Estonian Chernogorov

On the day that the Estonian president vetoed the law, which for brevity can be called the “Bronze Soldier Demolition Law,” messages on a similar topic began to flow from a completely opposite and unexpected place. After studying them, I asked myself: who is the Estonian here? Because the governor of Stavropol Chernogorov was deprived of the title of honorary citizen of Stavropol precisely for the reason why we want to fight Estonia to the death. I don’t even remember anyone being deprived of such a valuable title, let alone the current governor!

Briefly - for those who do not know - I will remind you of the outline of events. In Stavropol there was a monument to the dovator heroes, in other words, war heroes. And at first they wanted to move this monument. Under the pretext that he is standing in the wrong place and is interfering with transport. And then, instead of moving it, they simply demolished it. Doesn't remind you of anything? No events in neighboring states?

All this happened back in the summer. But they remembered right now. Moreover, they remembered it on one of the state channels. They drew parallels with this neighboring country and branded the Stavropol mayor and local deputies. Chernogorov also branded them. As you understand, in the story of the Bronze Soldier, in the story of the dominator heroes, the war and its heroes are just a background and a pretext. Just Chernogorov from United Russia. And Mayor Kuzmin represents “ZhiRoPen”. But don’t put your finger in his mouth either.

A miracle happened! Civil society, the destruction of which we so mourn, suddenly showed itself in the Stavropol region. They called a meeting. 1048 people. I still didn’t understand what kind of gathering it was, but only local deputies, and microdistrict authorities, and “elders” were there. And they brought out the “black box”. In the box there is a film on which the insidious Chernogorov himself personally proposes to demolish the monument! Here the people boiled over and reminded the governor of all the “good” that he had managed to do in his post, including the benefits of honorary citizenship, on which Chernogorov had saved a fair amount.

And these thousand-plus people, by voting - 2 against and 8 abstaining - deprived Chernogorov of honorary citizenship under the formal pretext of demolishing the monument to war heroes. That is, the people imposed their popular veto on the governor. They say that this meeting consisted entirely of supporters of Mayor Kuzmin and fans of ZhiRoPeni. But, nevertheless, these were not students dismissed from classes, and not pensioners who came in exchange for sausage, but the entire Stavropol establishment. And 1038 out of 1048 voted “for” is a lot in any case.

And people have no other ways to express their public opinion. How can citizens project a civil society? You can't re-elect a governor anymore. Therefore, the way is opening to new forms of protest and manifestation of public opinion. Boycott, refusal to shake hands or shake hands, deprivation of city citizenship, burning an effigy or chaining a dummy of an official to a pillory with a sign of negative content around the neck.

Only one question remains unclear: what about the monument to the heroic donors? At first it was not clear whose fault the stele rotted. Then, by unknown order, it was demolished. Today, all authorities have sent inquiries about each other’s malicious activities. They also have elections soon.

But there would be no elections and no one would remember about the monument. Just as in Estonia they wouldn’t remember about the Soldier. The difference is that in Estonia the monument still stands, but in our country it has already been destroyed. They have a veto, and we have a veche.