Your letters. December 12, 2015

To expand the Slavic horizons of the Russian Radio Service of the Radio Liberty, I brought an excerpt from the radio dosage of Ukrainian army intelligence officers in the last program. They say that it was intercepted by the Russian side, which did not know what to do with it, with this unencrypted report: “They nicoped in the patch, Chigali in the shelves of I, Abi did not pankaty, snakes up the tennet in Manjiv on Tsarini, in the Yaki Ris, the Yakyati Katsapsuka Tsaby і nasy - chovgamov uniforms by the chaghami of the Kavunov Badille Zim is incorporated with Lantusі. " I announced a competition for the best translation of this report. My friend Anatoly Golovaty from the Cherkasy region came out the winner. “They rummaged in the rear, guarded in the bushes and, in order not to bother further, they realized and secretly arranged an ambush by the outskirts on the pasture, where in the end they scooped up some big Katsap bump, and now they were hinged hard through the watermelon tops with this guagnish cut in the bag.”

“I will risk reaching your mind,” the next letter begins. - And you do not admit that Russia did not have any terrible goals for Ukraine? That she, what she could, helped her. Gas supplies at preferential prices, benefits in access to the product market, benefits in the admission of people to work. Millions of people have worked in Russia since the ninety -second year. This is just a fact. How much did you work in your beloved West? Calculate who was in Russia and who was there. I'm just a pity that you have to tell you such things, ”writes this listener. I agree with him: Russia was really ready to not only help Ukraine, but to ozol to it - even at the expense of its citizens, but on one condition: so that she, Ukraine, what she would say from the Kremlin - did, and what she would not say - did not do. This condition for eternal friendship and love was never only hidden, but in every possible way emphasized, in the end - in the rude form, in such that there is no coarser - in the form of war. Kuchma, recalling his presidential years, said that it was very difficult for him to conduct economic affairs with Russia. As soon as it comes to a large joint project, the Kremlin necessarily puts forward political conditions. Necessarily! Up to personnel questions: whom to appoint. Why would they run away, all, without exception, the Republic of the former Soviet Union, if they were treated, as equals? They are not looking for good from good.

Writes Mikhail Petrovich Zvyagintsev: “Dear Anatoly Ivanovich, I have long noticed that you are not indifferent to such a human quality as envy. This, you can say, is your favorite topic, although you are always touching it in passing, as it should be for an experienced propagandist. I know about this method from your own words. But do you exaggerate the meaning of this quality? Indeed, in addition to envy, a person experiences other feelings: love and hatred, resentment and so on, and the like. For example, in my life I experienced a whole range of feelings, including envy, but good envy, I affirm this with a pure conscience. Zvyagintsev. Podolsk ". Thanks for the letter, Mikhail Petrovich! The meaning of the mentioned feeling both in the life of an individual and in human history, in my opinion, is still impossible. It is not for nothing that it is said that this is the mother of all vices, and it has long been said, since time immemorial. Envy is the mother of all vices. All! The sociologist Helmut Shek once wrote a whole book for five hundred and more than the pages of envy, which is envious, its historical and everyday role, explores from all sides with German thoroughness. This book is in Russian. “Envy” - so it is called, it is considered classic. Here are some subtitles. "The envy of the gods and the concept of fate." "Envy as a subject of philosophy." "Feeling of justice and the idea of equality." Indeed, envy is the mother of everything, including love for justice and equality. The yeast, on which all this rises, is the yeast of envy. It is believed that a person usually hides his envy. However, I know a whole class that envies frankly, belligerently. I'm talking about peasants, about rural residents. Wow, how they envy each other and the other! A few more subtitles from that German book. Envious political parties. Socialism and envy. (Yes, he is all out of envy!). An envious person as a scammer. Envious guest. (Oh, this is a terrible person!). Envy as a factor in the extermination of the population in developing countries. This book especially shows how folk envy interferes with the development of poor countries. By the way, I have long been thinking, as a miracle, that popular envy in post -Soviet Russia has not yet done the troubles that could be expected - God will not give. Apparently, there will be something else - in the order of historical exception, if it continues what is said in the next letter.

“It was believed that the Soviet man is extremely intolerant of bourgeois abroad, and at home - to the rings, businessmen, hucksters, speculators. But it was an official fairy tale! The same people in the nineties and later passionately wished to become hucksters. It turned out that our people are indignant at the inequality much less than the Western ones! In the Russian Federation, yes, the world's largest gap between the rich and the poor. But this is not worried about few. No envy of the most vile thicknesses! At the 3 -air, such people would simply be planted and ruined, but they are quite tolerant of them. No one is outraged that Valka -Polestakan has a son. Muscovites are not angry that the wives of their mayors fall on the lists of Forbes magazine. In the Promoskovsky Donetsk, in the mining Territory, a rich bandit and the killer is not at all in the last account. In Russia, super -rich bastards are also not embarrassing anyone. 3a vote. Support their regime, their achievements, screaming: "Our Crimea!" - The letter says. Russian tolerance for thieves should greatly confuse the Western advocates of social justice if they were thoughtful people among them. They write entire volumes in which they say that the working people of Russia will not always love the exorbitantly rich. According to the calculations of American, German, especially the French semi -socialists, all Russian hucksters of the first row would have long had to hang out on the gallows. The population of Russia calmly overturning such expectations. It buys places in kindergartens. It buys marks in schools. It buys diplomas and dissertations. It buys jobs, benefits, privileges and awards. The weather in the country makes money and communications. Blat above the People’s Commissar is the saying of the first years of Soviet power, when the ministers were also called folk commissars. Of course, the ruling roller will be dispossessed, but not the masses, but the same as itself. And that the people suddenly demand that everyone is to ring is unlikely to. Although everything can be. To set some on others, in this case, small hucksters are lighter than a lung. If the TV is engaged in this, the gallows will appear very soon and will not be empty.

By the way, I read the question: “And at what point does the amount of tax pass the line after which you begin to scold the distribution justice?” I like the answer that liberalism gives. All taxes, deductions, contributions, requisitions should be the smallest. To proceed from the fact that taxes are evil, as one of the classic economists put it. The lower the taxes, the less evil. When in Russia you hear that thieves should pay large taxes, I want to say one thing: thieves should sit in prison, and not pay something there. Yes, in prison by sentences, which, of course, providing confiscation of the whole stolen plus a significant fine.

I read about the fate of Valka-Polestakan and her colleagues from the following letter: “They should think that the change of regime threatens them, no matter how much they have fallen. They will simply be finished off, even if the regime is replaced by the same with the other leader. The inhabitants that greased at the boom of oil revenues is a social base of this regime. These are millions of patriotic cretins by the TV. In provincial towns, they have nothing to lose, and it is empty in their heads, and on it, as in a drum, propaganda beats. There is no family, there is no work, there are no prospects. But in "Novorossia" one thousandth percent pulled still. Absolutely crazy or marginals from criminals. The rest are not fools. They will be afraid of the television screens for "ours". Such a country, even with an extremely condescending attitude of the 3 -Apad, will still be in isolation. But nothing catastrophic in it will happen. There will be no fascism in the trash. The personnel that could have already shown themselves. More squeal than Izu. " Well said: more screech than Izu.

I will continue one tiny letter. In one of the previous programs, our American listener Mikhail Burfman mentioned the case in his state: the girl of easy virtue, whom the maniac tried to attack, shot him over her shoulder without turning around. Another listener writes to this story: "Three years ago, it slipped in a conversation:" The Americans were allowed to have weapons, so they are heroes. " Everything is put upside down in the minds of our people. This armed Americans allow or do not allow anything to their authorities, and not the authorities-them. Like at the Zaporizhzhya Sich, ”the letter says. Great clarification, just magnificent! A person who understands America in Russian, and not as it should, is completely sure that the people there were allowed to be free, so they are free. They allowed them to live better than anyone else in the world, so they live. That is, in addition to freedom, they were allowed the most and more intelligently to work - so they went to plow, like the started. They were allowed a lot of things - for example, more than anyone else in the world to spend detergents per capita, so they are washed twice a day. This has an additional resolution - to wash twice a day.

“The most persistent myth of Russian consciousness,” writes Alexei Bakov, “we are fabulously rich, we have forty percent of world resources (I remember that during the USSR there was the same figure, the country has decreased, and mythical resources remained). Like, only the Copiny of the Russian land - and wealth will go into the pocket. We don’t believe in God, we don’t believe in communism, we don’t believe in the market either, but forty percent of world wealth is our holy! Our times are raw materials, everything that can be mined with profitably - we get everything. And we have somewhere about seven trillion rubles per year of raw materials in the budget. And it will turn out about four thousand rubles for each citizen of the Russian Federation per month, if everything is equally divided without a trace (which in Russia can never be, stealing is a centuries -old Russian tradition). But let's say, they did not steal and honestly divided it. How to live on it? And these four thousand are no more, they will be when we take away all the shibusta storages and all the ruble, all the Mercedes and all the hours of Peskov. The same story was in the seventeenth - well, they thought we would take everything away, share and heal. Of course, you need to fight with crooks, you need to fight with useless cost projects. But at the end there will be a maximum of four thousand per person, no more. That's all the fairy -tale Russian baguages, ”writes Bakov. This person understands that the path to sustainable, growing prosperity is one - the accumulation of capital. There was no other way, no and cannot be. Meanwhile, our other contemporary repeats: "Every capital is based on deception, lives and grows." Yes, they write, red and pink, they write from year to year, from a decade to a decade, from a century to a century ... Capital is all that has been created and created by the hands of a person by blessing or when the Almighty was connected, from a cheops pyramid to a sorter somewhere on a half-land. Capital is each and people themselves with their abilities and capabilities. I don’t know ... Maybe all this is really on deceit. There is such a philosophy that says that everything that we see around us is a deception of our vision.

There is fog on the mountain

A diaper is dried.

All your love is a deception

Handing a child.

Writes a graduate student Nelli Kolirova. She was tired of, as it is expressed, a world lie about Russia, all these biased, forged ratings published by various agencies, whose goal is the same - to diminish, discredit the achievements of the Russians, and present Russia with a backward state. She calls to stop believing these materials of Western propaganda. I read: “You can’t lie constantly. But we need objective data, therefore, I believe that we will soon have our own agencies ... Nobel, which has become a finally engaged pro -Western award, makes us think about creating our own international awards. Since the matter concerns not only us, perhaps rating agencies, and premiums in the field of culture, and assessments of scientific achievements will be created, handed and determined on the basis of the new organizations in which we now exist: BRICS, SCO, others ... when our liberals are sarcastically asking opponents what Russia is offering the world, they are drying in one word: sovereignty. No matter how funny, this word for the world is similar to the word “freedom” today ... This, of course, means a global split, ”writes a graduate student Nelly Kolirova, but in fact she writes anything, but deducts, rearranging a few words. The fact that she sent to “freedom” belongs to one journalist of the Kremlin direction. I think that Nelli Kolirova will also make his dissertation: he will write it off from someone. But what she wrote off for us is of public interest. Of course, their own agencies for an objective assessment of different aspects of Russian life in comparison with other countries can have Russia. There will always be money for such a thing. But I do not think that this is so necessary. After all, there is one indicator that absorbs everyone else, all without exception. It is impossible to fake it. I'm talking about the ruble course. How much a ruble costs, so much is given for it even in a bazaar in Penza, even on the exchange in Singapore. The Kremlin says that Russia offers the world such value as sovereignty, equivalent to freedom. The example of his sovereignty proposes - and thus suggests itself to the question: but did not try to offer the ruble? In addition to the sovereignty ... I read, by the way, from the last news: no one needs a “wooden” ruble - writes the main state newspaper of China "Jenmin Ziibao". “The PRC refused Russia to switch to the ruble in interstate calculations.”

The next letter was sent by a ruined entrepreneur - not ruined, but ravaged by officials, on whom he did not have enough bribes. “Dear Anatoly Ivanovich! The most profitable and tidbits of the raw material economy and service of the population, an absolute monopoly on energy carriers, and recently an oligarchic monopoly on urban garbage disappear. We will call the names of the main Moscow garbage men: Abramovich, Deripaska, prosecutor's son of a seagull. In such an atmosphere, our modest company began to gain growth rates, gaining experience in commercial relations, and getting up in the extreme row of a market economy. While we ran after scales and an umbrella, the guys from the government apparatus, without thinking for a long time, took control of Norilsk with his thirty percent of the world's production of nickel, platinum, gold. Oil fields sailed into the pockets of officials. A quiet massacre in the energy sector ended with light bloodletting, and so that no one was straining on this subject, it was decided to bomb Chechnya. People should not think about how they are robbed, but about terrorists. Small business continued to flounder, improving its trade affairs, increasing the range of products, multiplying the glory of the Motherland with worthy labor. Our first cooperative successes in the eighty -eighth year expressed in cast lead counterweights for the balancing of the wheels. With the people black from soot, we did not notice how the “young democracy” approached us, ready to easily turn into a “sovereign”. It seemed to us that everything would come by itself, we only need to earn money. And they earned nuts. "

“Dear Anatoly Ivanovich! - The next letter. - In one of your programs I heard about a woman who spends her miserable pension on animals, and does not even leave himself on the most necessary medicines. I suspect that she needs medicine, first of all, in order to get rid of this concern. I am sure that not all your listeners know what Messi Syndrome is “pathological storage”. This is a mental disorder - the mania of collecting unnecessary things. A person is not able to throw anything, down to the holes of the pots. He obsessively collects all the trash according to his acquaintances and garbage. It seems to the patient that all this can be useful on the farm. Messi syndrome is immortalized by Gogol in the image of Plyushkin. This also includes the pathological storage of animals. The patient fills his home with dozens of cats, dogs, rabbits, and birds. They attract him like a drug addict. There are enthusiasts organizing shelters for dogs, cats, hedgehogs. How do they differ from patients? A relatively normal enthusiast finds and equips a room where animals do not suffer themselves and do not interfere with others. But a woman who contains twenty cats in a two -room apartment or, especially dogs, not only poisons the life of neighbors, but also torments the seemingly animals saved by her. In the EU, they are judged under the article “Society over animals,” the letter says.

Well, the Russian traveler writes: “He visited Cambodia. Poverty, dirt, heaps of garbage, disorder and corruption. Among the huts, the Palace of the Mayor of the Border City shown as a landmark. Говорят, у начальника таможни еще больше. Люди зарабатывают по пятьдесят долларов в месяц или живут на подножном корму. Стоят бесчисленные ловушки для жуков и тараканов. Корыто с водой, куда они ночью забираются. Утром их собирают и употребляют в пищу. Виза выдается на границе, для нее требуется фотокарточка. Поскольку у большинства въезжающих фотокарточек нет, гид объясняет: «Вашу фотку камбоджийские таможенники заменят фоткой таиландского короля с купюры в сто батов, которую вы вложите в паспорт». Сто батов - это около трех долларов. Но поток-то народу огромный. Таможенники и их начальники не бедствуют. Здесь я думал о том, что ваша зацикленность на русских делах абсурдна, хотя и понимаю, что вы работаете на русского слушателя. В общем, путешествовать полезно. Хорошо, что нам это разрешается».

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