In the Kremlin

We’ll take hands, friends!

December 1, 2006 Nikolai Svanidze

Dear colleague, Alexander Ryklin, wrote in the "hedgehog" material under
The name "political phobias" . And he finished him with the words: "I foresee that many will crumble from this note of mine. You know, perhaps, I don't give a damn." Honestly, if it were not for this remark, I would not have entered into a polemic with Mr. Ryklin. Because suddenly, an hour is uneven, will crumble it from my words? But the equanimous pose declared by Mr. Ryblin seems to be angry with my hands.

Mr. Ryklin seeks to heal the liberal opposition from phobia-fear of new partners with a radical-nationalist flank. He says: "Liberals, do not be afraid, do not go to the fool. These boys are quite sane and even somewhere wow. And we have a common task. Therefore, we will take hands, friends, so as not to disappear one by one."

Honestly, I don’t quite understand why right now it was necessary to return to the topic of the Union with Anpilov and Limonov. The topic is slippery. Painful theme. And, ardently explaining and justifying himself on this occasion, Mr. Ryklin actually recognizes this. So why was it not the most advantageous and not the most actual conversation yourself to start this yourself? A - emotions. The meeting with Ponomarev touched. Although, it would seem, well, Leo Ponomarev twisted a finger at the temple, in the sense that who you guys believe, who you are with who you are doing - well, okay. He twisted private, could be answered privately. But Mr. Ryklin decided all the medical suspicions of Mr. Ponomarev publicly. He went to the tribune and openly stated that, in vain, you, Lev Alexandrovich, were worried about the fate of the democratic movement in Russia and consider us idiots. She, fate, is in good hands, and we are not at all as idiots as it might seem to you. We are not even idiots at all, it's time to put an end to these ridiculous accusations. Although we do not care about who and what thinks of us.

And they really think, to put it mildly, differently. First of all, and this is widely known, Viktor Ivanovich Ampilov began his “fiery revolutionary life” by provoking his comrade on an anti -Soviet conversation on a foreign business trip, wrote it down and sent a film to Moscow to Gosteleradio, where he then worked. On it, on this fiery revolutionary, on this Che Guevara, you want to put a stigma - you will not find a place. Limonov is also a provocateur, but with a thin nervous organization. He asserts himself, breaking fate to adolescents, a fool of their heads and bringing to prison. He is more talented than Anpilova. He is a informer, and this one is an esthet, a glamorous fascist. He is an ardent Stalinist, and Hitler is also cute, besides Stalin, this, besides Stalin. Enviable company. It is just right to be friends with families.

Maybe this is a feature of my psyche, but I am not quite clear how, personally, Mr. Ryklina manages not to experience any discomfort in communication with these wonderful people. However, they are also marvelous. They don’t say anything that under which Mr. Ryklin would not want to subscribe to, which could insult him. Moreover, all these topics, the interpretation of which Anpilov and Limonov could offend Mr. Ryklin, are mostly not relevant. And here I have a question for Mr. Ryklin: he really believes that his discrepancies with Anpilov and Limonov are limited to the irrelevant 1993? What about irrelevant Stalinist repressions? And an irrelevant holocaust? And the irrelevant topic of democracy and dictatorship? How about human rights? Or, say, private property? How is the land question? Finally, what do we have with a national problem?

It seems to me that you can’t dwell on the achieved personnel successes, it is necessary to expand the breakthrough area. There is also Mr. Savelyev and Mr. Kuryanovich, hanging idle idle. Although, by the way, they also do not like Putin. So, by definition - ready -made allies. You can ask them temporarily, in general parties, to resist the calls to wet the "black" and the Jews. So that this does not insult Mr. Ryklin and does not interfere with searching and finding compromises, talking about the problems of our time. Well, of course, to solve these problems together.

Here, however, not everything is smooth with the solution. I will speak only on my own behalf, but it seems to me that L.A. Ponomarev is a reason for concern.

Even if you close your eyes to some ideological and certain ethical discrepancies with Mr. Anpilov and Limonov, if you spit on them with saliva, as it apparently can masterfully perform Mr. Ryklin, if you firmly stand on the well-known position “The enemy of my enemy is my friend”-then, i.e. Refining completely pragmatically, it is not entirely clear what such friends can give. Even if it is very tight with their hands. For unification with the badly smelling dwarfs cannot strengthen anyone. But there is a real chance to get to them to mice. And especially smelly mice. Nikolai Svanidze

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