Migrants. About the forge of wildness

This, of course, is a vicious move: to start the text from the phrase "The editor called and offered to write the text." Various, I know, but what to do, excuse me. Moreover, everything was so: the editor called and offered to write a text about games around illegal migration and about everything that was connected with these games. He said that it seems to him that I have a special opinion on the issue. It is difficult to refuse - it is flattering, after all, when respected people think that you have a special opinion.

The coherent text, however, did not work. So, a set of postcards to different people whom I do not call by last name.

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I have a good acquaintance-Yura-musician. Not the one you probably thought about. A middle-aged virtuoso, a master of playing the accordion, performing, at the request of the walking Muscovites, “something sort of spirit”. At night at the entrance to some fashionable club. They are interested in Yura not so much money as the opportunity to admire, how drunk people are laid out, performing their favorite songs. However, Yura also does not refuse a glass, of course.

And once we leave my friends from the pathos to the indecent institution, where, in excuse, I will say, we went in order to observe the vicious customs of the rich. Well, someone suggested in the morning. People have strange fantasies. The morals, however, were not observed: they could not already. The mixtures of sweat with an expensive perfume, replacing the air in the club, were swallowed and fell out into the street. And on the street Yura-musician.

- Yura, how are you here?
- The audience is without taste. They order only a lezginka.

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I don’t know if you remember who Yegor Sviridov is. The fan of Spartak became famous at the end of 2010, when it was written by one respected newspaper, "the fans of another club killed." What fans? Which club? Everyone knew the answers: no club, no fans. The newspaper, that is, lied, but this is a lie for salvation.

Then there was a large gathering with fights on Manezhnaya, which was beautifully called the uprising of Spartak. Ten thousand in the square and a lot of responses on social networks. For some reason I saved some. Here, for example, the ruler of the Dum, a man of impeccable reputation, an outstanding journalist and father, if not Russian democracy, then the Russian Internet - for sure (without irony, everything is so), wrote in his super -popular blog:

“To read in the LiveJournal and in the press of ranting that some“ people ”came out on the Manezhnaya Square last Saturday-it is a shame and intellectually humiliating. The gopnic herd does not become a people because he had the courage to beat three teenagers similar to Caucasians from McDonald's. It remains a crowd of aggressive cattle, about which the poet once said everything:

What are the herds of the gifts of freedom?
They should cut or cut them.
Their inheritance from the genus to childbirth
Yarmo with Gremushki and Beach. "

Quote Word for Word, up to the “Poet” with a capital letter “P”. Google to help you, and I have to drink with the Internet’s father in “Jean-Jacques”.

Then a professor of philology, a real sage, a sophisticated expert on Mandelstam (no irony here again), also shared his thoughts with the public:

“What are you, the faces of these“ guys ”have not seen, or what? The enraged cattle should be tamed. ”

Yandex will enlighten you, and the professor and I, at many opposition rallies, stood in the shoulder and, God will give, we will stand again.

I will no longer torment the reader with quotes. Then many were noted.

There will be no pogroms - there is no one to smash.

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It’s not that the topic gives themselves to forget about themselves, but the election of the Moscow mayor again made it paramount: suddenly (now there is an irony) it turned out that the problems associated with illegal migration, interethnic relations, as well as ethnic crime excite the inhabitants of the capital most of all. All candidates voiced their positions. Well, besides Sobyanin, who disdains us to talk with us, but actively acts. Navalny remembered all the sins of troubled youth. On Facebook, the community even appeared “We will not pass into the power of the new Hitler”, in which by no means the members of the “ours” movement performed with fiery speeches.

Fortunately, having arranged a hunt for many thousands of Vietnamese in response to a crime of one immigrant from Dagestan and opening an exemplary concentration camp on the outskirts of the city, the authorities for the first time covered the main candidate of the opposition. Reminding where the Nazis are actually sitting today.

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He caught himself on an attempt to get out of the intellectual trap: this is the word “topic” without definitions and clarifications. Here is the epicenter of the game that all interested parties lead. For a liberal (especially the right, left liberal), any attempt to discuss the topic is blocked. On the door, the castle, on the castle in capital letters, is written “xenophobia”, and to talk with xenophobes - Moveton. These would, perhaps, were recorded by Hannah Redzists, they, for example, familiarize themselves with the article “Reflections on the events in the Little Rock” , recently published in Russian in one of the freshly published collections. But most progressively thinking people, fortunately, do not read books, preferring magazine articles, mainly their own.

As a result, the right left liberal is in marginals, even if it is printed by all the newspaper without exception.

For the right nationalist, it seems to be a paradise here: suspecting Ksenofobov in fellow citizens, any nationalist, even the most moderate, easily jumps into the rhetoric of national or imperial greatness, and a sure sign of greatness is the opportunity to humiliate foreigners in every way. Here and now, if possible, to humiliate, and in the future, also conquer. As a result, the correct nationalist is in the marginals contrary to the win -win calculation for popular xenophobia, contrary to his own expectations and other people's fears.

And only power in the win, deftly pulling the necessary threads. The authorities skillfully switching the attention of the public from specific and understandable problems to completely blurred (already mentioned case of hunting for the Vietnamese as a response to one specific crime, not at all committed by the Vietnamese). The authorities competently use the entire arsenal of available funds, from the police to the TV.

Power, of course, does not solve any problems, but tells the people what the people want to hear. And this has an opportunity - just thanks to its alleged opponents.

This irritation is associated with the aggressive reluctance of new residents of old Russian cities to notice local traditions.

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All that I want to say now, of course, has no scientific value. This is the result of observations and random conversations with a variety of people - from fellow travelers in the train and to the businessmen of the middle hand. From those who read about the horrors of abroad only in the newspaper KP, and to those who, cursing that came up, willingly hire low -paid Tajiks to the black work. The result of spontaneous and aimless, in their own way ridiculous walks to the people.

So: the people-cryptic people, it seems to me, is not such a xenophobe. Well, that is, in the campus of a progressive university behind the ocean, most of my interlocutors would be difficult to take root, but the prospect of immediately exterminating all the dark neighbors captivates them little. There will be no pogroms - there is no one to smash.

The most interesting thing is that the economic aspects of discussion, as a rule, do not meet understanding. The speeches that Russian Asians from Russian people interfere with the work of janitors, I heard only from citizens with two non -confessed higher people who feed on the field of journalism. Who are unlikely to dream of a broom and a scoop. However, no, of course, some dream of a scoop, but with a capital letter.

However, I do not want to say that migration does not create economic problems. Just for the population, they, oddly enough, are clearly secondary. The standard technique that allows you to transfer the dispute about his and strangers into a moderately civilized course does not work.

The present, growing and tangible irritation is associated with the aggressive reluctance of the new residents of the old Russian cities to notice local traditions. Moreover, the traditions of cities, developing for centuries, are a thin, moderately visual thing. Traditions are not dancing in kokoshniki and not the choral performance of the song “Kalinka-Malinka” (by the way, not folk and not particularly old, if you suddenly did not know). This is the lack of a habit of solving any problem by force. Nepodal ideas about honor and dignity. The lack of a habit of grabbing a knife or injury in response to an inaccurately spoken word.

And this is basically not about the migrants of some. The main voltage is created by not inconspicuous hard workers, the number of which you think about only if on the day of Uraza-Bayram the fate brings you to the metro station "Prospekt Mira", and our fellow citizens. It's just that the country is very large and different.

Somewhere in the corner, Samuel Huntington giggles gloatingly.

The Caucasus is not a granny and not a health resort, but a forge. Forge of medieval savagery with fluid production. With the full approval of the federal center.

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I would risk expressing a terrible one: the Ksenophobic claims of the majority are actually very moderately related to illegal migration. Well, that is, if the numerous law enforcement agencies worked as they should be, if the drug dealer could not pay off almost without problems for a bribe, if slave owners from giant corporations would receive their own what they have been laid for the activity, we would have almost nothing to argue about here.

It is ridiculous to say, but the unsympathetic members of the now prohibited movement against illegal immigration , demanding from the state to observe their own migration laws, behaved as human rights activists. Isn't it?

Another thing is given to the feudal clans of the Republic of the Caucasus. Imagine that you are a young man, have grown in the ruins of a brutal war and from childhood before your eyes as an example of maximum life success have seen a bandit who changed the owners, well, well, more beautifully, a great medieval warrior. Which solves all problems, respectively, with the full approval of the federal center. Could you suddenly, being in this very federal center, figure out that postmodern is more comfortable than the Middle Ages? Or would they have a sensibly realized that everything, who is revered for the conditions of comfort, is only weakness? And would you start acting accordingly?

Entire nations state policy consistently clashes into wildness. It is difficult to resist wildness. There, the generation has already grown up people who have not seen anything else. The Caucasus is not a granary and not a health resort, but a forge. The forge of this very medieval savagery with streaming production, which supports the federal government. It’s nice and simply not to notice this fact, hiding (Nazi, by the way, in fact) by the argument “I have intelligent friends from Dagestan and Chechnya”. I also have, so what?

The basis of stress is created by the products of this giant state factory, which is intensively exported to central Russia. But can you talk about it? Xenophobia. That is, the terrible Kadyrov - one thing, you need to scold it, you can and is right, the right with the left is ready to hug, the stigma is a scoundrel. But the results of his activity, the fruits of his efforts, including people, formed by his policy, they are, as it were, they are not. Talking about them is a taboo. Or, taking into account local specifics, hara.

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Meanwhile, on Twitter, a honored philanthropist and fighter for the rights of migrants discusses the upcoming victory of democracy. Someone carefully hints to him that with democracy, after all, there are referenda, “like in Switzerland”, and in referenda people can also demand migrant evictions. “But we will not ask a stupid cattle about anything,” the philanthropist cares vigorously.

However, in the city of Yegoryevsk near Moscow, a referendum will be held very soon. The first regional referendum in Russia over many years. Residents learned that the FMS was going to place one of the camps for the temporary maintenance of persons to be deported, and brought out the issue of a citywide discussion. The result is predictable, and the townspeople are by no means worrying of the troubles of people who are going to illegally imprison the concentration camp.

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While he wrote, the cigarettes are over. He crawled out into the street. Summer, outskirts. River, lush greens. Dark movers from a local store squatting. Slowly talk in the mysterious dialect about the things of incomprehensible things. On the shore, drunken middle-aged people play harmonies and sing something that the Yura-musician would like. The dark -skinned watermelor seller laughs cheerfully, plunging the goods to the roasting blond.

And I think that I live in good times: it’s enough just to understand that there is a problem for respected people think: you have a “special position on the issue”.