Dmitry Shusharin. This can happen to anyone

This can happen to anyone
Dmitry Shusharin

Publication date: February 27, 2004

Yes , with everyone, and not just with Khodorkovsky (who has the most serious chances of not being released alive ) and Rybkin (who, apparently, was let down like a criminal). Keep your head down - don't stick your head out; in essence, nothing depends on you. Lottery, probability theory. There is a percentage of people destined for public humiliation. Precisely before those appointed, because no one appoints. “The organs educate, educate, but can also punish”? And when they will punish, the authorities themselves do not know. So it was, so it is. The car creaks and clicks from time to time, like the brains of an opera.

This is, of course, not 1937 or even 1949, although the story with the Russian State University for the Humanities is dark and unpleasant . There is something in it from those ancient times. How is there anything ratty about the persecution of YUKOS?

“But the point is not that I could have saved them, but was unable to save them.” We are not talking about Rybkin and YUKOS, and indeed not about matters of national importance. There is no point in wasting money on such a trifle when there is something much more significant - the private life of each of us.

And the threat to this greatest value comes not from Putin-Ivanov-Sechin, and not from Berezovsky-Khodorkovsky-Gusinsky, but from everyone at once - named and unnamed.

The authorities prove their right to partially alienate our dear and holy one very simply: look, what a horror! There are explosions in the subway, oligarchs in the country, hooligans in the entrance, bandits in the street, earthquakes and floods all over the world. Trust yourself to us!

Those who don’t like power because they are moving away from it also cry out: look, what a nightmare! There are explosions in the subway, security forces in the country, hooligans in the entrance, police on the street. There's no one you can trust, so be supportive. It is unknown what and unknown who.

Noble fighters for civil liberties are truly confident: if people are intimidated and explained that their lives are in constant danger, they will certainly rise up in order to gain rights, freedoms and other humanitarian benefits.

Tyrants, despots and satraps are sure of the opposite: if the people shake with fear, it will be easier to govern them. This is how, for example, Alexander Litvinenko explains urban terror. And not to say that it is unconvincing.

According to this logic, for example, it is imperative to demonstrate one’s strength in the outside world. For example, blow up Yandarbiev , frame and betray official representatives of the Russian special services in Qatar, and then declare an ambiguous protest. Yes, from a foreign policy point of view it is complete insanity , we must agree with this. But for internal use it is quite suitable. Likewise, the murder of an unfortunate dispatcher in Switzerland can be done in a low voice, with hints, but still attributed to the special services. Like, an act of retaliation, just like in the glorious times of Beria and Sudoplatov.

And what? One yellow newspaper came out with the headline “Revenge for Russian Children.” It doesn’t inspire, it’s so catchy.

Meanwhile, millions of people live, knowing full well: “this can happen to anyone.” And “this” is not so diverse. They can put you in prison for no reason, they can hit you on the head in the entrance, they can maim you in the police station. So what? What now: howl and not live?

Indifference to one's own safety can probably be explained by a deplorable indifference to oneself, a weakened and deformed instinct of self-preservation. This is true, of course it is true. But the exact opposite explanation is also legitimate: everything that, in parts, in each individual episode, can be considered contempt for one’s own life, a lack of understanding of its highest value, as a whole represents something completely different. This is a way of self-preservation. Yes, as old Korobeinikov used to say, we live like on a volcano. But don't think about it all the time.

And therefore, despite the fact that the very words “private life” and “privacy” are unknown to the majority of the population, it demonstrates a readiness to protect these realities, which also become values.

"Life always wins!" Although Solzhenitsyn’s hero, who was placed in a cancer ward , speaks these words, it was still possible to get out of there. This was such a cheerful businessman Chaly, who, despite everything, lived according to the laws of a market economy back in the mid-fifties of the last century. And now?

Now it is absolutely obvious that both the authorities and the opposition are in vain trying to scare a poor man and almost a citizen. The freedom-loving tribunes are definitely fools. It is useless to urge people to fill the crater of a volcano with water. But the government, due to the fact that it is perceived as a natural disaster, is also very, very limited in the use of fears and horrors. And not because people can’t be intimidated - that’s just easy. And because of extremely low ingenuity. It is already clear to everyone that the current presidential campaign is copying what has already happened, and not only in the pre-election situation. Without commenting on the parallels between the explosions of houses and the latest terrorist attack in the Moscow metro (an independent investigation has not yet been carried out, all versions are legitimate), one can nevertheless find a commonality between the capture of Raduev and the murder of Yandarbiev, between flying a fighter, drinking sea water and the current embarrassing naval exercises .

So it is with scarecrows. For almost a month now, the news on the four main TV channels inevitably begins with stories about natural disasters and catastrophes around the world - from Ust-Zaplyuysk to the Red Nose Islands. Everything is scary and scary. They will intimidate themselves, if they haven’t already. Kasyanov's senseless resignation can be explained by only one thing - to get rid of the professional as soon as possible. And from such fear, those who still count on helping the authorities with smart advice and a kind word still have to endure a lot. They are no longer needed, because they are both funny and dangerous. It happens.

And this can really happen to anyone, even the most cunning political strategist. Well, that’s okay too - you just need to go to other markets.

"Life always wins!"