Your letters. May 9, 2015

“Hello, Anatoly Ivanovich! I listen to you in podcast at work - I trade in the Sevastopol market. The intonation of your voice is so hostile that the buyers, having heard only a voice, without even making words of the words, ask: well, what are they saying against us there? I feel similar myself when I watch Russian news. A sharp rattling sound annoys the nervous system, so I don’t look at TV. When the USSR’s passport changed to Ukrainian, then there was a shock. Therefore, the next shift: now Ukrainian to Russian has passed everyday life. As they say, for sailors it is dust. To notice the differences in our life today from the past, you need to try. Military planes and helicopters fly in the sky, people have become more polite and careful about each other. Gays on the roads still take bribes. Instead of a five thousand pins, they show a finger: they say, one thousand. Outside the registrar zone they take and immediately break off the place, fearing a quick response groups. Officials in power and health care first were afraid and suffered, now they were unbelted. As for me, the amount of goods was physically reduced almost half, nowhere to take. Colleagues go to Pyatigorsk, stand for two to three days at the crossing. Without a bridge, just a disaster. The feeling of Transnistria - that is, without prospects, I have been there. Two daughters live in Germany and do not support us, parents. You are zombies, they say. The third daughter lives in Sevastopol and supports us. Such a "quiet don" Sholokhov in our family. Igor Akimenko, fifty three years. "

Can you imagine a picture? There is a man in the Sevastopol bazaar, trading and listening to my unpleasant voice. Buyers involuntarily listen and come to the same conclusion-the voice is nasty, and the nasty is on its own, and because something is not broadcasting against the wool, that is, against the truth ... It is good that the former sailor is not yet afraid to include sufficient volume-and where, in the bazaar! - My hostile voice. Write to me, Igor, as this affects trading, how the debate is about prices, who is more likely to be inferior to whom: you are the buyer or he is to you.

I continue in a letter about the near future. “Yes, they will pretend. They will repeat and repeat the Tsaro-Stalinist vinaigrette, but get bored. Because the "Island and Heroic Crimea" is a lie, the "holy victory" is a lie. All lies! The whole lies of the Russian world will come across the truth of its non -competency. It will go to lie, tolerate the deprivation, to which they are now called for and do the right thing, because if you want to lie, then you need to endure. We will choose: complete isolation or refusal of lies. To remain naked, like Adam and Eve, with a ugly king telling the Podon jokes Frau Merkel, from which she frowns disgust. Of course, they live in such countries. But without lies and without claims. Modest and quiet. The lies of lies have passed. The Roster population is not able to produce anything. It is not easy to organize evenly production. There are no personnel. Helpers, scammers. "

It seems not quite a clear letter. They usually say that if Russia refuses lies to itself and the world, it will heal a normal life. The same person sees differently. He, as we heard, is sure that Russia will refuse not only lies, but at the same time attempts to introduce European orders in his own way - will “modestly and quietly” relieve existence, which it is capable of, but at least not suffer from isolation. The thought is interesting, but I don't know. Don't know. Although there are some signs ... Here, listen to the next letter, only a couple of lines.

"Hello! Cool, right now you are leading to propaganda for those people that were once the USSR, and right now, like, you think that these are different countries. Although in vain I tell you this, go further. ” Without a half -liter, it seems not to figure out what the person wanted to say, and at the same time, everything is clear. This one ends with the words: “Dry further”, and the other, almost an academician, is like this: “Well, continue to continue to serve the State Department.” People are different, but the state of mind is the same. There is no fighting enthusiasm, there is no confidence in victory. They still believe in the correctness of the Fatherland, which fell into a difficult situation, they believe from the last strength, and in a prosperous outcome, in any case, in this world - no, they do not believe, they didn’t live, they say, good, there is no need and try. It’s a pity for them actually, these people, I want to say: “Guys, and you try, no one bothers you, on the contrary, the whole free world is ready to help!”

The newspaper Vedomosti jokingly proposed to create a special service, something like the ministry to manage the use of “sacred symbols”, that is, sacred signs like a St. George ribbon.

“The Sacred Service of the Russian Federation (abbreviated Rossvytnadzor),” this is how they advise you to call this department. They justify the fact that the police begin to intervene in this matter, gives out a slaughterhouse for the wrong, in her opinion, use ... “Power and catch structures produce all new crossbrees - go figure it out. We believe that the creation of a special service and symbolic regulations will allow order to restore order in this area, ”the newspaper writes, prompting to think about what the leading participation of the state in the manufacture of“ spiritual powers ”could generally mean. “This is an attempt,” writes Mr. Dubrovin, “to fill the household life of ordinary people with meaning and once again“ tie ”the population of a large country. The only problem is that all these symbols are constructed so that they are easily destroyed by the "designers" and opponents of such characters. " The author proceeds, as you can understand, from the presumption of good intentions, sees here the supreme concern for the good of the Fatherland: as if a population who does not know who his friends and who are enemies did not smash everything to fluff. However, we know too well that it is usually far from the most human -loving rulers to fill the “meaningful household life of ordinary people”.

The next letter came on April on April on April. “Dear Anatoly Ivanovich! I was in the store today - I noticed that raw ginger and celery stalks were double (in a pair of chain stores). Twice is compared to Doulack. The fact is that after the announcement of sanctions and import substitutions and celery stalks and ginger flew up unthinkable. Ginger and five hundred and six hundred rubles per kg cost. And now - he was sick. Although in one small shop I recently saw ginger as before for six hundred and fifty rubles. I ask you to count this observation for the letter to Freedom. Alla ". Thank you, Alla, you gave me a new word: “pre -Ukrainian”, in the letter it is with a small letter. “Import substitution” will also be considered a new word, and very capacious, it means not only what it means. This is also the name of one of the latter, if not the last, propaganda regime campaigns. He said “import substitution” - and everything is clear: why it has risen in price, this is why it disappeared. Here, however, a catch is contained. In the meaning of the word itself, the disappeared imported goods should quickly replace the domestic, and it, as usual, for some reason is not replaced by anything or replaced, but not very fast, or replaced quickly, but the devil knows what. So the word, not having time to enter into everyday life, began to be used for other purposes. Why have earnings, pensions, all sorts of payments fell? Because "import substitution." Something lingers: is the introduction of roads, the launch of rockets-why? Because, again, “import substitution”. Or "sanctions." Here is another new word. He said “sanctions” - and it is immediately clear why it is not why it was not going on why it fell off, why the staff of the whole city had to reduce ... Here is also a capacious word: a “city -forming” enterprise. He said “sanctions” - and everyone understands why it stopped, the city -forming is unknown, however, why the existing Docokhorina and the “sanctions” existing.

“Hello, Anatoly Ivanovich! A year ago, I couldn’t just believe that my country would attack a neighbor. When I was little, I remember, they told us that Hitler attacked the USSR. And here we have such a thing now. And ashamed and vile. I think what is the reason for such a disaster that the most citizens approve of a meaningless war with the fraternal people? I think the reason is that we still live according to the concepts of feudal society. The full power is possessed by a person with a spear, a gun or a xiva and reward "Makarov". Your property is conditional. It all depends on the mercy of the sovereign, his boyars and nobles. Previously, when the boyar rushed on his cart, the slaves had to scatter along the ditches, now that he flies on the black “Merc” with a milek, the slaves are obliged to burn towards the roadsides. The same feedings, when the near boyar and his clan receives an area or an entire industry, the same multiplicity of jurisdictions, when nothing is impossible, but the boyar is dried only by the sovereign. All Russian revolutions against this state of affairs ended with defeat. The feudal boyar oligarchy cannot exist without general corruption, total lies and aggression, this is its usual behavior in all centuries. True, now he has an atomic bomb, which he, grinning, threaten all of humanity. So all this can end very, very sad. Sincerely Vitaly. Petersburg "

“For a long time it has been straining me,” writes Kirill Shranber, “complete misunderstanding of the economy and finance in the Russian -speaking world. And I say, first of all, about that played formulation that the dollar is a green piece of paper and Yuan is about to replace it. ” Cyril wrote a whole report from twelve sections to the refutation of this performance, I can only mention some of them. Yuan is firmly tied to the dollar and therefore cannot be considered a backup currency. In fact, Kirill witnesses wittily, Yuan today is “the same dollar, only divided into six parts with something and with Mao Zedun on it.” Chinese exports are going on, the growth of the economy of this country slows down for various reasons, among which corruption is not in the last place, therefore, Shranber writes, China wants to make its currency freely convertible so as not to kill its export, so “Russian political wet dreams” that the Chinese uncle will save Rus' from the damned dollar. With a mockery, the author writes about "Russian fins with an increase in gold reserves." Gold as metal and gold as a currency have different cost. Gold as a metal significantly fluctuates in the free market, because no sensible financier will make a gold standard so as not to bankrupt his country. And finally, the main thing. Will China refuse the accumulated dollars? No, because it cannot be beneficial to him under any circumstances. Mr. Shranber scrupulously goes along the main points of economic anti -Americanism, and here he is merciless. America produces a billion of things. A quarter of world production is America. And someone inspires someone that the dollar is not provided with anything! The umpteable American military expenses are breathtaking - seven hundred billion dollars, but more than eighty percent of this money go to the development of innovations that change the world, "the Internet appeared from there and a mobile phone appeared from there." “Finally, I’ll tell you about American duty,” we read with Cyril Shranber. - Yes, he is the most terrible and big in face value. However, its maintenance is not even three percent of payments from US GDP. ” Moreover, this debt is not abroad, but to federal institutions - a reserve bank and the pension fund. “Ask how we will pay for it? And I'll tell you! Ready? The debt is not paid - they grow out of it, by increasing GDP growth above inflation and higher than the cost of servicing debt. ” “In a word, do not read Soviet newspapers and sleep calmly. May the force and the American dollar be with you at the same time, ”Cyril Shranber concludes.

I have the feeling that the crush of his explanations begins to decline. The Russians get used to the idea that no one and nothing will help them out - neither Putin, nor Yuan, nor import substitution, nor a gold reserve. They seemed to have come to terms that the Crimea and walks in the Donbass would have to pay a lot and for a long time - it is not known before the end of what or anyone. And somehow they quickly got used to it, quickly reconciled, as if they were expecting something like that. The willingness to tighten the belt, in essence, is encouraged by the zombie, but not caused by them. The rejection of the best future, of hope for a better future is something new in the history of Russia. So to say: yes, they say, there will be no better future, but there will only be the worst, but our Crimea - not every nation is capable of such a speech. I did not expect such directness and courage. Recently, I have been interested in my Russian interlocutors how much they are ready to tighten the belts - what to refuse, what expenses to reduce, for example, to refuse industry for education, more precisely, to receive diplomas, for treatment, to travel, and improve housing conditions. You try to ask as softer as possible, like by chance, and people get angry, rude in response. It is sometimes expressed sometimes rudeness like this: we’ll tighten it to failure, but we won’t pass the Crimea, we won’t leave the Donbass, otherwise we’ll get it to failure, but we won’t surrender to the Americans!

“Putin returned Russia to the pre -Petrine era, the time of Domostroy,” says Mr. Dolin. - Eighty percent of the country's population, according to surveys, began to feel happy. Here is the complete "Happy End". The end, he, of course, is happy, but this is the end. Remember the joke: a passerby saw a man who was lying in a ditch by the road. He pulled him out. He woke up and says to the passerby: "Fool, I live here!" And let him live, I will say, continuing the thought of Mr. Dolina, let him live, if only to interfere with others. Hence the program, which, before our eyes with considerable difficulty, with annoyance, sometimes - with attacks of heavy reluctance, develops a free world in relation to pre -Petrine Rus' of the first century. At the same time, each individual person develops the same program for himself - I mean those who do not like to live under the housekeeper. It is unlikely that it is worth branding as the defeators of those who refuse to fight. The flight from Hell, leaving another life, even if a person does not move from a place, requires mind, will, dignity no less than participation in a direct struggle, and maybe more, because the participant in the struggle subordinates his will with a common will, he is in the gurt, and the gutt and the dad is easier to beat, says the Ukrainian proverb, the old-year-old is a soda-somnipot. The proverb considers such an uprising permissible and even suggests that together, with a gurt to defeat family adversaries is easier than alone. But from a person who has chosen the path of personal leaving from the darkness, without any gurt, he needs more courage of a kind. He obviously does not rely on anyone, only for himself. In the spirit of time, I think that both choices are aware - both personal care and participation in the gurt confrontation between evil.

“I am an impressionist by nature,” writes Evgeny Kaplunov, “how were the artists -impressionists, but I am still some kind of artist. For me, when looking at certain aspects of life, the impression is primarily. My brother and my brother say that I see not what is actually, but what I miss through my emotions, like through a filter. Once I was upset about this, and now I consider it an advantage. I am in life and M P R E S and O N and C T. The main thing is the impression. And now, Anatoly Ivanovich, by points. Gorbachev’s publicity allowed us to gradually come to the conclusion that private property is not evil, but good. The publicity also led us to the fact that in a normal country there should be more than one party (CPSU), but several competing parties, that is, a multi -party system. Second. Perestroika. She brought a change in a revolutionary nature. Step by step, there was a winning of positions in socialism - communism. Now my impression is this, ”continues Kaplunov,“ that Russia has good chances for a new perestroika. The country is at an impasse, first of all, the economy. Psychosis is pumped out: again, enemies, spies, the fifth column around us. We return to the USSR, in the worst times. But people have a vaccine from this, freedom did its job, we felt a little what freedom is from the state. Independent people appeared, they have their own view of the country, and, above all, these are people who do not need the isolation of the country, do not need a new cold war. In my impression, there are such at the top. The state spring, of course, is compressed, but with the same force it will be unclenched. I repeat: my gaze is a look of an impressionist rather. Perestroika is a revolution, and probably it will again be carried out from above. There is such a person who is preoccupied with the regulations of the state in power. With the best wishes Evgeny Kaplunov "

Thanks for the letter, Eugene! Do you know what your letter interested me? You do not set out opinions, but impressions. Or you call your opinions impressions, which is also very important, in my opinion. Most of us have as many opinions. There are two opinions on each issue: one is correct, this, of course, is their own, and the opinions of other people are wrong. And you, as you say, have impressions. This testifies to modesty. On his impression, a person stands not as firmly as in opinion. This is amazing. Such a person is able to study, learn, that is, he is always open to new impressions. Impressionists have been holding the attention of painting lovers for a long time for a long time? I will say how I understand it. That is, like you, I will inform you about your impression, although we know what the point of view of art history is on this subject. Impressionism is democracy. You can recall another foreign word: pluralism. Impressionism tells the viewer: you see this apple like this, and I - like that. You have your own impression of an apple, and I have my own.

Марк Котлярский приводит мало кому известное стихотворение Александра Тинякова. Слушайте, оно короткое.

Чичерин растерян и Сталин печален,
Осталась от партии кучка развалин.

Стеклова убрали, Зиновьев похерен,
И Троцкий, мерзавец, молчит, лицемерен.

И Крупская смотрит, нахохлившись, чортом,
И заняты все комсомолки абортом.

И Ленин недвижно лежит в мавзолее,
И чувствует Рыков веревку на шее.

«С ума сойти! - замечает Марк Котлярский, - Стих написан в тысяча девятьсот двадцать шестом году!». Да, Марк, удивительно, что уже в двадцать шестом году человек, который верил своим глазам, а не ушам, все понимал – все главное – о советском опыте строительства коммунизма. А ведь двадцать шестой год – это из лучших советских годов, из самых спокойных, благополучных, позади остался кошмар военного коммунизма, пять лет уже как на дворе НЭП – новая экономическая политика, дающая какой-никакой простор частнику, не все зажимает цензура, тот же Александр Тиняков еще может издавать свои стихи, изображать из себя юродивого – и его печатают, что-то даже платят… Но с другой стороны, были люди, все понимавшие задолго до Тинякова, хотя бы Максим Горький, в восемнадцатом году им написаны «Несвоевременные мысли», где о большевизме сказано, в общем, все, и так сказано, что и сегодня ни прибавить особенно нечего, ни убавить. В двадцать шестом году еще разрешалось быть нищим, сидеть, как Тиняков, на углу Невского и Литейного с табличкой: «Подайте бывшему поэту».

«Уважаемый Пан Анатолий! Я очень рад, что время от времени могу слушать ваши передачи. Я поляк, живу в Варшаве, работаю в вузе и люблю слушать некоторые передачи "Свободы". Уважаю Россию, но, конечно, прежде всего, Бердяева, отца Меня, Сахарова, общество "Мемориал" – только не националистов или коммунистов. Мои предки жили до войны в Вильнюсе, так что я проблемы востока стараюсь понимать. Для меня очень важно, чтобы Россия была нормальной страной, без комплексов, но и без великорусской идеологии. Знаю, что это нелегко, но надеюсь, что даже если не до конца теперь, но в будущем появится в наших обеих странах больше людей диалога. Я иногда провожу занятия со студентами с Востока: из России, Украины, Беларуси, также и Литвы. Люблю с ними заниматься, общаемся мы на польском и английском языках. Люблю их, но у некоторых (не всех) всё-таки чувствуется дух какой-то немножко "постсовецкий": с одной стороны, какая-то беспомощность и пассивность, с другой - высокие требования к миру. But this can be understood. Томаш Догенговский». Спасибо, Томаш, вы такой политкорректный, что прямо слезы наворачиваются… у некоторых наших слушателей (я о них говорю, не о себе).