Clothing Khodorkovsky

It happened terrible. The ill-wishers of Mikhail Khodorkovsky was removed from dusty non-existence and revealed to the world (mainly the world of the Living Journal, which has recently been subjected to permanent Ddos bombings from the associates of the same ill-wishers) a slaughter compromise on the former head of the Yukos and his right hand-Leonid Nevzlin. Namely, the treatise "Man with a ruble" written by both of them and published in early 1992. Actually, this work was not too much hidden from the truthful public: on the Internet it was “at a time”, for example, by the link specified in Wikipedia in the article “Nevzlin”. However, it did not attract attention and did the right thing, for ... for ... for, by and large, and there was nothing to attract this attention to him. According to the genre "man with a ruble" - all just a pamphlet on the anger of the day, dying with this anger of the day, after which to one degree or another only interesting to historians.

And, nevertheless, the propaganda effect takes place-to my surprise, even very sound, educated and cultural people considered it necessary to celebrate on this issue in the same LJ, and in a rather categorical form, like "someone considers this person the hope of Russia!" Or "now Khodorkovsky does not exist for me as a politician!" Or "Here he is what a redneck actually!" etc. And this is already interesting - interesting and sad, for it demonstrates not so much the true face of Khodorkovsky as the degree of sanity of our public. Even its most developed part.

In fact, a "man with a ruble", as I said, is a pamphlet. That is, the presentation of thought in the grotesque, partly satirical form. A kind of theater. Specifically in it, socialism is “beating” as a principle that is opposed to the beneficiality of crystal market acquisition. From the current far, this rhetoric seems quite naive and, sometimes ridiculous. Here, for example, the authors describe their ostentatious consumerism: “ Needs grow with money, this is not a whim, but a necessity. One of us prefers the Japanese“ Nisan ”, the other stopped at the“ Volvo ”. They bought them for the currency that would be enough for the acquisition of three or four Volga, five to six“ LiS ”. The pursuit of prestige was decided by the foreign car and this, we spend the sums - and the image of a successful businessman, and most importantly - the saving of time and effort, is well thought, the cars are well -owned, obedient, thoughts, and we will not have time The storytakes paid off, although we honestly admit, the sowder still says: sometimes it comes to mind - but is it a whim by buying foreign cars, have the Zamoskvoretsky merchants spoke in us? ”

This passage is even doubly funny, for we now know that already being the richest in Russia, Khodorkovsky lived very modestly by the standards of much less wealthy people-they wrote somewhere that his personal expenses amounted to something in the region of $ 300,000 a year ...

In general, today a direct, albeit corrected by humorous whipping, expression of banal ideas such as “private management is more effective than the state”, “the market will solve all problems” and “entrepreneurial initiative is more productive than bureaucratic” should hardly have been interested in someone. We already know that this is true, however - not the whole truth.

What, however, cannot be said about the beginning of 92 - those who lived then and at the same time are still unpleasant to turn their memory, will hardly argue with the then constitution of G. Burbulis: "The people in Russia are now insane." In fact, in those epic times, the views of people did not differ in a wealth of development-some were in a rather heady bug of the conviction that now, tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, he will certainly come in view of the beneficial activity of the market’s hands, while others were sincerely convinced that tomorrow or the order they would be waking up and will be immediately invited to the cash desk of their native factory, where, as in the years, they will receive the past years. their unconditional, independent of production and not deprived of inflation of pennies. The illusions of these latter were called up, according to the authors, to destroy the "man with the ruble."

I am inclined to believe that almost everyone who today says that, they say, he was smarter then and understood significantly more - a liar. There are exceptions, but their units, and they are just not inclined to make pathos statements.

However, since those funny pores, a lot of time has passed that the people born today are already adults today, and those who were an adult and at least any reasonable then changed very much. For a person tends to process the current picture of the world on the basis of the gained life experience-and even something, but the last we were enough. Everyone also changes Khodorkovsky - but, unlike many, the former head of the Yukos on the adjustment of his worldview did not hesitate to declare publicly - in one of the articles of his "prison journalism" - "left turn" .

But the matter, as I said, is not in him. And in us, in the public, assuming the right to speak out on political problems - even on the Internet. We, of course, have always been as smart as today-this time. And we do not admit to anyone (except ourselves) the right to speak out with the expectation only for a specific audience in place and time. And not all of humanity at once, and at all times, including us today, two. And even more than that - after all, we are much to read between the lines, that is, unwritten. And therefore, having read “ from the pages of one of the mass newspapers in the summer of 1991, Menatep was charged with immorality. The reason was the information that Menatep bought the territory of several pioneer camps, which deprived red -lumpled rights to rest. We declare in public: if our will and introduce such an opportunity - we would not leave a single pioneer camp on the territory of the country. It is immoral to have such pioneer camps, immorally provide children with rest in such institutions, ” we , of course, figured out that Khodorkovsky and non -Zelevin are deflated Dearnovytniks.

And “why are there more and more high school students about the career of a currency prostitute, why did candidates of science, party and Komsomol activists have gone to the confans? Yes, they are tired of poverty, vegetation, hopelessness, they want to live. In prostitutes, they do not see the libertine, but the representative - highly paid! - In some way, the sphere of service ” - means beneficial, in the opinion of the authors, the appeal of candidates of sciences to the institution of prostitution.

“... also-from questions-consumptions: you will not raise a poorly lying? Necessarily! And without any hesitation. We have stolen the road to developed socialism by banknotes, everything was lying under our feet, and no one had dealt with this - ours. Our time has ended, his time has come. It lies badly - we will raise it, not to do this unethical. And enough about ethics, for us one criterion is a benefit, ” - we understand, of course, not as an apology for privatization, but as a proud declaration of readiness for theft from the national budget.

We generally know better what the author wanted to say than this author himself. And in our contempt for these notorious hapugs and right -winged extremists, we are happy to forget our own experience, saying that the worst villain is not the one who proclaims “I am an evil and terrible karabas!”, But just one who, with a smile of compassion, will burst out about folk needs and aspirations.