Under the right lighting

The awards in the Kremlin recently were awarded modestly, without a pump and an announcement in the press, without disclosing the names of the heroes. They issued orders and medals to the propagandists, one might say, political instructions and commissars, for the correct coverage of the Crimean events. And, most importantly, for creating the right image of thoughts among the population of Russia.

As always, I will express my purely subjective opinion: they deserved these awards, worked out in full! Let me explain why I think so.

My friend came from Moscow, to relax, to breathe fresh air, to drink mineral water. I saw my notes and was outraged by them to the core! She is completely sincerely convinced that:

- Ukraine was preparing to attack Russia,

- Putin barely managed to save the Crimean population from the universal massacre,

- The people of Ukraine bought for the vile promise of the West and is permanently marching under the fascist banners,

- Russia is the most peaceful country, and those who condemned it for annexation simply have not yet understood good intentions and then they will still apologize.

If we assume that Prince Charles is not so wrong, then everything in Russia can end very poorly, for everyone. To believe in such an opportunity at least for a moment means crushing your slender and understandable world, clearly divided into enemies and pulling hands to Russia

She does not want to know anything about the position of the same Lukashenko, considering him a traitor. About huge fines and real terms for rallies in Russia, she also does not want to know anything, considering it an enemy duck. Radio "Echo of Moscow", my acquaintance believes is an enemy staging, and it broadcasts by order of the State Department. Hearing an interview with the editor -in -chief of the Komsomolskaya Pravda, in which he through his teeth, reluctantly admitted that he was also awarded, my friend informed me that this was a staging, the play, the editor is not a real, but an abdicing enemy agent.

Officials steal, she agrees with this, but it was always like that, such is a Russian folk custom, but Putin is honest and kind, just his hands do not reach everything. I persuaded the familiar to watch the film of the Belarusian director Yuri Khashchevastsky "Lobotomy" - 2009, about the war with Georgia. There is one place in the film, a few seconds that, no matter how many times look, are shocking. This is the response of the Russian president to the question of what happened to the Kursk submarine. My friend, at first numb, came to her senses and said: Putin could not, so to speak, with such a smile, this is installation, anything, this was simply not there.

My friend is a man with a higher university education, living in the capital, not in a deaf province. However, a little thought, I was able to understand her. When you are talking about enemies around all day, the machinations of West, America, internal enemies, you gradually begin to believe in it. So calmer, there is a party, a leader-and they know what they are doing. But if we assume that Prince Charles is not so wrong, then everything in Russia can end very poorly, for everyone. To believe in such an opportunity at least for a moment means to crush your slender and understandable world, clearly divided into enemies and pulling hands to Russia. My friend is a wonderful person ... and for some reason I am sincerely sorry for her.

So the awards and prizes by propagandists are clearly deserved. Only the question: why do these people do not show these awards, are silent about them? Conscience or something else?

Igor Budykin - Russian journalist, lives in the Czech city of Teplitsa