picture of the world. I won't do this again. Now I’ll close the door on the other side and start talking to myself like a schizophrenic.

It's safer that way, by the way.

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They don't like the whistling, do they? Think about it.

Citizens of a country that for a decade and a half (with general delight and consent) has been led by a group of proxies of the Tambov organized crime group, a country that has started several wars, annexes foreign territories and practices unpunished political murders... - these citizens, you see, are frustrated by the whistling from the Olympic stands ! They are offended by the bad attitude towards this country of theirs! Well, you have to.

What’s interesting is that I’m also offended. Despising my Fatherland from head to toe, I, following the classic, feel annoyed when a foreigner shares this feeling with me...

But there is nothing Pushkin in that frustration and that typical federal aggression that Alexei Osin so clearly conveys in his text. Zero reflection. Not a shadow of paradox, not a grain of mental effort. Only gloomy and simple, like the mooing of “ours are being beaten.”

They beat. And they do it right.

Photo: Brazil. Rio de Janeiro. August 9, 2016. Russian athlete Yulia Efimova (silver medal) and American athletes Lillian King (gold medal) and Katherine Miley (bronze medal) (from right to left) during the award ceremony for the winners of the women's swimming competition at a distance of 100 meters breaststroke at the XXXI Summer Olympic Games. Zuma/TASS