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The limit of curvature
It is also interesting how much time the information environment is capable of properly configured from the point of view of the authorities to maintain, for example, a patriotic rage in those who are just susceptible to this - thoughtlessly or quite willingly. It is also interesting whether there is a limit to the curvature of reality. This is not about hermetic countries a la North Korea, there is just more or less clear. My wonderful friends who lived in the USSR and survived the USSR (which in itself is already luck), when there was practically no other choice, except to live and survive in this, proved that a person can, remaining in a more or less natural state of mind and spirit, minimize the pressure of a negative environment, including cynicism, a sense of humor and relative social autism. And even survive to the logical end of the environment and bury it. At least formally.
Phantom pains from the loss of state propaganda for many decades of the Soviet power of the desired (which does not mean real) image of the country to this day pursue a rather significant number of people who feel comfortable in the USSR or convinced themselves that this was the best time in their life. Their suffering on the past is not so much at the level of natural
The validity of any injection is limited if this is not an overdose with a well -known finaleHuman emotions (loss of ties during collapse, now scattered to different countries, native people, for example), which is just understandable. But first of all, the consequence of the loss of identity formed by Soviet ideologists, which over decades has passed consciousness: the strongest, the most winners, the most nuclear, the most cosmic. People who rejected and rejected by the Soviet manner, but managed to preserve themselves inside him, are more calm, wiser in today's circumstances, or something, those who do not have the experience of that life and survival, and suddenly (over the past few months) turned out to be in the current one similar to the Soviet, but much more aggressive, primitive and straightforward propaganda environment.
I will add - very effective, and it is clear why: “Crimean”, “Ukraine is not the state”, “the country has risen from the knees” - these slogans as an intravenous injection for those who, against the backdrop of the collapse of the USSR, acquired or inherited a complex of inferiority. Acts immediately. True, the validity of any injection is limited if this is not an overdose with a well -known ending.
Those who do not share the enthusiasm of the majority and first were in such a replica of Soviet propaganda as in a time machine, today is not easy. They have a non -reasonable sensation of the space that was compressed around, very negative. Plus, as if in order to strengthen similarity to long -standing times, they are trying to decide for them what sources of information to use it. Most Russian citizens, as statistics show, still receive information from the TV. But the generation has grown up and a whole environment has formed that this rule does not apply. The chopping off of the usual and reliable information Internet resources, which has already become a reflex, is painful, although not irreparable. Plus threats are not today to turn off social networks, search engines and other important tools for their daily information life. A sense of growing danger in the last couple of months and as the situation has developed in Ukraine does not leave, and not only the minority called national traitors, as polls show.
Russia in essence now lives in a state of stress and diametrically opposite strong emotions. There is practically no average position. This resembles a decaying family when a normal conversation does not develop; Only emotions, only with the throat, only to break and until complete idiocy. The paradox is that the minority understands everything perfectly to itself - both about rejection and about the trend. It is clamped between the raging patriots, the politicians and people of their circle, who joined them, who joined either the first, or to the second, or both of them, or promote saving conformism. At the same time, judging by the laws adopted by the Duma (they involuntarily recall the words of Leo Tolstoy, it seems, the Duma, from which he had three impressions: comic, outrageous and disgusting), frostbitten PR campaigns (stretching with portraits of the “fifth column” in the center of the capital, where there weren’t enough words “Wanted”, or was it there?) And it was there?) One gets the impression that these insignificant quantitatively disagreed - silver, with which a constant and unequal battle needs to be conducted.
Yes, forget it, it would seem. Just think, a handful of intellectuals, let them live their own lives. Well, here are the results of the survey in the Crimea: 88% for Krymnash, 5% is illegal annexation, 7% do not know what to think. Five percent, there is something to talk about. Almost statistical error. True, I found here that in a month from March to April by 6 percent (from 9 to 15) the number of those for whom the rejection of Crimea was not a return to the traditional role of the "great power", but the growing adventurism of the Russian authorities. Well, okay, 15%, not 85. Why so much legislative and verbal efforts, if a minority is aimed against this, if the absolute majority spit or like Russia's pupil, distance from the West, restriction of freedoms, including information, and simply choice in the broad sense of the word. I see on my own Facebook how my friends are tired of living in constant negative or expectation of negativity. How joyful they react to beautiful photos or some essays from life where there is a smile and optimism. How I want to "jump in a few months."
We flew at increased speed and without preliminary preparation to the final stage of the cycle, which began in the mid-80s, which can end much more painfully than the collapse of the USSR. To hold a patriotic rage without a specific feeding will be more and more difficult for the authorities, and with a specific feeding - everything is more dangerous for the country. I understand how difficult it is to be in the minority and not go crazy, do not sleep, do not mean, not give up and survive to changes. It is not just to live in real time this period of the split, raving, the loss of even minimal opportunities to influence the situation and the sense of their own helplessness to change something.
The people today speak the words of the authorities and its television, and not vice versa. As the words of Stalin, prosecutors and editorials of the party press said in the Stalinist eraI think many people who are so excessively patriotic today survived for various reasons and under different circumstances something similar in the early 90s. What you should sometimes resemble. So what to do with the minority? Eduard Limonov believes that "there are eras in which you should not be too complicated by an arranged individual, which should suddenly become simple and imbued with simple emotions of solidarity with your people, to become part of a folk body. Now is it such an era." The position is not new and is addressed precisely in this difficultly arranged minority. Yes, and Limonov himself was not so long as an individual individual, until he found reasons to coincide, finally, not with the people, of course, but with the authorities. The people today speak the words of the authorities and its television, and not vice versa. As the words of Stalin, prosecutors and editorials of the party press said in the Stalinist era. The minority must be tried to minimize the influence of the imposed curved reality (emotionally certainly), look for allies, and not to bite inside, look at the entire chessboard, and not go into self-contemplation (not the same), try at the time when the stick is overdue to the final cod and scattered chips, offer some rational project or projects. He needs to learn to survive and pass through the walls that they try to isolate people even from each other so as not to be buried under them.
The story, of course, is on the side of a complicated minority, which has to write it, as Professor Yanov philosophically remarked. The Russian government understands this and takes revenge on this minority for the future. Hence - all these aforementioned excess and irrational body movements. So that the living and thinking does not pickered, the air caught the air, fluttered like a butterfly on the needle, and it would be better if it had already dried up and fell off. This is for the fact that it will survive this power, as it survived, which irrevocably left with the USSR.
In Russia, the majority does not feel in a strange way, did not recognize and does not recognize their own responsibility for what is happening with the country, and is completely unable to share responsibility with the authorities that it, it is the majority, supported or supports. The majority, which is commonly called the people, is always anonymous and a priori, although, in my opinion, this is nonsense. And the minority has names. Perhaps that is why the minority flaunts the full program when the time comes to look for the guilty (in Russia in the last twenty years there is always such a time) - for what he does, and for what does not do, and for what he thinks and for how he corrects other people's mistakes, and for his own.
Natalia Gevorkyan - journalist
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