The cultural property of the Soviet people

The column of captured Ukrainian military goes along Donetsk under the escort. Severe blonde in camouflage and bayonet; In her life, she probably never took pictures of so much - now she is already forever in history, the shots with the blonde turned out to be very expressive. On the sidewalks are joyful residents of Donetsk. They take off the convicts of prisoners on phones and tablets, smile and, it seems, pushing each other, wanting to stand closer to the place of passage of the column. There is a photograph in which some Donetsk old man (I suspect that when the city is occupied by Ukrainian troops, we will still see this old man with a blue-yellow flag in lines behind humanitarian food) throws into captive eggs. These personnel could be called terrible, terrible, whatever, but only under one condition: if they appeared from a vacuum, out of nowhere, if we did not know that there was a city of Donetsk and the country of Ukraine in the world, and we would not know what was happening there, and then we would see a column of prisoners, a blonde with a bayonet and an old man and my god, how.

Actually, my hypothesis regarding the indignation of Moscow social networks in connection with the parade in Donetsk is that people (and there are many of them) who write indignant words today - they simply missed everything that was before this parade. We missed a downed plane, missed an Odessa fire, missed the sadistic murder of a fisherman deputy in Slavyansk and a good dozen events with a scale of a smaller. They did not see the videos of the deputy Lyashko, they did not see the photos of men in panties on interrogations on both sides of the front line, do not remember how the Russian embassy was smashed in Kiev, or as the deputy of the Tsarev was expected at the exit from the television and miraculously to pieces, or as the Volyn Governor Bashkalenko in the knees on the stage of the rally in Lutsk, or as The Ukrainian riot police were placed on their knees. The level of cruelty in Ukrainian events from the very beginning of the last revolution was such that, by the standards of this level, the parade of prisoners in Donetsk looks like the maximum humanism, which the participants in this war are capable of today. People were not even watered with green , they simply led the streets accompanied by an armed convoy-does this somehow go beyond the limits of the logic of war, especially such? Are you sure that we have the most outrageous episode of events in Ukraine?

Everyone has long chosen their side and carefully sort the news from the Donbass - here we grieve, here we rejoice, we do not notice here.

Judging by the comments accompanying the Donetsk parade - yes, this is precisely this is now sure. Apparently, the Donetsk parade hurts some secret strings of the Soviet soul, and even it is clear which strings.

The organizers of the prisoners' procession made sure that their idea was read unequivocally: the prisoners were closed by the irrigation of the pavement, that is, the organizers of the action defiantly referred to the most famous episode with captured Germans from Soviet history. In the same way, Mostovoy was washed in Moscow on July 17, 1944, when 57 thousand German officers, generals and soldiers captured in Belarus were held from Khodynka to the Kursk station through the center of Moscow. It is customary to refer to this episode when it comes to the directorial tastes of Stalin: Generalissimo knew a lot about spectacular spectacles, and this spectacle was perhaps the brightest of all of which he was related to. Polival machines that closed the convoy of prisoners are no longer an episode of war, this is the most important, well -known and generally perplexing element of Soviet culture. I understand how ridiculous it sounds now, but it is about a cultural property, and not about some other.

The indignation that we observe in connection with the parade of prisoners in Donetsk is caused not so much by mockery of prisoners as a successful attempt by separatist forces to assign this cultural heritage, put it in the service of ourselves. In the Soviet world, in which irrigation machines closing the convoy column symbolize the unambiguous victory of good over evil - in this Soviet world, not only the organizers of the Donetsk campaign live, but also its critics, who, out of habit, repeat the slogans about the Middle Ages and cruelty, without realizing that they were outraged in reality.

Both sides of the Donetsk war are inspired by examples from the same source.

In general, use the word “hypocrisy”, when it comes to the reactions and statements of the participants and fans of the real war - this is probably a bad tone, but it is with hypocrisy that we are dealing with hypocrisy. I would be very happy to see the commentator, who today calls the Middle Ages the run of captive Ukrainians in Donetsk, and in May would mourn people who burned out trade unions in the Odessa House. But I do not know such people. Everyone has long chosen their side and carefully sort the news from the Donbass - here we grieve, here we rejoice, we do not notice here. Here are your own, there are strangers here. It is now customary to laugh at the phrase “guilty”, because everything has long been aware of which side is to blame for everything, and which, in turn, is innocent. Such a picture of the world does not seem distorted to anyone; When it is scattered to smithereens, it will be unpleasant for everyone, but then, but for now, you can take a picture of the Donetsk remake of the Stalinist runs of the Germans in Moscow.

It is interesting that Kyiv on this day was operated by a well -known Soviet image from the same war: soldiers who go to the front right from the festive parade - this is also Stalin, only 1941, November. Both sides of the Donetsk war are inspired by examples from the same source simply because Soviet people do not have other sources, and, in principle, it is easy to imagine a mirror situation when prisoners with irrigation are already in Kyiv, and the militias go in a parade before going from the festive area to the advanced. This day, August 24, 2014, with nightmares showed to what extent the same people are fighting each other on the Donetsk Front. People of the same culture, people of the same language, exactly the same people who, of course, will never become brothers, but there is nothing to rejoice here in any case.