Roman march

On “Russian marches”, photographers usually seek - and easily find - Roman salutes (in the exposure of “Zigi”). Such pictures are called upon to prove the “Nazi” nature of these events. However, this is too trivial and stretched explanation - the nationalist sentiments here, of course, are boil, but far from reaching classical Nazism with its brutal unambigence. However, the hands of the marching are still stretching - and it can be noticeable in the eyes that even involuntarily ... The meaning of these spontaneous gestures is easier and deeper at the same time - the archetype of the Roman Empire is really manifested in the “Russian marches”. Its last times ...

When Moscow appropriated the brand of the Third Rome, it seemed to it a global triumph. Alas, political technologists of those years have not yet recognized the historical law on the inevitable collapse of all empires. And they built Russia according to the canons of the Roman Empire-with one "eternal city" in the middle and the "province" surrounding it with immense hands. The Novgorod Republic that did not fit into this standard was destroyed, and since then the meme has become in use: "The Russians need a king."

The Russian authorities are still holding on it. The perfect election slogan: "If not Putin, then who?" The opposition is trying to keep up - and chooses its own leaders who are called to "coordinate".

Why don't we remember the names of the Novgorod Posadniks? Because over several centuries of the existence of this republic, hundreds of them were replaced, and free citizens did not particularly sought to take this position. She burdened her responsibility, but did not provide for any “sacred” halo. Moreover, they could have drowned for corruption in Volkhov ... The power in this veche republic was indeed in the service of the people - and this abruptly breaks other common memes, such as the fact that "Russia has not grown up to democracy."

However, imperial Russia, perhaps, has not grown up. The fact is that in the era of the Novgorod Republic the name "Russia" itself has not yet been. And, by the way, the Novgorod Nevsky title to Alexander Nevsky, who deserved in 2008, “indicated the path” three times, expelling him from the city for attempts to usurpation of power. In 2009, the official PR managers came up with a sonorous, as it seemed to them, a slogan for the regional brand: “Veliky Novgorod is the birthplace of Russia.” But if we draw historical analogies, it sounds like “Constantinople is the birthplace of the Ottoman Empire” ...

The evil irony of fate also befell the elder Philofei, who is attributed to the authorship of the "Third Roman" doctrine. Almost immediately, after Novgorod, Moscow troops ruined his native Pskov (Pleskovskaya) Republic. Filofei himself still managed to unsubscribe to Vasily III: “Do not be able to Zlato and wealth” - but the empire, which entered the Messianic taste, did not want to hear her prophet ...

The current "Russian marches" can really be called fascist. Only not in the propaganda sense, where this word became only a abusive label, but in the original, from Roman fascia . In the ideology of these marches, judging by the many movements presented there, everything is intertwined-the patriotism of the tsarist and Soviet, the national socialism and the national democracy, the borely-bearing Orthodoxy and the Putin protection. Plus, some hysterically unhealthy propaganda of a “healthy lifestyle”.

This ideological synthesis, or rather, syncretism is designed to justify and heroize any part of imperial history. And under the kings there was a great power, and the Bolsheviks revived her, and now she rises from the knees. And the Russian mission, as the Council on Interethnic Relations under the President of the Russian Federation established , is to be “unifying people”.

This is a very characteristic wording that again refers to ancient Rome. At his sunset, the Roman nation also no longer possessed any its own identity, except for the empire’s self -holding. Therefore, in the end, naturally and stalled into many new European nations, which began to realize themselves independent subjects of history, and not imperial “provinces”.

Today, such an awareness of their interests is increasingly taking place in the Russian regions. Observing this, imperial power usually shouts about “separatism”, although the regions do not at all strive for the very intensite “decay”, but on the contrary, they establish direct connections and learn to coordinate their actions. An alternative to the “Russian” “march of the regions” , held in Omsk and Nizhny Novgorod, was a very indicative event of this year. But if in Siberia he went relatively calmly, then in Nizhny he was brutally dispersed by the police.

There is also an angry irony of history - 400 years ago, it was the Nizhny Novgorodians who gathered a folk militia to restore Russian power in the Kremlin. And so she thanked them ...