A summer holiday

June 12-Russia's Day-never became any noticeable holiday. Most Russians perceive it as an additional weekend, which this year is especially happy, since it came on Monday. So, you can extend a pleasant stay in the country for a day. And to compensate for the resent that the day off was canceled on May 2, when the time of field work in six hundred gardens. By the way, this decision caused, perhaps, among the Russian population, much more and mass rejection than the transfer of the November weekend from the 7th to the 4th number - the cancellation of the main communist holiday did not affect the summer house.

Why is the main holiday of the country - and the day of Russia is largely “copied” from the American day of independence - causes for the most part heat -dumped or irritated reactions? With annoyed, everything is clear. People who have lost from the Yeltsin reforms, who lost their life prospects and Sberbank savings, who fell into a kind of stupor, from which they have not been able to get out of a decade, do not experience and cannot experience any warm feelings for this holiday. But many of those who have not lost or even significantly won from the Russian Reformation of the late 80s and early 90s have no enthusiasm without enthusiasm. And there are explanations for this.

Firstly, the very oddity of the event with which the celebration of June 12 is directly related is the adoption of the Declaration on the sovereignty of Russia. When the founders of the United States accepted their declaration of independence on July 4, 1776, they had in mind independence from the UK. In Mexico, they celebrate the day of the proclamation of independence from Spain (September 16, 1810), in Ghana-Independence Day from the UK (March 6, 1957), on the islands of San Tome and Principia-the day of the proclamation of independence from Portugal (July 12, 1975), etc. It is clear that the former metropolis is not mentioned in the official names of the holidays, but all citizens are well aware that they perfectly understand that they are well aware that they perfectly understand that It was on this day that the colonial governor was officially replaced by the local president or other boss. The governor collected things and drove to his country, accompanied by either curses or sighs of relief - depending on the specific situation.

In Russia, it is very difficult to explain from whom independence was achieved. From the USSR? But this is the same Russia, only with the territories connected in accordance with the Nistadt, Kyuchuk-Kainargian, Yasky, Molotovo-Ribbentrop and other agreements and secret protocols. And the president of the country, having left the Kremlin, did not move around the sea, but to the Leningradsky Avenue to the Foundation of his name, remaining a Russian public figure (which is confirmed by the current role of the Nobel Laureate as a minority shareholder of Novaya Gazeta). Independence from the tyrannical empire? But she did not particularly interfere with one successful people - on the contrary, the presence of an iron curtain that worked in Vneshotorg gave special significance - how, he goes to work in Kapstran, and his neighbors - at best for two -week rest in Bulgaria. Now this exclusivity is broken - even the lower middle class can scrape into a ten -bit Egyptian hotel or a bus tour of Europe.

Others do not even remember that they owe their success not only to their own efforts, but also by reforming politicians, whose activities are directly related to the day of June 12. New myths about the Brezhnev Empire are being created, in which, they say, only a few dozen dissidents were sitting in prisons (which is not recognized as a big trouble in our human rights country), and there were no special problems for self -expression and free life. In general, people generally tend to quickly get used to good and perceive it for granted - the “bulldozer exhibition” and the collective readers of “Malaya Earth”, study at meetings and the Andropov mass capture of poor fellow who visited the baths and hairdressers are practically forgotten. Therefore, an understanding of the significance of Russia's breakthrough to democracy, if not completely absent, is at least significantly “lubricated”.

There is another problem-discrediting almost all the iconic figures associated in the public consciousness with the events of the early 90s, including the declaration of sovereignty. Imagine a solemn meeting dedicated to a significant day for a minute, and Yeltsin, Khasbulatov, Rutskoy are sitting nearby in the presidium ... They are not only unpopular, but also became irreconcilable enemies, bringing the case to the Civil War in the center of Moscow. The founding fathers Hamilton and Jefferson, although they argued to hoarseness about the ways of developing America (they were also living people, and not idols from banknotes of $ 10 and $ 2), but they did not reach the fir. And when Hamilton nevertheless shot with Vice President Barr, the case was purely private, duel, concerning only two gentlemen. In Russia, private conflicts often develop into public battle, in which, ultimately, even the winners lose.

Therefore, it is not surprising that the holiday of June 12, as was a purely “summer day”, remained. A really difficult question will be faced with our citizens if one of the Favorite ideas of the deputy Mitrofanov is realized - to transfer the weekend from June 12 to April 12, paying tribute to the Gagarinsky flight. On the one hand, in April you can already go to the country - not winter still. On the other hand, suddenly, frequent in our climate at this time of the year: in this regard, June 12 is not more reliable for summer cottages. However, so far no one is going to turn the Mitrofanov initiative into the law, so this question is purely theoretical.