In the opposition

Victory, indistinguishable from defeat

November 15, 2010 Mikhail Berg

The situation with the resolution of a rally on the triumphal makes us ask an obvious question: what is the meaning of this action, if not in the exposure of the proprietary one, with a sign of quality, the forbidden of the Russian authorities, prohibiting what is allowed according to the law?

In principle, Soviet dissidents did the same thing: they also proved that the power of is criminal, and voluntarily gave themselves to a toxic, playing a dangerous role of evidence. A little different proportions: then units, today-hundreds, but the risk is incomparable: to get a club on the head and spend some time in a nearby-not at all the same as five to seven years of Soviet camps. Although this risk is really terrible: it was scary and is to contrast itself with a solid, like asphalt, to the majority. For dissidents, this proportion was hundreds of thousands of times more deafening. Loneliness, contrasting itself with what is called the people, is difficult to find something more prickly.

True, there is one more significant difference: then, 40-45 years ago, on the side of the dissidents was such a mysterious and influential, such neo-pearl west, together with all its media guns (that is, with the most authoritative media, intellectuals-professional and politicians of the first level). And now, alas, not at all. That is, there is support, but some lazy, forced, I would say-tortured. And this, of course, is a symptom. In the sense that the behavior of the defendants seems to be the same as the heroic , and the acoustics are different. And, in my opinion, the point is not at all that, they say, the human nature of those and today's dissidents is fundamentally different. There is no faith, rather. Neither in our oppositionists, nor in their decency (I think, there is no particular difference in the scatter of the human properties of the past and today's dissident). The damned and, by the way, prettyly, dry the west, does not believe that something will come from this struggle. He does not believe that in general, something will leave our Poshekhon country by the name of the Russian Federation. He does not believe in our great homeland, nor in the great Russian people, nor in our labor sign with a sign of defeat on the face of the intelligentsia.

That is, yes, of course, people are fighting, defend the honor of an indifferent society, but some kind of such, they think there, on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, the honor of this swamp, which defiantly turned away from such a fundamental thing as personal freedom? And indeed, after all, if we, with all our culture, with all our geniuses-warmths, our entire unique story, check for lice for only the last twenty years, then some kind of shameful Bzik Pshik comes out. They gave freedom - they gave freedom, gave them - upstairs and gave. Back and forth, you are pleased. And most importantly, not only ourselves, no one from the serious Luda believes that Russia is not some kind of enchanted place called, I don’t know, well, let there be a house hydrocarbon cow .

Why am I breeding these boring and typical roulads? Not at all, in order to once again prick the Russian great-power and click on the nose of a hurricetic community. And then, in order to call the main culprits to real responsibility. And if anyone asks, who are these main culprits, then I must clarify: we are just responsible for this. That is, not only we, of course, the entire Russian people, as usual, is also responsible, but we - first of all. And we are Russian democrats and liberals.

That is, Putin and his Codl, of course, will wait for the court of history and even more. Yes, he took our collective GDP of freedom first media, then judicial and electoral, generally took the story as a distance for a gaze, which means that there were no weights that he and his entire company could not hang on his neck. And I myself am ready to do it. But for some reason our people of Zasya, for some reason, does not love us very much. And although I do not feel any such respect for the definition of folk love, as I do not feel the slightest respect for such a concept as the majority, however, it is very doubtful that all this dislike arose, like Venus from foam, that is, not to stand at all a causal relationship behind all these bright feelings.

And there is a causal relationship, clear, there is. I will now have to speak on behalf of the great Russian people, so if something is wrong - sorry. But if I understand correctly, the year when public opinion broke off, this is the year of 1992. Yes, reforms-deposits, devaluation-reward, stratification and displacement. But after all, the Democrats are not only the Gaidar government, not only the crafty promise of the two Volg in return for the paper named voucher , not only the Chubais Potemkin privatization. And the very distinct role of democrats as a smoke curtain, under the cover of which it may have become that few, “who dare”, divide and saw the rotten body of the Soviet homeland into tidbits and lay the foundations of future injustice.

That is, those friends who sawed the weight of the weights saw them only because at that time the democrats and communists who fought not for their lives, but for death, came together on stage in the last decisive clinch. But in fact, consciously or unconsciously (consciously) played the role of a distracting maneuver that allowed the vile Soviet nomenclature to convert their power into money, and then very quickly to convert money again into power and in the same money, only already more. Each of us was in its place. Everyone did what he could. The number of democrats, I mean decent people among them, who received even a wool of a tuft with a lousy sheep named Privatization, can be counted on the fingers. I have not received, you have not received it, he did not. But they still played the role of the smoke curtain, and we will not be trust in this, at least close the bench. However, ask yourself, how many today are ready for such a confession (if not repentance), which Yuri Afanasyev decided on. I respect without jokes.

I think we have to repent. It's time. No matter how it is further, the Putin regime is historically doomed. But whoever comes to power later, the democrats will simply not arise. Why not again people think that the new perestroika will again be for grandmas, for power, well convertible, for some bosses to leave, while others came, and we - intellectuals - again fulfill the role of a smoke curtain. Who can prove that it will not be so and that this sometimes does not eat now?

Yes, what is called the people is in our position of unreasonable child, and it is softly said, sometimes I want to ask for a consultation from a children's psychiatrist: is it not oligophrenia, is it in the relatives, did Valya's mother drank soundlessly? But this is the case when neither parents nor their offspring choose. What is, such is our main observer and judge. I have no other people for you. But from him to ask how from fish for a torn umbrella. We were noisily noisy. We fought not with those. We did not agree then, do not agree today. We simplified and simplify. The Communists, with whom the struggle was the last time, was the unsuccessful part of the nomenclature, which the part won no less vile, but more cunning and successful. We are responsible for injustice, since, in fact, we stood in the shuher, while the branded bandules-induks filled their pockets. Yes, we were not in the share (and someone was). But we were the most noisy, and thanks to this, and not just Grandfather Yeltsin, these same nomenclatures-officials in fur cloaks with a great-power linge came to power.

And no matter how ridiculous, the West today is on the side of our, so to speak, people. He does not believe in the Russian Federation with the same force as the electorate does not believe us. The West says: I feel my soul - you will not succeed. And the people say: wow, and I doubt adequacy and - as it were more harmless to say - the sanity of our intellectuals from a democratic head. And I will tell you, this ligament is worth a lot. The future is in doubt. And say that I know where the way out is exaggeration. Is that the fact that the enemies were not the Communists, but, so to speak, conformists. But this is understandable.

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