Emigration is death

Director Konstantin Bogomolov on the website of RIA "Novosti" writes :

“Emigration from the country is not just leaving the territory. This is leaving time. This is the departure from the present. From reality. Because the authenticity of time can only live on its land. In its space. <...>

How to understand us living that it is impossible to break with the past without becoming dead.

And it is impossible to leave the country and at the same time continue to understand and feel it.

That the native land is not an abstraction. Not an image. That the homeland is a native person. Motherland. Mother Earth. The concept that the European is losing behind the endless erasure of all sorts of boundaries. The concept that still lives in a Russian person.

That is why a Russian person does not think of voluntary emigration. He thinks his homeland not as a social project or boss, who must solve everything for you, but as a native person. And he cannot voluntarily abandon the homeland. Relatives. Animals. Work. Friends. Plants that need to be watered. Puffing books. And other and other ...

As it cannot participate in the destruction of the homeland, regardless of the circumstances.

Of course, if he is really Russian.

More precisely, if he is a person. Because this sense of homeland is not national. It is human. And as a person is not given two lives, there will be no two homelands.

Because the homeland is life. And emigration is death.

And death, like life, must be lived with dignity. ”