Rarely do I listen to Russian radio today, I watch TV even less often, but sometimes when you fall down ... And, sometimes, you are so surprised.
Recently, for example, on Ekho Moskvy, journalist Maxim Shevchenko, telling how in Russia very different people understand each other well, and only liberals are trying to ruin it all, at the same time he did not fail to offend the West as well.
“Why should we live, how this liberal European trash lives,” is how it was said.
And I still hope that smart, educated and even sincere people (and Maxim Shevchenko, despite his aggressive tone and very controversial statements, I nevertheless consider him to be such) are still able to hear and see.
However, it's not about Shevchenko.
The trend, unfortunately, is gaining momentum. Nothing new though. The West is bad, it does not like us, and in general - all evil comes from it. Well, just three enemy rings, as in Voinovich's novel.
So. About the liberal Western trash ... This year my daughter graduated from high school in the city of Munich. And at a beautiful (even in liberal Europe) graduation party, I finally saw her classmates.
The best student of the school, handsome David. Swarthy, swarthy... And long eyelashes. Turned out to be from Iran.
Funny and organic Selma from Bosnia. It weighs, in my opinion, 150 kilograms. At the same time, it was the leading solemn part, and thanks to her humor, this very part of perhaps boring became light and bright.
Long-legged beauty Larisa. The model is simple. By the way, her grandmother is Russian.
The most charming seemed to me the wonderful Mihriban. In a hijab and in a long closed dress with sleeves. The filthy Western liberal public has nothing against it. Although summer and half the class in low-cut evening dresses.
But kids don't care at all. They love Mihriban. Because she is kind, smart and funny.
But she passed, and they all ran together to celebrate_._
And when at the graduation - they call it Abibal (entrants' ball) - Mihriban walked to the stage in the beams of spotlights, the hall, all three classes, almost a hundred people, simply exploded with applause. I say it because it's amazing. And in the hijab or not - what's the difference. Mine, by the way, also got a lot of applause. They didn’t remember that she was from Russia, but I’m telling you, they don’t care. And they remembered that he draws great and loves to be friends with everyone . For them it is more important.
What can I say - European liberal trash.
However, Shevchenko turned out to be right about something. These Western liberals... Who (and I quote) "already abolish the concept of man and woman." They really don't chase blues there. And - what a horror! There is a boy like that right in their class. Lucas. He was at the prom with his mom, dad and his friend. They sat at the same table with us. All are awesome. Only my Dinka is worried now. She tells all the time at school what a wonderful country Russia is, and if something goes wrong with us, it doesn’t happen to anyone. Well, it was told to the point that Lucas and his boyfriend decided to go this summer to Moscow and St. Petersburg. They have already taken the tickets... And now my daughter is running around and asking them not to hold hands there. You never know what ... And she had to tell about the law. Even though I didn't want to. They were stunned, of course. And Dinka languidly asked: maybe you won’t go ... But no, they can’t even imagine what this could be, and if you are not striped like everyone else, but in a box, suppose you will be beaten and insulted. They, like Maxim Shevchenko, believe that people can always find a common language with each other.
No wonder the first paragraph of the first article of the fundamental law of Germany reads: “Human dignity is inviolable. It is the duty of all state power to respect and protect it.”
They simply cannot humiliate anyone, it is forbidden by law, and therefore, it seems to me, they have almost no aggression ...
And some general mood - joyful ...
And the thoughts of this Western liberal young trash are not about how to separate everyone, but quite the opposite. It is no coincidence that many of the daughter's graduation after the ball did not go to apply to universities, but go to underdeveloped countries for a year - to work in hospitals, kindergartens, with difficult teenagers ...
By the way, before leaving school, they collected a book about their graduation. And each wrote some important words. Serious or funny, it doesn't matter. My reminded that if anyone dreams of getting to the World Cup in 2018, then let him not forget that she is the right person to discuss this issue. And one guy spoke very briefly: “Please be good!”
P. _ S. _ When I was already sending this text, my daughter opened a photo on Facebook for me - a view from the window of a Moscow hotel. Lucas and a friend sent. And the signature: "No risk, no fun." We would say: who does not take risks, he does not drink champagne. It seems that they still feel good in Moscow. All the same, after all, there, with us, they are good ... Basically ...