Hello, Lenin's log!

Gorbushka workers are forced to go out on night cleanup

Public money in the pockets of the authorities is melting quickly, but the authorities want a unanimous popular impulse. So we decided to hold two all-Russian cleanup days in a row this April. Older people know what this event is.

For those who are younger, I will explain: a subbotnik is free, as if voluntary, work in a place indicated by the authorities. Subbotniks were called “Leninist” subbotniks. Firstly, they were timed to coincide with Ilyich’s birthday - April 22. Secondly, the leader of the world proletariat considered these subbotniks to be very important - people learned to work for free, as in the imminent communism. According to legend, Lenin himself once carried a log on such a cleanup day. Later, even hundreds of old Bolsheviks showed up, each of whom claimed that it was he who supported Lenin’s log at the other end.

And so the management of the famous Moscow “Gorbushka” (the “Gorbushkin Dvor” shopping center near the Bagrationovskaya metro station) in the person of citizen-comrade Vasilina Zoremba and citizen-comrade Mark Berger gathered the tenants of the retail space and announced (you won’t believe it!) “everyone to go to work on the night of April 17 and sell the goods at a price below the purchase price.”

Complete nonsense, and the “Leninists” Zoremba and Berger perfectly understand the absolute meaninglessness of their call. It is clear that no one will trudge to Gorbushka at night to buy movies, music or computer software at prices “below market prices.” And if there are several people who want to buy cheaply the Hollywood blockbuster “Lenin and the Log” or the computer game “Plans of the Party - Plans of the People”, then why, for the sake of these hypothetical buyers, bring hundreds of people to work, who, by the way, will be working here again in the morning . If the administration of Gorbushka is so generous to mysterious buyers, let them fork out of their own pockets.

So why do lovers of other people’s free labor call for nonsense? One must think that the order came to them: “Organize, achieve, implement, report...”. Where did the order come from? Not from the Kremlin. Most likely from his native Moscow mayor's office. They also like to “organize, execute, report.” It turns out that before the May Stalin on the posters in honor of the 65th anniversary of the Victory, we are shown a warm-up by the April Lenin. In historical order.

Just think: for what purpose are people called upon to work at night, and even at a loss to themselves? Or they are going to build communism again. Or introduce a slave system, in which the vanquished work for free at the will of the victors.

This stupid idea weighs heavily on the path to a normal economy, normal law, and the normal life of our people in our country. And those who do this are downright enemies of the people, to use Stalinist terminology.

Vladimir ROMANOV