Fate-idik

No matter how funny it is, the Russians are looking for again - and they found again! - Your national idea. At one time, they seemed to be forgotten about her, they began to live, live and make good. But, apparently, there is no life without the idea of ​​Russian. It all began with Putin’s Valdai speech, continued by his message to the Federal Assembly, the folk jealousy on the occasion of the capture of the Crimea and was crowned with the argument of the first person about the breadth and generosity of the Russian person, in contrast to the narrowness and stinginess of representatives of all other nations, which, however, also "have something to take valuable and useful."

Sometimes it seems that in the continuous search for Russian identity, this identity itself is concluded. So Maria Sneova writes that the president only responds to a public request: "Apparently, Vladimir Putin’s sincere opinion on the collapse of the USSR as the largest catastrophe of the twentieth century shares most Russians." And reinforces his thesis with a survey data. But this survey is from December last year. In December 1991, there was no mass nostalgia for the Soviet past. The Kremlin agitprop deliberately annoyed this phantom pain. It began with the project of Konstantin Ernst and Leonid Parfenov "Old Songs about the main" on the night of the New 1996. In 2004, a whole nostalgia television channel appeared. The production of a noble number of retro-series with the father of peoples and valiant Chekists, documentary cycles and talk shows, the authors of which were touched by the attributes of the old good Soviet Union ... It was an artificially cultivated trend. The public request was purposefully formed.

Interesting data on this topic contain the results of the last two all -Russian census of the population. Leaving the citizens the only real right to choose - the opportunity to choose a nationality for themselves - the authorities received an unexpected result during the 2002 census. Among the youth, the attorney has spread, called xenopatriotism. People were recorded by the Irish, Japanese, Indians, Yamais, indicated as the ethnicity of the name of disappeared or mythical ethnic groups (Byzantines, Atlanteans), called themselves elves, orcs and goblins. Almost one and a half million people (more than one percent of the population) completely refused to indicate their nationality.

In 2010, more than five and a half million people did not indicate their national affiliation . However, the number of people who called the non -existent nationality decreased from 40 and a half to 17 and a half thousand people, and the number of elves and other fantastic nationalities decreased, and the number of “Soviet man” has grown three times .

Since every word of the president is perceived by subordinates as a guideline, he did not manage to quote (inaccurately and out of place) Nikolai Berdyaev, as the Kremlin officials immediately obliged to study his labors. After the president’s maxims that Russia is a separate, the best, the west that was mired in vices, civilization, administrative zeal of the Minister of Culture gave rise to the brisk slogan “Russia Not Europe” , and the philosopher Boris Mezhuev composed an article on the conflict of civilizations-“the one that Russia forms, and the one that creates the Euro-Atlantic”.

But the president suddenly changed his point of view and explained to the people that Russian citizens and Europeans are “people of the same civilization” and that they have the same “deep values”. Boris Mezhuev instantly sprinkled his head with ashes and stated that he was "shameful." In his new opus, he writes that Russia is real Europe, the spokesman for the needs and aspirations of “deep, real Europe”, which languishes under the yoke of the Brussels perverts.

These servile throwing produce a comic effect , but they do not care about the general public - it, according to surveys, is reveled in the Great Russian sovereign. Maria Sneova believes that the Putin project intercepted the initiative from Alexei Navalny, who proposed the concept of "civil nationalism" instead of the imperial idea. “Russian liberals, due to different factors, which are mainly carriers of imperial consciousness, could not rally around the national project of Navalny,” Ms. Snegova regrets. In my opinion, there is no good nationalism in our time, as there is no good communism, and between two nationalisms, ethnic and civilian, I choose a democratic society in which you are born to Russians, as stupid as you were born, that you were born a boy, not a girl.