Who cares?

He went to Bolotnaya, returned, climbed into the computer - and there is still the same crap: how many people were; What numbers the police give and how it really was; comparable photos; We checked according to the scheme; There were tens of thousands of us ... My friends, what difference? For many objective and subjective reasons, many people could not be in the square. And the people were really few. Of course, not eight thousand, as the police lied, but usually she lies with a coefficient of 1: 4, and this time her lies were not so shameless.

But for me it does not have the slightest meaning. The number of participants and the struggle for accurate statistics were important when everything only began in December 2011. Today it is clear that the rallies and processions themselves have lost their former meaning and the mass does not play a role on them. I’ll tell you honestly: I have not heard what they said from the rostrum. And it is unlikely that speech were heard somewhere beyond the first rows. But when I came home, I did not climb to listen and re -read. All words have long been spoken. All speakers and all theses are known. Throats are torn, telnias are torn on the chest. The meaning is not that. For me, it was not in civilian, but in a simple human action: people sat down, on the one hand, for nothing, but on the other, they sat down for us. And we come at the appointed time at the appointed place in order to show with our presence that we appreciated their victim, that we are mentally with them.

I came and thereby fulfilled my duty. My old comrade came with me, and we were pleased to meet here, as we met in the marsh in the winter of the 11-12th. We acted as the conscience prompted. And the number of other arrivals was secondary.

In general, this time there was a reason to gather. How he was and when I went to march against the scoundrels this winter. So it is necessary to gather from now on - for extremely important reasons. And just walk and speak, chewing the same slogan chewing gum, I see no sense.

I also think that our further protest actions in principle will be somehow connected with an individual conscience and a sense of disgust in relation to how and in what we live. Let everyone be honest in its place - this is what we can do.
While the power is tight. So far, most of it is enough. The opposition really had no sufficient stock of strength, nor program, nor leaders. There are a group of decent and caring people, but they do not know what to do and what to do. Something similar, in general, was worth expecting. And at the moment, the scenario of the change of power is unlikely to me. When an ineffective economy begins to collapse before our eyes, when the social and communal system cracked at all seams, when the prices of our natural resources fall below the level that allows you to plug holes in the budget, then the understanding of the deepest ass will come to the heads of the “creative” class and iPhone, but also to the head of the “common people”. Then everything will change. I would like to believe that with minimal bloodshed.

Photos of Maria Olendskaya / Hedgehog