As is the pop, so is the arrival

It's not a dream. This is a sleek pamphlet with a familiar state portrait face on the cover and with a dazibao from United Russia. Pure mature totalitarianism: "Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fu ..hrer". And the Reich is one, and the leader is one, and the people are one and must vote for United Russia. And the essence of “Putin’s plan”, in addition to milk rivers, jelly banks and the intention to again catch up with America in the production of meat, milk, butter and eggs (as well as submarines and bombers) per capita, is “a new architecture of the world in which our country will be able to influence global politics."

We know how they want to influence. A superpower, an arms race, some kind of Smolensk bloc instead of the Warsaw one (neighbors in the CIS will not risk it), isolationism, fanfare, and no comments! Stop and be afraid! There is only one hope: everything will be stolen, there will be nothing left for planes and missiles. But the ideal is the same, the Soviet one: a dinosaur. That is, “restoring order”, when “the vertical of power has been strengthened”, “a strong and indivisible state”. Here they are, fetishes, pure Jurassic: a huge, strong, terrible beast. Everything can be crushed. And brains the size of a walnut. He does nothing and does not listen to anyone. It just eats everyone and rushes forward. And when the ice age comes (oil prices fall, gas runs out), then such leaders will immediately die out. True, together with the country. We cross out August and 9 years of democracy and return to Brezhnev's stagnation and lies with a noticeable shade of Stalinist ferocity.

"Russia overcame the political and spiritual crisis of the 90s." Truth and repentance are a spiritual crisis. Democracy is political. And at the same time we put things in order in history, a patriot does not need despondency and analysis, when he sees history, he must do “on guard” and stand at attention. Gone are the days of the Voltaires. They themselves are to blame. Everyone blew. The time has come for the sergeant majors and the colonels commanding them.

So, before our eyes, a party organization was created, "leading and guiding." The notorious Article 6 of Lukyanov's 1977 Constitution was de facto introduced into the new Constitution. Party literature is being written. There are already two books for teachers: "The Recent History of Russia 1945-2006." A.V. Filippov and "Social Science". Among the inspirers is V. Surkov himself. Here, too, they are trying to overcome the "spiritual crisis of the 90s", that is, anti-Sovietism and anti-Stalinist sentiments. President Putin said several years ago that he would never put Stalin and Hitler side by side (Stalin, of course, is better). Stalin made a “cultural revolution” (apparently, this was the destruction of Mandelstam, Meyerhold, Babel, scientists and intelligentsia and the most severe censorship), “overcame unemployment” (how many jobs were created in Kolyma and on the White Sea-Baltic Canal!) and “expanded the country’s territory ”(at the expense of colonies, through genocide and resettlement of peoples). It is prescribed to create a family history textbook written from the point of view of a loving grandmother. Only now, everyone's grandmothers were different: some grandmothers were imprisoned under Article 58, like Yevgenia Ginzburg, while others searched them and locked them in cells. From the point of view of the last grandmothers, our school history will be written ...

What do you want? People came to power, whose outlook is a view from a tower along the perimeter of the camp fence, whose ideals are barbed wire, whose idea of ​​​​order is shepherd dogs rushing off a leash, and lines of prisoners with numbers on identical padded jackets. What is the pop, such is the arrival. As in the song of the bard Natella Boltyanskaya: “To the Jesuit fathers, a completely worthy son, he outlined values ​​and goals. A mustache appears over a shaved lip, and a jacket grows from Versace's lapels.