In the power of ideas

Aphorisms, thoughts and maxims of outstanding Russians, worthy of going down in history, collected The New Times

Granite and boots

The Prime Minister of the Russian Federation and part-time head of the United Russia party Dmitry Medvedev has long dreamed that his words “cast in granite” be cast. Since December 2009, experts argue, what would it mean, and the politician ... the politician works. And it seems that he finally managed to give rise to aphorism, which will remain in history.

During the visit of the prime minister to the Crimea, a pensioner was able to break through to him and, contrary to traditions, did not thank for returning to his native harbor: “It is impossible to live, the prices of frantic, incorrect indexation are calculated to us! Well, there is eight thousand, this is a scanty, our legs will be wiped about us! ”

The prime minister was not at a loss and did not even stop smiling. “There is simply no money now. You keep here, you are all good, good mood and health, ”Medvedev answered an annoying old woman. And finally became truly famous.

“There is no money, but you are holding on” - such signs now hang witty on ATMs. They write this universal slogan in tax returns and receipts on the payment of housing and communal services. Evil languages ​​even say that this is the main slogan with which United Russia will go to the polls. Anyway, is this not this national idea of ​​Russia (by the way, the head of the SK Alexander Bastrykin once again spoke about the need to “legislatively fix” the national idea). An exhausting description of the relationship between the authorities and the people: there is no money. Hold on. Good mood.

Russia, of course, would not have been Russia if the Crimean authorities had not seen the machinations of external and internal enemies. “This is obviously planned provocation. There is nothing to discuss here, ”an unnamed official from the Sevastopol administration told reporters, commenting on the issue of an insidious pensioner. One can only hope that an extremism will not be attracted to a woman.

But Russia, of course, would not be Russia if it had not been born with regularity, forcing neighbors to envy, truly desperate heroes. Deputy Communist of the City Duma of the city of Megion (KhMAO) Igor Romanov, who gathered for the All-Russian Forum of Entrepreneurs to Moscow, held voting on social networks: what to do with the prime minister if he was coming to meet. The option won - "throw a boot." The deputy promised. Not granite, of course, but also honored.

Poetry and prose

The famous poet Sergei Gandlevsky was the police. He was even scared by criminal proceedings for vandalism, but then they still released it. He went to the subway, saw-at the Lubyanka station, which, of course, is symbolic,-a portrait of Stalin, stuck on the wall with someone. I tore off. And a few minutes later he was detained by the police, whom a certain vigilant citizen brought.

The executioner’s memory in Russia is protected, which you can’t tell about the memory of the victims. For example, Proseik Yuri Polyakov, the chief editor of the Literary Newspaper, in one of the television talk shows recently reported that Trotskyist Varlam Shalamov, although he was a notorious writer, was serving the second term for praising Hitler. Campaigned for the victory of the Nazis.

The story with Hitler's praise is described in Shalamov’s story “My Process”. The case is also published. The surnames of the Skukachi are known, thanks to the lies of which the writer received an additional 10 years - Krivitsky and Zaslavsky. On July 18, 1956, Shalamov (precisely in this case) was rehabilitated. It would be possible to celebrate the anniversary. But the patriot-prose is not up to it: the time to catch enemies in the past and present, especially since the past from the present in Russia is not very distinguished today.

For “Review of the Seconds of World War II”, you can get a deadline. But the revision of the results of rehabilitation is a promising thing that is being fashionable.

By the way, Nikolai Starikov, who calls himself the historian “Anti-Maidan”, said the other day-also on the air of the propaganda talk show that if a person is against Stalin, then he is for Hitler, and there is nothing to argue about. You can also cast in granite.

Not a single bread!

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67% spend half or more of their income on food

80% approve of the activities of Vladimir Putin

Bicycle by ...

The theme eternal for Russia, equally exciting both power and the opposition, how to defeat corruption? In the Ulyanovsk region, a special official - the Anti -Corruption Commissioner, Alexander Yashin came up with a non -help method - an anti -corruption bike racket.

May 29 is a single bike-launches in Russia (there is, it turns out, such a day, and it is still not combined with a single voting day). Ulyanovsk cyclists gathered for mileage for the “popularization of a healthy lifestyle”, but then various bosses intervened, and at first the bike racket turned into an “Orthodoxy on wheels” campaign - no matter what it means - and then reformatted into an anti -corruption event. It seems that high regional ranks plan to take part. Hit with cycling by bribery.

There is a sound grain: if you arrange, for example, in any region, the mileage of officials on personal cars, the spectacle will turn out a worthy, but leading to thought about the triumph of corruption, and not about the victory over it. On bicycles, all are equal. Almost like in a bathhouse.

And then - this idea did not come to the official Ulyanovsk heads, so we give it: you can build a granite monument. The fathers of the city crush a snake of corruption with bicycles. Where the monument is - there is a budget. And where the budget is - there are right people.

Fugitive

The Americans, not without imagination, approached the task of finding a cat Ramzan Kadyrov

At the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, the cat fled. It is hard to believe that someone can escape from the head of Chechnya, but the cat could. Kadyrov wrote about this on Instagram and received an unexpected response: the American TV presenter from the HBO channel John Oliver launched a flash mob. People from different countries were photographed with their cats, dogs and guinea pigs, addressing Kadyrov the same question: "Is this not your cat?"

Kadyrov was offended, but answered with a joke. It is hard to believe that a person who offended the head of Chechnya can get so cheap, but Oliver was lucky. Kadyrov hung on Instagram his foal -legged photo. The TV presenter in a T -shirt with a portrait of Putin and the signature: “I'm tired of jokes. Now I am concerned about cats in Chechnya. And by the way, Putin is our leader! "

It is unclear whether it is possible to cast in granite, but the fact that no one is under granite by the results of history is already not bad. And what is important, Yuri Kuklachev promised to give Ramzan Kadyrov a new cat.

 Source: Levada Center Photo: Christopher Campbell/Twitter