Skate skating

Soviet man is a unique, mysterious, poorly studied phenomenon. The most diverse feelings causing an independent observer - from pity and even love to complete dumbfounded. For a Soviet man is a creature that is completely woven from contradictions.

He is capable, for example, to walk on the ground as a master and at the same time lie in a ditch, looking hostilely at the surrounding reality. His cordiality entered the saying, like dull malice. He is afraid, revere and hates the authorities - the same, in essence, Soviet people, only more lucky. He is always ready to give the last shirt and stab the last penny. He is wide and, in which case, moves to live in distant America, but often returns, leaving children for permanent residence there to miss them and hate Americans. His famous universal responsiveness is in essence paradoxical: it will open the whole world, but does not like racists, Jews and blacks.

Surviving the largest geopolitical catastrophe of the twentieth century and settled in the post -Soviet era, the Soviet man remained himself. He yearns for his great homeland, indestructible to the Soviet Union, and tenaciously holds in memory all the insults and humiliation that he has undergone there. If he is knocked out into people with the current government, he reproduces the most characteristic features of the disappeared party authorities. With all his foolishness, bitterness, departure, discipline, anarchy, and those unescribal humor, which only initiates can understand.

Irina Rodnina is a sample of Soviet man. You can even say an ideal Soviet man. The propagandist’s dream, pride and justification of that reinforced concrete power that fell apart, which fell apart nearly a quarter of a century ago. Komsomol member, athlete, champion. Forever soared into the air over an unnecessary ice in order to land in another millennium, in another country in the chair of the State Duma deputy from the United Russia party.

Behind Irina Konstantinovna is not only victory. But loneliness in a foreign country under the name of the Russian Federation, and two decaying marriages, and semi -emigration in the United States, and long unsuccessful attempts to build an ice house of their name, and failure in the elections of the President of the Russian Olympic Committee, and this comforting prize in the end: deputy. Gilded eternal bench for former champions. Near Khorkina, Kabaeva, Tretyak, Sikharulidze. The sports company of the lower house, recruited on a strictly limited list.

Irina Rodnina is a classic Soviet man. Ready to support, if they are very asked, some kind of bossy abomination, but also capable of repenting this over time. But only over time, of course, because the Soviet man thinks slowly. More than four years after the publication of a well -known letter approved by the verdict in the Khodorkovsky case, she will say that the signature was put in her absence. And a year and a half later, perhaps, having become interested in the work of the Yukos, he will even ask for forgiveness from Mikhail Borisovich. And this, perhaps, will be akin to her championship exploits, only in a different field. Human, or something, an act, not quite typical of a new community of people who are self -proclaimed in party programs. It will be remembered.

However, the Soviet man is not only a unique, mysterious, poorly studied, but also unpredictable, incomprehensible. And you can only guess that there he closes his brains when he suddenly publishes a joke of humor on his twitter . Why is it suddenly to her athlete and champion Irina Rodnina, it seemed ridiculous: to portray an American president with her wife against the backdrop of a banana. What kind of mixing in my mouth hit.

I remembered the same variety of fun of our football fans? Or is Irina Konstantinovna, taking Putin’s controversy with Obama on the Syrian issue, so bizarrely decided to participate in big politics? Like, Peacemaker Vladimir Vladimirovich won and Washington sucks banana, as they say on the Internet? Or maybe Rodnina with America had her own scores and something suddenly remembered that the hand herself reached for a photoshop? The Soviet man always has something to say to America or show in the picture.

In general, it is sad, of course, dear citizens and old women. The only thing that pleases is a sudden introduction to the fight against xenophobia of such a famous politician as Alexei Navalny. It was he, wandering around Runet’s spaces, came across a tweet performed by the skater and immortalized her Hochma. He laughed first, and then rumbled an international scandal .

The path that the now popular politician passes, who demonstrated to the "Russian marches" and denied Lezginka, and now carried away by the struggle for civil rights of American presidents, against racism and other segregation, deserves the most close study. It is possible that Alexei Anatolyevich, who laughed at the deputy Rodnina, will be the first non -Soviet leader in the post -Soviet Russian space. And someday, finally, under his sensitive leadership, we will begin to leave the scoop.