Vladimir Golyshev: Stalin against Beria

Sociological surveys were not conducted in the Gulag. Beria did not think of this. In the Russian "information space" everything is different. "Approval rating" is a compulsory dish in Putin's agitprop. It is not difficult to cook it: a representative man in a white robe appears on the threshold of the hut and asks his inhabitants a simple question: "Well, who is it against it?" Those who did not guess to climb under the bunks answer. The man writes down.

Telephone polls by VTsIOM and other scientific centers, on the basis of which Vladimir Putin is drawn by sky -high "ratings" - the same eggs, only painted. This is not to say that these numbers and curves do not reflect anything. An error in the name. This, of course, is not a "rating of approval and trust" (formulation of the "Levada Center"). Before us is a "coefficient of loyalty to those who did not drop the phone." There are about 30%of them. The rest - throw. It is easy to guess that the numbers obtained in this way reflect, first of all, the degree of intimidation of those who agreed to answer. And the curves coincide with the “general line”: when they begin to “tighten the nuts” on the TV and turn “radioactive ashes” - “rating” grows steadily, in the intervals - slightly sags ...

Now complicate the picture. A person in a white robe asks prisoners: "Would you now have a resignation of the President to send the Prime Minister?" And he offers options: “definitely for”, “rather for”, “rather against”, “definitely against”. Add to this the voice of Efim Kopelyan (t/f "Seventeen Moments of Spring"): "Goering has ceased to be our Goering. He is mired in luxury ..." Of course, the numbers received in this way do not reflect anything at all. Nobody considered Medvedev an independent figure, even when he was the president of Russia. Moreover - now!

Putin cannot simply "break the condition", as Anna Ioannovna did. But does not want to observe

But, unlike nothing meaningful results, the fact of conducting such a survey says a lot. Connecting to the Anti -Medvedevsky campaign of court sociologists is the same as fingerprints on the murder tool. And when "45% of Russians for the resignation of Medvedev" became top nesting for all journalists, when Peskov promised to "carefully study this data", all points over "i" were arranged by themselves ...

Why is Putin "numerous applications of the workers" and boiling "the mind of the indignant"? Can't he just dismiss Medvedev - as he dismissed all his predecessors? It turns out that it cannot.
It seems that in 2011 Medvedev was not cunning when he said: "We will not give power to anyone." The country is not controlled by an autocrat, but by a tandem, which Putin cannot unilaterally destroy. He returned to the presidential chair not just like that, but on certain conditions, two of which are obvious: Medvedev is an inseparable prime minister, Medvedev is the only successor.

Putin cannot simply "break the condition", as Anna Ioannovna did. But does not want to observe. He has other plans for 2018, which Medvedev does not fit. What can be done in these conditions? Only one thing is to change the context. Make the further stay of Medvedev at the premier post to become impossible for the reasons "without Putin." Like, nothing personal - "people demand." At the same time, the Kremlin is not interested in the escalation and expects to get rid of the objectionable prime minister "Low Blood". Therefore, compromising and “indignant mind” are submitted in dosed - in the hope that Medvedev will change his mind and leave “of his own free will”. But he will be stubborn, and you have to add ...

Connecting sociologists is a kind of red trait that the Kremlin has already crossed. But Medvedev does not seem to be intended to give up. In any case, in a statement by his press secretary about the "political order" a threat is clearly heard. It remains only to indicate a direct point to the "Directorate of the Unified Customer", which zealously monitors its "ratings".

“The study was conducted in an initiative order. At our expense. Nobody ordered it to us,” the head of the Levada Center is justified as if we are talking about a commercial order. Or maybe he is right? Maybe Russia is a free country in which brave sociologists violently whip power on their cheeks with uncomfortable numbers, and even more independent journalists are fearlessly publish them?

Vladimir Golyshev - Publicist and playwright

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