Dance on the blood

Reactions to Brussels terrorist attacks as an intellectual and moral disaster of the Russian political elite

Brussels recalls the dead, Belgium, March 23, 2016

There are skills acquired in the process of educating a person - like the ability to wield a knife and a fork at dinner. Little things, of course, but behind such trifles, the difficultly predicted meaning of the word “civilization” is hidden. But there is not even skills behind this word even, but something that seems to make up the nature of man, the basic supply of natural reactions. A natural reaction to someone else's pain is sympathy. A natural reaction to the news about the terrorist attack is simple words of condolences. The natural is doubly for a country that is familiar with the attacks with terrorist attacks.

But as it turned out, not for officials called on our country to represent at the international level.

On the morning of March 22 - a series of explosions in the capital of Belgium. Dozens of dead, hundreds of wounded, and also a lightning -fast reaction of the chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs Alexei Pushkov. Not a word of sympathy is just rude, on the verge of mockery, a collision with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. A little later, the official representative of the Foreign Ministry of the Russian Federation Maria Zakharova goes to the press. And begins, as a diplomat is supposed to be condolences. Good, understandable, natural and human words. But they do not stop at them, smoothly moving to the teachings and discussions about the “policy of double standards”, “information stuffing” and “pseudo -urban”.

And then - as if they line up in line, pushing each other. Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party Gennady Zyuganov stigmatizes "Uncle Sam." Unicorn Irina Yarovaya recalls Russian successes in Syria and calls on - the whole world is already rallying around our national leader. Senators pronounce stupid things for which a normal person would have to blush in a less difficult situation. And the brightest ending is Vladimir Zhirinovsky in one of the main propaganda talk shows on the Russia 1 channel: “And it is beneficial for us! Let them die and die! "

It is possible and necessary to analyze the causes of terrorist attacks. But they are not trying to analyze. All of the above (however, this is not a list that does not apply for completeness) are not ordinary viewers, not bloggers or “activists of youth movements”, but deputies, party leaders, diplomats - they strive to confirm the loyalty of the general line of leadership over the still dead corpses of the dead. Outbreak the main theses of the propaganda picture of the world. As if, if you just keep silent, they will be deprived of rations. So no, after all, they will not be deprived.

You can keep Russian specifics in the head. Yes, we know, for example, that our parliament is a fiction; We know that the leader of one of the four fractions, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, a man educated and shallow, by the way, is just such an role: to portray an evil clown in the public. That he is already leading a pre -election campaign, fights behind the hearts and minds of his voter - poor and embittered on the rest of the world. We know, but the world is not obliged to know. Official Russia is spitting to portray itself in the world arena a full -fledged state with working institutions. Supreme Power, the winner of terrorism and the keeper of traditional values.

And what does this superpower say to the world (if we distract from our knowledge about the domestic political structure)? With direct text: "Let them die." How to react to this choral demonstration of inability to natural human reactions? And why, by the way, we note the world to make the difference in relation to these penetrating speakers and other residents of Russia? To us with you? These are our chosen deputies and official representatives. Responsible for international affairs. Now in our ability to wield a knife and a fork is difficult not to doubt.

And the responsible and the official do not calm down, as if fearing that someone will incorrectly understand the meaning of the farce played. On March 24, Maria Zakharova angrily condemned the “American media”, who dared to reflect on the method of freshly reserved in Russia to condole. “The baseness of these publications goes off scale, I have no other comparison. Radio Liberty acted as noise, but was supported by others: supposedly the Russian Federation mocked and gloated about terrorist attacks in Brussels. ”

Is it possible to see gloating in the phrase “let them die”? No, this is now our unique version of sympathy, and do not dare to think differently. For the sake of this, the word "nurse" is not even absent in Russian is not a sin.

However, it would be dishonest not to say: many Russian politicians have simple words of sympathy, not weighed down by reasoning about our unchanged rightness and European stupidity, were found. Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Medvedev, Valentina Matvienko, Sergey Sobyanin managed to respond to the Belgian tragedy humanly.

Vladimir Zhirinovsky, LDPR leader, head of the LDPR faction in the State Duma of the Russian Federation: “It is beneficial for us. Let them die and die ... Let them go to us and ask us "

Alexey Pushkov, Chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs, the United Russia faction: “While Stoltenberg, not remembering himself, fights with the imaginary Ross. threat "and places troops in Latvia, under his nose, in Brussels, explodes people"

Maria Zakharova, official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation: “You cannot divide the terrorists into good and bad, they cannot be supported in the Middle East and the North Caucasus and at the same time think that they will not come to another part of the planet”

Igor Morozov,

Member of the Federation Council:

"Rusophobia prevented the threat of terrorism to the special services of Belgium" adequately evaluate the threat of terrorism "

Irina Yarovaya, chairman of the State Duma Committee on Security and Combating Corruption, the United Russia faction: “Russia's position is that it is necessary to create a wide anti -terrorist coalition that was proposed by our president”

Gennady Zyuganov, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party: “Europeans still pay a bloody tribute for the fact that they do not have their own normal balanced policy, for the fact that they are forced to obey" Uncle Sam "

Photo: Martin Meissner/Ap Photo, Anna Isakova/TASS, Alexander Shalgin/TASS, Anton Novoderezhkin/ITAR-TASS, SERGEI FADEICHEV/TASS