They are not born racists

I never remembered this case and suddenly remembered: in Kizlyar, where I was in the specialdoma, my father returned from the front, and my life changed dramatically. Before that, he wandered around, traded in the markets, begged, stole, and then he suddenly grew up in his own eyes, I had a father, a front -line soldier, and protection for life. My friend-classmate Vitka Ioffe lived with his mother in the house on the outskirts of the city. Vitkina Mom worked as an accountant. She invited me to the house, even fed me. Vitkin's father, she said, the pilot, died at the front. In the photographs that hung in their house, Vitka’s father, young and curly, in glasses, looked like some scientist rather than for a pilot. They never talked about him, and I think that he was most likely from the repressed and died in the camps. I left home to Moscow, and to the question of Vitka, when I leave, thoughtlessly repeated the words of my father: they say, the director of the plant is a Jew, and my father is threatened with troubles if he lingers because of me. I still remember how Vitka, lowering his head, quietly said: "And that the Jews are not people?" It seems then I was surprised, I never thought that Vitka is a Jew. What difference does it make, which director has a father, but Vitka was my reliable friend. I remembered - it became ashamed. Well, of course, he was stupid. However, he remembered, to the smallest detail, which means that he realized that he had done something indecent, hedged. In my story, “Golden Cloud” spent the teacher’s teacher, teaching children, he pronounces such words: “There are no bad peoples, there are just bad people.” The story is about Chechens, who, at that time, in 1944, were called bandits and deported from the Caucasus at the command of Stalin and Beria. More than half a century has passed, and today we again hear that the entire Chechen people are bandits and terrorists. Well, okay, it would be so thought people thought, ignorant, but this is the famous writer Vasily Aksenov, who lives in America. The KGB once pursued him, but the time had passed, and Aksenov has enough spirit to say that the former general generals do their righteous work for Russia, putting their iron order in Chechnya. The theory of sovereign, always opposed to progress as a movement towards the West, to its democracy, slowly but surely masters the masses. And then the whole usual set of slogans about the national idea, about American imperialism, about the special path of Russia and of course, the criminal peoples who lead Russia to collapse is in progress. The enemy was already declared the president of Ingushetia Aushev. Well, okay, a frantic General Makashov, who has traces of mental degradation, are visible on the face, but a certain Russian national union (grew), led by Baburin in his pre -election program, raises the question ... “On the compulsory deportation of citizens who are illegally located in Russia, as well as introduce a visa regime for citizens of Central Asia and Caucasus, with the exception of ethnic Russians. " It is not necessary to decipher here: all refugees, just visitors, of different Uzbeks and Turkmen, Georgians, yes ... in general, all “not ours” (ours are “ethnic Russians”) must forcibly take out somewhere, say, to Kolyma. Driving through the distant villages of the Chechens, I heard stories many times, how in exile them, abandoned in the snow of Siberia and Kazakhstan, were saved the life of both Kazakhs and Russians. They took the children dying after the death of their parents, raised them. So what happened to us, Russia could have happened since then that we have become more indifferent and cruel? Neither Nazism nor racism are the original sin of children only ascending to life - they, in their absolute majority, are born, as is prescribed by the Almighty, internationalists. This is later, in the family, at school, on the street, in companies, who is lucky wherever they begin to cut out prejudices that can pervert any initial truth, especially if they fall on fertile ground. I recently read: in one school, after the start of the war in Chechnya, they began to pursue their comrade, a refugee from the Caucasus, and in that they helped them - do not believe it - the teacher. And here is another similar plot: on the film contest “Stalker”, among the films dedicated to human rights (I was in the jury of the competition), Stanislav Mitin’s documentary was almost imperceptibly: “Own and Ferry”. Two groups of schoolchildren argue in it: twelve-year-old fascists who hate blacks, Jews, generally black, and their opponents from among classmates. One of the most impressive scenes, when a girl from Cuba, a mulatto, says that she hates all such “skinheads”. And on their defiant proposal (two sympathetic boys, but self -confident and already to the best of cynical): "You are not ours and leave here!" - She replies almost with tears that they are "not ours." And the Russians, whom they allegedly represented here, are completely different. In conclusion, a six -year -old boy appears on the screen, who calls to live so as not to make each other evil. I can only join his words, for the prototype of the future world, I want to believe - not these fascist skins, but those who can resist them.

I never remembered this case and suddenly remembered: in Kizlyar, where I was in the specialdoma, my father returned from the front, and my life changed dramatically. Before that, he wandered around, traded in the markets, begged, stole, and then he suddenly grew up in his own eyes, I had a father, a front -line soldier, and protection for life.

My friend-classmate Vitka Ioffe lived with his mother in the house on the outskirts of the city. Vitkina Mom worked as an accountant. She invited me to the house, even fed me. Vitkin's father, she said, the pilot, died at the front. In the photographs that hung in their house, Vitka’s father, young and curly, in glasses, looked like some scientist rather than for a pilot. They never talked about him, and I think that he was most likely from the repressed and died in the camps. I left home to Moscow, and to the question of Vitka, when I leave, thoughtlessly repeated the words of my father: they say, the director of the plant is a Jew, and my father is threatened with troubles if he lingers because of me. I still remember how Vitka, lowering his head, quietly said: "And that the Jews are not people?"

It seems then I was surprised, I never thought that Vitka is a Jew. What difference does it make, which director has a father, but Vitka was my reliable friend.

I remembered - it became ashamed. Well, of course, he was stupid. However, he remembered, to the smallest detail, which means that he realized that he had done something indecent, hedged.

In my story, “Golden Cloud” spent the teacher’s teacher, teaching children, he pronounces such words: “There are no bad peoples, there are just bad people.” The story is about Chechens, who, at that time, in 1944, were called bandits and deported from the Caucasus at the command of Stalin and Beria.

More than half a century has passed, and today we again hear that the entire Chechen people are bandits and terrorists. Well, okay, it would be so thought people thought, ignorant, but this is the famous writer Vasily Aksenov, who lives in America. The KGB once pursued him, but the time had passed, and Aksenov has enough spirit to say that the former general generals do their righteous work for Russia, putting their iron order in Chechnya.

The theory of sovereign, always opposed to progress as a movement towards the West, to its democracy, slowly but surely masters the masses. And then the whole usual set of slogans about the national idea, about American imperialism, about the special path of Russia and of course, the criminal peoples who lead Russia to collapse is in progress. The enemy was already declared the president of Ingushetia Aushev.

Well, okay, a frantic General Makashov, who has traces of mental degradation, are visible on the face, but a certain Russian national union (grew), led by Baburin in his pre -election program, raises the question ... “On the compulsory deportation of citizens who are illegally located in Russia, as well as introduce a visa regime for citizens of Central Asia and Caucasus, with the exception of ethnic Russians. "

It is not necessary to decipher here: all refugees, just visitors, of different Uzbeks and Turkmen, Georgians, yes ... in general, all “not ours” (ours are “ethnic Russians”) must forcibly take out somewhere, say, to Kolyma.

Driving through the distant villages of the Chechens, I heard stories many times, how in exile them, abandoned in the snow of Siberia and Kazakhstan, were saved the life of both Kazakhs and Russians. They took the children dying after the death of their parents, raised them.

So what happened to us, Russia could have happened since then that we have become more indifferent and cruel?

Neither Nazism nor racism are the original sin of children only ascending to life - they, in their absolute majority, are born, as is prescribed by the Almighty, internationalists. This is later, in the family, at school, on the street, in companies, who is lucky wherever they begin to cut out prejudices that can pervert any initial truth, especially if they fall on fertile ground.

I recently read: in one school, after the start of the war in Chechnya, they began to pursue their comrade, a refugee from the Caucasus, and in that they helped them - do not believe it - the teacher.

And here is another similar plot: on the film contest “Stalker”, among the films dedicated to human rights (I was in the jury of the competition), Stanislav Mitin’s documentary was almost imperceptibly: “Own and Ferry”. Two groups of schoolchildren argue in it: twelve-year-old fascists who hate blacks, Jews, generally black, and their opponents from among classmates. One of the most impressive scenes, when a girl from Cuba, a mulatto, says that she hates all such “skinheads”. And on their defiant proposal (two sympathetic boys, but self -confident and already to the best of cynical): "You are not ours and leave here!" - She replies almost with tears that they are "not ours." And the Russians, whom they allegedly represented here, are completely different. In conclusion, a six -year -old boy appears on the screen, who calls to live so as not to make each other evil.

I can only join his words, for the prototype of the future world, I want to believe - not these fascist skins, but those who can resist them.