On the bloody lands

1.

I woke up on May 7 and read the Kremlin’s statement in the morning news. There were only five offers in it.

“The Russian government is concerned about the situation of the Russian-speaking population of Ukraine and especially the southeast, where a civil conflict is growing.

The political leadership of Russia is strongly against the escalation of the conflict.

We believe that all the problems of the citizens of the Donetsk, Kharkov, Lugansk, Odessa, Kherson and other areas should be decided exclusively as part of the democratic institutions of the Ukrainian state.

We urge the participants in the pro -Russian formations in Ukraine to immediately lay down a weapon.

Russia is ready to support only those pro -Russian political forces in Ukraine, which will lay out weapons and will seek political representation in the legislative and executive authorities of Ukraine in accordance with its constitution. ”

The Republic of Novorossiya would like to spread so that Ukraine does not have a sea.

I did not believe my eyes. How? All? Is it over? At that moment, I directly saw how this news flies around the globe. German industrialists sigh in relief. Political experts in Brussels, London, Washington cease to wrinkle their foreheads. All Kyiv simply returns to the elections on May 25. And hundreds of thousands of families in Ukraine say in their kitchens: “Thank God!” Then I thought: “But how is the Crimea? .. Ah, well, I understand ...” Then the thought flew by: “But what about these, from the“ Russian spring ”? .. And, of course, amnesty to everyone, and the special representative of the new, instead of Lukin, will go to Kyiv ...” And he suddenly saw how quickly the anxiety and fear that all these weeks were absorbed in Odessa. And I see how those who have died relatives or neighbors - in Kyiv, Slavyansk, Odessa - they say: “Why didn’t he make this statement before?!” And then they say to themselves: "But it’s better late than ever."

2.

But this statement is not. Instead, apparently, another thing happens. Several thousand men who have experience are pulled on Belgorodchina. They are not military personnel. But they signed a contract. Many of them are ethnic Ukrainians who have long lived in Russia. On day x, they, together with the equipment and weapons of the Ukrainian army, captured in the Crimea, should go across the Russian-Ukrainian border and join the Donetsk rebel army. Now, as they say, 300 people are written. And it takes about 3,000 - in order to take control of all administrative buildings, and most importantly - all polling stations. Because a referendum should be held. May 11. And then the Republic of Novorossia should be proclaimed.

And then ... it is clear that there will be "then." The remaining areas in the arc from Transnistria to Kharkov will shake. After all, the “Republic of Novorossiya” would like to spread so that Ukraine does not have a sea. Kyiv and Kolomoisky are preparing for plan “B”, that is, to create a new state border along this arc. The election of May 25 can no longer matter, because in such conditions a de facto Ukraine should be led by some kind of military committee. All new sanctions of the United States, the statements of Berlin and Brussels look solemn, but they are too high clouds, and here, on Earth, Odessa-2, Odessa-3, new random sacrifices, new non-accidental sacrifices, new “heroes of resistance” on both sides. They already shot at Kernes, shoot at Kolomoisky. The Right Sector, which began to integrate into systemic Ukrainian structures, is reviewing its course and begins to form a combat wing a la Ira for sabotage in Russia.

People retell the most fantastic rumors to each other. They believe that "the wells are poisoned."

Russian media continue to pump military rhetoric to the accompaniment of Russian media people who repeat mantras every day about the fact that “there has never been Ukrainian statehood”, “there is no government in Kiev”, “power in Kiev is seized by the Nazis”, “the Ukrainian people do not exist, these are somewhat different tribes” ... By June, Fedor Lukyanov is already restrained and respectable: it is obvious that it is obvious that it is obvious that it is obviously not There is no Ukrainian state, only three areas of Western Ukraine are represented by the problem, erroneously joined by Stalin to the USSR ...

And people die, die ... On anti -personnel mines, they tear their legs. All new videos with corpses rush through the networks. And these videos immerse most of the societies of both countries into a ramp, into a stupor. They immobilize societies. People are closing, looking for a way to run. Every day they call relatives in another part of Ukraine with the question: “How are you?”, Not knowing for sure whether the news of television channels and “Eyewitnesses” in the networks correspond to something. People retell the most fantastic rumors to each other. They believe that "the wells are poisoned." Moreover, they begin to believe so much that someone is already dying of water poisoning.

And do not forget that this is generally Bloodlands . The “bloody lands”, according to the historian Tim Snyder, there is a gigantic chain of historical injuries, victims, tough conflicts of neighboring communities, deportations, genocide. Here-in these lands, soaked in blood-Benzin-Putin does not throw a match, but a whole torch.

All new sanctions are too high clouds, and on Earth-“Odessa-2”, “Odessa-3”, new random sacrifices, new non-accidental sacrifices.

What significance against this background do our attempts have to read into the rhetoric of the Kremlin to understand why he supports armed detachments in the Donbass? Why is this uncompromising line to destroy the Ukrainian state? Unless the political historian will be interested in all these perverted rhetorical statements that the escalation of violence in Ukraine is just a proposal to create a “new Europe from Lisbon to Vladivostok”. Or the monstrous infantile cynicism of Russian deputies and senators, who simultaneously celebrate the annexation of Crimea and give advice to the rest of Ukraine, how the political system should be arranged there (federalization, new constitution, etc.). All these rhetorical wandering of Sergei Karaganov, Fedor Lukyanov, Primakov’s silence, the cries of Sergei Mironov “crush the fascist reptile, introduce troops!”, All tons of the deputy threat of NATO, about the Union with China, about “our response to sanctions”, about the “Cold War”, about the “West”, etc. - All that is retold by analysts to each other today in all the capitals of the world in an effort to understand what Putin is doing, retreats into the background as a set of letters in comparison with how violence fascinates the consciousness of millions of people in two societies - Ukrainian and Russian. Unlimited violence quickly and magically unfolds before the eyes of millions, like a flower bud in accelerated shooting. This is a predator flower. And quickly eats everyone.

But not even five, but one phrase. To stop this race to the referendum on May 11, this breakdown of the election on May 25, this is the swelling of armed detachments, the bittering of weapons ...

But she will not be.