The beginning of the end

Remember this day. On March 1, not spring began. The war began. Which will end (God forbid! I do not want it with all my might! I hope for a miracle!) The collapse and the complete collapse of my country.

All this has already been. It was the 80th year. The Soviet Union in which I was born then decided to at the same time hold the Olympics and start a war. The Olympics passed with great success and ended with the triumph of our team. Nobody counted billions of those still old rubles spent on a two -week holiday.

And a little earlier, the Soviet Union began the war in Afghanistan. The war for nothing, the war that no one called us, where our guys fought heroically - but for what?! This war, its thousands of coffins, thousands of cripples, who are still stuck at stations and in the metro. Together with that Olympiad. Together with the arms race, in which we did not have a single chance to catch up with the country, three orders of magnitude more developed. Together with billions of those old rubles spent on the support of countries that will never give us debts and subsequently spit into our backs. All this together will become the beginning of the end of the history of the country in which I was born. In just 11 years, that country will not remain on the map.

Now that situation is different from the current only two things. In 1980 The Olympics began before the war. And the second difference is that today all processes in life go faster. That, the already departed country was much larger and more powerful. Had an incomparably more serious military, economic and purely arithmetic human potential. Now Ukraine is rich in all resources - not part of my former country, but the enemy of my country of the current. But you will not have to wait 11 years.

It is amazing to realize that you live right now inside the history textbook. Which will be written in years - and the children, reading it, will shake their heads. How, they say, they lived then, miserable. But I do not want to live on such historical pages at all. And it is terribly offended to me that most of my compatriots now do not even understand what we have just gotten into - and that we all have to survive.