Your letters. 03 October, 2009

Let the letter from Moscow, let those who believe that I am inventing letters to “freedom”, but not by myself, but with their secretaries, as one insightful person who, of course, will never believe that I had no one secretary did not have any one, who had not happened. I read: “Previously, the Caucasians protruded in Moscow, and that was good. For example, the receivers of dishes on Dunaevsky Street were from Georgia, and it was much better to wear dishes than to the Russian receiver near the Kutuzovskaya metro station. Because dusty bottles were taken to Dunaevsky, with cockroaches and so on, and at the metro Kutuzovskaya receiver did not take such bottles, and he could scold, but Putin broke everything, and in general - I do not recognize the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, and Putin should understand this and admit his guilt before Saakashvilly. ” This letter came by e -mail, and I think about a person for which the delivery of bottles is such an important thing, but with the sam he has a receiver to listen to the Radio “Freedom” and a computer to write letters to us. In his letter there are several rude words about the supporters and fans of Putin - I have lowered these words, let him not be offended by me ... For a long time I will now think about this Georgian, the receiver of a glass container on Dunaevsky Street. What is he? What years? Whiskered? Sleepy or alive, like mercury? Why did he not pay attention to cockroaches in empty bottles? What feelings did he explore, throwing them into the boxes? Maybe not only did not pay attention to cockroaches, but also the bottles themselves, and this is the whole thing? He despised them, these bottles, the son of the great man under the Soviet regime, the head of the Cheburechny on the Sukhumi or Gagra embankment. What is the bottles for him? And how did he interfere, this Georgian, you, Moscow? How did he stop you, Russia?

A letter from Omsk also came by e -mail: “As befits a democratic media, you provide a word not only to our oppositionists, but also to the public serving power. This audience calls itself experts, an expert community, political scientists, a certain part of them without a twinge of conscience uses to determine itself the word “scientists”. We understand your policy, we know the word “pluralism”, but we do not consider it right that you put on the same board in front of the Michael of Radio “Freedom” of the Mr. from the Kremlin service and, for example, Boris Nemtsov, Yegor Gaidar, Vladimir Ryzhkov, Andrei Illarionov. The service staff has a native house in the form of any of the television channels, and these and other decent, smart and in all respects are not ready for great state work of comrades. You need disputes on the waves of “freedom”, you like to create a kaleidoscope of opinions, and I personally feel sorry for your broadcast paid by American taxpayers. This time should rightfully belong to those people who are in an unequal position with all these legal entities. Do not try to be those who the Freedom radio station has not been to us in our worst times. I personally included “freedom” not to hear Yuri Zhukov. And I called Jurgens because I recently heard from this "expert", who was with his institute on salary with President Medvedev, that he was developing with all his might for us the way to the best future. He says that you need to have two parties. Let Putin lead one, the other is Medvedev, and now they, as nominants of these parties, should go to the next presidential election and compete with each other. And this provocative, mocking delirium of the Radio "Freedom" gives the broken hour of its precious time. There is no God for you, gentlemen ”!, Writes Nikolai Vasilievich Smirnov from Omsk, a man of advanced age, if he remembers such rulers of Soviet thoughts as Yuri Zhukov. Thanks for the letter, Nikolai Vasilievich! In the speeches of Mr. Jurgens, something else scratched, and for some time now scratches in the speeches of all, without exception, the Kremlin ideologists. They complain about the "passivity of the population." Give them another people, namely the people who have grown to democracy - then they, together with Putin and Medvedev, willingly allow him this useful device. I did not hear anything from them. About the indifference of the population, that he does not give a damn about the overall interest, that it is stupidly waiting for when Putin does everything for him ... When an oppositionist, an opponent of power speaks of this, is possible, this is normal, there can be no complaints about him. And when the ruler or the one that trembles near him complains about the native population, this is mockery. He tied a man on his hands and feet, shut his mouth, threw it into dust - and stands above him, lamented: well, that you will not get on your feet, you will not raise a voice for your rights. The fresh theory of the Kremlin "expert community". Putinism, they say, is certainly not honey, but what to do if our people are so ... fashionable true -witch. The first to say decent and really scientists in the West, and for a very long time. And the Kremlin servant only now picked up: Oh, this is exactly what we need to justify everything that we want to justify ... both laughter and sin. Here is the same Jurgens. He heads Medvedev’s “brain headquarters”. Medvedev contains it. When he took it to the service, he ordered not to lick power, to report everything as it is. But to express his cherished thought - that Putin, if he is editing endlessly and undividedly, will be turned into Late Brezhnev, he cannot express this thought from the Russian screen, the main Medvedev staff. Do not give him. And runs, poor, to the office of the English newspaper and to the studio of the American radio station.

On the same topic as Mr. Smirnov from Omsk, and in the same manner writes Mr. Sergeychik from Belarus - from Belarus, but about Russian affairs. In the former Soviet republics there are people who follow Russian affairs almost more than domestic. This, however, does not apply to Ukraine. Here, even those whom I call the Russian-Soviet part of the population are almost not interested in Russian political life. The fact is that in Russia, according to Ukrainian concepts, there is no political life. And to be interested in what is not is difficult. In Ukraine, this good is above the roof. Sometimes it seems that there is nothing but political life. In the Ukrainian consciousness, Russia generally takes up little space. They almost do not talk about this country. In the Russian consciousness, on the contrary, Ukraine takes up a lot of space, and this place is sad. Russia still lives with a feeling of loss-lost Ukraine, lost Belarus, lost Georgia. The Ukrainian does not feel any loss of any loss. She, she believes, has everything except the mind and conscience of her politicians. This is the main shortage, which everyone is talking about, and - in their eyes. The Prime Minister cannot say a word so as not to hear ten objections and comments, the president cannot pronounce a half-word so as not to hear a more objections and comments ... But I have a letter from Belarus. “Not sure,” writes Mr. Sergeychik, “that the Freedom radio stations should be taken on a feasible participation in Moscow Tarakanya Running. On these run, Russia is being developed to the future. One of the developers recently performed on your radio. This is Mr. Jurgens. ” The author gives him a second surname. This is also a simple Russian surname: Manilov ... it seemed to Mr. Sergeychik by the voice that the head of the Medvedev’s “brain headquarters” was not fooling around, but in fact he sees the possibility of the existence of two competing parties in Russia: Putinskaya and Medvedevskaya, believes that they can remain after the departure of their leaders, in turn, prudently governed countries, like democrats and republican states. America. I can’t disagree with Mr. Sergeychik that we are observing a great gap from life. In Russia, there is no such clamp so that it is impossible to breathe, but this is precisely the danger to the system. Little spaciousness for gradual weakening of nuts. I repeat: for gradual. He weakened a little - and everything, freedom, and only memories will remain from the highest officials. And from their parties, and from their composition of the Duma and the government ... some memories. And what will happen later, what parties and leaders will appear - we cannot know this today. One thing with Mr. Sergeychik is completely clear to us: no one will take an interest in the opinion of Jurgens ...

The next letter begins remarkably, just wonderful! Listen: "Out of respect for you, Anatoly Ivanovich, will spend efforts to clarify the subtleties of the Russian world." Usually, with such a swing, the subtleties of the universe, God's plan (those of the listeners of “freedom” who are sure that it is known), and here are only the “Russian world”, which is also not Hilo, agree, agree. First of all, the author reminds us that there have never been pure Russians. “Like the British with their great language, in which a million words are already a mixture of many blood, and Russians with their“ great and powerful ”. By the beginning of the twentieth century, the main population of Russia was clearly divided into a handful of educated Europeans and the dark mass of Asiopians. The Bolsheviks expelled and destroyed the first. Now see what happened later. The place of expelled and destroyed quickly took Jews from the former settled feature. Here I will draw your attention, Anatoly Ivanovich, on their first language. This is Yiddish, nothing more than a kind of German dialect. Turn out what happened? This, in essence, the German, Western element was in the place that the specialists of Peter the Great occupied in the eighteenth century, with whom he spent his western course. Stalin pressed them, and under Khrushchev they raised them. In fact, it was then in Moscow that the new great Russian intelligentsia of the Western damage with a powerful Jewish element was born. No, these people were not a small -town Jews in Yermoks. These were people of new Russian culture. Here they are, especially after 1989, and began to conduct a course of Peter in the new conditions. So, from the middle of the ninth century with the then symbolic of the Slavs, the Vikings, Finns, until the end of the twentieth in Russia, different combinations of the highest layer arose. Its compound parts changed, but focus to the West remained unchanged. And now the most important question. Why did the Russian, mainly Moscow, humanitarian intelligentsia of the era of Gorbachev-Eltsin not supported Russian common people and mass engineering? Why did democratic undertakings crashed against harsh Eurasian everyday life? Because rock music, jeans and a computer that killed communism could not turn the main Russian mass at least into Poles. The Moscow highly educated Westernism broke his teeth on Russian-School asiopism in urban packaging. ” Here I will finish reading this letter-everything, in my opinion, is clear that the author had in mind by the intricacies of the “Russian world”, which he tried to clarify to us. Continuing in his spirit, it can be withdrawn from what he said, which consists of the main difficulty of the future ruler of Russia: what to do with the Aziopian top of the state apparatus, entirely thieves, robber, despising everything European, except for ships, restaurants, cars and palaces in the French south? There is a more difficult question, but this is no longer for the ruler, but for the whole country. This question is contained in the following letter. “The crisis, in which Russia failed deeper than all serious countries, has aggravated the most important Russian question: how to rebelly, and not up to the ruins? It’s probably still that you have to rebel, it will not be possible to change the authorities differently, but how again not to enter a democratic wave into a chaos of a bead? The most dangerous is the upstarts below. We know how they understand democracy. They understand democracy as permissiveness, as the seizure of power and property with a gangster way. This will be the paralysis of any law through a Krryuchkoror lawyer and through local gangster armies. It will be simple and insulting. In Russian. For billions on offshores, of course, we are not needed and not necessary, but we will still not live like confectioners, bankers, cheese pants, watchmakers and cattle breeders of Switzerland, but as subjects of Pope Duvalier in Haiti, like pirate republics of the seventeenth century, - writes this subsurbed listener. -We share the plant, thinking that now we will receive a thousand euros per month, and it was not there! Yashka Kutsya, a regional groin of a district scale, will weed fifty percent to yourself and a lads, and if you are picn, or a little more difficult, or a little more difficult-in the afternoon: you will find raiders from the provincial tax on you. ”

One listener from Moscow sent his treatise on the Radio “Freedom” about “the development of relations in society from ancient times to the present day,” I quote. He reminds us that private property arose with an increase in labor productivity of an ancient person, with the advent of excesses with which he began to exchange with fellow tribesmen, in which in the middle of the first millennium BC in Greece and a market arose, where the seller is free to assign a price, and the buyer is free to choose a seller. “These properties of the market,” writes the author, “after one and a half thousand years, in the era of education, he realized the English philosopher Locke, who also noticed that it was the market that gives rise to democracy, which limits and ennobles power.” By the way, I will add from myself that the first feature of the market was almost then noticed by the Russian person who said that there were two fools in the bazaar: one sells, the other buys, but the second feature is about the connection between free economic life and democracy, which is very regrettable, he has not yet realized. Further, the treatise is followed by discussions about socialism, about administrative and command relations, dominant within each enterprise even in a free wound, and how confused, reasoning about these things, Karl Marx, and so on, and the like. The author addresses me: “Dear Anatoly Ivanovich! I do not ask you to announce and even read the attached opus yourself. It is so non -standard that I do not hope to shake your established picture of the world. I ask you to look for some kind of sensible young teacher of history (physics, mathematics) and give him this text, possibly for an experiment with students. With perfect reverence, the former proletarian is such and such. ” I did not understand what experiment we are talking about, but that is not the point. On the one hand, of course, it’s nice to receive such letters. They show that for some, and perhaps many of our listeners, more than a radio station than ordinary journalists and writers, we are mistaken for friends-consultants, almost for relatives and God knows for who else-for teachers and mentors, confessors, social activists, runs of the fate of mankind, and someone for personal enemies and enemies, from whom all evil in the world. We are presented, so to speak, the rights of love or, as you know, not so far - hatred. It's nice, I say, to make such a strong impression on sensitive people. And on the other hand ... on the other hand, you yourself know what can be said here. People are in the Old Derevyan world, and this is not only cute, funny, but also disappointing, as not quite a natural slowdown of growth in a young man or a girl. It is from here that the well -known features of the present Russian life are features that the regime is already starting to moan, and of which they have grown.

The next letter: “Good afternoon Anatoly! Six years, from two thousandth to the sixth, I was to work in Italy. There it was possible to truly see and feel what the "Soviet people" actually represent. There are Russians, Ukrainians, Georgians, Moldovans, Balts, Belarusians, Uzbeks, etc. They helped each other as they could, shared the latter. The policy of the so -called elite of our countries, which for a long time, did not interfere with us - they remember us only on the eve of the election. Our migrant workers on their heads were and are above other representatives of the Warsaw Treaty and Third World. Our people are spiritually richer, talented, quick -witted, educated. And our temporary difficulties are from old sins. We have not yet learned to choose, but we just vote. We do not have civil society so far, there are no democratic institutions that would put the barriers to officials and the authorities of the tyranny. We are distinguished by only the natural resources and the size of our countries, the interests of our politicians. Otherwise, we are the same, people who deserve respect for each other. I would like to say about the attitude towards us Italians. That's from whom to take an example. Tolerance, friendliness, desire to help. There, laws work there, people know their rights and know how to defend them, and the government is only temporarily hired by the people to work for the benefit of this people. Sincerely, Yuri Uzhoga, Chisinau. " Therefore, the Soviet has his own city, Mr. Magic? Let us now be citizens of different countries, but still a cut above all these Poles, Chekhov, Hungarians, Bulgarians, not to mention the immigrants from the Third World. Please write to me, what you explain that the Italians, judging by your words, do not believe that they are a cut above the foreigners working in Italy, including the representatives of the countries of the former Warsaw Treaty and the Third World named, well, and you themselves. And what really prevents you from taking an example from them ... It seems to me that you know why they, people of the free world, do not look at you from top to bottom, do not call you scoops, do not say that they are spiritually richer and more talented than you? Потому что, как вы правильно заметили, знают свои права и умеют их отстаивать. Иными словами, они в полном смысле слова свободные люди.

Письмо из Москвы: «Обычным стало распивание (несмотря на запрет) пива в метро, даже курят по вечерам на малолюдных станциях. В транспорте хочется заткнуть уши, потому что слышишь либо мат, либо совершенно безграмотную речь, состоящую из одних "короче" и "в натуре". Причем, отличаются этим не только люди малообразованые, но и "манагеры", банковские работники, судя по разговорам. Уже не только на рабочую должность, но и на инженерную трудно найти действительно грамотного (в техническом и бытовом смысле) человека. Безработица, но где же специалисты? Уже и на инженерных должностях в Москве появились таджики. А наши горе-мастера? Сломался холодильник. Приезжает мальчик Женя из Подмосковья. Меняет и регулятор, и агрегат. Говорю: зачем мотор менять? «Нет, клянусь, необходимо!». Через полгода сгорел его китайский агрегат. Теперь холодильник чиню сам, покуаю запчасти, хоть и не спец, но делаю все без брака. Хотел дачный домик отремонтировать, но строитель, хоть и знающий, с утра пришел пьяный, стал спорить по каждому поводу. Конечно, от ворот поворот. Унитаз "мастера" переставляли три раза. В конце концов и мелкий ремонт дачи, и установку унитаза сделали таджики. Причем, иметь с ними дело было лучше, хотя русский язык знают плохо, зато дисциплинированные, не алкаши, не воруют. На наших дачных участках работают молдаване (имею в виду не национальность, а гражданство). Те, кто уже семь-десять лет к нам ездят, - мягко говоря, бракоделы и воры. А кто помоложе, что недавно появились - совсем другой народ, честный, работящий, и пьют в меру. То же могу сказать и об украницах. А у наших у ворот... Власть болтает о нанотехнологиях, но кому их разрабатывать?

При всей моей нелюбви к большевикам, надо отдать им должное. В тридцатые-пятидесятые годы они старались повысить культуру народа, прекрасно понимая, что малокультурный человек на современном производстве нужен только в качестве грузчика. И бесконечно звучала по радио классическая музыка, билет в театр, музей стоил копейки. И кто сегодня помнит, Анатолий Иванович, что в сороковые-пятидесятые годы в Москве могли оштрафовать за то, что окурок на тортуар бросил? Но, видно, ныне "элите" нужно "быдло"... Только кто же на нее работать будет? С уважением Алексей». Thanks for the letter, Alexey! Послесоветская жизнь в России пришлась на неудачное всемирное время. Сантехник дядя Вася и на Западе сегодня не тот, что когда-то. One thing is good. Нет трудностей с материалами и запчастями. Всякий, у кого есть руки, может многое сделать без помощи дяди Фрица, дяди Джона, дяди Гонзы. А одинокие женщины… Многие из них с ужасом ждут, когда сломается холодильник, забарахлит кран или закапризничает автомобиль. Обратная сторона общей зажиточности и защищённости… Дядя Вася наглеет, зная, что не пропадёт, как бы ни куролесил. Не знаю, как богатые народы будут выбираться из этого капкана. Между прочим, некоторые сильные умы предвидели такой поворот очень давно, при первых же победах рабочего класса в его борьбе с капиталом.