The results of the week. Victory and looters

I do not cease to be surprised at the striking squash of the Russian authorities. At her disposal is still a unique resource that allows you to try to unite an almost completely atomized people. The people, deeply indifferent to any calls, including passionate calls for innovation and modernization, still quite sincerely accepts everything that is connected with the Great War and Great Victory. There are many reasons for this, and it has been written about this more than once. In a catastrophic twentieth century, only a victory over a powerful, merciless enemy, which threatened with complete destruction, can become a means of self -identification after 65 years. The general unifying memory of victory is preserved, of course, not in the pompous "events." She is in the history of our families, in honest, without embellishment, her grandfather’s stories about Stalingrad and the forcing of the Dnieper and grandmother’s stories about what was happening in the suddenly empty suburbs in the fall and winter of the 41st ...

And this invaluable resource of rallying Russian power spends completely mediocre. In recent years, victory was primarily used on the foreign policy front. Five years ago, Vladimir Putin managed to play the role of the chief chief of the planet, when all world leaders gathered to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Victory in Moscow, and the then president, as the owner, stood in the foreground. Then, however, I had to free Moscow from residents and visitors, including veterans, but it was worth it. One misfortune, in foreign policy departments, different countries remembered that they sent the presidents and prime ministers to pay tribute to the people who saved humanity, but it turned out that they served as a crowd for Putin V.V. This time they did not repeat this diplomatic mistake. The Kremlin chiefs remained offendedly pursing their lips: we, they say, on a great holiday, do not specifically invite anyone who wants, let him come ...

However, interest in the holiday was strongly lost. This time, everything will be reduced to the parade, during which the world will be reached by military equipment, which (with the exception of the Topol-M and S-400 complexes) was built in Soviet times. A demonstration of military power is achieved by quantity. But they are already trying not to remember the loud promise to provide all veterans housing for the 65th anniversary of Victory. It turned out that although 65 years passed, and there were too many participants in the war, contrary to the hopes of officials. Therefore, they were divided into categories: those who stood in line (whom officials were allowed to put) until March 1, 2005, and others. And besides, if the 90-year-old old man moved, for example, to his daughter, then no housing in Moscow does not shine at all. And what kind of interest to help these old people. Massenings for filming you can no longer compose, too weak. As an electorate, too, are not interesting.

And when the country's top leadership ceased to experience interest in the holiday, he went to the marauders. Those who, in the absence of bosses, decided to quickly use the victory for their small divisions. This crowd of looters has its own grands like the Moscow mayor, who had a scandal, announcing the intention to decorate the city with portraits of Stalin. Faced with the obvious prospect of dismissal, Luzhkov deftly hid behind the backs of veterans. Now it turned out that they would not be fired for theft, but for an attempt to observe historical justice.

The same Marauder and the domestic Oscar -Minor. Nikita Mikhalkov chose a Victory Festival in order to quickly report $ 55 million in a waste. Pioneers and military personnel are driven to view quite obvious hack. I admit that paying for “patriotic” movie shows will force entrepreneurs.

And here, smaller loamers come into business. A huge number of small officials forces businessmen to “arrange” shops, workshops, offices in a solemn way. Moreover, only a few “recommended” firms are entrusted to carry out the process of design. It turns out that the decoration of one “point” costs not 10,000 rubles, but 45,000. The leader of the Kremlin Gopota needed to take scores with the Echo of Moscow radio station. And then the Khunveibins are quit a picket, supposedly in order to stop the insult of veterans.

All this is a host of looters deeply spit on victory. That is why, with such indifference, they even perform what the businessmen had bought out of the businessmen for. That is why in festive calendars and postcards are the Wehrmacht soldiers. That is why the governor of the Tyumen region congratulates veterans "honestly working in the rear of the enemy." In fact, what to fuss - everything is paid. You can get the old people and not so much. The victory went to the marauders.

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