Battleship "Polonsky"

The ship of Cambodian sailors who brought the famous Russian oligarch down from heaven to sinful earth probably has a name. They kept silent about its combat power, so perhaps it was even a fragile little boat with several armed men on board. But for the citizens of modern Russia, still tipsy from the New Year's feast, the news from Cambodia carries almost the same positive charge as the messages about the legendary "Potemkin" did to their revolutionary ancestors.

If Russia today has a face, then among people it most likely resembles the face of the billionaire Polonsky, bronzed in the phrase: “Fuck everyone who doesn’t have a billion.” The triumph of mammon, an orgy of narcissism, the apotheosis of conceit.

The tossing of the intelligentsia about: is it possible to equate the degree of realization of human life with the success achieved, positions and titles? The current scale of assessing the importance of a person is directly proportional to the level of his income, and therefore the oligarch Polonsky is accustomed to looking at those around him like a mountain at plinth mice. The more money in the pockets of such persons, the more uniquely interpreted “dignity” they have - rudeness, contempt, arrogance. A kind of police officer Baryba among the district Chebotarikh, only on a planetary scale.

The drunken state of being chosen, turning into delirium tremens, is supported in them by a traditional national trait, which became an observation of the classic and was expressed by him through the mouth of Parfen Rogozhin. Russian people are ready to grovel before a millionaire, even if they are fully confident that he will not do anything for them. Just a minute ago, no one noticed such a person worthy of attention, but as soon as you learn about his wealth, the faces of those around him immediately light up with sticky servility and an irresistible desire to please.

The rich man's conceit, coupled with the humiliation of all kinds of sticky things, played a cruel joke on him in Cambodia. Accustomed to commanding and fighting with his most formidable weapon - thick stacks of banknotes, who could Polonsky be afraid of in Russia? A suitcase of dollars here - the police trembled, a suitcase there - the military trembled... In multimillion-dollar Moscow, he would not have doubted one iota of his right to launch any fireworks anywhere and anywhere, to make fun of the servants by throwing them into the river, because in Moscow there is no there would be those who would also doubt this right of his.

Therefore, it is not difficult to imagine the “sharp reaction of the emotional Sergei Polonsky” to attempts to call him to order in a backward Asian country. Moreover, on a desert island, which he bought and thought that now, if he wanted, he would explode a thermonuclear bomb on it. Perhaps he was counting on buying a military ship, but unfortunately for him, they did not speak any languages ​​other than Khmer, and therefore only read what was conveyed non-verbally: “Let's go to hell.” They don't have a billion.

Several Cambodians did what no one in vast Russia could do. They put the presumptuous oligarch in his place. Some. True, with weapons. And they still didn’t understand a word of Russian or English. Maybe after Depardieu we can grant Russian citizenship to these Khmers? I think it will become more comfortable. Let it be for a while, until they learn languages.