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The uprising of the speaker
Former employee of the magazines "Expert" and "Russian Life" Andrei Gromov and the former "chief adviser to the Kremlin" Gleb Pavlovsky at a rally on December 24
(uprising of the speaker)
Russian society is self -made. This is self -intensity.
This is an amazing fact. Six months ago, no one would say that it is "at all." That is, only now you can "say something about his" state. " His "condition" itself is born before our eyes. If at such moments of history you are a “young sociologist” - then you are incredibly lucky. Because you start at the moment when "society speaks." And it generally "speaks" very rarely. I am a witness to this self -integration for the second time (in twenty years). This is an incredibly inspiring event. Because at such moments, they suddenly begin to “speak” and it would seem inaudible books again. Suddenly, the traditions of self -meaning, which switched to a whisper, come to life. And suddenly it turns out that "nothing died." And it was not a whisper at all. At such moments, as if “the whole areopag” - from Plato to Gi Deborah, as if getting from his seats in this worldwide amphitheater ...
No matter how further it happens, but now for the whole generation, this December will lie in the biography as an important event of youth. In any case, it will remain some kind of "civilian vicineton". Imagine that Russian society will fall on the ground and will be silent for another ten years. But this "silence" will now have a historical background "we were on Sakharov Avenue." That is, even if it is all suppressed now, scattered or bought, it will remain in Russian social history now forever. This will be a reminder that "power is not limitless", that there is, it turns out, some limit to the cynicism of the authorities, behind which the answer of society begins. Or more precisely, it is suddenly discovered that there is a "society".