Let his wife get worried

Anatoly Shot - about the Ukrainian Revolution

The Ukrainian February Revolution is a double -purpose revolution or double origin, it, respectively, is on double traction. Firstly, this is an anti-criminal revolution. This is a protest against the authorities of the Party of Regions, the native sister of the Russian party of crooks and thieves. People of the Party of Regions got primarily entrepreneurs, including rather large ones. Having come to power, with the seizures of pure criminals began to rob and crush everyone in a row. It is no accident that every fourth on the Maidan is an entrepreneur or something like that. I would like to see the Russian newspaper or the screen of the state -owned direction, which would clearly and more than once informed its viewers and readers - that, among others, entrepreneurs have rebelled - the most proud, bold and competent of them. These are almost exclusively people with higher education.

Yanukovych, his sons and their friends captured the country in captivity and began to do with her what they wanted. My mother said: what they want is being done. This is the shortest and most capacious of the definitions of Soviet power and its personnel, their manner and psychology. The very essence. What they want and do without any regard to the law and decency. The power of this type is also called the occupation. In this situation, cops, prosecutors and judges were overwhelmed. The country almost turned into a camp zone with a Pahanat not in a figurative, but literally. That is why this revolution is called anti -criminal. It would be more precise - anti -communal. Donetsk, as Yanukovych’s personnel, tried to establish an occupation regime in Ukraine. Now he seems to be out of the blows of the revolution and under the weight of his atrocities.

Secondly, this is a national liberation revolution . We can say that this is a continuation of the national liberation revolution, which was the 2004 Maidan. The Party of Yanukovych, being in power, canceled, so to speak, state construction. She seemed to forget - and really forgot! - What exists, in any case, must exist and develop, strengthen the state called Ukraine. The country began to turn into a continuous margin. Surzhik is neither one, nor Ukrainian, nor Russian. Something universal, noilistic. The point is not that they began to crush Ukrainians or raise Russianness, but there was no terrible, heartless, dull sovity. In everything. It turned out that people feel it, it acts oppressively on them. They cannot express in words what was the matter, but with their feet, when they had to, they expressed them : they went out to the Maidan, their legs themselves carried them out. I wanted a state in which there would be order, law, state dignity, culture of statehood, in general some kind of culture. Ukrainian -speaking and Russian -speaking organically united in the effort to become, finally, a normal European state, to interrupt the process that the ruling power under the slogan expanded: "Uteo will be the Donbass."

We say: a revolution, but it must be borne in mind that units create it, in general. Units, but these are personalities. What are several thousand people for almost fifty million? It turned out that it could be power, and very large, decisive. Once again, you will think about the role of personality in history. We saw what the role of only a few thousand personalities can be. There is a concept: a creative minority. Here is a heroic minority. Heroic and, of course, creative. The personnel of the party in the power in Ukraine was not ready to die. They want to live. We rushed west. The planes in the sky above Kyiv became crowded. Whoever cannot escape far, clogs into the holes. They run around the winners. Thousands of those who were yelling: “Uro will be the Donbass!”, Having reached Kyiv, where they were driven so that they showed two to three hryvnias there, how the people support Yanukovych, they are already turning back at the station and directly say why they don’t want to go to the city: it turns out, they must die. And they have a hotsz to live. And in Kyiv - a handful of people who are ready to die and die. Why did Chechnya win? And not only won, but forced Moscow to pay tribute to her, and Moscow regularly pays. Because in Chechnya there were enough people who were ready to die. We saw them. Very calm. No hysteria. So in Ukraine. There are several thousand, this is the smallest, but in fact, several tens of thousands of thousands will be set - people who are ready to die in the struggle against the fact that the Donbass becomes in Ukraine. Also very calm.

I call the friend of Pan Stutsenko. "Where are you?" - "At the wheel, taking the gas masks to the Maidan." - "Where did you get it?" - "There are no longer there, where I took it." - "And then what will you do?" - "Then I will go to the bazaar, buy a grinder and pipes. I came up with a co-wagon structure for the Maidan." The fact that they will try to disperse the Maidan and will not fail to shed blood, told me in two days. "What will you do if you disperse?" - "Who will survive, begin the partisan war." On the Maidan he is all three months, every day, many nights. All the time he does something there, crafts, increases the heat transfer of barrels with burning firewood. During this time, several payments were received in his account (he is an entrepreneur of a single one), almost everyone went to the Maidan. Before the day of the massacre, he visited a girlfriend. He laughs: "It was necessary to leave her the last memories just in case." - "Did you tell her that there will be a massacre?" - "No, what are you!" - "And the wife?" - "He said to his wife. Let him get worried."

Of course, looking at this, you think about Russia. Two questions. Now it is clear that the future of Russia depends on the answers to these two questions. First: how many people are ready to die for a batch of crooks and thieves, for Putin, for his friends and propagandists? How many such people are in uniform? In uniform - first of all. And the second question: how many people who are ready to die in a fight with a party of crooks and thieves? This is the main issues of Russian political life, further Russian history. I just look like that now. Elections in Russia are important, it is wonderful. Even Putin’s elections-so that people understand better what it is. But! I’m looking at Medvedev, for example, especially when he demands from Yanukovych, that he finally shows his power over Ukraine, that is, he would beat it, and I ask mentally: “Tell me, Dmitry Anatolyevich, as according to your data: how many Russians are ready to die for you and how much-against you? Do not vote, just not to see you with your chef every day on the screen, not to hear yours. Brekhni, including the Brekhni about Ukraine? " The matter seems to be suitable for this - to the fact that it is this proportion that will decide the fate of Russia. I do not know how many people - and when - will be ready to die in the struggle against Putin and his people. But I know for sure that no one is ready to die for them today. Not a single person. And they, Putin and his friends, tried that the Ukrainian revolution leads me to these estates of their future.

Anatoly Striere - writer and publicist, host of the Radio Liberty program "Your Letters"

Opinions expressed under the heading "Law" may not reflect the point of view of the editorial office