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For Putin? For money!
The appearance of Vladimir Putin “Luzhniki” empty the apogee of the Cold Civil War, into which Vladimir Putin turned his pre -election campaign, was a rally in Luzhniki. Tens of thousands of state employees were brought down from all over the country, some for money and who is free to demonstrate a popular love for a presidential candidate. The New Times correspondent, along with other Muscovites, came to the rally “Would you like to make money at a rally? Eat by 10 in the morning at the intersection of the 2nd Frunze Street and Frunzenskaya embankment,-the team of the New Times instructed the correspondent of The New Times, who was organizing a paid mass to the rally in Luzhniki. “We’ll get acquainted, you are inimiting, and after the action I will give out 800 rubles at all.” On February 23, at 10 a.m. 20 people really came to the meeting, the majority were no longer very sober defenders of the Fatherland. Oksana explained: there is no need to take part in the procession of Putin's supporters, but you need to immediately go to the large sports arena “Luzhniki”, where a rally was supposed to begin, and wait: “People should act gradually,” she explained. “Otherwise, there will be a crush, as if on a worship, when those who wanted for a long time could not get out of the subway.”
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The director ordered to send 30% of the personnel to the rally, this is about 1,500 people. You can’t go - they will fire, but for the arrival they promised 3 thousand rubles and a place
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... they walked along the Frunze embankment march, but not everything “for Putin? For money! " “He left the subway, and then some man shouted:“ Are you all for Putin, or what? ” - I answered him: “For which Putin? We are for money! -The 19-year-old student Vladimir shared with the New Times correspondent. - I was on Poklonnaya. Then, like a dog, but this time prepared, ”on these words, Volodya pulled out a bottle of Coca-Cola from his inner pocket, into which cognac was prudently overwhelmed. At 11.30, supporters of the prime minister were supposed to move along the Frunze embankment, while the police blocked all approaches to her, so that the late had to get to the “Luzhniki” by the Wage paths. True, not everyone reached: some remained to warm up in the courtyards, drinking alcohol: “They dried everything here, devils!” - a local resident threw in his hearts, going for a walk with a dog. Conscious participants had to maneuver on the streets scored by buses on which people from the regions took place: “Bryansk partisan for Putin”, “Kalmykia for Putin!”, “The Union of Armenians of Russia”. Nearby, university buses parked: the Moscow Financial and Legal Academy and the University of Technology and Management named after Razumovsky delivered students in institute transport. Khamovniki Val, Luzhnetsky and Novodevichy driveways, Bolshaya Pirogovskaya were scored by buses. Someone was more lucky: students from Ufa in buses were not forced to shake and sent by plane, and several hundred workers from Yekaterinburg arrived on February 23 to the capital on a special campaign train No. 219.
“I am from Moscow, I work in one of the subsidiaries of Gazprom,” said the New Times, 50-year-old Natalya. - The director ordered to send 30% of the personnel to the rally, this is about 1,500 people. It’s impossible not to go - they will fire, but for the arrival they promised 3 thousand rubles and a debrief. ” According to Natalia, the employees of its enterprises were divided into dozens, and with such small detachments they made their way to Luzhniki. “We eventually stood at the scene itself, and we were warned before the stadium: there will be Putin, there will be a lot of faces around, so do not say anything superfluous.” Andrei, the manager of one of the Moscow construction companies, said his story: “At a meeting at the city hall, Deputy Sergey Sobyanin for urban planning policy Marat Khusnullin threatened the heads of all major construction companies: you will not take 500 people to a rally, they will not give you to work in the city.” At the meeting, Khusnullin had about 80 businessmen, that is, about 40 thousand participants in the rally for Putin, according to Andrei, represented the construction complex of the capital.
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The whole campaign was built on the contrast: Putin’s headquarters answered the protest rallies with rallies with pro -government, by car racers - by auto -shopping, and even the idea of a campaign train was stolen by the “disagreed”
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"For ... Stalin!" By the number of the rally, Shrovetide hit: “Luzhniki” on February 23 were surrounded by numerous tents with tea and pancakes, near which many remained. It was possible to go to the stands of the stadium at all without an inspection, on the field, closer to the stage - through the metal detector. An hour before the rally, the stadium was almost scored, the gathered was entertained by the sports commentator Dmitry Guberniev, campaign videos for Putin's candidate were spinning on the screens. “Somewhere I hang out, my hand is in my pocket. It’s a pity, Fanny Kaplan missed, ”singer Trofim was tearing on the stage.
“I have come on my own,” the young man said with a poster “For Stalin! For Putin! " He turned out to be an activist of the unregistered party “The Course of Pravda and Unity” and told The New Times that Stalin successfully fought for the unity of the country, destroying the Jews and enemies of the people who were only interested in making money. Putin, according to the activist of the KPU, does not yet destroy anyone, but for the unity of the country he fights no worse than his predecessor. The Cossacks appeared in the “Luzhniki” by the “Luzhniki”: “We supported the emperor-master, but then we could not stand it, now we support Putin.” And even students from Kenya explained: "Putin is Very Good!" The flags of the unregistered KPI were adjacent to the football field with the banners of the Holy Rus movement, entrepreneur Vasily Boyko-Great, and representatives of the South Ossetian and Ingush diasporas with the flags of their republics. At the same time, the banner of the United Russia, which nominated Putin to the president, was not seen in Luzhniki. By the beginning of the rally, the stands slowly began to empty: the supporters stretched closer to the tents with pancakes. The hysteria began on the stage: “We will not allow national suicide,” the TV presenter Mikhail Leontyev shouted the rally. - No attack on the rake. The enemy will be broken. The victory will be behind us. ” Shakhtar Ivan Mokhnachuk gave a lecture on the international situation that replaced his member of the Public Chamber: “It’s restless in Europe, anxious in Latin America, the destruction of countries in the Middle East is underway.” “There is a creeping war for the resource wealth of countries,” Mokhnachuk concluded and called on to vote for Putin. The Arena met the mayor of Moscow Sergei Sobyanin worse: when he went on stage, the stands (apparently Muscovites who were on them) whistled.
But the main event of the day was, of course, the performance of the candidate himself, especially since he appeared in such events a few times. In 10 minutes of speech, the prime minister managed to try several masks at once. He began his speech in the style of Alexei Navalny, trying to start the crowd with questions: "My question - do we love Russia?" “Yes,” the stadium answered him unstromely. Then Putin, apparently, recalled the famous speech of Martin Luther King: “I dream that every person would live according to conscience. I dream that every person’s soul is hope. I dream that we are all happy. ” Finally, his Chekist past broke out: "We ask everyone not to look behind the hill, not to run left, to the side, and not to change our homeland." In the end, the prime minister decided to show up with his education and remembered the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Borodino: “We remember Mikhail Lermontov and his miracle gods from childhood, who swore fidelity to the Fatherland before the battle for Moscow. Remember how they said? " The crowd, it seems, did not remember, and in the "Luzhniki" there was an awkward pause. The prime minister, as it turned out, could not immediately recall Lermontov’s lines either and added out of mind: “And we will remember Yesenin ...” Then he still extended: “I die near Moscow, as our brothers died!” “The battle for Russia continues, the victory will be with us,” Putin has already finished his performance in Stalin.
Students from Kenya gathered for Putin to Putin in Luzhniki ... 
The rally on February 23 ended peacefully. But in the last days before the election, the activists of the Prochrevskaya youth, according to The New Times, are preparing a number of provocations against independent journalists. And on March 5, the day after either the first or only round, the opposition will again reach a rally of protest, and the Kremlin activists simultaneously submitted an application for an action on Lubyanskaya Square. Whether the duel of the speakers will develop into direct clashes of ideological opponents, it will become clear in the coming days.