Out of revenge

Boris Nemtsov was simply killed out of revenge, out of revenge to all of us, those who did not support the capture of the Crimea, the war with Ukraine, to those who, in spite of everything, continue to resist and protest in one way or another. Boris was killed in order to immediately hurt millions of decent and honest people in Russia and in other countries at once.

People have left all their hopes for positive changes for a long time-back in the stormy 1990s. In the past 15 years, they have been observing the consistent restoration of the old orders, which take new, even more ugly forms. Of all the official media, the slop has been pouring for several years, Ukrainian events only strengthen their concentration. And now people turn on the computer - and are looking for Nemtsov, they are waiting for him to come to the transfer to Mikhail Sokolov on Radio Liberty or to the Echo of Moscow. And not because they expect from Nemtsov a plan of actions to remove the supreme priest from the throne, but simply to listen to a competent, smart, beautiful, courageous person, one of the very few in the country who looks like a real European policy, and not a leader or a party apparatus. A normal, living and peppy person is not at all an idol, because they may not agree with many of what Nemtsov proposed.

And why do Nemtsov, Yavlinsky and the comrades do not understand: it is customary not to argue with the ruler, but to ask him for mercy?

You look at our political scene, comparing it, so to speak, with normal ones, and you see: in our parliament those who are in the West are either an outsider (communists, chauvinists) or have no analogues (bureaucrats). The real Tori and Vigi (let's say, Nemtsov and Yavlinsky) spend the debate on the street, and, knowing the perfectly stupid, thieving, servile and trained people, you understand that you can’t change anything. Nothing. These people, exactly like their ancestors, look at today's opposition, as at one time at the Decembrists, like eccentrics, not understanding why they do not understand that if "the boys are told in the cells to perform, so what to show off?" And why do Nemtsov, Yavlinsky and the comrades do not understand: it is customary not to argue with the ruler, but to ask him for mercy?

Now they talk a lot about the influence of the media on society. This is true: people with the psychology of farm laborers became more aggressive and are ready to be zealously protecting the landowners who have shifted them, but a free person cannot be made by farm through television, and a slave cannot be liberated, telling him the truth about the host. He, like a dog, is not important to him the moral appearance of the nursing.

Therefore, without the hopes that the junta, who was sitting in power since 1917, will retreat from her under the pressure of peaceful protests, people listened to Nemtsov. He was just honest, sincere, cheerful, he infected his energy. While other oppositions sometimes lead to longing, Nemtsov with their humor and well done recklessness was, I think, for many, a source of positive emotions. For this they killed him - for not being able to break. We decided to punish us all and at the same time answer the “damned” West, cynically killing the opposition they most appreciated by them. Like, you are sanctions to us, and we will kill you Nemtsov for this.

By the way, according to the same terrorist logic, the notorious law of Dima Yakovlev, also known as the law of scoundrels, was adopted not so long ago. After all, Boris was one of the initiators of the adoption of the Magnitsky Act, I remember how he laughed at Mr. Markov in the program of Ksenia Sobchak: what, they say, you can do in response, freeze McCain's accounts in Sberbank? And they answered, having made children a damage, condemning them not to find out what to spend a childhood in the family, and cause pain to all those to whom their fate is not indifferent, but they cannot influence it. According to the same principles, by the way, are now those who destroy Mosul museums, the same was done by those who blew up statues in Afghanistan. To cause the pain to those whom they cannot hurt otherwise.

Therefore, the version that the murder of Nemtsov is a provocation directed against Putin is simply ridiculous. His rating will not sway, he will not be beaten in his heart, as it did not, for example, have many of my neighbors, acquaintances, colleagues. This is a shot in us, in those who loved Nemtsov, to whom he was dear, and this will serve only the slaves: they know for sure that he would not have protruded, then they would not have touched. Many, probably, often caught themselves thinking that Nemtsov was too bold, playing with fire, but there was a firm confidence: they would not dare to touch a person known to the whole world.

On the broadcast of the mourning march, Radio Liberty correspondents asked the participants questions, among which was this: was it not a desire to leave now? Only for those who have already left for not for economic reasons, now it is not as painful as those who still remained in the country? But what can change the emigration for the one who is threatened by reprisal, when polonies, ice axes and a keen desire to commit suicide for no special reason move across the borders without difficulties? On the contrary, after such rudeness, many began to recall the words of our academician Pavlov, who could easily leave and comfortably live his old age abroad, but thought that his country began to need him more than ever.

Of course, there are “motorcels” in Berlin and in London, but maybe with the mass departure of their ideas and become state ideology? And what's the difference, here we are or abroad? After all, where the Satan missile does not fly, while there are still no conditions for life, and the responsibility for what is happening in the homeland does not disappear from the change of citizenship.

Igor Vatrovdin - teacher, Perm