Russian casket

One could expect: the first thing that they would recall in connection with Putin’s decision to burn foreign -prohibited outfitting prohibited by the import into Russia is the Napoleonic continental blockade . It was a painful thing, and not only for the British, but also for the French themselves, and for the Russians: by that time they also managed not only to get used to it, but to add to tea (there was already an expression: to drive teas), and to coffee, and to the oriental spices and sweets-to everything that the Englishwoman was delivered from behind the sea.

As you know, a finger into the sky, everyone - his own, got everything. Napoleon-when he decided that he would be able to drown England, defeating the private trade and consumer interest of her customers with barrage measures up to bonfires from the English good that penetrated the continent. Putin - when he decided that ... However, guessing about his goals is no longer very interesting.

In the course of the conversation, the word could have come to the word that, if there were no continental blockade, there would be no Napoleonic Russian campaign. Alexander I turned out to be a malicious sabotage. He looked through his fingers at how his merchants were driving and driving English goods accepted in Europe, accepted in the ports of Russia, contrary to the strong tsar’s word in Tilsit , that this would not happen. Such a chain: the continental blockade - the Sabotage of the Russian Tsar - the Russian campaign of Napoleon - the Patriotic War of 1812 and, finally, the Pushkin lines that will soon lay out the whole Red Square: "Or the Russian king is already powerless? .. / Il Russian from victories weeded out?"

They spoke, against expectation, about something completely different - about the condo Russian understanding of the daily bread, which gives us who know who. They started talking about Russian, but, as usual, by foreign words. Here you have a “basic Russian taboo”-Putin, they say, encroached on a right-natural Russian ban on the habit of bread. Here is Etos - a traditional popular conviction that bread is the head of everything. And the "cultural code" is a kind of karavay key to understanding Holy Rus'. And “htonic” is a terrible spiritual depth in everything that is associated with such rough materiality as food. What is the taboo, what is this, what code and can, with a truly htonic force, hit the president who allowed the president.

Anyone is torn from Russian soil, but not Putin

I’ll laugh with my bitter laugh! These beautiful, although non -Russian, words are spoken at a time when Russian mothers and wives refuse to die in the Donbass sons and husbands: we do not know such, we did not have such, ours - home. A huge percentage of the population is announced, ready to burn in a nuclear war with all children and households, with all movable and immovable property, with all stocks, including the Holy Khlebni, if only Americans were injured. Anyone is torn from Russian soil, but not Putin. He feels with the spinal cord with which ethos is dealing with and what to do with it. Someone-according to the books of the classics, and he knows that there are no such shrines, which the people-bearer would not refuse GMK, which, by the way, is its cultural code.

The honor of the discovery of this code belongs to a) Russian legal practice of all time, b) Russian literary classics. For the sake of justice, it should, however, note that in the casket everything is dual - both ethos and htonos. Heaven and underworld. How is it? "And the battlefield is the hearts of people." Putinism unequivocally relies on that of the two national hypostases, which is capable of enthusiastically looking at burning bread.

As for the topical specifics, I would still like to look at the one who believes that the current Russian person will really destroy such a noble snack as the same Dutch cheeses. Found a fool! Here, the general weakness of all husbands, zealously commanding at all times and over all peoples, was manifested: by issuing decrees, they do not think how they will be fulfilled. The French emperor, however, in a similar case thought. I don’t know if anyone will remind Putin that in order to prevent theft of smuggling, she, by order of Napoleon, was burned publicly. Yes, people were driven to watch. "Crowds of the people gloomily and silently looked at the tall mountains of the Sitza, thin sucons, cashmere matters, barrels of sugar, coffee, cocoa, cabiks of tea, indigo, pepper, cinnamon, which were doused and covered with combustible substance and publicly burned" (Evgeny Tarle).

Sullenly and silently.

Anatoly Striere - writer and publicist, host of the Radio Liberty program "Your Letters"

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