In the opposition

Above the prejudices

May 19, 2008 Alexey Makarkin

Speaking at a meeting of the National Assembly, Harry Kasparov said that its participants should be higher than the prejudices. It seems that this is one of those political statements that is fully confirmed by practical actions. More recently, radical liberals disdained to cooperate with Black Hundreds, anti -Semites and Stalinists. Now these prejudices are successfully overcome.

When the radical liberals are accused of the fact that for a long time they have been acting together with the “Limonovites”, the answer usually boils down to the fact that the forbidden NBP has not been Stalinist political force for a long time, and the slogan “Stalin, Beria, Gulag” was frivolous, shocking character and has long gone out of use. So you should not refuse to cooperate with the irreconcilable opponents of the regime that can ensure “masses” at protest events (to a large extent this applies to the assembly), due to statements or even software texts, which are currently no longer characteristic. True, Limonov did not dissolve from odious statements, but he is creative, excusable to him.

It seems that such a soft and all-understanding position (which is not peculiar to the Kasparians and their colleagues, when it comes to dialogue with more moderate than they are political forces-here they often demonstrate reinforced concrete intransigence) over time led to a decisive victory with obsolete prejudices. So the Stalinist, the former gekachopist and the current leader of the petty neocommunistic group “CPSU” Oleg Shenin, who is known in the narrow circles of “true communists”, took part in the Assembly (the CPSU, who initiated the abolition of anti -Stalinist decisions of the XX and XXII CPSU Congresses. As well as a whole group of White House protection veterans in 1993, acting under the “Veteran organization 1 Omdpon”. The abbreviation is deciphered as the first separate Moscow Volunteer Regiment of Special Purpose to them. The Supreme Council of the RSFSR-in essence, we are talking about participants in a militarized group, acting on the side of Rutskiy and Khasbulatov, who are still nostalgic for times when, as it seemed, liberals are about to be thrown out of the Kremlin and betrayed the soon and righteous people's court.

However, these exotic allies for the liberal “dim” against the background of another character of the Assembly, which, incidentally, was not just sitting in the corner, but was among the speakers. This is Yuri Mukhin, known as the author of a large number of books on a variety of topics. He believes that after the death of Stalin, the situation with freedom of speech deteriorated sharply, because "in science, criticism of Einstein theory, which went bankrupt by the Weisman genetics and the inglorious died unnecessarily, was not needed by anyone," was officially prohibited. " That “Vavilov and how the scientist was an empty place, and he had no relation to genetics. And the “geneticist” of Vavilov was made by the Jews, they also spit Lysenko. ” That the “real repressions against Zionist anti-Soviet organizations” (referring to the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee) were “absolutely not equal to the reactions of the USSR citizens to Jewish racism”-in other words, they had little imprisoned and executed in the 52nd year. That "Jewish Jews have a property: having settled somewhere, they immediately begin to drag compatriots to themselves, crushing and dismissing everyone else." Etc., etc. (There are many such statements).

Now Mukhin as the leader of a certain “army of the will of the people” - a little -known organization that includes admirers of the above maxims - is an ally of liberals such as Kasparov, Illarions, Ryklin, lords ... However, the latter recently wrote in the “hedgehog” that the liberals should be considered as allies not ideologically close politicians and officials, “employees of the regime and the employees of the regime and officials The regime ”, and“ the same oppositionists and, conditionally, democrats, like us, but adhering to socialist or even national-patriotic views. ” On paper, such a phrase may seem not deprived of persuasiveness. In practice, the abstract “conditional democrat” from among the national patriots turns into such an ally as Mukhin.

You can, of course,, as usual, refer to a regime that strangles freedom and forces the opposition not to disdain when choosing allies. But does this not resemble a situation in which a maniac joins the fighters against police arbitrariness, which also has every reason to be dissatisfied with the employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs? And righteous wrestlers accept into their ranks a new ally, overcoming (possibly not without problems, with serious fluctuations) understandable, but outdated prejudices. You can argue a lot about the fact that supporters of the regime are “non -browned”, but to enter into alliances with a person who incites interethnic strife and poison the consciousness of the readers of their books.

By the way, the closest ally of Mukhin, Valery Smirnov from the front of national salvation (the marginal heir to the once noisy revenge organization of the early 90s), was elected at the Assembly for one of the important posts-the chairman of the Civil Tribunal Committee. The indicated organization should attract democracy stranglers in modern Russia. A very promising activity for such a character.

PS We can say that Mukhin, coupled with Smirnov, are random exceptions, the presence of which in the Assembly, her preferential critics are found, prone to unacceptable reconciliation with the Kremlin. But let's draw attention to the fact that the delegates of this respectable event were members of a certain organization called the All -Union Movement “March 17”, named in honor of the date of the last Soviet referendum of 1991. The recognized leader of this group is Alexander Kharchikov, who specializes in the performance of his own essay. For example: “There is no criminal fascism // Bloody than him, in nature, there is no! // In it - the anger of wars, in it is the hatred of racism, // In it - the cancer of the Russian troubles! ”

In fact, the “seventeenth” movement is a political fan club of fans of the work of this figure. However, if you follow the logic of radical liberals from among the participants of the Assembly, we can say that an implacable attitude to such organizations is also prejudice.