The people gathered for a divorce

Probably, Kremlin political technologists are delighted with how they issued a special operation with a divorce of Vladimir Putin, having arranged a literally on a live thread of an interview with one of the state television channels. But even in this interview, much more theatrical than the Esmeralda spouses just viewed by the spouses, there are live notes - for example, Lyudmila Putin’s gratitude to Vladimir Vladimirovich for the fact that he still supports her and children.

What does “still” mean when only two and a half years ago, during the All -Russian census, Putins played a friendly married couple and categorically refuted rumors about a possible divorce? When there was actually a break and whether it was possible to raise the question like this - after all, the same rumors that the journalist decided to ask the Putin's spouses after Esmeralda first appeared before the 2000 presidential elections - and never disappeared. And why the decision to divorce is explained by the insane load of the Sochi resident - after all, if he, more than aspirations, will decide to be combined again, then as the same political technologists will explain his readiness to see the new wife. Well, Vladimir Vladimirovich will now work less for the benefit of his beloved homeland? Never!

There is something symbolic in the fact that the first persons of the post-Soviet world, symbolizing the faceless stuffy authoritarianism of our time, do not get along with family life-but everything goes along with the hypocrisy. The marriage of Vladimir Putin and Lyudmila Putin ended after ten years of talk about his absence - but at least the wife of the Russian president was seen next to him from time to time. The wife of the Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko remained to live in the village and never appeared on protocol ceremonies, the youngest son of the “last dictator of Europe” Kolya, actually playing the protocol satellite of the head of state, has nothing to do with her. The wife of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, after the election of the latter, remained the head of state to live in Donetsk and acts as the first lady, so to speak, in personal quality, practically without appearing next to her husband.

I am completely not going to judge anyone and even more so to condemn, and Putin’s personal life, Lukashenko and Yanukovych do not interest me. It is not clear why all this cynicism, an imitation of a full -fledged family life in its complete absence. Why is it impossible to live a family life with those with whom you really live, not making unhappy and real life companions, locked behind the fences of the presidential residence, and their already almost former wives? And why is the elementary absence of mutual feelings and common interests that are found in our lives all the time, you need to explain the selfless work for the good of the Fatherland, thus creating new reasons for speculation and jokes? Why can't you just tell the truth?

In this lack of will to truth in relation to one’s own life as a drop of water, unwillingness and inability to speak - and understand - the truth about everything else. The presidents, along with their political technologists, friends and wives, live in a glass house in complete confidence that no one sees and does not understand anything and that only they themselves know when to turn on the light and show something to the public. But with this confidence that the truth is not what is happening, but what is reported - even when it comes to the most secret - they set a completely different format of morality to society, the format of the double -huminity in which we comfortably lived in Soviet times and to which we returned safely today.