Lungehole

On February 25, 1917, the Masquerade Meyerhold unprecedented in luxury and spectacity, the imperial Russia has said goodbye to the world. At the premiere in the Alexandrinsky Theater there was the entire St. Petersburg bomond. “This is an empty and bulky spectacle,” the artist Alexander Benois wrote in his review “Very Beauty”, “was the last aimless firework against the background of the past past.”

On February 23, 2014, the Sovetskaya Empire with the world of the Olympiad closing the Olympics. The remains of the Olympic Mishura will go to the design of the Victory holiday. But this event will be held in a completely different setting, in the stolen atmosphere of the besieged fortress. Russia lost all its allies in that war and celebrates the anniversary in a split country.

But this is the last round anniversary of victory. Five years later, the last veterans will die, and the Great Patriotic War will finally turn to a myth like the war of 1812, the Poltava battalion or the ice battle. What will we come up with a new nationwide holiday? The notorious day of folk unity, established on the occasion of "the expulsion from the Kremlin of the Polish interventionists" in the 17th century, from the very beginning became the day of popular disconnection. Afghan and both Chechen wars are not a reason for the celebration. Crimean Victoria was a special operation and took place with a quiet sapa. And the Novorosky rebellion is not visible.

There are no events in Russia today that would rally, and not bred citizens on different sides of the barricades. The president does not require any rally - he leads on the principle of "share and reign." On March 17, at a meeting of the Victory Organizing Committee, he again broadcast about the intrigues of falsifiers that distort the story for the sake of the world backstage:

Today we see not only, unfortunately, attempts to distort, distort the events of that war, but also a cynical, unheard of lies, the impudent denigration of the whole generation of people who gave almost all of this victory, who defended the world on Earth ... their goal is understandable: to train the strength and moral authority of modern Russia, to deprive its status of the victorious country-with all the international consequences that are arising from this, and divide it, and divide it and divide it. To quarrel peoples, use historical speculations in geopolitical games.

Since May last year, a federal law has been in force in Russia, which is punished for "the distribution of knowingly false information on the activities of the USSR during the Second World War." A bill has been introduced into the Duma, which establishes the ban on the dissemination of "information belittling the merits of the dead during the defense of the Fatherland, the authority of the Russian Empire, the USSR, the Russian Federation, their armed forces." Russian courts prohibit historical research on war as extremist. The Ministry of Truth is already working tirelessly, but the enthusiasts of the introduction of unanimity in Russia are not enough :

Russia needs an active, total, offensive and patriotic historical policy, covering everything - family, kindergarten, schools, universities, as well as cinema, Internet, media and literature. Consolidated around the leader, Russian society expects from elites of ideological mobilization, systemic political work aimed at consolidating the patriotic feelings that are in the souls of Russians today. Enemies try us "weakly", trying to knock down our way, split our society. Do not wait!

Around enemies, external and internal, against which Russia took up arms, "sparkling with steel bristles." The question has never been so painfully about the participation of noble foreigners in the Moscow victorious festivities.

In 1995, the question was also acute. The Kremlin then also politicized its invitations. The US administration competently took advantage of the current situation. As a result, the very fact of Clinton’s visit looked like a political concession requiring counter steps. On May 9, the Clinton spouses fully enjoyed the role of a wedding general and a written shop. It was necessary to see how, before the ceremony on Poklonnaya Gora, Yeltsin and Chernomyrdin, seeing Clintons and catching, transplanting their wives into the second row to free up places next to Bill and Hillary.

A week after the Victory Day, May 16, the official representative of the Foreign Ministry Grigory Karasin said that Moscow, of course, would remember, "who came to the celebrations and who refused. “No one can forbid the Russian people and the country's leadership to have memory,” he said with Paphos.

There were problems with foreign guests in 2000 and later. However, then relations were still considered partnerships. And today Russia is in frankly hostile relations with the free world and still stubbornly tries to drag enemies at the festive table. At the above meeting, Sergei Lavrov called the number 26. Sergei Ivanov said the other day that 25 leaders would come to Moscow , but this figure is not final.

It is possible that the names of the presidents Vanuat and Naur will appear on the list, relations with Russia are developing especially successfully. After all, these states also participated in the Second World War.

By the way, it was Vanuatu - the birthplace of the Kargo -Pult, which has received such a rapid development in Russia, where only the ritual and sign, and not the essence, has significantly.