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German Obukhov - about a special path

“You know, my uncle was arrested for walking. Oh ... we are very strange people,” says one of the characters of the science fiction novel “451 degrees Fahrenheit“ Ray Bradbury. We are also very strange people.

The country that defeated fascism becomes the same, not even noticing it. Gestapo employees in Nazi Germany were much less as a percentage of the population than employees of riot police, the FSB and other special services in modern Russia. Today, Russia, by the number of people working in law enforcement and repressive bodies, has surpassed almost the countries of the world.

And this is not the limit. The authorities will calm down only when each resident of Russia, including the elderly and children, will be one policeman. There are no concentration camps yet, but they will appear, be sure.

For Moscow, the laws are not written, they live according to their unwritten laws, where there is neither competition nor any evolution, and it is dangerous to talk about the revolution. The nation bends. This is the most smoking and drinking people on the planet. The saddest thing is that the Russians stopped thinking. They limited themselves to the consumption of everything that was brought from the West and the East.

The other day, the UN General Assembly voted by a majority of 100 votes for condemning the annexation of Crimea by Russia. Only 11 states voted against North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, Syria voted against ... And here we are again “very strange” and incompetent. We do not want to be like everyone else.

Russia wants to have its own "sovereign democracy" and its own rules, which have little in common with international law. Links to Kosovo are insolvent, since Kosovo became an independent state, which will soon become a member of the EU just like Serbia, from which this Kosovo "escaped". This means - the borders will disappear again, the peoples will live in the world, which can not be said about the Crimea, where many Crimean Tatars and Ukrainians ignored the referendum on joining Russia, which became another example of falsification.

Mass psychosis, which has covered almost all Russian society today, is not treated instantly. With the slogan "We do not throw our own!" You can already fall into almost all European countries, the United States, Australia, and so on throughout the globe, where Russian compatriots live and are “oppressed”. The cries of Russian “grief politicians”, threatening the West with a “response nuclear blow,” say only about the inadequacy of the actions of the Russian leadership. When in stores more than half of goods and products make up imports, it is at least funny to beat yourself with a fist in the chest.

In the United States, which so disliked the Russian "Patriots", there are also many imports, but the country will easily do without it. Cars - their own, their own - their own, trains - their own, ships - their own, computers - their own, products - their own, shirts, however, from China, and okay ... I’ll add that oil and gas are also in its bowels, which America saves just in case.

Когда в магазинах более половины товаров и продуктов составляет импорт, бить себя кулаком в грудь по меньшей мере смешно

The Russian economy will be able to withstand the sanctions of the West by the force of two years, after which a deep and protracted fall into the abyss will follow, from which the country will crawl out after the change of all power for a very long time. The people will begin to scatter around the world, where they look.

“Today they give half a ruble in Europe,” wrote Saltykov-Shchedrin, “and tomorrow they will give in the face.” While everything is calm, there are enough reserves, but they are not endless. The hopes and hopes for China, which is only waiting for a convenient moment to pull off the tidbit of Siberia and the Far East, when it is completely weakened.

Russia has less and less friends, in a year or two they can be counted on the fingers of one hand ...

German Obukhov - political prisoner in the USSR, writer and screenwriter, co -chairman of the Society of Russian Political Prisoners