Perestroika and trolls

A large poster with the image of Mikhail Gorbachev and Alexei Kudrin was hung on Tverskaya Street in Moscow. The poster says: “Russia again needs a restructuring. Thank you, we are still from the first. ” Such was the reaction of state trolls specializing in criticism of the opposition, to the publication by the Gorbachev Foundation and the Committee of Civil Initiatives of the Report on the thirty years of the beginning of those reforms. It turns out that the report was a good report, relevant - even the trolls worked on it. By the way, for the sake of this, they had to attack Kudrin personally, the long -term associate of Putin, the persecution of which was previously under a strict prohibition.

The Gorbachev Foundation achieved his goal - he returned the discussion about perestroika, her heritage and her, so to speak, the future. Six months ago, it would seem completely inappropriate - what is the restructuring when we go from victory to victory? Now people have more questions: in fact, what happened to the country and us over these decades?

All restructuring in essence was reduced to four things. Firstly, in the country the first honest elections in many decades have been held. Secondly, as a result of Gorbachev’s actions, the fear of the military clash of the USSR and the West disappeared. Thirdly, political censorship was removed and all acute topics could be discussed openly. Finally, Soviet citizens received the right to free travel abroad. It is curious to which of these four points the current trolls have the most complaints.

Although in a sense, they are firmly on the basis of facts and not without reason hint about the incompatibility of such principles of social structure with actual Russia. Because all these achievements of perestroika by 2015 are actually dismantled. We have neither elections nor publicity, but there is a radioactive ash. It seems that while going abroad, but even this no longer concerns a significant part of citizens, for example, police officers.

At the same time, it is directly to say that we are now opposing democracy and peace, but for censorship and a new iron curtain, our trolls are somehow still not daring. We say that we have democracy, of course, but our own. And there is a struggle for peace, but only special, inaccessible to some German. And there is freedom of the press, but also not like everyone else. So restructuring in this state picture of the world rises to trolls across the throat.

It turns out that in Russia everything can be like people, democracy as democracy and further on the list. And moreover, there are not some “orange” revolutionaries there, but on the contrary, the highest elite of the country, which by that time ruled it for almost seven decades can organize human life. That is, the memories of that old perestroika are already ruining all the current statephology. What will happen if a new one begins, if you think about such an opportunity for at least a minute? The entire current Morok, supported by bayonets, lies and apathy, will disappear in a matter of minutes, as a generation back turned into a shadow of powerful CPSU and KGB.

By the end of the Soviet era, even the most conservative conservatives were clear that the changes were needed. Later, Soviet society, tired of its own hypocrisy, existed under the slogan “You cannot live like that” - the documentary of the same name in 1990 was shot by director Stanislav Govorukhin. The current dynamics of public moods shows that we do not want to learn from our own mistakes, even very recent. And what now again needs to be made from Russia, unsuitable for life, so that we finally remembered why thirty years ago we needed a perestroika.