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The brave regiment arrived: Igor Butman entered United Russia. In order to “popularize jazz music, conduct charitable concerts in favor of orphanages, help young musicians and support the elderly without work ...” “As a person sharing Western values,” Butman expressed a desire to be in the liberal wing of “United Russia” - and the party cycs went to meet him.

Thanks to Tsik for understanding. They could send a novice "United Russia" in the opposite wing, to a citizen Isaev and citizen Yarova. These would instantly bend the saxophone. But everything is good that ends well: now Butman will be able to help orphanages. And then they do not take from non-partisan money.

... At the end of the fifties, my father was thinking about the entry into the CPSU: the son of the former “enemy of the people” fled the restoration of Leninist norms, not by night to be mentioned ... A friend of our family, a former front -line soldier, at the front to the party and entering the party and entered. He himself would have left the CPSU for a long time, but the entrance there, exactly through the joke, was worth the ruble, and the exit - ten ...

However, to the Khrushchev era of the CPSU, she was indeed the cast of the Soviet people: who was not a member of, he approved and supported in every way. Among the members of that party, I met honest people: both blindly believers and driven by the children's calculation that Butman had just voiced: “There is only one party,” and “there are many problems in the country. And if not us, then who will solve them? "

This children's formulation of the question caused a grin in Soviet times - today it is already a pure circus. The ideologies Yok, and the party is one again, and membership in it (or a public prayer in its direction), as in the Soviet regime, increases organizational capabilities at times ... Only not an ondate hat and not a business trip to Yugoslavia - you are rummaging! The Forbes list at the output. For corruption, whether membership in the party increases opportunities, for charity or in both disciplines at once - these are already details! The main thing is increasing for “his own” and narrows for everyone else, because whoever got up, and the slippers, and the funds are not rubber.

All this throws into the trash the very idea of ​​the normal course of things. For if, without a political “rollback” to Putin and Co. (for example, only political), it is no longer possible to prevent the impoverishment of orphanages, nor organize a festival, nor help unemployed labor veterans, then this is no longer charity, but complicity in a racket, isn't it?

None of the artists-workers understand this? Are such saints or pretend? I'm not talking about simpler cases such as ex-deputy Rosenbaum.

And in general - recalling almost at random (a complete list would go to hundreds of names): Kalyagin, who deserved real estate in the center of Moscow with an public dance on Khodorkovsky bones; Govorukhin, cheaply purchased by the Kremlin in exchange for financing a film with a funny name “not by bread” in this context; Oil heiress of the "United Russia" Alsou; Boris Grebenshchikov, who received a piece of etheric nirvana according to the results of tea drinking with speaker Gryzlov; The mother -in -law of the St. Petersburg deputy Alisa Freindlich, who asked for honorary citizenship for Vladimir Putin ...

All these, of course, are quite different and very different feelings ... let's say so: the more respect was before, the stronger the disorder now.

And I don’t even keep my good friend Igor Butman. He is a cheerful person, not overloaded with knowledge of the current moment, and a sudden thought of moral responsibility for everything that his party has bent, I hope that he will not stop him from blowing at the right time and press in the right places ...

He does it much better than motivates his civilian body movements.