Generation Annext

"Black date". These words Alexei Kondratovich, deputy editor -in -chief of the New World magazine, records on August 21, 1968. And then, he adds a few lines below: "Award of the diary. More finally." The last entry that day: "At all costs you need to drive the sixth number. Maybe it will be the last. That's how we live all the time: from number to number. And the distances between the numbers are increasing. And to be the end of the road."

The “New World” will not be closed - not in August, when Soviet troops enter Czechoslovakia, wrapping the Prague Spring and our thaw, nor after. However, the black hole of the tunnel at the end of the road is already visible. After a year and a half, they reorganize the editorial board, Tvardovsky will be forced to resign and the magazine will not essentially become.

However, then time was different. Such a slow, like the same tank, immersed in the deepest thought: to crush - not to crush? Stagnant, in a word. However, people of the old education, like Kondratovich, saw the era through and understood: “Bratsk help” and the defeat of the editorial office - the phenomenon of one order. The inevitable logical connection of the small occupation war with the destruction of the "fifth column", that is, all living and talented inside the country, was obvious to them.

And how can it be otherwise? If the state contrasts itself with humanity, then it owes to trample the grass in its clearing at least from a sense of self -preservation. And even if the editorial office of the New World does not rebel against the invasion of Czechoslovakia and even conducts an open party meeting in support of "our tanks on a foreign land", all the same, this edition must be dispersed. Figuratively speaking, you need to introduce tanks into the editor.

In this sense, the year 2014 is a continuous black date in the history of Russia. And since time accelerated sharply, the events that recreated previous times in all their glory and even with excess occur in non-stop mode. Previously, they killed slowly, for years exhausting the team of a seditious magazine or theater, and now the authorities are rushing like a angry one and the score goes on weeks and days. Yesterday, back in December last year, they shot Svetlana Mironyuk , and the commissar Dmitry Kiselev, appointed in RIA Novosti in RIA Novosti, explained to the team that he was not as terrible as he was painting on the television screen. Today, the business entity Mamut dismisses Galina Timchenko from the post of editor -in -chief Lenta.ru, offering the team to work hard almost (with the exception of Ilya Azar) in the previous composition, but with the new boss. Young, creative, recruited power back in young years. The team quits .

As for opposition sites, such as the Golden Blog, kasparov.ru, ej.ru and native "facets", where it is difficult to carry out personnel rotation, then they are dealt with completely without frills . It is simply according to the Polonium law that it suddenly turns out that these Internet publications published "calls for illegal activities and participation in mass events conducted in violation of the established procedure." And where they published in which article or maybe at the forum, what kind of calls and why with a violation - here the authorities are no longer condescended before the answers.

All this, of course, causes a ramp and other, stronger feelings that it is hard to experience, but easily explain. The main trouble is that over the years of freedom and gradual, almost invisible to many of its strangulation, we have lost the skills. They forgot about classic samples. Meanwhile, the well -known sequence of events, which on the latest liberal slang is called a "shirt chain", is actually a continuation of the old methodology for freezing Russia.

This is a chain reaction, if you use a scientific dictionary. With the introduction of troops into a foreign country or even in its own, propaganda hysteria and further quite natural strangulation of society. We were slightly weaving from this constant readiness for total hopelessness, and those who are younger, even did not lose anything - there was nothing to lose and had nothing to lose. And you won’t understand who is worse.

Moreover, it is impossible to say that we were not reminded of this ancient scheme. Say, the Second Chechen War turned into the occupation by the Kremlin of meter channels. Well, the latest Crimean is accompanied by the destruction of the remnants of the independent press. Now they are already finished off on the Web, and here even the idea creeps out that the invasion of Ukraine was mainly up to Ukraine in order to finally block oxygen to our society. But this is a false thought. The occupation campaign is also a very important thing. To the same extent necessary for screwing nuts as a pogrom in the editorial offices.

“Who is standing, who is walking, who sits,” writes Alexei Kondratovich. “They are silent. Sometimes they are talking. I also sat down. And suddenly I felt - and then I realized what it looks like. It happens when the coffin is standing in the next room, and here they are waiting for it, and therefore they even say almost a half -whisper.”

This is already February 1970. There is no more magazine, Tvardovsky is about to be. You do not need to drive the number, in general there is nowhere else to rush. How quickly time runs. How swiftly it runs back. The head is bumpy.