Who will pay for the Crimea

What is the political price of the annexation of the peninsula

The queue for Russian passports. Simferopol, March 24, 2014

Back to Ussr? No, it’s not yet back, although if we listen to state propagandists, then we have already killed the President of Afghanistan, and then introduced the troops with our hands and feet, about the eightieth, when the KGB special forces killed the KGB. Now the troops near the border with Ukraine, special forces throughout the Crimea, in the complete absence of the plan, as they will be provided with energy, warmth, food of 2 million 200 thousand new fellow citizens (p. 26), and the president, together with officials, makes decisions and laws more than another: now TASS - TASS - the Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union instead of 22 years, ITARS (Information Telegation Agency (Information Telegation Agency Russia) —TASS; Again VDNH - an exhibition of achievements of the national economy, a symbol of prosperity of the Stalinist USSR, which opened during the years of large terror, yesterday the former APC; Again, the TRP standards (ready for work and defense) as a order - get ready for war: political information for officials - to know how to think, threats of correctional labor for those who have not reported about their dual citizenship (more details on p. 12) ... And scary and funny. It is ridiculous - because the real return to the USSR requires nationalization - so that the cube is one, and the closure of the borders - so that the sensation of the cage is complete, and the knowledge that life may be different is zero. It is scary because the symbols of the totalitarian regime are returning, which, together with the bureaucracy, are carriers of the ideology and principles of the old order, a reminder of the omnipotence and violence of the state machine, ready to throw any number of human victims into the altar.

Raising the old symbols from the ashes is an obligatory attribute of the regimes preparing for the harvest on the battlefields. So Mussolini appealed to the grandeur of the Roman Empire, and Hitler-to the heroism of warrior-nibelungs. For the current people of the authorities who have left the KGB, the appeal to the symbols of the USSR is not only their youth, when the girls were beautiful, but they themselves are strong, this is the time of the Chekist fraternity, belonging to the most powerful and the most repressive institution of the Soviet regime, to the cast of the elite-kind of Aryans in Soviet incarnation, to the black and white world, where enemies are all other than them, and the main enemy and the main enemy and the main enemy and the main enemy and the main enemy, and the main enemy, and the main enemy, and the main enemy, and the main enemy. It is clear and understandable - the USA, and where almost everything can be, and nothing else.

The appetite comes during food: billionths that now have to be hidden under other people's names and blind trusts, and the passion for kitchevo luxury - behind high fences in other people's jurisdictions, require conditions under which billions should not be hidden and, most importantly, you can, without fear, leave the offspring, nor the elections, nor free media, nor independence This is not allowed. Country -thinking is required, dividing into many of their and few strangers - what was in the USSR. But at the same time, no egalitarianism and ostentatious justice: their own is their own, to the tramps of not a ruble. Hence the return of symbols without affecting the basics. Like the USSR, like a superpower, like an enemy at the gate ... True, the price of this imitation can be very expensive.

Photo: Yuri Lashov/AFP/East News