The smell of dead words

Shortly before the Victory Day, the Saratov Governor Valery Vasilievich landed in a situation that you can’t call otherwise as an idiotic one. This is not the first time the head of the region was the victim of his children's vanity. Do not feed the governor with bread-let me only cut the next ribbon, under applause and flashes of blitz, opening any construction sites on the territory entrusted to him. Let not new factories (where do they come from?), Let at least kindergartens. If the kindergarten is not expected, then anything will come down. If only the audience. If only a ribbon.

The trouble is that the governor, like Ostap Bender, often carries, and brings far. Turning away from a piece of paper, he gives out impromptu - not always harmless, and sometimes even very offensive. Imagine: Valery Vasilievich performs at the opening of a garbage processing factory (there was no other reason) and gives free rein to improvisations. Looking at the picturesque mountains of garbage surrounding the stands, he says that, they say, soon there will be these heaps and these mountains. Hooray! Hooray! Ur ...

But he does not say: "Heaps of garbage." He, nodding to the garbage mountains, says with a smile: "Mamaevs of the mounds." Benz!

Speechraiter in out. Press Secretary in shock. The free official press, having pulled his eyes, shifts from foot to foot and carefully pretends to be suddenly deaf. And rare birds, opposition journals, will be in the same day and on the same day, not without vengeful pleasure, they accuse the native Valery Vasilyevich of blasphemy.

In response, the spokeswoman with a doomed look brings a blizzard that the chef, choosing a metaphor, had in mind the mounds of a particular Khan Mamai. But the magazines easily prove that Mamaev Kurgan is the name of the famous museum opened in Volgograd on the site where the city defenders died and were buried. And such a comparison, and even in the lips of the first person of the province ... Yes, on the eve of a great day ... In short, the boomerang flies to the topic where they did not expect. Valeria Vasilievich is devoted according to the rules of the same patriotic demagogy, which the authorities usually use to combat the “fifth column” (that is, with citizens who sing not that, they dance not there and march from the wrong foot). Now the first person of the region falls under the same distribution.

In fact, of course, from our governor - the same "blasphemy" as from a rice cutlet by the Marshal's rod. Valery Vasilievich clearly did not intention to encroach on the memory of the fallen and used the fatal phrase without any back thought. But this understanding becomes even sadder. Because the governor's reservation is only a small part of a great problem.

Does anyone else believe that on May 9 it has not been stolen, like oil, gas, land, pensions, hopes, future?

The further May 1945 swims into the past, the more clearly the transformation of yesterday's holiday into the benefit of officials of all conceivable ranks. Listen: from the festive orchestra there are drums and liths. There is a thunder, there is brilliance, but instead of music - bureaucratic cacophony. For some bosses, a commemorative date is needed in order to strike with a weapon and threaten Uncle Sam. For others - to pose in front of the television cameras and appease the electorate with small handouts. For the third - to drink anniversary grandmas. And for the most, so that the events of the seventy years ago to justify the current troubles and their own mediocrity.

The historical milestone, which the propagandists are lusting, fades before our eyes. In the same way, expensive words, now turned into empty cocons. It is not surprising that for the Russian chiefs the "Day of Po -Beda" is just a red date, "military subsidiary" is only a speech stamp, and "Mamaevkurgan" (in one word and with a small letter) - only a designation of any hill.

Valery Vasilievich, of course, is to blame ... but not to blame. At least there are many and many who should share guilt with him - because the gold of victory was exchanged for pennies of "events" invented by indifferent functionaries from Putin's propaganda. Today is Victory Day - no longer a holiday with tears in the eyes, but an occasion with a calculator in his hand. Because, as the insightful Gumilev wrote, "a smart number conveys all the shades of meaning." Especially if this is a number with many zeros.

Remember how the swindler of Rumpelstiltskhen from the film skid about Shrek got one day in the life of a simple -minded fence - and almost diluted it. Well, look through the calendar! Does anyone else believe that on May 9 it has not been stolen, like oil, gas, land, pensions, hopes, future?

Roman Arbitman - Saratov writer

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