Your letters. August 1, 2015

“The hype around the downed Malaysian Boeing, is the first letter, causes a feeling of propaganda stupor. In my opinion, one thing is obvious: in the death of the aircraft, the airline who sent him to fly over the warning zone is to blame. All. And no one else! Dot. It should be clear that it is not worth flying over such a zone. Why not roll two hundred kilometers south? Who exactly shot down the Boeing is not significant. People are not robots. Although, it is clear that countries that claim to know absolute truth and universal values and consider themselves the “free world” have long passed their verdict. When the Americans shot down an Iranian passenger plane, by the way, flying, by the way, not over the territory of the war, but over the peaceful sea, in which no one called the US ships - then, of course, evil Iranians were to blame. Well, now, of course, evil Russians will be to blame, ”the letter says. You feel that this is demagogy, that in front of us is another hunter to tease the progressive public, but what to say in essence? I think there is nothing but a court that will establish the degree of guilt of everyone. But just the Kremlin does not want to. I wonder why.

Vika writes, who did not name his last name: “A terrible, unscrupulous egoism around. A friend for an hour can tell me about her love adventures, but if I insert a word about myself - it should be: okay, then I’ll call you back. And, you think, calls back? And there are no others, all like that. And relatives? These are the fierce enemies of any, especially, a lonely and poor person. This is what we say - everyday life. And what is surprised in the affairs of the so -called state? Not just selfishness, but selfishness as a new doctrine of the free market and the so -called free competition - the engine of the economy and progress. Your radio station is, as it were, guarded by humiliated and offended, but I hear little about the protection of social rights, about modern economic colonialism. After all, Gandhi said that the greatest humiliation is humiliation of poverty. But about this - about low salaries, about the global trend in the cut of social benefits - few. Oh yes, we laid out under the Soviet regime, used to hospital, forty -hour working week. Do you really think that the fact that, compared to the USSR, social benefits are significantly cut, should not cause nostalgia and rejection from the free market, merciless capitalism, in which if you are not sick and young, then you are afloat, and if on the contrary? And God did not give me a great mind - this is also my fault? The punctuation marks are absent or wrong due to the broken keyboard, ”writes Vika. In connection with her letter, I would like to turn to the female sex. Come on, girls, all the same. She told her friend what happened to you and what was not - let me tell her what was and what was not with her. Then she will not complain about capitalism or spilling egoism in the world.

Our listeners, not without hobby, continue the rosor about the new Russian tank. I read: “In the last program you talked about the Armata tank. Why didn't you remember the medieval clone of this tank - the king -gun? Of course, they wanted to cut the budget, and even without theft. At the Uralvagonzavod, designers and workers need to receive large salaries. But here is another. For real expansion, there is no force - economic, ideological, intellectual, cultural, organizational. It remains to make a tsar-tank for self-satisfaction. In practice, the "Armata" will also reflect shells and missiles as the king-gun crushed the hordes of the thorns. The 3-adachie was to report the construction of a miracle tank, somewhat stuffed with something, at least something. Why did you not suggest renaming the "Armata" into the king-tank? But actually, after all, all these “Uralvagonzavodovs” need to be closed, the staff is to expel to the street, ”the author goes on to how to make people who do not know how and do not want to produce something really useful and learned with proper effort ... In my opinion, to leave them alone, these millions. What they will do, then they will do it. What will be earned, then weave. Nothing more fair in the world has been invented.

“It seems to me,” writes Vladimir Georgievich from Moscow, “I know what is missing to complete the image of Russia within the boundaries of planet Earth. These are tanks in orbit. Yes. In different orbits and many tanks (a lot, this is a key moment). So that the whole sky is in tanks. They can be equipped with solar batteries so that they sometimes rotate caterpillars, rotate towers and gun trunks. So that everyone knows that these are Russian tanks, supply them with flags. And some, on the contrary, launch without any identification signs, signs. The whole world will see them and become afraid. And this is precisely the Russians. And finally, you look, the Russian soul somehow and to reconcile with the rest of the world ... Yes, even the Makets of the Cossacks on one on the moon would be nice. ”

“I followed Pavlik Morozov,” writes Andrei from Kyiv. - Not for the Soviet Union, but for Ukraine. For the sake of her, I sank (or rose) to the pioneer hero. I was cynically on a person in four addresses, including to the Pension Fund of Ukraine. I told them that people living in the occupied territories receive two pensions, one from Ukraine (in hryvnias), and the other from the self -proclaimed DPR (in rubles). They hate Ukraine with all the fibers of their souls. So, Borodansky Boris Petrovich, who lives in the city of Donetsk, himself boasted to me that he was receiving two pensions (from Ukraine, where he regularly rides for her, and from the DPR). And there are many people like him. I ask my addressees whether it is time to deprive the pension of my friend Borostyansky Boris Petrovich and all others, as corrupt and small as he is. Let it glorify the DPR behind the rubles. I won’t ask you if I did the right thing, I know - excellent! If Pavlik Morozov in the thirties fought for the independence of Ukraine, then I would forgive him everything. I handed over my father, handed over my mother or some kind of bride there-all the same. Ukraine is above all! And as the Lord said (who is not) - Amen. Andrey". This letter explains well why Western people, the same, for example, Germans, often, much more often than the former Soviet, bring to each other. So they accustom, and in many respects succeeded, each other to order, bring up each other with respect for the law and decency. The law for Western man is almost the same as God. In the sky - God, on Earth is a law. This manifests their respect for the country, in which they live, for their homeland, to the state, which they look at both and to which at the same time they help, from the heart and in all ways. Our listener Andrei announced where he should be about the baseness of his acquaintance, because he was offended by Ukraine, for his country, he loves her, wishes her good - that’s the matter. Why do people boast of how they inflate their native state? Because they do not penetrate him. It inflates them, they inflate it. This is the behavior of a bonded citizen, that is, a citizen only in form, and not essentially. It turns out an enchanted circle. The state does not care about a person, and a person does not care about the state, although in words he is ready for him in the fire and water, like the same Donetsk dodger - for the DPR. One of her government officials, by the way, writes to me: “We do not claim democracy, especially, according to Aristotle, this is far from the best form of government.” Can you imagine? This is not the most illiterate ... What do they think? They turned everything, as far as they could, they plundered, remained at the broken trough and, as if nothing had happened, are they undertaking to build what? They themselves do not know what, but - with Aristotle at the ready and a gun on the hip.

The next letter came on July on July on July. Writes a middle -aged Kyiv couple, who visited his homeland in the Crimea. I read: “Dirt, poverty and desolation. Sellers talk about huge bribes for each truck with products crossing the border of Crimea. They say that no one goes without a sowing to the very top. They also say: "Putin just does not know everything." The atmosphere of universal suspicion, resignation of everyone and everything. Waiting for attacks. You ask: who will attack? In response, they are offended. Like, but you never know: here the States threaten us all the time, Europe torments the sanctions of Russia-Mother, it turns out, because of us, because of the Crimeans; Moreover, this Roster Ukraine - neither she wanted to develop us, nor she wants to let us go in the world, like a dog in a hay. Salaries fall, but relate to this with understanding: Russia in the ring of enemies. The very thought to demand something from the motherland-mother, who obscured each Crimean from the bombing "as in the Donbass", is considered seditious. Here everyone lives in a blockade. Together with Russia. They will stand together and die together. And together, even competing with each other, they hate the ring of enemies. A degree of hatred for Ukraine, pumped on the air, just goes off scale. "

Here I will interrupt the reading of the letter. It is probably time to specifically note the objectivity of our democratic listeners. They do not allow themselves to decrease the number of “Crimeanists”, Putinists, haters of America, including “Orthodox”, on the contrary, emphasize that there are many, a lot. Like this. Until now, none of our Democratic listeners (I will call them like that) have allowed himself to lull optimism. In the democratic sector of our audience, neither chapcocking is observed, nor amazing in conversations about what will happen next to people who feel in a siege position today enjoy a sense of their mercy with their homeland. I return to the letter:

“Crimean friends turned away from us, like from the Kiev residents, old acquaintances do not want to communicate with us. The phones are listened to. Or almost everything. For a statement on a network such as "Khokhly - well done, Russians - shit!" It is realistic to grab a term of three to five. As in the tridzit seventh, there is a plan for the number of such cases. The situation when the Chekists come home to interrogate minors who allowed improving comments on the network is a common household story. People are forced to give written consent to cooperation with the FSB, achieving the proportion of one to three, that is, there should be three informers on four employees of any institution. There is nothing to treat in hospitals, doctors are prohibited from disclosing information about the absence of medicines. Under the pretext of medical secrets, patients are hidden even from close relatives! Perinatal mortality beats all records. Those who have not yet died are forced to return to the scoop: in clinics, reception is again on the coupons. Behind them it is necessary to take the queue at five in the morning, only a few lucky people in the first ten will receive them with the opening. Acute pain is not considered. " The authors of the letter - doctors, husband - doctor, wife -medsistra. Perinatal mortality is the mortality rate of premature and newborn children. The current state of Crimea is a defeat of Russian public administration. The Kremlin cannot but understand that making Crimea suitable for life is a matter, so to speak, honor, the most important political business, and then already economic and social. Everyone understands, but they can’t do anything: there are no personnel, resources, there are no drive belts - everything was exhausted in the management machine. No one can make anyone do something properly. The loss of controllability is the worst thing that the bosses have been afraid from Soviet times, but in general - since the world has been divided into managers and managed. Loss of controllability is the end. In turn, it seems that our like-minded listeners have never had such a clear understanding that the democratization of Russia is the democratization of minds. And what a difficult thing is it.

“Dear Anatoly Ivanovich,” writes Alexander, “I found notes of Russian scientific school among several American scientists. Some glimpses of opinions, ways to build models and conclusions hint that these people have received basic education in Russia. How is it possible? Did normal people really have a critical mass there, behind the hill? Are they ours? Apparently, yes, given that among my classmates many live there. Of the three friends of the daughter, everything is there. I often reproach myself for incorrectly raised a child. Why does Russia let go of sensible people and remains on the sidelines? I myself do not hope for moving, but I still teach English, despite the fact that only Latin understands the devils in hell. I read Gulliver's Travels in English. It is impossible to break away from the text. Swift is such an ulcer and bully. He began to read because he wanted to find his statement about lawyers. Why have there so so bred? Each technical university prepare lawyers! What time has gone crazy? Your listener Alexander. "

Thanks for the letter, Alexander. Not everyone will understand your words correctly: “Why does Russia let go of sensible people and remains on the sidelines?” Putin is already thinking aloud about how to not let them go, but he accuses the Americans and Europeans of being leaving: they say, they say. Famous measures are being taken to put an end to this - educational programs with the participation of foreigners and their money are stopped, the activities of various funds are being suppressed - there is enough, they say, to shust the West (Putin says: fumble) in Russia in search of Russian personnel, from now on it should be: where it was born, and there was useful. Wealthy people, including officials, scratch their turnips. The older children have long been behind the hill, but the younger ones are growing up - is their fate really in fact: where was born, there was useful there? Your remark that the world, as a crazy one, stamps lawyers, has a one conversation that was already in the program “Your Letters”. It was about such a truly universal trouble as the young people in England, and in Russia, and everywhere - everyone wants to be makeup artists, stylists, lawyers and no one - a brick, a carpenter or a plaster. I remember how one day, in the ninety -seventh year, in front of the microphone, I listed the working specialties of the then employees of the Russian Radio Liberty Radio. Someone wrote to us: you, they say, there are Belarusians, in Prague, you don’t know how to shit-just grind your tongues, leave you without service-disappear. So I called him a couple of dozens of our specialties. Among us there was even a ragon, and, it seems, there was not a single construction specialty that one of us would not have, and at the level of a good category. Parquiters, plasters, masons, joiners and carpenters, turners, supreme, tractor drivers - whoever. That's who was not for sure: makeup artists, stylists, PR managers and others who do not know how to work in the open air, not in the fresh air, without muscle tension. And the former lawyer was, yes, one, but the one, before becoming a lawyer, seems to have received not the last construction category.

Some, or rather, already many experts predict that by the end of the year, the ruble will become cheaper so that life in Russia will change beyond recognition. To the worst, of course. In this regard, he writes to us, as it is recommended, amateur economist Demchenko. “Inflation,” he writes, “the eternal companion of mankind, and there is nothing to panic. In the twenty -third year in Germany, prices doubled every two days. In Greece with the Germans - every day. In Hungary, immediately after the Second World War, prices doubled every fifteen hours. In Yugoslavia in the fall of the ninety -third until the end of January ninety -fourth - every sixteen hours. Very close to our time in Zimbabwe, prices doubled every one and a half hours. ” Then our listener makes an excursion into a very distant past, in particular, recalls a copper riot in Moscow on July twenty -fifth of one thousand six hundred sixty of the second year. Muscovites got a fall in a copper coin in relation to silver. The terrible corruption of the coin in the United States of America was funded by the Civil War in the mid -nineteenth century. Both in the new times, and in civilized countries: in Turkey from the ninety -fifth year, two thousand first lira fell from forty -five thousand per dollar to a million six hundred and fifty thousand. “No need to demonize this evil,” writes the author. - Recall the hyperinflation of the first half of the nineties, when the dollar rate grew from twenty rubles to six thousand, and nothing, they survived. In the end, the dollar exchange rate to the euro hesitated very much. So the Russians panic out of the blue. National manufacturers falling the ruble is useful. This applies to Ukraine, to the hryvnia. It is not to panic, but to live, work and give up imports. ” Here he is an optimist and inspirer, our listener Demchenko. Maybe, indeed, noticing the impending trouble, people do not pay attention to the power of life in vain, to the exploits of a private initiative, to the fact that the Marxian river is coming up: as long as there is a person, there will be material production. Another thing is that someone in Russia wants the beloved homeland not only to survive, but could compete with serious countries. But imagine that the same thing happened or occurs under a democratic regime, in a legal state, where all the charms are available: the rule of law, and freedom of speech, and the election, and the separation of powers are everything. What would be the reaction of the authorities, opposition, society, the public to the sharp fall in the ruble? Everything would be something like this, with the exception of one. It is hardly so zealously looking for an enemy. The enemy is both on the side and inside. The conversation would be business - about their own, about domestic, mistakes, and only about them. And they would not precede years of indefatigable self-wrapping, obviously impossible promises and the most confident predictions, which will collapse a little more and the dollar.

Тут хочу вернуться к письму женщины, которая жалуется, что до нее нет дела ни подругам, ни родственникам. К счастью, она пока не беспомощна, работает, у нее есть компьютер, хотя и с поломанной клавиатурой, как мы слышали. Ее возмущает, что может быть увеличен пенсионный возраст, а зарплата останется так себе. Аннексия Крыма ее не утешает, с воодушевлением терпеть неприятности от международных санкций ее не тянет. Но я хочу сказать пару слов об эгоизме. Эгоизма на планете действительно много, но в целом, по-моему, чуть-чуть меньше, чем вокруг нашей слушательницы. В России, как во всякой бедной стране, родственная помощь, как мы знаем, в порядке вещей, и значит она очень много. В богатых странах родственники заботятся друг о друге намного меньше, никакого сравнения – нет такой нужды во взаимной помощи, как в России, пристойно обеспечивают каждый сам себя. В России забота родственников друг о друге - это один из способов выживания, древний способ. Не дать человеку пропасть… То же и друзья, соседи. Постоянно занимают друг другу, часто – без отдачи. А уж как родители, кто, конечно, в силах – как они опекают своих взрослых детей! Тут скорее перебор опеки, чем недобор, и большой перебор.

Прислали стихотворение Юрия Нестереноко. «Ах, какая была держава!», - так оно называется. Прочитаю несколько строк.

Ах, какая была держава!
Ах, какие в ней люди были!
Как торжественно-величаво
Звуки гимна над миром плыли!

Дальше – такие строки:

Не деляги и прохиндеи
Попадали у нас в кумиры...
Ибо в людях жила - идея!
Жажда быть в авангарде мира!

И самый конец:

И алели над нами флаги
С черной свастикой в белом круге.

Только здесь, дочитав до конца вы понимаете, что стихотворение о гитлеровской Германии – о том, как похожа она была на Советский Союз, о том, как она образовалась, укрепилась, возвысилась, гитлеровская Германия: она вставала с колен, как ей казалось, после поражения в Первой мировой войне. Люди избывали мучившее их чувство несправедливости, обиды на весь мир, их томила жажда вернуть утраченное. And here's something else. Гитлеризм – это нацизм, национал-социализм, национальный социализм, он отрицал капитализм - этот мир наживы, деляг, богачей – короче, англо-саксонский мир. Англичанненавидели больше, чем советских русских. У кого есть голова на плечах, тот, прочитав это стихотворение, поймет, сколько опасной лжи в той романтике, которой проникается русская молодежь сегодня, к чему может привести это увлечение, этис виду чистые порывы. Запомните слово «ресентимент». Оно часто сегодня употребляется в разговорах о том, чем объяснить странное состояние России. Обида на кого попало, хоть на самого Бога, из-за того, что тебе, как ты считаешь, не повезло в этой жизни.