Victor Shenderovich: "Effect Streisand"

“The story of the first fine for insulting the authorities reminded me of the plot of a ten -year ago. I already talked about him, but it is not a sin to repeat,” writes a satirist and publicist on his Facebook page.

“In the summer of 2008, in the program“ The Cream ”on the Radio of the Echo of Moscow, I called the deputy of the State Duma of the five convocations of Abeltsev“ Animal Yehu ”, with a direct reference to Jonathan Swift. The deputy of the five convocations went to meet my most daring dreams and sued.

Judge Vasyuchenko called, asked to drive up, sign for the agenda.

“Dictate the address,” I said dutifully.

“Write down,” she said. - Zoological street.

God is not Fraer. The next morning, dozens of media joyfully reported about the animal and zoological street.

Abeltsev seemed little. Every day, he and his lawyers injected a quote into the head of the public and achieved huge success in this claim: the "animal of the Abelians" entered the saying. And when in the spring of 2009 the evil deputy again took up his own, the media did not even require the surname, they wrote simply: "The person who threw eggs at human rights defenders was identified-it was Yehu."
Poor Abeltsev - no one warned him of danger!

The English queen was more fortunate. This story was told to me by Roger Lowe, the author of the English "dolls". In one of the issues of the Spitting Image program, a doll, similar to a prominent representative of the royal surname, lay in bed, and between the puppet legs, to the joy of the public, a bunch of fat sausages flowed (a relative of her Majesty appeared on sexual excesses).

The queen called the royal prosecutor and informed him of his decision to sue the program. The prosecutor advised her. He said:

- Your Majesty! They will come to court with sausages.

The queen thought - and decided not to be excited. Smart woman. And the deputy Abelsev is an animal. And President Putin - well, you understand ...

The helpful fool is more dangerous than the enemy, I will notice once again, after the grandfather of Krylov. The unfortunate post about the "fairy tale" read hundreds of people from strength, and a few reposted.

Now, the idiotic efforts of Roskomnadzor, by the way, Putin, perhaps, is not required. It is just right to prohibit the self -sufficient adjective "fairy -tale" ... "