Plebs in Brioni

About whether Ukraine is really not Russia and what both resemble Egypt like that

Kyiv, January 2014

Cairo, February 2011

Moscow, October 1993

They did not wait. But it came.

What was far away, somewhere there in Maghrib, and was first called romantically “Arab spring”, and then the emergency and military coup turned around, suddenly turned out to be at our side.

What at first caused tenderness and boundless respect - hundreds of thousands of people over and over again went to the Square of Neglifiness in the struggle for their human rights, suddenly shook the "Molotov cocktail" and extreme nationalism on Grushevsky. And although the “Coptic churches” (substitute: synagogue, mosques) are not yet defeated, as it was in Egypt, but there are already beaten, and people with historical memory understand: they will prevail “Grushevsky” - there will be everything.

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And now the media familiarly write about the leaders of the peaceful Maidan - “protested”, referring to the Moscow protests of winter 2011/2012, and prosecutors ask for “prisoners of marsh” incredible 5 and 6 years of camps. "Do you want what is happening in Kyiv in Moscow?" - An invisible message behind each plot of state propaganda from Ukraine, shaking a glow from tires, broken faces, wounded police officers, chaos and barricades in the government quarter of Kyiv. And the people who remember the 93rd in Moscow, the execution of parliament and spectators who gathered on the Krasnopresnenskaya embankment to observe fratricide in their native country (as Kiev residents are observing at clashes on Grushevsky), with horror, say: “The Lord does not bring.”

“Our people are not ready”, “The Russian/Ukrainian rebellion is terrible”, “This plebs must be kept in jun” - the elites in Kyiv and in Moscow are echoing.

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While the elites are sitting under the mattresses, waiting, whose will take and who are more profitable to lean, and allowing the authorities to tighten the nuts, in the advanced rows - to where the middle class stood yesterday, the golemic patsanva comes out

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And the elites are not aware of in Kyiv and in Moscow that while they are sitting under mattresses, waiting for whose will take and to whom it is more profitable to lean, and allowing the authorities to tighten the nuts so that from peaceful citizens yesterday begins, like from a tube, a leak and poison, to the advanced ranks - to where the middle class was standing yesterday, the Golmaya is crawling, for which there is a will, that what will have, that what is good. jail. Then - according to the hungry: criminal cases, unbelted security forces that turned into bandits and selecting businesses, further - a suitcase, station, London, “inhale the air of freedom” and security from those who were brought to yesterday, which were brought and, without embarrassment, sting their hands, knowing that they were alien blood and fate.

And already there, in London, looking at the frames from Grushevsky and recalling the hand -to -hand person on Bolotnaya, they sigh again: “No, the people are not ready for democracy ...” Chichvarkin’s wine is to buy wine? Have dinner from Novikov? Well, there are - and roll to the islands ...

The spiritual plebs in expensive costumes - he may not shoot, but it is he who harvests cartridges for street plebs.

They say that "Ukraine is not Russia." Indeed, the proximity to civilized European markets, the absence of an oil dropper and, therefore, incentives to exchange freedom for social benefits, an understandable and uniting vector of movement, even for part of the population-Europe, the lack of imperial ambitions, finally, family traditions about another life (with private property, everyday campaigns in the church, with Easter, Christmas and what kind of free freedom-if only Without Stalin in the head), preserved in Western Ukraine, which joined the camp reality and historical myths only in the 39th year, in this sense, of course, Ukraine is not Russia.

They say that Ukrainians, unlike Russians, are more freedom-loving: yes, 23 years of post-Soviet chaos, weak or completely absent state institutions, the lack of a humble habit to the fact that special forces disperses peaceful demonstrations, and the parliament adopts laws that prohibit everything and all, finally, the success of the Maidan-2004-this, of course, contributes to the fact that people do not afraid to go out and go out into the street and all over. publicly defend your rights.

When a person is squeezed out, he has not died yet, he takes his feet and, often, urinates and defecates into his pants

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But: in Russia they chose the president of the KGB Putin Colonel, and in Ukraine - a person with the criminal past of Yanukovych. In Russia, Khodorkovsky was imprisoned, in Ukraine - Tymoshenko. In Russia, the law for all, except for members of the Lake Cooperative, in Ukraine - special rights for members and friends of the Yanukovych family. In Russia ten years ago, Igor Sechin brought pieces of paper to the president, and today he is the main oligarch with an income of $ 50 million a month, in Ukraine the son of President Alexander Yanukovych yesterday is a dentist without practice - today with a fortune of $ 500 million. Ukraine is not Russia?

They say that Ukraine did not know tough authoritarianism (Leonid Kuchma’s regime was called “competitive authoritarianism”, and for five years Yushchenko - a reckless democracy) and the fear that has reigned in Russia in the last ten years.

However, the pictures of the battles on Grushevsky Street in Kyiv painfully resemble the Cairo Tahrir in the second phase of the Arab Spring, while in Egypt the military ruled the military led by Mubarak and an emergency regime was in force - that is, freedom was completely canceled.

No, Ukraine is not Russia, and I want to think that both are definitely not Egypt - only here the result in fact can be similar.

And the fault of this is not the “dark people”-the enlightened elites who have learned to count business plans flying on Sunday to listen to the opera in Milan and are not able to see three steps forward.

When a person is squeezed out, he has not died until he died, he takes his feet and, often, urinates and defeats his pants.

When the political platform is cleaned from moderate, there is not a holy place, there are no empty places - radicals come.

When people hurt, they shout: in civilized countries they give anesthetic (competitive elections, replacement of disgusting power), in non -cycling - they close it into a stone bag. And the ability to make a choice between the first and second is what distinguishes the responsible elite from plebs in Brioni.

By the way, what are Akhmetov, Poroshenko, Firtash wear there?

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Photos: Valentin Ogirenko/Reuters, Suhab Salem/Reuters, Valery Khristoforov/ITAR-TASS