Lublin Fair

And then the quiet Tajik wipers came and all night they removed the traces of Russian patriotism.

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Every year before November 4, my colleagues and I solve a difficult task: how be in time for all the declared "Russian marches", especially if the nationalists gather in different parts of Moscow. This year I'm with some inner tremblingly imagined that I would have to go from home to the main march to Lyublino, and from there - to the alternative "Russian Run" in Tushino. TO fortunately for me, the Moscow authorities did not give permission to hold Tushino event, and rush headlong from one sleeping district of Moscow to another, and then back, did not have to. Limited Lublin event.

"Alternatives" from the "People's Cathedral" and "Russian DPNI", to which I also wanted to get in, this time we decided not to break away from the team and marched in the same Lublin a couple of hours earlier. But for earlier "Imperial March" I, to confess, did not have time: I stared at the subway the gathering group under the command of Georgy Borovikov from "Memory", who contemptuously called the "alternatives" traitors. And when reached the place, the "Imperial March" had already passed.

On the eve of the main "Russian March" there was a lot of noise. Among participants were expected Alexei Navalny (appeared on the march) and Ivan Okhlobystin (not seen there). Again, the authorities distinguished themselves, contriving for two days before the march to detain Dmitry Demushkin and right before the event - Konstantin Krylov and thereby give them a heroic halo "martyrs for a just cause".

A crowd of young people gathered in masks, hats and gauze bandages. In that There were more people this year than the previous year. Of course, not 25 thousand, declared by the organizers, but certainly not less than 6 thousand. The police were a lot - cordons on both sides of the boulevard and a helicopter in the air, but for such a gathering is still not enough.

What annoyed me was the presence of children. It is the children preschoolers who waved imperial flags and stomped next to unfortunate parents.

This year's event has become noticeably commercialized. Right after metal detectors were briskly selling T-shirts, flags, mugs and magnets with the right symbols. They lined up for a long time and tried to organize the crowd. Before the start of the procession a fight arose among the banner-bearers: some alternative was found a group that intended to stand at the head of the column - but in the end they won "traditional" banner-bearers who sang psalms and "God Save the Tsar" regardless to the noise around.

Among the banner-bearers, a group of Cossacks wormed their way, demanding from President of Kazakhstan to stop renaming streets and villages in Uralsk. Young people from the Russian Jogging group stood out, unexpectedly who started doing push-ups right in the middle of the procession, and folklore-looking participants with balalaikas in sarafans and kosovorotkas, dancing squatting and singing obscene ditties about the upcoming elections.

This year there were no “Kvachkovites” on the march, who rallied near the metro "Street 1905". But there was a column with a poster "Freedom to the Colonel Khabarov" (retired colonel Leonid Khabarov, a supporter of Kvachkov, was arrested in Yekaterinburg on charges of preparing an armed rebellion).

Basically, familiar faces gathered on the march: Belov in a red tie and a black cloak, Demushkin with a red beard, Borovikov with inflated cheeks ... Navalny stood out in the Belov column with a displeased expression face, he did not chant any chants. Yes, and no wonder - in part chants marching this year distinguished themselves. In addition to the already traditional anti-Caucasian, anti-Semitic, neo-Nazi and obscene chants (such as “Russians - Russian Moscow, cancel 2-8-2!”, “For white Europe - for white Russia!”, “Death to khacham!”, “Stop feeding the Caucasus!”, “Ziga-zaga!”, “Zig-heil, zig-heil - we will build a white paradise!”), sounded new variants with the same motives (“Who does not jump is a chump!”, “In Moscow minarets will be built, thanks to Putin for this”, “Why are there holes in the budget? From that Kadyrov is fed!”, “Budanov is a hero of Russia!”, “Dyomushkin, return to Chechnya!").

In addition, they chanted the anarchist slogan "Higher, higher the black flag, the state is the main enemy! ”, But at the same time on the Shevchenko embankment of the anti-fascist march, the traditional chants were remade nationalists "Come on, come on ..."

There was much more oppositional rhetoric at this march than at previous years. There were at least three people at the rally - Alexei Navalny, Alexander Belov, Daniil Konstantinov - opposed the "United Russia". Belov also called for immediately after the elections to withdraw from protest action. Borovikov put forward the idea of ​​creating "elite paramilitary detachments" in order to "bring Russian order".

The “comrade-in-arms” from the “French Renaissance” caused a special revival. Even not so much the Frenchman himself as his translator, to whom listeners from the crowd advised to call a speech therapist. The rally ended with a concert. On this time, instead of the Kolovrat, who left for St. Petersburg, the Kruger group performed.

And everything would be fine, you can survive the chants, and the zigzag crowd, and smoke checkers. But at home, from the news, I learned that those returning from the march participants at the Volzhskaya metro station almost beat an Asian passenger and attacked someone at Proletarskaya...

Sources

• Yudina N. Lublin Fair // Grani.ru. 2011. November 6.