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Polzi, "Snail", Polzi
Social networks "root" for protesting truckers and expect from them that the opposition failed
Today, truckers throughout Russia protest against the introduction of payment for federal routes. What is happening especially pleases the experts of philosophy:
The fact that truckers are fighting with Plato, there is an embodiment of antiquity. After all, they are by the nature of activity - peripatetics, forever in movement.
- Nikolai Kamnev (@kamnevn_) november 19, 2015 Truckers beat their colleague for trying to retell the famous myth of Plato's cave.
- Technetika (@technetika) November 19, 2015 Academic education played a joke with me while I was thinking in traffic on a highway blocked by a truck with the inscription "We are against Plato"
- Lena fon. (@kali_shakti) NOVEMBER 19, 2015
Trucks were decorated not only with slogans, but also with poems written, according to a long tradition, with a finger in the mud:
Truckers protest and try to paralyze the roads throughout Russia with their action "Snail". Putin bring the troops! pic.twitter.com/H7XA3TRLCW
- There is no Yanukovych! (@Kodeksunet) Novmber 19, 2015
Plato, the cost of charging for fare ("pay per tons"), consists of transponders, which are installed in the cabin, the roads on the roads that read the readings of the devices, and the site on which you need to register and pay for the passage before you go on the road. Even those of the carriers who were ready to pay for travel are outraged by numerous malfunctions in the system. Not everyone managed to get the transponders, it is not possible to register and enter the desired route on the site, in the office of Plato - huge lines.
Natalia Yakushina
Truckers say, approximately every second on -board device does not work. The Plato system is constantly malfunctioning, write off the money several times. They have not installed frames anywhere. People write that four days are in line to get an on -board device. They urgently refine the decree, because, for example, foreigners should not pay, now they suddenly decided that they should. There are many roads where there are no, leaning, but they will also charge a fee for them, like, for damage to asphalt, which is not. They promise to build roads everywhere by 2018. For some reason, transport tax and excise taxes on gasoline were not canceled, although this is illegal triple taxation. We already have double taxation in the country. Moreover, everyone has a crisis ... The government, as always, thinks ass. It turns out that the Plato system will pay off in 6 years, in the best case ... It seems that this system will not help improve roads, but will work very well to impoverish the country and citizens.
What will happen, if the system is introduced in the current form, can be read in a letter to the director of a transport company, published on the blog of Sergey Kolyasnikov ( Zergulio.livejournal.com ):
My company has not been able to close the majority of the downloads of our customers for a week, because almost half of the IP after November 15 "puts on its feet" sitting at home and without providing transport for loading. The shortage of transport is now crazy, prices are rising for heavy transportation in almost arithmetic progression.
The protest rally was called "Snail":
Drivers set up the Ulitka action: two trucks occupy the 1st and 2nd lanes allowed for freight transport and go at a speed of 10 km/h.
- ribbon (@oldlentach) november 19, 2015
The online report is conducted by the Mediazona , Nikolai Lyaskin will register selected reports on his blog . In social networks, spontaneous reports appear from numerous places of action:
Roman Kashin
A strong meeting in Dzerzhinsky Park was happening now. A crowd of drivers, owners of cars, a person is probably 200. Moreover, not propagandists, but real people. The rally was under the banner of the Communist Party, but on the essence of the issue of protest this did not affect. "Plato" was in the first place, a fare for federal routes. The colorful story of the trucker’s wife in short form gave an idea of the life of drivers. About wealth and cottages, golden life and amazing roads .... Another third haircut from the truckers of federal tracks in Putin's friends in the complete absence of money control and disgusting roads throughout the country. All of them are outraged by the next trials in the complete absence of caring for the profession of the driver.
A strike against Plato in Ulyanovsk. And so on four sides. pic.twitter.com/jeobepbpr0
- Vlad Katalymov (@katalymof) november 19, 2015Not all citizens are satisfied with the fact that the trucks overlap the roads.
I see a bunch of inventors who are already saying “truckers are to blame” and “Why should the protest should be at the expense of others”? Some kind of hell
- Gorokhov (@Grkhv) november 19, 2015
Andrey Sergeevich Kalashnikov
Within the framework of the All -Russian action, #snails, truckers expressed their protest with three trucks of the Moscow highway to the entrance to #Nizhnyanovgorod. Moreover, all three of the other regions ...
Thank you for a huge plug, we miss them so much ...
They object to them:
Sergey Lezhnev
It's OK. We tolerate. In Belgorod, the same thing. Tomorrow, for example, the same thing will be invented for cars or the tax on the vehicle will be raised, because we will also go out and express a protest against this. Therefore, you can tolerate, it's okay)
If you do not tolerate the action of truckers, you will have to endure a blow. About how the increase in the fare will hit the final consumer of goods, says Sergey Voloshchuk , deputy head of the interregional trade union of professional drivers:
The introduction of a new tax will be reflected not only on us, but on everyone who goes to the store and buys products. Milk or flour is not just brought from the warehouse. This is a very complex logistics chain: bring food to the cows, bring milk from the farm, deliver to various warehouses ... and each of these actions will now be more expensive. Our prime minister joyfully reports that we won inflation, and with this system everything will rise in price by 5-6 percent. What can be import substitution in Russia if the products cannot be taken to stores?
There are, however, carriers that this does not bother:
Sergey Smirnov
The best expert commentary on the Plato system, which sharply increases the cost of fare on federal routes.
According to Igor Ruji, the general director of the Tenshkof transport company, which performs both urban and intercity transportation, carriers should not be worried, since this measure is designed to improve the country's economy. In addition, carriers are likely to include this fee in the cost of their services, so not transport companies, but transportation customers - manufacturers of goods and services will be paid in fact. Those, in turn, will increase the cost of their products. In this case, only end customers - ordinary citizens will feel the increase in prices.
To ordinary citizens, meanwhile, it seems that the protest has every chance of developing into something more.
I have the feeling that the next president of the Russian Federation will be a trucker.
- Vladimir Mayakovsky (@mayakovsky_v) november 19, 2015
Mikhail Epanchintsev
Truckers-people are harsh. These guys risk their lives daily on our broken roads. Probably, do not wake up famously, while quiet. But, it seems, to Plato and our government, it succeeds. And what will be the result? Instead of income, everyone will receive only losses, a series of bankruptcy and reducing tax revenues to the budget! The government of the government to tear off the last pants from carriers will lead to interruptions in the supply of goods. Probably someone there is upstairs, they think that Plato will "ride". Something tells me that no. Triple taxation has not benefited any business yet.
Truckers, then miners, then everyone else.
- Fog (@arbaletoff) November 19, 2015
Truckers and gasoline have always with themselves. The Kremlin will bring the situation when they all go to Moscow? I think yes.
- Pani Walewska (@pani_walewska) November 19, 2015 The case when truckers were smarter and more competent than the so -called. opposition. Nice to watch. I hope they will achieve their own.
- Svetula (@svelya2907) november 19, 2015 In short, it seems the truckers watched V, so Wendetta is better than the entire opposition combined.
- Sasha Gostev (@washed_out) November 19, 2015
A protesting trucker with a truck, tires and a mount - this is not a squelch with glasses.
"When they came for hipsters and ruffers, I laughed and voted for Putin, because I am not a hipster, but a trucker. And now I am selling my truck ..."
- Vladimir Terekhov . The main thing is that the long -range is not leaked #Snail
- Averse eurolery (@nonameangrylex) November 19, 2015
Licka Kerenskaya
Literally yesterday I thought that Russia was sprinkled from some perfect garbage, trifles, in particular. From the side with which no one expects. It may not yet, but something close.
But some drivers seem to be counting on the authorities:
#Plato, truckers do not know that Rotenberg \ author of this scam with Putin's best friend \ Best friend. He will not help them ... Pic.twitter.com/fytfi1rtp
- Sasha_Sever (@aleks_SPB) NOVEMBER 19, 2015
Soon they may have to reconsider their views.
@netovetz They are talking to Putin with a ru. The abolition of Plato. If they explain to them that the money is going to Putin's friend, a revolutionary situation was made up
- Denis Davydov (@denis_davydov_) November 19, 2015
On Twitter, they are incurred:
Send to the truckers the photo of the creator of Plato with Putin Pic.twitter.com/g7ej6kuryx
- Tomze (@zagibaigvozdi) november 19, 2015
And on Facebook, historical parallels are carried out:
Dmitry Puchkov
As stated earlier - "everything was already" ... it was also.
This time I'm talking about the protest of truckers about the new tax on federal roads. The announced goal of the new tax is more than noble: to compensate for the damage to the carrier and the consignor, which is caused by road surface when transporting heavy car trains. The initiator and the main beneficiary is Mr. Rotenberg. It is its structures according to experts who will receive approximately 25 % of the total amount of planned income.
And after all, this is directly absolute tracing paper from the ancient practice of "feeding" - when the king -priest handed out to the neighboring boyars to the mercy of certain income of the treasury - customs, local, commodity. The boyars pledged for this on their own to collect taxes from Smerdov, replenishing the state treasury. But at the same time they did not forget themselves, did not modestly - they got down to the "kids on milk" with all their diligence. Speaking, of course, they try exclusively for the good of the state. Patriots, in a word, yes. One of the most striking examples is the famous “salt riot” of 1648 (under Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich), when prices for various goods (and above all for salt) sharply jumped up prices. The main beneficiary of the "Salt Tax" was the teacher, mentor and closest adviser to Tsar Alexei - Boris Ivanovich Morozov. At that time, he actually ruled the state on behalf of the king.
Who is interested in - can refresh in memory of information about the causes, progress and consequences of a salt riot with the help of any history textbook ...
Yes - and the electronic system for collecting the fare should not be called "Plato", but "boyar Morozov" - it would be more fair. It would be more true, and more patriotic. What does Plato have to do with it? Plato has nothing to do with it. But Boris Ivanovich Morozov is just right. Somehow with the name Mr. Rotenberg was mistaken, in my opinion. True, of course, of course, he will not be deleted into exile in the Kirillo -Belozersky monastery - this is an unconditional difference.
Does the opposition see the real chance to compete with the current government? This morning nothing was known about this.
Oleg Kozyrev
Democratic opposition, do we still want Putin to resign? No real opposition has a word in support of truckers. Is it really not clear that we are dealing with the first social protests? Why stand aside? At least a few words of support can be found. Or maybe one of us considers this ugly Rottenberg Plato something liberal, democratic and correct?
The support of support was found by Pavel Chikov, the head of the Agora human rights organization:
Ready to protect truckers. We express solidarity
- Pavel Chikov (@pchikov) November 19, 2015 @MarnatSkaya @ssmirnov will be claims of the authorities, apply for legal assistance
- Pavel Chikov (@pchikov) November 19, 2015Navalny responded with a post on the blog :
What is happening is just an ideal example of how they put a whole industry on their ears and bring a bunch of harm to everyone around just to make the son’s money - the “entrepreneur” of the Putin friend. That is, the same corruption that destroys Russia. <...>
So the truckers are right that they are striking. They strike against corruption, let's support them morally. And the Rotenbergs and officials who help them must be sealled in winged missiles and drop it on ISIS, a terrible weapon will turn out.
In response, a new portion of criticism immediately flew:
By the way, Navalny is not against training on roads, just not through the Rotenbergs, in another way and not now? pic.twitter.com/n4wnfcseu4
- The same Ternovsky (@dternovskiy) november 19, 2015 @navalny with the same truckers did not think of agreeing on their protest on the outskirts of Maryino with balls and ribbons in 15 days.
- Konstantin Lvovich (@sector_kl) november 19, 2015 If our opposition was smarter - now it would be with truckers. Oh yes .. we have no opposition.
- Vuvouzla (@wywyzela) November 19, 2015 Truckers will soon stop protests, since it will become disgusting that Navalny has fit for them.
- Nuclear winter close (@nucwintiscoming) November 19, 2015
In addition to criticism, there are calls:
The opposition is all on the snail! It is not only useful but also fun! #Snail
- ℳo ℘ ♨ ♨ (@duremarik) november 19, 2015
And someone believes that there is no one to call - everything is already where necessary:
Truckers - Fifth Motor Council of Russia
- Revolutionary Thoughts (@vvp2_0) November 19, 2015-
Alya Ponomareva
Social Networks Editor Radio Liberty