Your letters

Among the listeners of "Freedom" there are large examples of exams. This topic has already sounded in our program. This hobby in itself must probably be considered positive, if only because both the concept and the word “exam” came to Russia from the West. But the idea to replace the democracy with an exam is something homegrown. I read: “If we want competent people to control us, they must go through a serious exam. People do not know another criterion for determining competence. And who is the examiner? Of course, the car. A person is emotional, he can bribe external charm, bring intuition, he can give him a bribe. And the car is deprived of these shortcomings. It should be laid in its competence, resourcefulness, decency. As well as on erudition, knowledge of the constitution and its competent protection. The exam should be taken both white and red, since it is obviously unknown where the best are. If people see that their position in society directly depends on the exam, they will reach for knowledge, and not to a bottle of beer. Then another question arises: why do we need political parties with their intrigues, always changing slogans and leaders, with watering each other? Goodbye on this. " In a sense, the author of this letter is right. Many, if not all, absurdities in public affairs, can ultimately explain the lack of knowledge among the population and rulers. This is probably the only drawback that the majority does not feel. Those units of us deserve the greater reverence that choose the field of a scientist, a researcher, who devotes life to the satisfaction of their curiosity, if possible, at a state -owned account. This is a special breed. A person gets up and lies with the thought that he does not know something. Imagine what modesty and what curiosity? The idea that scientists, the best of scientists, should be governed by the state, expressed in time immemorial. But in the letter that you heard, the most interesting is the question of parties: why are they needed if the command staff of the Fatherland will select a smart car? A rhetorical question, it suggests the answer: there is no need. A big fan of exams, this person did not subject to, as usual, an exam, did not ask himself before the death sentence to the party system: what do I know about this thing? What do I know about what the party is? What did attempts to do without them? Why did these attempts get into a dead end, often bloody? These questions would make him sit down for books-for two or three years he would have something to do. But this did not occur to him, because his head was struck by the constructive idea: well, these parties! By the way, this thought of our listener was caught by such a person who is sensitive to folk opinions and aspirations as Mr. Putin. He also says that the parties have become obsolete in the modern world. This is despite the fact that in front of him, as in the palm of your hand, two oldest Russian parties, for more than three hundred years. One believes that Russia should take an example from the West, the other is not necessary. There is a third party - the party of bureaucracy, it believes that bureaucracy should manage everything and everything. The existence of parties, their indestructibility shows that people are driven not only and not so much knowledge as interests, passions, beliefs.

Coach Kirill Inyasevsky writes to the General Assembly of the United Nations (he sent a copy to us): “Different gentlemen! I am convinced that humanity on Planet Earth should unite, aiming at building the essence of civilization that deserves it - peaceful, fair, truly creative and promising, with an non -violent leader - the organization of the United Nations, acting in accordance with the scientifically based expediency. " The author attaches the manuscript of his book to this letter, in it, according to him, he tries to “figure out why our“ civilization ”cannot really become a civilization without quotes.” If you express his answer in two words, then here he is: the leaders are bad. The same opinion and many listeners of the Radio "Freedom". With great indignation, he writes about “Besulture, who flooded the modern world” and makes the following proposal: “The state, while it still exists, should not skimp and allocate funds for the due maintenance of outstanding creators and art ... and to protect the culture of works that appear in this area of creative activity, isolate them from all vast, vulgar, corrupting, to introduce censorship. Not political, but truly highly moral, civilized and therefore generally available, open. ” I would not want, Mr. Inyasevsky, to live in such a white world, where censorship would dominate, albeit “truly highly moral”, and besides, “publicly available”. There was no such cruel and stupid censor as a crowd, there was no and cannot be.

In general, open letters, appeals, including the UN, are literary works, journalism, writing. The author of any literary work is better to dream of only that it is published, realizing that everything else does not depend on him. If he hopes his word to transform or at least improve the world, then he will not pass a very great disappointment that comprehends all the preachers, whether Grigory Skovoroda, Leo Tolstoy, Alexander Solzhenitsyn. By the way, Kirill Inyasevsky gives an excerpt from the article by Tolstoy, written at the end of the first Russian revolution in 1907. Then many people and power were killed, a lot of landowner estates were defeated. I will read a few lines. “All of Russia groans from the horror of those who have torn out, unrealistic brutal instincts, encouraging people to commit the most terrible, meaningless murders ... Russian people cannot see the fact that all the efforts spent during the revolution did not destroy the poverty and dependence of the workers from the rich and dominant, did not stop those expenses of folk forces to capture other people's possessions, and War, the few people did not free the people from power. After all, it is only for people who think that they believe in Christianity, to throw out of it all those nonsense about the trinity and the origin of the Holy Spirit ... And to believe in science, to throw out of it numerous and difficult reasoning about the law, state, representative office, progress ..., and instead to recognize only one simple and clear ... The truth that a person should not kill a person, and all existing would have changed all existing The terrible, brutal system of our life ... ".

Vyacheslav writes, calls himself an “observer from above,” writes about my person, but what he writes has some public significance: “We have known you in absentia for a long time ... I listened to you and others through muffins. But the opinion is not positive about you. Like many Russians, sold for sausage. You were accused of this before. You are interesting to me as a rabbit. You were successful in the Union. What pulled you to the West? Genetics? If so smart, we must fight here with this system. ” Vyacheslav is responsible for me, a novel from Donbass, he also calls himself an observer, but an observer from below: “You sold your soul to the Americans as soon as you touched the computer, and even more so after entering the network. Only a scoop is an ungrateful people, which in fact without a west will not be able to live a single minute, but the template brain stupidly does not recognize this dependence on the Western world. Without America, I would still have a spelling of a typewriter or have saved half of his life like Cubans, but still would not have used any gesnik without a vigilant eye. ” You see, friends, what a difficult relationship is national-state patriotism and globalism. The first with all his giblets has long been captured by the second, but does not realize it. A good picture to the famous image of progress. This is an image of an angel with open wings. He flies forward, to the future, but his face is turned back into the past. He would like to stop, stay in yesterday, to finish something there, but he cannot, because he does not have power over the wind, which blows into his wings with terrible force and carries him tomorrow.

In the two previous programs, we talked about the American passion for the change of places. One listener called this purely American paranoia, that is, an intrusive idea, severely condemns the restless Yankees for this and at the same time - me, who ... and so on. On this occasion, Vlad from Odessa writes: “Well, if for some the United States is not a decree, then I can say that in our nearby neighbor Finland, the people also do not sit still, wanders to where there is work on his profile at the moment. The fact is that the Finnish worker or a specialist can sell his house in one town or city and for this money to buy a house or apartment in another place. Many Finns change their place of residence several times in their lives. Here is an example. In the town of Rauma there is a shipbuilding shipyard, even two. Rauma Yard and Holming. When there were large orders (including from the USSR), many specialists needed in shipbuilding moved there. When by the beginning of the 90s a decline came, these people moved to Turku or retired and went to other industries. We have a worker - this is a serf, tied to a city -forming enterprise. Here he is studying at school, then he goes to the factory and works, not having the opportunity to leave, because he is thrown out of the line for the apartment. Getting it in a new place is unthinkable. So he pulls the strap until retirement. Now most of these plants and factories were left without a military order and collapsed. The former workers have nowhere to go, it remains to be drunk, begging and curse democracy. Because a person is not taught and cannot move. That - their customs, and this is our reality. "

Sergei from Kharkov writes: “If you look closely, you understand that in twenty years it was possible to build a normal society and live humanly, and not the way we live, and resentment boils on people whose calling to illuminate problems and offer the society ways to solve them. Journalists should do this, and Anatoly Ivanovich positions himself at the advanced lines of promotion of the ideas of reforming Russian society (it seems to me), but I have never heard of the intelligible explanations, only criticism. ” Here are those on, Sergey! Journalists are to blame ... Putin is somewhere in the same opinion. Both Lukashenko and Chavez. I am also sorry, Sergey, that I did not give clarification that you would be recognized as intelligible. The fact is that I myself do not have a clear and most importantly - an unambiguous answer to the question why in twenty years a “normal society” has not appeared in Russia or you in Ukraine. There is one answer, in recent years it is often brought, deciphered and chewed, but he came from antiquity, from the sage, who said the following golden words: "What are the customs, such and society." And I (just twenty years ago) composed a winged expression: "Do not wait for freedom better than a person." That is: what a person, what a people, such a thing and freedom. Once during the feast, he gave this expression (“Do not wait for freedom to a person”) to the poet Evgeny Yevtushenko so that it becomes the first line of his poem. By morning, it was ready. Needless to say, I consider mine the best line in this poem? I am sure that Evgeny Alexandrovich will understand me, and maybe, as a generous person, and agree.

Valentine from Ivanovo: “Apparently, there is nowhere to go in the Russian Federation. We have everything in Ivanovo, only entertainment centers plow. So this is only 300 km from Moscow. No one has heard of any investments and innovations. And on TV bravura and random lies. The right hand does not know what the left does. In the upper "elite" complete insanity. It seems that the oligarchic regime is so clamped in making decisions that it only imitates management. The true and only economy in them is the robbery of oil and gas. Prices are rising like yeast, and the authorities inflate inflation, raising annually tariffs for gas. Not a single enterprise can pay for these thieves' tariffs. Terrorism is growing. Obviously, this is agony. Of course, Russia is great, it will not immediately die, but the trend is obvious. ”

The next letter may be a response to this forecast of the listener of “Freedom” from Ivanovo. Andrei writes from Moscow: “Modern Russia is an empire. Decaying and dying, but empire. Putin and Medvedev is just a liquidation commission. Their historical mission is the liquidation of the Russian Empire. The mission is tragic. But inevitable. " The author draws attention to such a sample as Serbia and the South Slavic Empire. “The first stage has just ended,” he writes, “the collapse of the empire; The second began - the construction of national states. And all yesterday’s opponents are moving in one direction - to Europe. You will laugh! It was necessary to fight with each other, “soak tens of thousands of people in the toilers, to turn hundreds of thousands into exiles, so that in the end everyone would be in one place (albeit at some distance from each other - so, just in case). But, unfortunately, all this is in the nature of man. "

“3 shift, editorial office! - A letter from Mytishch. - Olympiad psychosis was echoing those triumphs to which they accustomed to the era of the Brezhnev stagnation. Neither Lenin, nor Stalin, nor even Khrushchev occurred to replace communism with olympiads and hockey, as joked then. Nowadays, there has been a tragicomic belching, in each news release the tournament table was trampled, there were no other events. The 0Gromic part of the population and newspapers erupted with a hysterical reaction about the "failure". Not the authorities, Anatoly, but the people are capriciously demanding that his beloved sports and grooving rattles be returned to him-take out and put us first place. Everyone was indignant, the Communists demanded that the anti -people regime and oligarchs so that the damned exploiters provide disadvantaged workers with medals and washers, and then the bourgeoisie and the proletariat should merge in a single patriotic ecstasy. Instead of the messianic Orthodoxy, the Canadian (!) Hockey (as it was completely seriously said by the legendary deputy of the State Duma Tretyak), this hysteria shows the comic arrogance and the meanness of this society. After all, they do not give a damn, Anatoly, that the medleck was short because of the increase in the fight against doping, and also because there are fewer people who want to prick, because going to the traffic police and taking bribes more profitable than to tear themselves in big sport. And I would like to congratulate dear Russians on a great success. Think! In terms of life, they occupy a hundred and what place, in crime and corruption, in many other statistical indicators of the economy, culture, science fell below many Black Africa countries, but at the 0 limpiad they took the honorary 11th place. Give this my congratulations and perform your favorite song for Russians: “We have to live honestly in sports, we must win brightly, they will lay out the songs about us, it will be hot heaven!” Did Holy Patriarch singing this verse (“He will be hot!”), Blessing on great victories (“Say: well done, devils!”) Of Russian sports heroes in Vancouver? Valentin Salazkin. " Thanks for the letter, Valentine! Like many of our listeners, you are merciless to the authorities, merciless ... which is noteworthy: the authorities do not divide into experienced and beginning; The requirements are also presented to the Patriarch without a discount on the fact that he was a beginning, he did not gain experience in order to accurately decide who, for which and under what circumstances it is appropriate to bless, and who is better to refrain, so as not to become a hero of a letter like yours.

The author of the next letter cannot come to terms with the absence of Crimea in Russia: “I am grieve and upset to the heart in my heart. He writes. He sins on Yeltsin, blames him with “misunderstanding of the ethnic coloring of all spatio-temporal proportions” (his words). And further: “Boris Nikolaevich confused the map with the territory. A map is a scheme. And the territory is a living firmament, conquered and protected by eminent and nameless heroes, the lives of more than one generation of Russian people. It is casually to write water and land that means to strongly offend their citizens, especially the old people, by age, unable to understand and accept new views on the old boundaries. He waved an agreement on the division of the Soviet Union. And the lands, cities and harbor left, poured by Russian blood to sovereign Ukraine. Simple Ukrainians, in general, are not to blame for anything. And their administration knows how to cling to gifts. ” Judging by the syllable, this is written by a middle -aged person, educated, “Technician”. He has pain in his heart, therefore, apparently, his memory is silent. He forgot how it was, in what situation. Or did not know. Many contemporaries of great events do not pay due attention to them. One hero of Golsourcy managed not to notice the First World War ... "An agreement on the division of the Soviet Union" all, including Yeltsin, waved a consciously consciously. To disperse, recognizing the existing boundaries of the Union republics, fully realizing that they are arbitrary - this was the only way to avoid blood on the "Yugoslav version". The population of the entire former USSR agreed with such a decision. Far from always millions of people show such friendly sanity. The pains in the hearts appeared later, when the Zyuganovs, Zhirinovsky, Luzhkovs, etc. took up the processing of the brains. I want to return your attention, friends, to that listener of “Freedom”, who, having looked at modern Yugoslavia with my mental gaze, noticed that, without exception, its units go to united Europe. That is, they will again be in one state. I involuntarily want to ask with him: so why did they shed so much blood of each other?! And it can really happen that in the same state, in the end, Russia with Ukraine, and Belarus, and Kazakhstan will end up. Russia, however, before that, in his opinion, will be reached. I recall the eighty -ninth year, my journey throughout Ukraine, spoke in detail about him on the Radio “Freedom”. Two years remained before the collapse of the USSR, for someone there was a wild thought of this, others understood the inevitability of the upcoming. I had to hear conversations about the Crimea. Western Ukraine, by the way, was in order to give it to Russia. And the eastern said: "Why on earth?" I remember this difference very well, she struck me. Well, after the Belovezhiy, neither Ukraine could give Crimea with all the desire, no Russia could accept it - also with all the desire. Otherwise, a lot of blood in other parts of the former Soviet Union could spill, and most of all - Russian blood. In a letter from the listener of “Freedom”, who grieves to the pain in the heart, the most dangerous words are about “live firmament, conquered and protected by eminent and nameless heroes, the lives of more than one generation of Russian people.” It is sad to read this in an educated person. Он словно не знает, как дорого заплатила евроатлантическая цивилизация за то, чтобы объявить, наконец, вне закона такие доводы. Просто не хочет знать, как часто слишком заинтересованное понимание «этнической окраски всех пространственно-временных масштабов» превращало жизнь миллионов в ад. Боль в сердце отшибает память.

«Любой политик, - пишет Семён из США, - априори автократ, его цель - власть, но в стремлении к её абсолютизации его останавливают законы страны и реальное разделение властей. То есть, у него, как всегда, два выхода: или соблюдать конституцию, сохранив демократию, или нарушить её, не называя, конечно, вещи своими именами. Однако, нарушая конституцию, наряду с захватом средств коммуникации, и используя массовую демагогию (пропаганду), властитель забирает всю власть себе.

Но есть ещё два обязательных условия захвата автократом (диктатором) власти – недовольство народа своим жизненным уровнем, попросту говоря, нищета, и рабская психология, вызванная многолетним, иногда многовековым, подчинением. Общество нищих и рабов не может быть демократическим, а став таковым, неизбежно вернётся к диктатуре. Недаром Моисей сорок лет водил свой народ по пустыне – чтобы в живых не осталось ни одного раба. Я думаю, - продолжает Семён, - что ставить вопрос так: или благополучие, или свобода – неверно, но в вопросе о переходе к демократии благополучие всё-таки должно идти первым. Первый шаг сделан - капитализм на марше. Дальше - уничтожение монополизма, прежде всего, государственного, в бизнесе, резкий экономический рост, а там уж и ... рукой подать. На всё про всё лет тридцать, при хорошем раскладе», - пишет Семён. Спасибо, Семён, мне тоже кажется, что не меньше тридцати. Но когда читаешь некоторые письма на радио «Свобода», то нет-нет, да и подумаешь, что не хватит и ста.