I blame!

Pianist Mikhail Arkadyev - about the great musicians and artists who openly support the power guilty of irreversible molestation and split of the country

Pianist Mikhail Arkadyev: I accuse my colleagues - “musicians of law”, the heroes of the modern classical hystblishment Valery Gergiev and Yuri Bashmet, in the fact that they voluntarily turn into the service staff of one of the most shameful, cynical and criminal rulers in the history of Russia, the first political simulator of a global scale in Russian history

I realize that I am not Emil Zola, and few will hear my voice. But to say what I am going to say, it is necessary to say to someone right now. And the classic musician living in Russia should say about this.

I accuse this power of Putin and that power layer, the representative and embodiment of which he is, in the irreversible molestation of the country, in the unscrupulous criminal moral split of Russia.

Now this split, this crack passes through the hearts and souls of all people living in Russia without exception.

Or no longer living in it, but internally connected with Russia by birth, language and education.

On February 4, 2012, with a heavy heart, I realized that the marsh and worshipers were a symbol of the gap in the soul of the people, the rupture consciously and sophisticatedly provoked by the authorities. Today, on February 7, 2012, I unexpectedly cried for myself from grief, horror, pity, powerlessness, bewilderment, reading that Alice Freindlich (in the last version of the list of the name of Alisa Freindlich there is no- approx. Ed. ) Became the proxy of the prime minister in his, the so-called “presidential company”. Next to her, I saw the names of outstanding classical musicians with a world -famous Yuri Bashmet and Valery Gergiev.

But I cried not because of colleagues-musicians, but because of the great actress Alice Freindlich, who for several generations was a model of talent, spiritual purity and devotion to the craft of the theater, that from the time of Aeschylus it was impossible to imagine without serving the truth, word, thought and human conscience.

From the moment when people like Freindlich took the position of conscious support for the false, cynical, criminal, thieves power that doomes the country to moral, political and economy -skimming, the crack passed right through the hearts of millions of those who loved them.

This crack became visible in two Moscow squares on February 4. A naive and childishly heartbreaking question: how now to watch her favorite films and performances with Freindlich, how to read her memories, not catching herself thinking that at the end of her career she allowed herself to forget what was happening in the country with ordinary people, to whom she had turned from the stage and from the screen, due to the power of Vladimir Putin, who put on the Gorlum, who put on the Gorlum?

And what, in fact, is happening?

What has happened for the past 300 years - the slow stubborn terror of the nomenclature, the impudent celebration of the bureaucratic state, now dressed in glamor and turning into billions convertible into personal power. Our state has never been weak, it has always been and remains too strong, especially now, when it is equipped with nuclear weapons and when any average or higher position provides a personal dollar wealth to a power to the government. But the majority of the population is cowardly, simply out of fear of losing the illusion of security, it is confident that the state is still too weak, that it needs to be strengthened more, that it is necessary to restore the “order”, and this plays, will play and win the bureaucratic elite.

The thieves consciousness are based on humiliation, legalized lawlessness, a cult of cunning, meanness, bullying, supporting rude, or sophisticated violence. The sophistication of violence is now equipped with corporate personal capital. The authorities, continuously trampling their own constitution and fundamental ideas about the law and law, accustoming the people to this, are engaged in paternalist-clay support for noble artists, directors, musicians.

The horror of the situation with Freindlich is not in the private opinion of Alisa Brunovna, to which she has every right, but in the fact that from the moment she was recording a political video and consent to the role of a trustee, she voluntarily took on direct (after all in indirect one you can reproach each of us) of the lies, robbery and crimes of the regime, but I do not want to blame Alisa Freindli, because Her direct political support for Putin causes a sense of horror, shame and pity.

But I blame my colleagues - “musicians in law”, the heroes of the modern classic hystblishment Valery Gergiev and Yuri Bashmet . I accuse them, living on almost deserved (if it were not for the constant support of the Soviet, then post -Soviet state system) world fees and much less well -deserved huge handouts of power.

I accuse them of the distribution of these handouts among the monetary and career young and not very young colleagues dependent on them and their depending on them.

I accuse them of contributing to or prevented the reign of sliding money and a person-family-bilate patronage in classical music.

It is completely clear to me, without the slightest illusions that such as Valery Gergiev and Yuri Bashmet, do not give a damn that I think about them and many other musicians who are not inferior to them either with talent or skill, but do not want to play glamorous and criminal social games and thereby radically risking their career.

The great musicians of Gergiev and Bashmet captured all the paths along which the musicians who were not connected by the relations of patronage could, in addition to them, get on a large scene and prove their decline, skill and greatness to the world.

I accuse Gergiev, Bashmet and them like the moral molestation of several generations of young musicians, who are largely convinced that money and talent are money, money, money again and only money. It was they who convinced and accustomed the youth to the fact that the main thing is to use their immortal craft for glamorous success, with cynical indifference to the so -called "policy".

We are talking about indifference to the screaming facts of state violence, lawlessness, economic gas-unfortunate simulation, a total bureaucratic sliding robbery that doom the country's population to life without the future, including humiliating the poverty of tens of thousands of Russian classical musicians.

Ask a Russian, including a salary musician, how many weeks in advance can he plan his life and the life of his family? Ask a colleague-musician in those cities where you are touring, can he always financially afford to buy a ticket for your concerts?

As it just turned out, you haven’t been talking about any pure art, you deceived professional musical youth and the public. In the blink of an eye, representatives of one of the most exalted and disinterested arts, voluntarily turn into politicians, no, but into the service staff of one of the most shameful, cynical and criminal rulers in the history of Russia, the first global political simulator in Russian history.

Are you sincerely convinced, gentlemen and colleagues, that you are driven by a noble desire for stability for the country? Well, so you are mistaken, and this is the very mistake that is worse than a crime.

The point is not only that the basic foundations of freedom are violated and will be even more violated, not only that the threat of an actively repressive regime is real, but that these methods are absolutely hopeless from a pragmatic point of view.

Centralized, vertically controlled economies are the weakest and most short -lived in the world, even if they have a ten -year period of relative success. They are absolutely unable to cope with the basic economic problems of peacetime, including the construction of economic infrastructure: roads, communications and protection of private property.

The real story demonstrates viability and long-term (and not short-term, as with Hitler-Stalin Putin) the power of open societies, even given global systemic crises. Nostalgia for the “strong” state in Russia, the impudent use of this nostalgia and illusion of stability by criminal power inevitably and completely objectively lead to destabilizing the entire system. And this was clear right away, from the moment Putin was accepting the course of the restoration of power of power structures.

In fact, colleagues, understand, if you are generally ready to understand anything that the boat is not the opposition, but with criminal stubbornness the power vertical itself. A vertical without feedback is the right path to the destabilization of the system.

All this will inevitably lead to an even greater impoverishment of the country and people. Only a free, possessing dignity and real private property can a person feed himself. Only the state, which is severely controlled from below, from above and side of the media, by the court and law, is pronounced for a long time.

You are quite and for a long time, Valery Abisalovich and Yuri Abramovich, could send our throat three or even more letters. Your physical and professional survival is in no way connected with this system. Only your personal power, your Moscow or St. Petersburg glamorous life and some, albeit important creative projects, are associated with this system. But you, turning a blind eye to the total lawlessness of the system, on the suffering of political prisoners, on the criminal serviceman, on the murdering the future of the Russian economy, the system of kickbacks and dependence on the pipe, not only use the benefits of the criminal system, but actively act as helpful lackeys for its preservation at the moment when your voice could sound as sobering, strong and heard all over the world. But you are not up to it.

I remind you that in addition to you, there are musicians such as Arvo Pyart, who devoted his symphony to Mikhail Khodorkovsky, and Hyon Kremer, who refused to take part in the practice of world corrupt musical.

I accuse you of cynicism of the Russian and international scale, of the fact that you allowed yourself to forget that the present, that is, according to Marina Tsvetaeva, is both modern and genuine art only in the light of conscience.

I perfectly understand that you are the rulers of not only the minds and souls of musicians, but also killing the classical music of Russian and world musical management. I am aware that neither I nor many of my colleagues and friends had before and even more so now there will be a chance to prove that there are musicians who are not inferior to you either in talent, nor in mind, nor in skill.

I know that my and my friends and physical and creative survival are directly related to the attitude to us that criminal system, an integral part of which you are. But, paraphrasing the famous aphorism, I want to tell you by person: one who is not ready for the sake of freedom and creativity to sacrifice his well -being in the conditions of criminal and cynical power is worthy of no freedom, well -being, nor creativity.

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