The neighbors are leaving

And Ukraine is not Russia

Sledgehammer on the leader of the world revolution. After the demolition of the monument to Lenin. Kyiv, December 8

I don’t know what exactly Leonid Danilovich Kuchma had in mind, but he was right in the most paradoxical way: Ukraine is not Russia!

Marvelous! And the tongue is similar, and steal so that you can immediately see: all their own, including Leonid Danilovich ... and Kyiv - you yourself know whose cities the mother, but go ... not Russia!

This is found on such days; Actually, only on such tectonic faults it turns out.

And what's wrong? In the sense: what is not the same way as ours?

As it turns out - the main thing: the feeling of a nation as some root and very powerful unity!

Hundreds of thousands of people take to the streets after the night raid of the Golden Eagle on the tent town (we, after a similar beating of people by riot police, the streets quickly empty, which allowed the authorities to complete the reprisal in court).

Kievans - came out and come out every day, and we see how they were confused by those who put the corporation on the power of the corporation: they were faced with force, which, it seems, had no idea about.

The current Maidan is quite noticeably different from the first: then, on top of the sincerity of the rally million, it was the political fight: “orange” against the “Donetsk”, a corporation against the corporation ... Today we are dealing with a spontaneous, but more clearly aware of the national-liberation movement-and opposition politicians seemed to be enraged as well as power.

The Ukrainian nation does not want the back of Viti's backward shift to Julia - she wants freedom! As the idea of ​​freedom correlates with the practical interests of the European Union - a separate question, the answer to which will be still full of disappointment, but today we are talking about choosing a national idea.

Then a semantic difference is exposed, very regrettable for Russia.

Ukrainians are geographically close, linguistically native and ethnically indistinguishable, just as well -poorly living ... - they value freedom and are ready to fight for it. The very word "empire" for them, whose very young state is sewn from the shreds of three dead empires - a threatening word!

And they demolish a monument, symbolizing the most terrible empires that swept over them, and they do the right thing. We, tightly trained by the imperial idea, do not even feel it as a disease.

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We are still proud of the power of kings and Secretary Generals ... We are not enough to be a nation-we are an empire!

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The authorities, as you know, also grows the slaves: remember the major self -awareness of the Troekurov psares? Doesn't it remind you?

We are still proud of the power of kings and Secretary Generals, and the former geopolitical greatness does not allow us to feel like a nation. It’s not enough for us to be a nation - we are an empire! And the next Prokhanov rolled his eyes in Vorozhba, causing a dagger to the spirit of either Peter or Joseph ...

This infection has been sitting in our guts since the Tsolbaev King Gorokh was replaced by adherents of the Third Rome, all the insides of society are struck by it, and sometimes it seems that it is already inoperative ...

And after all, it seems that we are not the first with such a diagnosis, and from half a dozen empires somehow evolved, adapted to the changed world-and do not feed us with bread, let us condemn your special place!

Vodara is faded, canned foods, rental forum, patricia at Miami, children die, as in Eritrea, and we have all the gleam in the eyes and imperial hallucinations. And the complete willingness to teach others how to love freedom!

True, the tanks already do not go further than Ossetia, but the visiting seminars in spirituality are around the clock. This spirituality, as you noticed, has been chained to the current needs of the administration and its imperial bells and whistles from the time of Count Uvarov with shackles ...

Christ would be very surprised if he found out that his name in the Scythian steppes would strengthen the power of local kings ...

Alas. For the Russians who were released, rather, to the freedom of the released ... - The very idea of ​​freedom did not become their own. The half -drunk “Romans” of the half -life of the empire continue to be proud of, although they are already unsteady remembers what exactly.

But Ukraine is not Russia.

Photo: Gleb Garanich/Reuters