Flattery to Putin

A modest eyewitness, the head of the civil society development fund reports how it happened. Who asked who answered other details. Under what circumstances the phrase of a decade was born.

The question was asked by Nikolai Zlobin, the famous Russian-American political scientist and traveler, a regular "Valdai", and this question was innocent. A regular wanted to receive a certificate from Volodin about Western sanctions. Like, what kind of internal political consequences for Russia can have these sanctions. He received a very detailed answer, and a cherry on the cake crowned his thundering phrase.

Judging by the retelling, the first deputy head of the presidential administration began from afar. First, he reported how deeply those who expected the sanctions to split the country. He opened his eyes to Western politicians and gathered to the “essence of Russia”: his compatriots perceive attacks on the president as attacks on his country and personally. Then, becoming more and more, under the influence of these discoveries, he spoke about the stability and improvement of life in Putin, reinforcing the thought with the numbers of sociological surveys. Well, under the curtain "voiced the key thesis", as Kostin put it. He spoke on behalf of millions.

There is Putin - there is Russia, there is no Putin - no Russia.

Of course, the phrase of the decade is now generously quoted in the press and blogs. It is only that it seems that it is no longer possible to surprise a Russian -speaking person involved in Putin's Russia: they say that they heard and visible everything. This is only a figure of speech.

In fact, the ability to tremble and pronounce words and the construction of multi -storey verbal constructions prohibited by Roskomnadzor is truly unlimited in a person. Especially in the Russian -speaking, which indicates our vitality, spiritual breadth and openness. And also about invincibility, which inspires considerable optimism against the backdrop of current events and a terrible phrase, said by a big boss.

He said what if words in his native language have not yet lost meaning? President Putin lives in the world, and Russia and his deeds and actions are long immortal. And his presidential age will end, which will probably coincide with the life of the human life, and the country ... In general, the country will collapse. And Russia whispers blissfully, without tears: if you, you, Zhenya, then I will be! - wrote San Sanych Ivanov, parodying Yevtushenko, but it was a literary joke, and then what a laughter. The existence of one seventh under threat.

From the side to look, so this Volodin, perhaps, entwined the most important state secret. He gave a secret signal to the Russophobes of all stripes. He designated the goal and brought it to it. If you want, they say, gentlemen and mister, to put an end to the hated Russia - drive Vladimir Vladimirovich. And then nothing will save us, and the nuclear shield of the Motherland will crumble by itself, and the "Russian world" will absorb the abyss.

The optimist will object: Volodin did not break out, and he is not an enemy and not a secret agent of the State Department, but simply stupid to exhaustion. I want to correct the optimist. The finished fools are not appointed to the high post that Vyacheslav Viktorovich is rightfully occupied. Of course, a system of negative selection operates there, but it concerns more moral qualities than intelligence. The very unscrupulous and brainless is overcome unscrupulous with not completely atrophied brains.

So a different, much more sad explanation of the fantastic Volodinsky speeches is possible. The first deputy head only pretended to be demented, at the same time expressing in devotion to the dear Vladimir Vladimirovich. But in reality, he set the brains of Zlobin and other regulars who were not yet weaned in Valdai to ask acute questions. He did not give a signal, but gave the installation.

Now, as he would say, turning over the Valdai goals to the Western leaders, that’s what you have brought the people with their sanctions. You do not know Russians. The stronger you offend our Putin, the more stubborn the population is rallying around the national leader. And life no longer thinks without him, and believes that Russia will disappear when Putin does not become. From your sanctions of fascism in the heads of the Russians, it only increases, as if pushing his guests Volodin, at the same time and blackmail.

By the way, this is already a very familiar technique, which is used everywhere by Russian politicians. Putin reacts to sanctions, calculating in private conversations the terms of the capture of Kyiv, Bucharest, Warsaw and other cities. Sergei Ivanov, the immediate supervisor of Volodin, claims that the West is attempting to shake the President’s personal authority, using the non -systemic opposition. That is, in response to sanctions, threatens the mass arrests of disagreements. Volodin reports the apocalyptic fears of Russians, as if pushing Western listeners to one paradoxical thought. Cancel the sanctions - and the Russian people will again reach for democracy.

This thought is false and crafty. It’s not for that that the authorities destroyed the legislative power, the power of the judicial and fourth power in the country, so that the electorate voted for anyone and calmly listens to the presidential speeches. The entire Putin system has been built in the last 15 years for that so that the population has the whole heart to hate enemies, external and internal, and stooped up at the thought that the beloved leader would someday. Of course, life in the era of the Cold War and sanctions, this orphan feeling enhances, but it is not inspired by Merkel or Obama. Rather, Volodin himself, who, with the help of his propaganda zombie, turns the great people to a herd of aggressive, evil and shy viewers.

As for the phrase of the decade ... A considerable experience has already been accumulated on this score, and if you look back, you can recall how great nations stupid and went crazy under the influence of propaganda, political terror and small, until the time of victorious wars. How they selflessly loved their leaders. And as they were seeing later, on the ruins of the chopped Reich or at the news that our father was not a father, but a branch . The cult of personality has been planted for years and decades, and is rapidly collapsing, and then denazification or "overcoming the consequences" begins. The first is preferable, otherwise some Volodin will still lead this overcoming. In Russia, which will never perish.