Fake unity

... Vladimir Putin at the Solovetsky stone reads the names of fellow citizens, tortured by Stalin and his executioners ... Patriarch Kirill - in a mournful queue for a microphone accepts the baton, calling the innocently killed - employees, workers, priests, cultural figures, young and old, women and men ...

A wild thought, you say, visited me when contemplating these two hierarchs of all Russia, secular and spiritual, confidently as a confident assignment to the microphone at the opening of the World Congress of compatriots on November 5 . The flow of words about the unity of the nation, spiritual brotherhood, true love and mutual support, about the ability of the people to self -organization and a close -knit confrontation of the internal enemy, to consolidate in the face of external and internal challenges. Everything is thought out, everything is stripped - and the weighty word of the hierarchs and the obedient flock, not objecting to be controlled, just would not be touched.

The entire stormy and contradictory XX century passed for the country under the sign of this "unity", which covered the split: on the white and red, on the fighters for communism and enemies of the people, on persecuted and persecutors, who sincerely believed and sincerely hated, on the authorities and "masses", on those who supported and approved, and those who doubted the ropy of the kitchen and decided on the kitchens and decided Caming out on Red Square.

No matter how surprised I would like, the master (or comrade?) Gundyaev, he is a patriarch, did not surprise me with his maxims at the exhibition "Orthodox Russia. From great shocks to great victory." The exhibition Patriarch opened in the arena on the eve of the mentioned Congress with his "sparring partner", the president. The event, like the Congress of compatriots, is timed to confined to the Russians recently launched on the top of the new -fiber holiday - the Day of National Unity. "The successes of a state leader who stood at the origins of the Renaissance and modernization of the country," the Patriarch broadcast , "cannot be questioned, even if this leader was distinguished by villains." It is difficult to say whether the patriarchal revelation was turned into a past or the future: the Orthodox Church in Russia has long lost its spiritual mission, becoming a leading institution. And her leader, in comfort and satiety, like his late -Soviet predecessors, is only affected by what a cute ear of the Kremlin celestial, who in response demonstrates spirituality and piety, posing with a candle in front of the television celebrations, but disappear from the horizon during the days of the popular grief. By the degree of bloodthirstiness to Vladimir Putin to Joseph Stalin is still far away, although who knows where we will find ourselves, he will reach the end of the term (s). But some common features are visible: Stalin cowardly “went underground” and sat in his cottage in the early days of the very one that rallied the people of war, apparently realizing the real threat of loss of undivided power, and Putin, hiding his head in the sand in the moments of national tragedies.

The division of society into patriots and “national traitors” from the “fifth column”, into “Crimean” and “Crimean”-the hatred that Putin provoked and stains in every possible way, setting some Russians on others-this is the main crime of this person before compatriots

What is happening under the cover of the 90 percent “love” of the population to his leader by the division of society into patriots and “National Distributions” from the “fifth column”, into “Crimean” and “Crimean”-the hatred that Putin provoked and stains in every possible way, setting some Russians on others-in my opinion, the main crime of this person before the compatriots. And the consequences of this atrocity will have to make a long time for those who come to Putin to replace. You can correct things in the economy, you can return respect for the country in foreign policy and even its lost friends and allies, but to ensure that the fellow citizens learn to listen and hear, respect and understand each other, will be most difficult. The terrible time of the Civil War and the experience of the very Russian abroad, to which the hierarchs were so selflessly appealed, this is what confirms.

According to the Memorial human rights center, the total number of terror victims - taking into account the dispossessed, deported, expelled - exceeds 12 million. The names and biographies are more than 2,700,000 of them today are included in the mournful list. And as a “gratitude” from the state for this titanic work to restore its genuine history, the Memorial earned the status of an internal enemy and the title of “foreign agent”. Both the names themselves and this whole historical period, even the topic itself, would prefer to leave one line in textbooks, more precisely, in a single textbook, because it is such a "single" people.

... The action of the Solovetsky stone on October 29. The woman approaches the microphone and quietly says that her ancestors were "on the other side." Literally choking on tears, a tearing voice, she pronounces new names from an endless martyrologist, who, according to the logic of Patriarch Kirill, can be attributed to the "natural" losses of the era of modernization. A small fragile woman is a symbol of real unity. It is not in order to march by ordering, publicly demonstrating love for the first person, whose face it may be; Not in thoughtless unanimity, not in the competition, who shout louder or more inventively reminds of past military victories, and not in the tie of the St. George ribbon on the facimish dog and the status "Lexus". It begins with respect for each other, to someone else's opinion and diverse, with empathy and joint comprehension of errors, with awareness of the general responsibility for such tragedies no longer repeated. There was no such unity in the country. It is so far as incredibly as the appearance of Putin or Patriarch among those who read the names of the victims of the Stalinist terror from Solovetsky stone.

Galina Sidorova - Moscow journalist