For two words

It happens that even throughout the human life the words change meanings. Sometimes - on the opposite.

My older brother, for example, whose early childhood was in the years of the war, was proud that his dad was an officer. And the pope -officer himself, who became the officer only at the height of the war, well remembered the time when the word "officer" was swearing, because the "officer" - this meant only the "white officer", and the "commanders" were in the Red Army. So he went to the front by the commander, and returned - an officer.

There was another word "volunteer". Not bad, if you think about it, a word meaning a person prone to disinterested social behavior.

But already in my childhood, this word was tightly connected with the half-dead already and by that time in speech constructions like "Komsomol-volunteers".

I remember the story of one senior comrade who worked in the mid-70s in some scientific institution. On the eve of the next communist subbotnik (remember such a thing?) Employees were gathered to the conference room, where the party organizer told them about the extraordinary importance of this event. “Exactly nine zero-zero, everyone should be at their workplaces ... The inventory will be issued organizedly, in departments ... Keep in mind, this is an important political business .. Those who will not appear at this event without good reason, let them blame themselves ..." Well, so on. At the end of his incendiary speech, he made a meaningful pause, after which he said with a special intonation pressure and almost in syllables: "But what, what if you like it-rroin-no, but did you understand me?" Why is it incomprehensible. Around the same years, a folk speech structure "in a voluntary-rendering order" arose.

And during the years of pioneer childhood, I heard from an elderly neighbor, a participant in the civil war, a ditty "The ship floats, smoke rings. We will feed the fish volunteers." It seemed to me, to put it mildly, strange, not to say blasphemous. But what about the voluntary folk squad? But what about DOSAAF? How did I know then that the volunteers in the civil war were white? However, a little later, from another old woman, as it turned out, from the former, - I heard a completely different version of the same ditty, uttered in a whisper, where the "Komsomol members" appeared as food for fish. So the "Komsomol-volunteers" have forever weaved in my mind in a capacious illustration of a dialectical law on unity and the struggle of opposites.

Nowadays, those who are engaged in socially useful activities voluntarily prefer to call themselves not quite the original word "volunteers".

The volunteer movement declares himself so clearly that they are already interested in different “investigative committees” that cannot admit that it is not clear who, without the permission of the authorities, form a civil society in the country, whose sprouts, thin and touching, like birch trees, grow directly from cracks in tiled Putin's stability.

The authorities, of course, cannot assume that something is happening without their leading and guiding role, and some contributions and donations are moving past their protruding pockets in the most outrageous way.

As for the volunteers, this movement is worshiped and growing.

The main danger of all these crazy laws of recent times, not only in the fact that they are essentially illegal, because in the most unambiguous way they violate the spirit and letter of the constitution.

And not only in the fact that one who, in principle, recognizes the right of illegitimate power to issue any laws, himself becomes its accomplice, even if passive.

And not only that even one who, for some reason, decides to take these laws seriously and intends to fulfill them, simply will not be able to do this physically due to their increased uncertainty.

And really, after all, who knows what exactly should not be done, to speak, write, portray or fulfill so that he should not inadvertently step on his feet in the dark or, in addition to their own will, is not propaganda something not what follows? It turns out that it is better not to say anything from sin at all from sin - you will be more. Is it possible?

And not only in that danger that it is to decide who insulted whom and what, and who, what and for what purpose promotes, will be specially sharpened officials who, as always done, will spread rot and “close” only those who need. This danger is not so great, considering that these officials are mostly not so much zealous and exciting as they are lazy and thieve.

The most dangerous in this matter is volunteers. After all, they and they-voluntary scammers, informers, sivuyous robes-robes, pumped up, short-cut “Orthodox community” and flooded screeching aunts-are able to give any next prohibitive-punitive campaign the scale of the national disaster, able to seriously scare or even to puzzle even the immediate initiators of these campaign, at least those who are at least those who are at least for those endowed with at least some imagination, life experience and instinct of self-preservation.

And this is already happening. And this is already visible. This is already growing at all levels and is revealed to us in our feelings. And this has already happened in history. And more than once. If we talk about some unshakable traditions of our great country, then this is one of the most tenacious and always blooming-from the "word and deeds" to our high-tech times.

Yes, words change their meanings. Sometimes - on the opposite. And a bloodthirsty ditty about fish and volunteers always awaits a reason to again and again to indicate their historical relevance. Alas.