Repetition of the passed

Photos from the rally on February 4, 1990 on Manezhnaya steel are very popular on the Internet after the rally on December 10, 2011 in Bolotnaya Square: people send them to each other and cannot believe that once so many Muscovites were actually going outside. More than 300 thousand people from February to February gathered for a rally in 1990, people remembering perestroika, the current protests cause the state of deja vu. “To ruin the monopoly of one party”, “To cancel censorship in the media”, “Freedom of processions and meetings”-all these slogans sounded then, in the winter of 1990 (p. 6). These twenty -odd years have changed the country out of recognition - primarily because a market economy and private property appeared. But this was by no means a linear movement, rather, as a classic used to say, a step forward, two back. By February 1990, there were no more political faces in the USSR, the special zones were closed. In February 2012, the list of “political” has more than a dozen names (p. 14), and “Freedom to political prisoners” is one of the main slogans of the day. 22 years ago, the power clan was split, bureaucracy in uniform and without rushing into commerce and needed to open the country, the current one sits on billions of assets and is ready to protect them at all costs. 22 years ago, the liquidation of the iron curtain between the West and the East gave hope, now the Western democratic world is again declared an enemy. And yet: then slaves rose from the knees, today those who were born to be free (p. 10) go to the streets. About this - in the main topic of The New Times