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A guy from our city
Yesterday I looked on TV and couldn’t believe my eyes: Sergei Berezhnoy was wounded in Syria! Ours, from Biryuch - desperate, like the hero of Konstantin Simonov's film "The Guy from Our Town"! I saw where the trouble was and went to defend the Motherland...
I'll be honest. If there was an opportunity, I would go myself. And to the war, and to the carnival in Brazil, and to Antarctica. Because I want to see the world and I want to write about what I see.
Alas, sometimes there is nothing to go to Belgorod. True, two years ago I went to Poland on a business trip to the war. To the First World War, to the place of death of the Biryuchensky infantry regiment. Then one rich great-great-grandson of a soldier who died in Poland helped with the money. It would be naive to turn to the Writers' Union, which is meager in supplies, or, for example, to the judicial department for help. Who would have seen me there point blank?
And I am sincerely happy for Sergei. I wish him a quick recovery, but I have a question for those who sent him to war. See how it is presented on the IA BEL website. RU: “Deputy Chairman of the Belgorod Arbitration Court Sergei Berezhnoy, who is in Syria as a volunteer and writer.”
Did you understand anything? The Belgorod Arbitration Court sent its deputy chairman to the theater of operations as a volunteer and writer? Then, it turns out that Sergei Alexandrovich’s military trip was paid for by you and me, taxpayers. And then the follow-up question: the judges of the arbitration court have nothing better to do than write military reports from hot spots?
And if Sergei is on the front line as a volunteer and writer, then what does the arbitration court have to do with it? Or did he take this addition to the title to Syria as a guarantee of judicial immunity? So, such things do not work on Syrian snipers.
Sergei Berezhnoy is a member of the Russian Writers' Union. And what to write and from where, he has the right to decide for himself. But even the shameless salary of a judge would hardly be enough for him to pay for this “drang nah Damascus.” That’s why I have the following question: if he did not go in the direction of the court, then, consequently, from the regional branch of the Writers’ Union. A poor association where money is paid only to the top. Judging by the very top - a lot of money. Naturally, the judge of the arbitration court is included in this elite. And hence the next question: who and when decided to organize a creative business trip with shooting using the money that belongs not to the top, but to the entire writing community of the region? For example, although I am a member of this union, I was never privy to the plans of my father-commanders. I can only guess who is there now and what countries they are sent to. I accidentally found out that Chairman Molchanov recently traveled to India. With the same Berezhny. We rode elephants. But the reader has not yet seen any creative reports in the form of books and poems from such walks around the globe.
And we would not have known anything about Syria if it had not been for the sniper who caught the hand of the judge-writer. But I want to believe that this will not stop a guy from our city from writing a book about his discovery of Syria.