Your letters. January 31, 2015

The priest Timothy, following the famous Archpriest Vigilyansky, reason, referring to him why the Bolsheviks won a hundred years ago in Russia, although they were in an insignificant minority. Or, in other way, why the royal system, autocracy suffered defeated. Among the reasons, the letters casually mention the national outskirts, they say about their “betrayal”, but the author sees the main reason on the side that none of our listeners wrote to us. On the side where the Russian Orthodox Church stands up, this is where Father Timothy found the root of evil with the help of the Vigilyansky father. Both mourn that almost all Russian clergymen supported the February revolution of the seventeenth year, betrayed (again this word) of their king and adopted the collapse of the Russian Empire as inevitability. Thus, Russian Orthodoxy of the beginning of the last century, they say, irresponsibly legitimized the bourgeois revolution, approved the republican form of government, and immediately reconciled with the "destruction of any unity of the nation." The destroyers, of course, are declared the then Russian democrats.

You read this and think: well, yes, if then most priests adopted the collapse of the empire and thereby destroyed the former Russia, then what is today? It turns out that today the new majority in the cassors corrects this error. It welcomes an attempt to restore the empire and autocracy - almost under these same names. And what does it reach? And the same: destroys Russia. Those destroyed Russia, and these are destroyed, those are tsarist, these are post -Soviet. And she still will not destroy ... We can talk about the peculiar civil war of the Russian priests. Two armies in cassoons. One is the priests of the nine hundred and seventeenth, the other is the priests of two thousand fifteenth. Those were against the king, against the empire, for democracy, for European orders. These are exactly the opposite: for the king, for the empire, against democracy, against the European order. Very, you must admit, a kind of civil war, and its originality, except other things, is that the majority does not suspect about it. A hundred years ago, the Russian people did not listen to their priests, they do not listen to them today, so I would not lay guilt for the destruction of Russia both at those and these. Well, they are not guilty! But how you need to love the empire in order to call the national movements of its outskirts treacherous! Do you know how I will call this love? She, at the present time, is a pezhonian, this love, Lord, forgive me. Pigi in cassors. The Finns, Poles, Ukrainians are deliberately teased.

“Pensions, pensions and pensions again, is the next letter. - Lord, with what pleasure on March 18 last year, the quilted jackets of Crimea shouted: we are in Russia, Putin will save us from the Jews of the Gidbandera collapse. They were promised: we will double the pensions, the prices of medicines and products will be regulated by the Crimean government. And what happened? Pensions were raised, but medicines and products began to rise in price. And after the new year, some of the pensions were generally lowered, and others were raised. Pensioners are in shock, why, how so? And then there is an increase in utility tariffs. Subsidies, as in Ukraine, are not given subsidies not to everyone. They thought that Putin's Russia is a reduced USSR, but this is not so. They feed in the hospital once a day. If there is no medication prescribed by a doctor in the hospital, you must buy it yourself. The people are at a loss. "

If only Ukrainians mocked the Crimeans today, there would be one story. But the Crimeans themselves mock themselves over themselves. This is another story. But what can be said without ridicule? Or without much mockery? This will be the third story, and maybe for a long time. Before the annexation of Crimea, many residents of the peninsula dreamily compared their lives with the Soviet one. Now they begin to compare it with the post -Soviet Ukrainian. They embellished, as usual, Soviet life, now they begin to embellish the post -Soviet Ukrainian. The usual thing. People are interested in everything except the truth.

“Dear Anatoly Ivanovich! - The next letter. - I also put my hand in the destruction of Lenin or Lenins. It was in the nineteen year, immediately after the army, in Kharkov. Even then, I was conscious, as they would say in Russia now, fascist-Bandera. He listened to the lecture during the day, crushed Leninian at night. I had a devoted friend, and I attracted him to cutting the monuments. We had a ladder, two weighty hammer. The easiest way to beat off the nose, or fingers on the hands (but there is reinforcement in them). You hammer, hammer, hammer, hammer on stone, uncomfortably, your hands fall off, you sit dark, three meters from the ground, but you get true satisfaction, and when the Leninist nose is in your pants pocket - a feeling of incomparable. It is wonderful that the police did not catch us. I already had one drive because I kept the blue-yellow flag, the cops went on my ear and a fine of fifty cellets was written out (almost all of my scholarships). It is good that in Ukraine recently there has been a demolition of monuments to Ulyanov-Lenin, just wonderful. I would also participate, if not for the disease. In Donetsk, there is also a monument to Grandfather Lenin on Lenin Square, but his DPRs guard, we have no more historical one more. Andrey Kvitko. Donetsk. "

Thanks for the letter, Andrey, keep there. I knew that they were guarding him. I have a suspicion that the matter is not in Lenin and not in the monument to him, but in the fact that these people simply want to protect something, something cultural and ideological, so they undertook to guard this monument to lack other appropriate attractions.

I read the following letter: “You announced the complaint of Russian engineers working abroad about your Russian government. In connection with the fall of the ruble, they lost half, if not more, their wages, now they only have enough for bread, and local personnel do not put them in a penny as beggars. This is we, Russians, and is in all its glory, Anatoly Ivanovich. Some are sure that you are fulfilling your part of the American plan to destroy Russia, while others complain to your native government, hoping with your help to correct your financial situation - so that you either change the procedure for paying the foreign engineering personnel of our Fatherland or more - saved our ruble from the final transformation into dust. From that complaint it struck that, according to its authors, you really want them to be real Russian patriots, and they - they also do not mind being patriots, but subject to the fair, in their opinion, monetary reward in firm currency. I, Anatoly Ivanovich, see this a good sign. Here, not only demagogy and hypocrisy, absorbed with milk, but also common sense. Once we sang: “There would be a native country - and there are no other worries” and other similar to the excellent music that Soviet composers often stole from the West. Now this concern: for a native country to live, it remains in the first place, but our person has a second concern. It requires material reinforcement of first care. So he did not finally go crazy. He has normal interests and needs, like all people. ” I agree with this malicious listener of "Freedom". There is every reason to believe that the Northern Koreans also have the same with needs. In the first place, of course, the country would live, but in the second, and not in the third-so that they still give something for this desire, at least a plate of rice. Most in Russia do not have savings. Life with an empty tan. Two -thirds or even more, the indicator fluctuates. A person who has some kind of stock, and a person who has no reserve is like people from different worlds. They look at things differently and behave differently. People who have nothing for tomorrow do not know how to dispose of what they have today. Have you noticed this? They don’t know how - that's all. I got some kind of penny-and immediately spent it. How? Half - the devil knows what. For example, to replenish the mobile phone, and half went to return the debt. The neighbors and rural stores give in debt, otherwise there will be no trade. This is called a list of a list. The mysterious thing is actually a thing. Why not calculate your expenses in such a way as not to fall into debt? I came to the store, saw something and could not deny myself. Behavior of adult children. And small loans in banks at frantic interest? And after all, it would be clearer if these loans were taken for something really necessary - no, on a new daughter’s daughter, so that she was not ashamed of school in front of her girlfriends ... such a person who lives one day, and processes, serves the zombie. It doesn't matter that it will happen tomorrow. There is no tomorrow for him. Somehow, maybe.

“With the thought you yourself know about which country,” the next letter says, “I write to you about Thailand as I understood it during my stay in it. This is a certain combination of stiffness and softness. On the one hand, crazy moral freedom, I personally regret that I did not come here fifteen years ago. I realized where my beloved George Martin wrote off some things from. The waitress speaks quite good English: "If your gods forbid to love and enjoy life, they are not gods, but demons!" This is a direct quote, although it is clear that Martina is unlikely to read the Thai waitress. On the other hand, the terrible cruelty of power and the police. In no case should you hurt power, boot, download rights. In prisons, the conditions are monstrous. Squadrons of death are dealing with serious criminals. No human rights exist. Corruption is at a large level, but not on small. You can’t pay off the cop on the street. On the contrary, just an attempt to do this is fraught with very large troubles. In general, civilized. New cars. Roads like a mirror. Purely, for a discarded candy wrapper can be punished very seriously ... Looking at this, once again you understand the absurdity of conversations about westernization, universal values. The world, I apologize, is polynomial or polynomial - choose a word to your taste. There are a lot of Russians here. I understand them, Russian itself. Here, in Thailand, we see freedom. I go to the bar, and there are dancing thirty naked girls. Whoever has a desire is to pay and do what you want with them. But in the "Free" Oslo, Stockholm or Paris, communication with a prostitute is a criminal case. In the USA (except for Nevada) - too. So why are you better than a caliph, damned feminists?! The fact that you can go out into the street with the poster "President of the fool". Put it to yourself! .. Real freedom is what the Thai waiter told me is not politics, real freedom is freedom to live, rejoice, fuck, have fun, thump. Those who are against this serve demons. Both Caliph and Hillary with Gluxman and Madame Merkel - they serve him, damned demons! Tramp Nikolay, ”this letter is signed. You can call me a pickup and a debate, an expensive tramp, but human rights exist even in North Korea, not to mention Thailand and Russia. Another thing is that the authorities do not pay attention to their existence, and with them there is nothing to hide a sin-and the public, and this is fraught ... In the end, human rights of themselves will be reminded and, perhaps, so that there will not be enough for someone.

“Once I had one friend, the next letter, with whom I started a conversation about the“ enemy voices ”. He said he listened and stopped. Why? You listen to and vilely live. Because the truth. When you live in this horror and get used to it, as a norm, it is easier. And to live and constantly think that you live in a nightmare is hard. Now there are three differences from the Stalinist time. First. Free travel abroad. Second. In addition to a zombie with a dumb and vile grocery, there is so far an Internet in which there are a lot of different information. 0t "Voice of America", "BBC" and Radio "Freedom" could be plugged with ears. 0T today is impossible. Third. There are no political denunciations and mass fear. But this is not the merit of the regime, but simply its weakness. There is no one to repress and write denunciations. All internal enemies have long been erased. People are more afraid of the most stupid or corruption of crime and non -building arbitrariness. The son of the deputy governor crushed a car with a passer -by and an ordinary cop. And at the same time he shouted that he was a major and nothing threatens him. The truth is terrible about this society. It is terrible that there will be no Maidans in the capital. It is terrible that the opposition is for Crimean. Yes, there is no it at all. There is slave indifference and slave reptility. We live without dictatorship, as with a dictatorship. Today, both the kings and their kingdom itself with its population are no less disgusting than once, but weaker. Consolation is only in this, ”this listener looks at things.

Mr. Feofanov writes: “I remember that in the nineties I went to the flea markets, there they sold a lot of recent Soviet symbols, nesting dolls, and ... whores. Well, all sorts of orders and medals. What a reservation, I thought! But not yet final. Then Yeltsin forbade selling "awards". But this is only a delay. The descendants of the "winners" will again trade the plaques, recalling the great Russia, as they recalled and recall the mighty USSR. The problem is that no one knows what to do with the Russian world. Let more democracy into it? They take out psychos and a lesson. This population is not able to produce anything, to create, except for nesting dolls and stools and potatoes. And the regime says: yes, we are like that, but we have a nuclear bomb. But what do they require? In order for their oil to be bought at prohibitive prices, they would give loans, so that from there, from 3 abed, all kinds of mobile phones and computers come. That is, neither more nor less - so that the Russian world is taken for maintenance. And he will steal, arrange Olympiads, have fun in gambling areas, and get up in offices. This is a world with a criminal type of behavior. He laughs at gullibility. Sovetskoye absenteeism, oil and gas are not eternal Lafa. In vain, the regime is accused of the fact that he profiled the obese years, did not diversify the economy. There was no one. There is no main thing - personnel, exceptions confirm the rule. After all, the Gates was not a renegade, his computers and operating systems are a product of the entire American society. We would have destroyed it. 0n not a former burn-off-sales with killers, did not lean back from the zone. Well, who would give him a path? ”Writes Mr. Feofanov. It seems that only yesterday the article of Selyunin and Khanin “The Sunny Figure” was preparing for the press. After she went out, Selunin and I washed her well. Khanin was not with us - he remained in his Novosibirsk. The article was immediately called epochal. It showed that things in the Soviet Union are going much worse than they look in the mirror of Soviet statistics. Selyunina has been gone for a long time, he died hard, but calmly: he lived, and walked, and did something-he said in our last meeting. And Khanin is healthy, he is all in the same Novosibirsk, recently wrote another “crafty figure” - about how official statistics embellish Russian reality and what to wait in the foreseeable future. You will have to tighten the belts for everyone - both poor and rich, not to count on a quick and noticeable improvement. Khanin directly talks about the degradation of human material as the main reason that the country has not done two decades - she did nothing in order to become a might with a century in all respects.

Mr. Bolotenko writes. He read on the website of Radio “Freedom” a commentary on one of our listeners about how the Soviet Union prepared rebels for different countries - by order of communist parties, in the same way. Some of the secret documents were published about this. “In the eighty -eighth year,” writes Vladimir Bolotenko, a former sailor, “during a business trip to Finland to accept a new ship, I met with a translator Hayki Salonen. An ordinary Finnish guy, in those days of thirty -five years. He spoke Russian well. He once stuttered that he was sent to the Higher School of the Komsomol Central Committee on the Komsomol line at one time. While the teaching of the Russian language and other ordinary disciplines was underway, he was not worried. But it was announced that the group was transferred to a special course: a national liberation movement. The group had Latinos, Arabs and God knows who else. There were few Europeans. Heiki realized that they were trying to take him into history. He did not like the prospects to act against his native Suomi. He categorically refused to take this special course. In addition, he rushed into the self-wolf, sat on the plane and flew to Alma-Ata. I stayed there for several days, having fun in my manner. Upon his return, of course, he was expelled as a malicious violator of discipline and sent back to Finland. The KGB in Finland felt rather freely. According to the Finns, the Helsinki was the largest Soviet residency in Europe. " Thanks for the letter, Vladimir. If you listen to some former gabeshniks, then the biggest residency was exactly where your interlocutor served. Not everyone agrees when you tell him directly in the eyes that there were few people like them, even in the Soviet Union. And when you ask why nothing came out with the arrangement of the world revolution, they usually answer that not everything depended on them. But now, I say, everything depends on you! Everyone answers, not everyone.

“I grew up in Makhachkala of the seventies,” writes Semyon Kiriakidi, “it was a city in which they spoke in the right Russian and chuckled at the accents of rural residents. They told jokes with obscenities, but only in their companies. This was excluded with the elders. It was considered not very worthy with the younger ones. They scolded even obscenities. More often - non -controlled to the interlocutor. And if directed, then after some words the fight could not be avoided. I remember well when I first heard a swearing word from my father. I was fourteen. Отец беседовал с коллегой и либо проигнорировал, либо не заметил моего присутствие в комнате. Материться при женщинах было невозможно. Женщинам материться не полагалось. В восьмидесятые я переехал в Россию. Именно так тогда говорили в российском городе Махачкале - уехал по распределению в Россию. Культурный шок от переезда в Россию, в Липецк, был вполне сравним с шоком последующей эмиграции. Матом не только ругались, матом разговаривали. Родители матерились при детях, дети - при родителях, начальники - при подчиненных, подчиненные - при начальниках, мужчины - при женщинах, женщины - при мужчинах. И все-таки с матом ассоциировалось бескультурье. Интеллигентные люди не должны были материться. В девяностые мат стал проникать в массовую культуру, в литературу. Проще всего было бы объяснить это общей культурной деградацией страны с подачи кремлевского приблатненного подполковника, но всё может быть сложнее. Язык развивается по своим законам. Мат уже не оскорбляет и не смешит, как бывало. Мне это не нравится, но и тут не без исключений: прошлой весной украинские футбольные фанаты тривиализировали, интернационализировали и распространили по всему миру одно матерное слово», - пишет Семен Кириакиди, не считая нужным уточнить, что это за слово. За последнюю четверть века в России вырос перечень того, что разрешается властью, а значит и обществом. В России это тесно связано. Общество приучено разрешать и запрещать то, что разрешает и запрещает власть. Послесоветская власть перестала запрещать мат и другие речевые вольности. Люди обрадовались и стали больше самими собой. Теперь некоторые смотрят на себя в зеркало и не знают, любоваться или ужасаться.

«С высказыванием - «волкодав прав, а людоед нет» - безусловно согласятся все люди черно-белого мышления. Только как выяснить, кто волкодав, а кто людоед? Для зека Спиридона людоеды сидели под красными звездами в Кремле. А вот, скажем, для вьетнамского крестьянина, деревню которого сожгли напалмом самолеты с белыми звездами – где?Человек с широтой взглядов, хотя таких мало, с незапамятных времен знает: кто волкодав, а кто людоед – рассудит Господь Бог на том свете. А на этом все правы, и все виноваты, правда у каждого своя. Из этого следует уважение к противнику, осознание, что он не хуже. Кстати, это – черта настоящих профессиональных военных. Недавно прочел, что сорок лет назад в конце Войны судного дня, пока политики поливали друг друга, сразу после перемирия возле Исмаилии побратались египетские «коммандос» и израильские десантники, и пару месяцев, сидя рядом на позициях, вместе жарили шашлык, пили кофе и играли в футбол».