Bednov's gaze

You do not cease to be surprised at the sophisticated sophistry and demagogy of the authors of the Pravda of the North-West. So in the issue of September 4 in an article with a pretentious heading "Do not touch Israel!" Oleg Plakhin, deputy chief editor of this publication, decided to demonstrate his, to put it mildly, a kind of views in the national question.

Based on the ordinary, in general, the fact-withdrawal from the election distance of the candidate Gleb Nesanelis, who has Israeli citizenship (he has citizenship at least Zambia or New Zealand, the federal law prohibits a person with foreign or double citizenship), the author decided to contrast the “advanced and progressive” Israel with backward and reactionary residents of Russian residents North-abomine or, in his words, the "Arkhangelsk village."

So, what does our village appear under a lively pen? We quote:

“It is known that the village by its nature practically does not accept the alien. She is a savage. She has practically no need for development, education, cultural and moral evolution. ”

Apparently, neither Mikhail Lomonosov, nor Fedor Abramov, nor Nikolai Kuznetsov, or many other immigrants from the northern village, who became the pride of Russian science, literature, art that glorified their homeland in the battlefields? So should the thought of a journalist understand? Without dwelling on the derogatory characteristics of the inhabitants of the Russian village, the author makes far-reaching conclusions-generalization:

“With the psychology of the village, it is difficult to perceive and borrow something new. Especially if this is new in a particular plan is marked by superiority. The psychology of the village is game and begins to howl in a voice, seeing an foreigner. The psychology of the village is to beat yourself in the chest and proceed with envy.

Is it worth it to condemn it for this? No, the village simply does not have another model of behavior. ”

Note that the Pomeranian peasants were not at all in a curiosity to see foreigners. And at the same time they did not "howl" and did not "have". If the foreigner came with good intentions, they received him as a dear guest. If he appeared as a robber and conqueror, they drove into the neck as medieval Normans (“Murmans”), the British in the Crimean War, diverse interventionists - in civilian. What the Pomors did not have was stupid chauvinism and xenophobia, representatives of various peoples have long been settled here, including those who had foreign citizenship, not feeling any discomfort and respecting local residents. And this respect was mutual. Our countrymen also knew how to perceive and borrow the achievements of other peoples.

Contrasting Israel and the northern Russian village, the author, thereby, regardless of its subjective intentions, provokes xenophobic, anti -Semitic sentiments where there have never been historically. How else to regard such statements as not an attempt to provoke an ethnic and social conflict in one of the most important from the point of view of geopolitics of the regions of the country, in a period of difficult period for the Russian and regional economies, in the days of the election campaign, in addition, in a situation of a sharp aggravation of the international situation in connection with events in Syria?

If the aforementioned author thus decided to lobby for the interests of Israel, then with his rough provocative content the article provides a bear’s service for both the country and its people. It is symptomatic that the material was published on the eve of the Jewish New Year and ten days before the Pomeranian New Year. What is this: political and moral myopia, complete indifference to how the newspaper word will respond or intent to push two peoples on the eve of their holidays with foreheads?

Let me remind you that in the spring of this year, a conviction was sentenced to the Pomeranian public figure Ivan Moseeva for the same word "cattle", written on the Internet forum, which was considered addressed to the Russian people. Here we see several paragraphs insulting the inhabitants of the Russian village.

Whose water is you pouring a mill, gentlemen, proudly calling himself the "truth of the North-West" and "pure truth"? And in whose interests you work, methodically and purposefully engaged in discrediting the leadership of the Arkhangelsk region, directorate of enterprises of the Severodvinsky military -industrial complex, the indigenous population of the region - Russian Pomors, and now the Russian village as a whole? Judging by the series of publications, the only category of the population about the interests of which you bake is “sexual minorities”, solidifying in touching care with “swamp-white” propagandists. The majority of the population of the Russian North are savages for you, incapable of development. Well, to bring down from a sore head to a healthy one - tactics are old as a world. After all, otherwise, it is difficult to name this and a number of other PSZ publications.