The habit of fighting

One of the delegates of the first congress of the Donbass Volunteer Union, which has recently been held in Moscow, explained to reporters the reason for his return to their homeland: “They don’t let us shoot, but what to do there”?

One of the delegates of the first congress of the Donbass Volunteer Union, which has recently been held in Moscow, explained to reporters the reason for his return to their homeland: “They don’t let us shoot, but what to do there”?

Analysts argue who outplayed whom during the Ukrainian adventure. The state, leaving for a while talking about the atrocities of the Nazis-Karats and their overseas owners, transplants the population who managed to get used to the victorious relations, to news from Syria. Now there is a nerve of the "Russian world", although it is not easy for a Russian person and it is not easy to understand this. Fortunately, the TV is like religion, he does not require understanding, he is enough faith.

Economists consider losses, relatives mourn the dead. But there are alive behind the brackets - who believed just a TV or agitators from social networks. Learning that somewhere there, in Ukraine, fascism raised his head, and who rushed, throwing a house, families, children and unpaid loans, play a real war.

They were called heroes, telecumentors, choking with enthusiasm, repeated their "call sign", replacing human names. They were called criminals, mercenaries, bandits in the columns of opposition publications. And they called not at all unfounded, probably. But in their life there was suddenly meaning, an idea, a matter, a risk in which all past problems were dissolved. The meaning that cancel the complexity of the world: here you are, and there is an enemy, and it is clear who is right.

And now the meaning has disappeared - "they do not let them shoot." The telecumentors suddenly became specialists in the Middle East and do not want to remember yesterday's heroes. In the news - completely different battlefields. And even the “Congresses of Volunteers” are simply cleverly invented by some metropolitan crooks, wars near the wars not seen, a way to earn, inside they are a crowd in camouflage. Around - a boring peaceful life from which they tried to escape into a feat. Became even more difficult than before the war, which remained incomprehensible, turned into unnecessary.

What do they carry from their failed "New Russia" in duffel bags and in their heads? Resentment, disappointment, the feeling that they were betrayed and abandoned. Some are torn from the war to the war - the benefit is war again. Some manage to get into the incomprehensible Syria, even die there. But in this war, the state does not have the need to hide behind the backs of volunteers - they are not needed there, in any case. The recruiters who helped to get to the self-proclaimed republics, or stuck shops, or are still called to Donetsk instead of Damascus.

This means that most of the newly -minted veterans of an unrecognized war will stay here with us. Some will fit at least somehow into a life that has lost meaning, others will carry the habits and skills of the advanced into this peaceful life. Together with resentment, disappointments and other loads brought from the Donbass. Psychologists, recognizing this potential danger, not so much comfort them, they will not be able to seriously change the criminal situation. Although for those who will have to feel the “light jump in the level of crime” on themselves, this may turn out to be a weak consolation.

And those whose efforts they destroyed their own lives and left to take strangers, will continue to tell them and us to tell how many terrorists' headquarters destroyed the Russian military-space forces during the night.