Prince and Nietzsche

The West thought about the mystery of the Russian soul of the throne

The agency of the Russian soul is the following domestic product after oil and gas, which is well sold in the West. The market is secured, there are no competitors - by the ability to make a riddle to the rest of the world, and also, unlike the Fermi theorem, no one can compare with us.

From the end of the last century, Western rationalism has unsuccessfully tries to penetrate the meaning of two more Sharades of the Russian Sphinx. The first, of course, is a new war in Chechnya. This time, the West is no longer even marked by the fact that the Russian government again sends the army for the “final solution” of the Chechen problem. After the thirty -year Caucasian war, the Stalinist deportation and the first Yeltsin attempt to “put the constitutional order there” in the West are already accustomed to the fact that Chechnya for Russia is that Bangladesh for Vasily Ivanovich, which he endlessly tears and combs.

Surprising the reaction of society. During the first Chechen campaign of the Kremlin, it showed the natural reflexes of a normal living organism - the ability to resent and compassion, forcing Yeltsin to reverse, so that after the war lost, not lose the elections. Why four years later in the same country, in order to win, the new president needs a new war, it is difficult for foreigners to understand. As well as why she applauds her by a political elite lads, who knows perfectly what methods the Russian army “cleans” Chechnya and what price, measured in lives, new ruins, gaps in the economy and the loss of the remnants of international authority, pays the country for this.

Of course, it is not difficult to brush off from Western indignation, we were taught a class enemy to be a fight off in a Soviet school. The most familiar answer: do not teach us to live, all the more to live in Russia. And although the blacks in America are no longer linked, your Vietnam and your Algeria are in our memory, and the bombing of Kosovo and Belgrade is before your eyes. In addition, Chechnya, as you know, is our inner, not your dog business.

The answer is convincing, there is nothing to cover it to the West, except to recall that he left his colonial troops in the last century, and he sent ground forces (along with the Russian contingent) to Kosovo not to fight, but to monitor the fulfillment of the achieved political agreement. And how much comfort for us is that we behave in our own house no better than those colonialists and NATO aggressors, who have recently condemned with such a surface ardor?

How many victims and new ones promised by the prime minister of blown up houses will be needed by the controversial and deaf to other people's suffering to realize that he would drive him under the drum patriotic battle straight along the Military Caucasian road either to the Yeltsinsky, or in the Stalinist past?

This is one of the Russian riddles.

There is another - the future Russian president. Although, unlike the next American, his name is known in advance, for the West, as well as for most of his own fellow citizens, he remains a mask man. Like a special forces fighter. What can you do, the profession obliges. It is only known that this person without a political past has a dizzying political future, otherwise, would the provincial princes and metropolitan boyars began to swear with such an enthusiasm, and people from the creative workshop would not strive to snuggle with a cheek to the boot.

Feeling an outstanding rise in the popular love for the new supreme ruler of Russia, who must provide him with a blessed coronation, and the Western messengers were hurrying to Moscow. The prince has not yet become a king, but got a nuclear button, and it makes sense not only to get to know him better, to raise the edge of the mask, but also to try to influence his political and professional education, to bring to him the realities of the world and the centuries in which Russia will have to exist whether it wants it or not. And at the same time, taking into account the upcoming, if the change of Russian government is no longer held, to clarify for yourself some damned “Russian questions”. For example, where will the double -headed Russian eagle be mowed by an eye - west towards the IMF or east in the direction of China? It is clear that, going for loans, you will have to shoot a uniform and change into a civilian European dress. You can walk at home in the clothing that is not embarrassed. Already now, from the point of view of political customs, Russia under the pen with Belarus is increasingly moving towards Asia, borrowing both the experience of the elections, and the technology of power from the leaders of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenbashi.

Another question is, what will happen to the Russian economy? Apparently, the West, apparently, does not intend to finance the continuation of the protracting Chechen war from the IMF pocket. As for the further course of Russian “reforms”, to understand the advice of which of their current political friends - Chubais, Berezovsky or Seleznev - the future president will be relied by, the task is clearly inaccessible to Western analysts. How the dialectics of the Russian throne -offeries are also incomprehensible to them: in a country where the issue of private ownership of land plots has not yet been resolved, the president, by a testamentary order, can transfer a whole country to his chosen one.

The main thing is that foreign observers peering into the political fog of Russia strive to understand who actually controls the Russian “three” and where it rides: in which direction, in which century. Does this country move with the rest of the world from the twentieth century or prefers according to the rooted folk tradition and, following its own calendar, stubbornly celebrate the new old age with the old New Year?