Fruits from the damned figurine

So the damned August is over. For Russia, August was always either fatal or disappointing. And this is clearly visible either the finger of God, or at least a malicious hint of providence. August appeared on the calendar thanks to the end of the “Yeltsin” period in ancient Rome - the consular Republic of Julia Caesar, who did not abuse his enormous power, suffered the Senate and did not take their rights and freedoms from the Romans. Princess (by the way, the heir) Octavian August, who had shut up Rome and unable to criticism, came in his place, and then pure tyranny from Tiberius to Nero had already gone.

August is the “month of Caesars”, according to Mandelstam, the month of imperial despotism and autocracy, the month of reaction. It is not surprising that Russia suffered failures and disasters that has chosen the path of Caesarism and despotism in August.

August 1914 became an unfortunate for the whole world, but Russia came out of the First World War to overthrow the system, the normal order of things and to the Bolshevik coup. Pride and fanaticism have always been our main troubles, and it was Nicholas II who announced the first mobilization because of the next Slavic fantasies, straits, claims to “interests” in the Balkans, in a word, imperial delirium at a cost of tens of millions of lives. This war and October had a bitter fruit.

After all, the Germans for the passion for Alsas, Lorraine and “living space” also punished and humbled history after 1945. And we did not understand anything, did not draw conclusions, so the black muzzle of Augustus is still in wait for us.

In August, N. Gumilev was shot, the great Russian poet. It was shot due to the obsession of the Bolsheviks by the dogma, because Tagantsev’s tea party could not interfere with them.

After 1945, destroying the hopes of the intelligentsia for liberalization, Zoshchenko and Akhmatov were stunned and the magazines "Zvezda" and "Leningrad" were defeated.

Even a ten-year-old default occurred due to the cowardice of the people and cowardice of power. Yeltsin did not dare to show the real picture of the economy. And the people did not want to know the real state of things and lived with Soviet illusions.

Our only holiday over many decades, August 1991, was overshadowed by the incompleteness and inferiority of this revolution. After all, the putsch occurred due to the cowardice of Gorbachev, who stopped the reform and raised his hand to democracy and freedom of choice of Russian colonies: in April 1989-Tbilisi, in January 1990-Baku, in January 1991-Vilnius. This is where the Gekachepists decided that it was time, that the Gorbachev that renounced the Democrats is a slight booty. Also once the Stalinists acted with Khrushchev, backwards. And it turned out. But the Democrats and Yeltsin did not fall into the trap and put an end to the plans of the GKChP.

The August victory was overshadowed by the indecision of Yeltsin, Democrats and the huge indifferent majority of “scoops”, who did not give the mandate to painful but necessary market reforms. Yeltsin did not dare to bury Lenin, remove the stars from the Kremlin, dissolve the KGB, apply lustration, release Chechnya, cover until the end of Gaidar with Chubais. Yeltsin did a lot of things, and thanks to him for this, but the roots of evil remained in our earth, and the evil grew and drowned out the sprouts of good.

But the most terrible troubles suffered Russia in August 1968 and in August 2008. Here we broke someone else's fate, the fate of Czechoslovakia and Georgia, crawling out of his den so that others also do not live in the light of day.

Jesus in the Gospel had a meeting with a barren fig tree, which did not give fruits. He cursed her, and she dried up. August is the time of harvesting, and Russia does not give fruits to itself or others. Does the fate of this fig woman also expect us?