They will finish them off - they will take on us

Columns in TrV are written in advance, and I do not know what will happen in my country at the time the newspaper is published. I hope it's nothing. They made some noise, fought, and separated. This is the most likely option, but an impossible and unthinkable thing has already happened: ten thousand thugs raised their hands under the Kremlin walls in a fascist salute, just like in the photographs from Hitler’s Germany, and then went down to the subway to kill those who were different.

Well, yes, ten thousand dangerous idiots in Moscow with a population of ten million is not very much. Unless this is the tip of the iceberg. We live in a terribly prosperous world, in the morning we politely greet dark-haired people who clean sidewalks and offices, build and repair houses, drive vehicles, sell us freshly baked buns - satisfy the vital needs of society so that it remains able to pay us , a little better educated, for secondary needs: for journalism there or for science. At the same time, fortunately, we know nothing about the world in which these wolf cubs from Manezhnaya Square live, where one drunken crowd fights with another drunken crowd, where it is not customary to love your job and where social connections are limited to classmates and neighbors in the stairwell , and a person cannot get used to the fact that all people are different from childhood and this is normal.

It is obvious that if a person is capable of open manifestations of nationalism, then his head works somehow completely differently, and I am afraid that I am unable to understand exactly how, much less what to do about it. Apparently, his life is so meaningless and hopeless that in such a situation I would rather drown myself right away. For him, this is the norm - his parents also lived like this - so he does not go to drown himself, but since he still feels existential horror and loneliness in the Universe, he begins to look for his own people, and then, together with them, to look for those to blame. Obviously, with a low level of reflection, both of these groups - the guilty ones and one’s own - should be determined by some extremely obvious signs, such as red and white scarves or the shape of the nose. Of course, it is absolutely impossible to be friends against any real problem, such as corruption, because the bribe-taker does not have it written on his forehead that he is a bribe-taker, it is impossible to drag him out of a subway car and beat him, but it is easy and pleasant to be friends against phenotypic signs. The problem is that if all the migrants leave Moscow tomorrow, not only will life not get better, but on the contrary, serious economic problems will begin. And then these guys will have to choose their next phenotypic enemy. I suggest bespectacled people.

There is an announcement in the Moscow metro that goes something like this: “Find a job. Rent an apartment. Live without drugs." I doubt that it has an effect on anyone, because from the position of a normal person it is good to have housing and work and not be a drug addict, but if the target audience is already familiar with the sensations of opiates, then it is unlikely that they will agree to exchange them for this boring one of yours human life. It’s the same here: minding your own business, I think, is not as exciting as dressing up in a scarf and shouting crazy slogans. There must be some kind of crazy hormonal cocktail of adrenaline, cortisol and the same endorphins. Young poorly educated human males generally like to unite in packs, fight and yell. It would be brilliant if the military registration and enlistment office thought of setting up its own reception center on Manezhnaya Square on December 11th. If you want to flock together, the country will provide you with such an opportunity.

Because otherwise it is completely unclear what to do with this... whatever censorship word to choose... part of society. The fact that it exists at all - and even more so that it is numerous - causes horror and disgust, but, besides them, also pity (“so young, and already so many problems”). It would be nice to somehow study them, to understand what they really lack, what problems nationalism compensates for them, and whether society can help them in any way. Maybe they need a network of evening schools? Or sports sections? Or is it worth stirring up some kind of global national project like the development of virgin lands and driving them there? I hope that now the state will think about how to help these unfortunate people. After all, ten thousand in the center of the capital - these guys did everything possible to draw public attention to their mental disorders.