Anti -Western fuse

Calling the government "still the only European in Russia," Pushkin added: "And no matter how rudely and cynically it may be, it would depend on him a hundred times worse."

After 178 years, in the second decade of the XXI century, the Russian government not only refuses the title of European itself, but also refuses Russia to be called a European country. This is precisely what is evident from the project "Fundamentals of State Cultural Policy" , compiled in the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation and aimed at the highest approval to the Kremlin.

"Russia is not Europe" - this will now have a state national idea. And what is she? It turns out that "unique and original civilization, not reduced to either the" West "(" Europe "), or to the" east ". The text of the project, generously seized with quotes from the founder of V.V. Putin, contains science fictions like the" single cultural civilizational code "and" spiritual and cultural matrix ", which, of the understandable business," hold the most of them. " Funny that, arguing about the "system of distinctive, dominant values, meanings and views in society," the authors of the project do not formulate these values ​​and do not set out these meanings and views.

The initiator of the project, Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky strictly says : "Do not pull out of the context. Russia is not just Europe. Russia is actually half of Europe. But this is much wider than only Europe." And he immediately adds: "The roots of our civilization go to Byzantium ..." From here it is already a stone's throw to the concept of the Third Rome. According to Medinsky, the fact that Russia is a separate civilization, "the best minds have long been converged by both our and European philosophy."

The Minister of Culture is free to consider the best minds whom he will please. But will he really argue with the fact that the classical Russian culture was born and grew on a common soil with Europe? He doesn’t argue, but he believes that Europe has everything in the past: “It is from“ Enlightened Europe ”that ideological movements such as racism, fascism, vulgar atheism, by the way, have come to us with the theory of“ class hatred ”...” Russia, the minister believes, remains the only guardian of “classical European values”, which have long been perverted and have been longed out by themselves The West: “In value plan, the West is now turning into its opposite, and Russia is forced to culturally defend itself from“ anti-Europe ”in order to at least keep Shakespeare without pedophilia and“ little prince ”without homosexual“ plastic ”.

But I remember that Juliet has not yet been 14 years old and that some Shankepeare's sonnets are turned to the young man ...

But how would we still learn more and more precisely about the original Russian values, meanings and views?

Mr. Medinsky advises "turn on the head" and open the school curriculum in literature. One of the "Russian traditional values" is Yaroslavna from the "Word of Igor's Regiment". The other is Petrusha Grinev from the "Captain's daughter", a positive example of honest service to the Fatherland and fidelity in love. Immediately, the minister gives free rein to his violent fantasy: "And if you put the opera" Prince Igor ", in which Yaroslavna dances a pole around the pole, masturbates and begs Cox at the Polovtsian khan, this will be the destruction of traditional values." Do not count on state support and director of the film "About how Petrusha Grinev entered into an intimate connection with Pugachev, and the smoking Shvabrin roared him." The heroes of the Karamazov brothers, according to the minister, are a "statement of values" from the contrary. "

I am embarrassed to ask: and Sonya Marmeladova and Katyusha Maslova - are they also "from the nasty"? Vronsky, of course, claims traditional values, which include a healthy lifestyle: he is engaged in equestrian sports and goes to war to protect the Slav brothers. But Anna Arkadyevna clearly destroys values ​​- she changes her husband, uses drugs and applies contraceptives, that is, it spoils Russia demography, which the Ministry of Culture also considers its competence.

The special hatred of the Minister and the authors of the project of "Fundamentals of Cultural Policy" are caused by such achievements "anti-Europe" as multiculturalism and tolerance. By the way, they also selected a quote from the President’s message to the Federal Assembly - the one where he speaks of "the so -called tolerance, asexual and barren." Did you understand a subtle hint? The Minister of Medinsky is expressed as follows: "This is a dead, abstract principle, which makes you humble yourself with any other people's action, including atrocities, ugliness, vulgarity." Unlike our "civilizational code", which involves love and respect for someone else's culture. The minister twice in the same interview repeats an example that seems especially successful to him: “not” to endure the Caucasian Lezginka, but to admire it and connect to it, as the Cossacks are connected. ”

As for me, I will perfectly manage without a Lezginka, and without the Cossacks connected to it. All this scooping Sermmyag has the slightest attitude to Russian culture, which I love and which, of course, is not “more than Europe”, but its rather modest part.