Your letters. August 19, 2016

I have a whole heap of strangers and even my own reasons why Putin suddenly began to beat on his own, he was persecuted by his closest friends, until they were sent to the bunks, at best, for general censure. What would that mean? “Who did he decide to become? - asks the retired Major Khlistunov. - Pinochet or Stalin? Or, perhaps, is the second Kwan Yune? ” Lee Kwan Yu, I remind the audience, is the largest and most successful opponent of democracy in history. On a barren island in the ocean, he created the richest state in the world. And scary, I must admit. He has permanently ruled them for more than fifty years, became famous for instructing all novice heads of states for all times: if you want the country to flourish and do not know the words “bribe” in it, start by sending three of your closest friends - you will know, for which, and they will know why. The main freedom for everyone in Singapore is unhindered, but honestly, not particularly thinking about other freedoms.

And what is happening with Putin now was predicted five years ago. Professor Kordonsky noted then that power began to evaporate in Russia. A shortage of power was discovered. “Everyone is looking for whom to give. It is not clear who to turn to to solve the problem. Everyone is asking: who has power now? But she is not. Deficiency ”is his words, Professor Kordon. The shortage of power is most reliable, as you know, with free elections. But this is not yet for Putin and, according to Cordon, not for Russia. One thing remains: beat. It is very painful to beat and necessarily - on the first persons. Again, the professor’s words: “If Putin does not go on repression, he will not make up for a deficit of power. He will need to demonstrate power. And this can only be repressions in relation to your circle. Otherwise, they will not believe him. ” This is how science explains what is happening in the Kremlin today. She did it five years ago, she only did not say when they would definitely fly, a year or two in a year.

“Family couple,” writes Mr. Chertenko, “notes forty years of marriage. Most of the time spent at a table with guests, they discuss prices in stores and in the markets, terms and conditions for collecting tomatoes, prospects for building a fence in the country, rising prices, etc. All attempts to direct the conversation in the channel of the memoirs that it was for forty years, are consistently and effectively blocked ... to the proposal to be distracted from tomatoes and go to the park, nevertheless a kind of anniversary, they answer quickly and in chorus: we work and always work. It reads for this: we are not loafers, like some, we have no time to walk. The question of the meaning of life, I decided to save up to the fifty anniversary, whom they wish each other in every possible way, ”Setenko writes.

And I liked them, these old people. I wanted to get to know them, to visit them from time to time, to sit with them at the table with the works of their garden and talk not about Putin and his friends, not about Shuvalov, a big man from the government, not about his wife - how successfully her entrepreneurial talent developed - already looked around - already a billionaire, not about her males and bibs, which she walks around the world separately an airplane, and about seedlings, about tomatoes, prices, building materials. At this table I would sincerely praise with my achievements - for example, that this year I have tomatoes - no matter what a break, the powder immediately acts, and the huge, and the proper, and in the natural, measured acidic, but at Andrei Statsenko, they were loudly jealous of me, pity that he listened to one old fool and scientific processing of the roots before planting He replaced with a prayer and a candle in the Church ... So, of course, I understand that after a while I would like to and another conversation with these old people-political, literary, philosophical, musical, because it really is not all the time about tomatoes and tomatoes. I think they are the same opinion.

They still have, listeners of "freedom" who clearly understand what the essence of Russia's sports policy is. The essence of Russia's sports policy is that it, this policy, exists, exists in the greatest seriousness. In any case, it existed until recently. Sports glory was a state affair. “Sports victories speak only about themselves and about nothing,” as emphasized in one letter, and Russia decided that sports victories should speak, first of all, about the greatness, the importance of the country. Russia decided that she had all the rights to sports victories of its inhabitants. She is sure that she can not only, but should assign themselves their records. For what? Well, how - why? Then, in order to present them to the world as signs of their state dignity. This is understandable, this is cute, but ... “The most Olympic power of mankind, I will return to the letter, was, as you know, the GDR, in terms of medals per capita, I surpassed everyone. But this did not help to strengthen her regime ... Football clubs of Chausky and Milosevich managed to defeat all the strongest teams of Europe. It is very difficult, but they beat everyone. But Chausko and Miloshevich intensified much ... So I read the text of your radio broadcast, ”the author continues,“ and look out the window. There is a fenced platform between the houses. Now is summer, Sunday, vacation, but nobody on the site. So almost always. And I live in a rather prosperous suburb of the capital. We are not at all a sports nation. We have no appropriate mood. We are constantly tense, ”writes this interesting person. Both sports and sports policies cannot stand, and who, when, and how he beat at least a hundred years ago, will tell you without hesitation, wake him up on a dead night ... It turns out, however, that it was precisely that Russia inflicted the biggest blow to the cult of sports in the world. We will not stand at the price. The world saw what this price is. For the Soviet Union, the show -offs were important, and very large. And for Putin Russia, they became above all. Nothing but show -off! The scoop wanted something else, and here-nothing but show-off. Putinism spent most on the restoration of Soviet sports glory - here his failure befell. Soviet sports as such are no more. In this sense, there is no scoop. Only now this can be said. What next? Life without a scoop is what next.

“Kolyan from Novgorod writes to you, - from the lower or great, the letter is not reported. - He worked at the factory, reduced while I live on its own. He worked as a locksmith in electronics, Kipovts. Reduced with the whole department, why - not a question to me. My other professions: welder, driver. But I'm not going to work on them. Firstly, the age is not the same, it is approaching a fifty dollars. Secondly, there is no desire for two hundred dollars a month. Evil gayiropes have a lot of unemployment benefits at times. It was a little accumulated money, plus a junk sold some, so enough until the fall. To drink, we can say, I do not drink. At three months I will get drunk once, I do not think. I’m doing a little at home at the computer, so I listen to “Freedom”. Most around me are on opinions that are different from television, they scream, spray, wave their fists. They think that all of them want to kill, conquer, take away wealth, and hijacking into slavery. They do not want to mentally develop, they have enough a stupor. And with such a fool and in such a life it will definitely vomit. He will break, because he is seething, and the money will end soon ... I personally do not take offense at anyone, I am not angry. If you compare with the Yeltsin years, then I'm worse. Everything has already been pressed. In the nineties, I could take a car from a friend, write by hand to myself a power of attorney and drive. Or buy a car from abroad, and drive it with the same pill. And no taxes, customs clearance, insurance. Now I can’t control a friend’s car, although he is sitting nearby. This concerns me and bothers me. I think it will soon be torn, another year or two, ”Kolyan repeats. A serious person, almost half a year. I don’t know why he calls himself Kolyan, not Nikolai. My letter was a little strained me. I read before him that Russian cops do not like to walk with weapons, wrote one lieutenant. And here are the words of Kolyan, which will soon tear. I do not want him to get into a trouble. Those like him, calm, positive, have a lot of hostility to everyone who is free to prohibit something, monitor the execution of any prohibitions. Something does not come from the head of February the seventeenth, completely harmless February, directly exemplary democratic, with the announcement of the elections to the constituent meeting, but still: that the townspeople in Petrograd staged the first thing to the ice, how many were able, the city. The then cops were, like the current ones: all cops are cops. So they dragged them to the promotions.

“Dear Anatoly Ivanovich! In your recent program, you gave a statement by a certain Tanya Solovyeva about England. She, according to her, does not believe that this country will someday change for the better. From this, Tanya follows that at present this civilization does not deserve a good word. You reported that this person lives in London, a lawyer. Remove sin from your soul: admit that you came up with both her and her statements, even more wild than she herself. Well, you got very white threads! And the fact that she calls herself Tanya, not Tatyana, and the fact that she is a lawyer, and that who lives in London. I can’t imagine that the lawyer does not know what the Bill of Rights is, what a great charter of liberties is, what is the whole system of Anglo -Saxon life on these supports. You like the word "Raze", jokingly calling us to this. So I urge you to the same, and by no means jokingly. Tell me in full voice with the directness that is characteristic of you, that no Tanya Solovieva, lawyers, residents of London and the Big Russian Patriot with her ignorant and vicious reviews of the West, about England, about the entire Anglo-Saxon civilization, were not and there was no in nature. I will personally forgive you your invention, your writer’s business - God himself told you to invent. But the measure needs to be known even to you, dear Anatoly Ivanovich. Sergey Kornilov. Samara ". No, Sergey, I can’t give you such pleasure. Tanya, it was Tanya, and not Tatyana, I did not invent Soloviev. She is a real individual, as lawyers express. And what she wrote, wrote it and can say with all the dignity: hedgehogs, speys. The great charter of liberties and the Billes you mentioned is necessary, by the way (it is necessary!), Add the Declaration of the Independence of the United States of America - and then three whales on which the modern free world is based, will be in complete presence. The barbarian not only did not know what Rome, Roman art, the Roman orders were - he was not able to evaluate them, even learning. But let's not forget that, truly barbaric, attitude to the Anglo -Saxon world at one time, for example, not only Hitler with the then young German shoot, but also some first -class European minds and talents. One of them is even called the largest philosopher, I will not repeat the name - well. The views of our Tanya are modern Russian barbaric nihilism, the dark denial of Western life arrangement, without which these people are not able to do for an hour. They have such disappointments in their confused life that how you think about it, then it is time to sympathize with them. True, as soon as they realize their collapse, they will immediately decide that they never fell into any barbarism. Well, do not hang himself, in fact!

“The question is for me personally sick,” writes Alexander Gavristov. - The youngest son left a few years ago. In Australia with his family ... Okay, an adult man, his wife is with him. I am not a decree for them ... But then I began to pay attention to the fact that the further, the more in communication and correspondence the thought that they left began to advance, it turns out to “save” the children that the one who remained “in this country” is not normal, but the real patriots who left it! There were links to materials that tendenciously telling about well -known Russian problems ... Everything is simple, like twice two! Man betrayed his homeland, thereby committing sin. Understanding this and being also Orthodox, he does not want to live with a constant sensation of a perfect sin. There are two exits. The first: to return home that it is impossible (for now?), The second is to justify yourself and facilitate your mental suffering ... It pours, pours the River of Negatives on the abandoned and devoted homeland - to justify ... The traitors who have left are “true defenders” of the interests of the Motherland, and the inert “biomasses” remaining in Russia, which is not capable of “aircraft”. All! Now you can give a damn about the doubts of the soul - he is not the only one, the truth, as history shows, many, many people cannot carry the sin of betrayal and return to their homeland without any conditions ... But before that, it is still necessary to grow, ”Mr. Gavristov completes his denunciation of his own son. Very similar to a denunciation, Mr. Gavristov, do not argue. Very similar. Denunciation for the youngest son. I would like to know if your eldest is ready to subscribe under this denunciation. You, of course, will not be offended, but you will even be satisfied if I say that in my eyes you are Pavlik Morozov. He brought a boy to his father, who did not love Stalinism, in old age - to his son who disobedience Putinism. In Stalin's times, the score of such denunciations went to millions. I will not hide: I am glad for your youngest. His children, and your grandchildren, in Australia will not grow up scammers. In Stalin's times, children were more often written by children on fathers. A new life brought to the old one. Today, on the contrary, the old reports to a new one. Your grandchildren, like new people, simply will not understand why the grandfather considers treason and sin and sin to discontent and dissatisfaction with its order.

“Hello, shot, and remember, if you still have not understood for yourself, the next simple thing! The people have no nobility, no faith, no ideas, no aesthetics. Give them free rein, they will turn back into the monkeys. A truly folk culture is blooming with a violent color - soap operas with deliberately moronic muzzles, Hollywood abomination, gang -junction cinema, avant -garde show -off for advanced idiots. That criminals and werewolves will be seized, I guessed back in the eighty -sixth year, because I knew Soviet society well. Then the cooperatives were announced. I thought: who will capture this wild market of gang capitalism? It was clear who was Urki. And who is stronger than them? Brothers in uniform. Well, why are you fighting, Anatoly? The demos has already won, and he is happy, ”says this sorrowful and rude letter. Everything seems to be true, but demos, he is still different. And not a demos as such will be determined by the appearance of mankind, not what numbers will throw out the gopniks of all countries, how they will frolic. The main thing will come from the miracle tandem, and form its best of human brains and man-made supernight. And the demos, of course, will be happy, but not with victory, but with satiety and idleness - what else? I suspect, however, that only he will be happy.

Olga Nesmeyanova from St. Petersburg wrote that “I must finally quote it, to say openly, and to Ukrainians (and other other nations, eager for independent statehood, and therefore the authorities) to admit to themselves honestly: there is no independent Ukrainian (and some other) culture and nationality. So, there is no basis for an independent national state. Awareness of this fact would immediately close all the disputes and questions. ” At the same time, Nesmeyanova does not attribute himself to those Russians who would like to see Ukrainians next to them in something like a new Soviet Union. “Yes, who needs you! - She turns to the Ukrainians. - Feed you. Already fed seventy years, maybe enough? ” Probably, she also looks at the Belarusians and some of the “other others”. To know how many people in Russia share its position. This is important, because we are talking about that part of the population of Russia that will not approve further attempts of the regime in one way or another to restore the empire. It is noteworthy that these people now began to emphasize that Ukrainians and “other others” did not grieve to their own statehood. We have not grown up to our own, but under our, under the Russian, the second time we will not let go. So, so far, for a whole quarter of a century, they, these inhabitants of Russia, have not seriously treated the vicissitudes of state construction in the “neighboring abroad”. They will score, they say, bumps and will be asked back. And only when it became clear that, despite the cones, including bloody ones, these attempts would not stop, it was decided that the slices should be cut off. It is clear that the conditional party of Mrs. Nesmeyanova will not be benevolent at these “segments” or “trimming”, and those, in turn, will answer in the same spirit. In other words, the alienation between Russia and the former parts of the USSR will continue. In such an environment, naturally, national feelings on both sides of the borders will become aggravated. I will especially say that I am against a wide public discussion of peoples who have not grown up to their statehood and only in vain puffing, causing inconvenience to themselves and others. In such conversations, passions are too glow, all participants are not revealing themselves from the best sides. Fires must be extinguished, not inflated. So in the letter of Mrs. Nesmeyanova, in her exclamation about the Ukrainians (“Who needs you!”), The Russian national resentment is clearly familiar to the world that is already familiar to the world. This is a very strong and by no means a creative feeling. Many people blame him for the Russians. My attitude is different. On everything or almost everything that the same Ukrainians, Belarusians and “other others” consider the fault of Russia, I look at her fate. Fate, I must say, with all its originality, is not exceptional.

Письмо из Москвы: «Открыла словарь русского мата. Какая же я темная! Пять языков выучила, а базовым, родным, русским, то есть, матерным, плохо владею. Почему открыла словарь мата? Потому что перед этим включила телевизор, а с экрана несется такое… Вот и сижу теперь перед отечественным экраном со словарем родного языка под рукой. Учиться никогда не поздно. Чем объяснить массовое увлечение откровенным матом сегодня? Снижение общего уровня культуры? Отсутствие гуманистических ценностей? Хочу проявить исследовательский, а не оценочный подход. Конца-то света не было, нет и не предвидится, так что паниковать я не намерена. Иногда интеллигентный человек, случайно попав в криминальную компанию, вынужден переходить на ее язык, чтобы не выглядеть чужаком. Мне, как оптимисту, нравится известный пример с одуванчиком, который приводят биологи в спорах о генофонде нации. В неблагоприятных условиях вырастает чахлое растение. Но его семена, попав на благодатную почву, могут дать жизнь прекрасному цветку. Возможно, наш язык в преддверии каких-то новых, особо благоприятных, условий дурачится, ищет или ожидает свою будущую форму», - пишет москвичка Миронова. Спасибо за письмо, госпожа Миронова. Такое мини-исследование… Я, со своей стороны, на мат уже перестаю обращать внимание, хотя еще поеживаюсь, когда слышу, например, у прилавка в сельмаге, как бабушка, решая с внучкой лет пяти, что купить, воркует с нею трехэтажным матом...

Пишет молодой человек из Стаханова, это Донбасс. «Откровенных, идейных, непробиваемых рашистов у нас не более трети. Остальные: кто - за Украину, кто – ни за что, и все приспосабливаются. Одно время отец часто выходил поболтать с друзьями-товарищами. Говорили о чем угодно, однако, стоило появиться "ополченцу", начинали дружно проклинать Киев. Среди местных много опустившихся, их вербует московское православие. Атмосфера,конечно, - жуть. Что они оставят после себя, что? Однажды отец был свидетелем, как на проспекте остановились три тентованных грузовика без номеров. Оттуда начали показываться лица. God! Молокососы лет по восемнадцати. Смотрят, удивляются чему-то, переговариваются тихо, с характерным аканьем и чеконьем. Явно не знали, где оказались. «Ихтамнеты».

«Любезный вам рынок, - поддевает меня господин Яковлев, -имеет свои естественные пределы. Есть критичные материальные пороги, за которыми не может не начаться бунт. Есть пороги психологические. Никто у нас пока не считал, насколько выросла бы производительность, если бы рядовой работник твердо знал, что руководитель/владелец предприятия не потратит на себя, скажем, более чем в десять раз больше, чем он. В мире этим давно озабочены, у нас пока рулят "соловьи рынка" (наряду с "соловьями генштаба"), - пишет господин Яковлев. Важнее, по-моему, все же другое: чтобы рабочий твердо знал, что хозяин, если даст маху или ему не повезет, может в одночасье потерять все, до копейки все! – что вот такие в отечестве порядки. Ну, и чтобы оба они, хозяин и работник, могли свободно выражать свои мнения и пожелания.

Думаю, все слушатели меня одобрят, если я закончу сегодняшнюю передачу зарисовкой Вадима Гуслица. Не знаю, кем надо быть, чтобы не одобрить. Читаю: «Мы с женой ехали в гости. За город, на электричке. По прибытии выход с платформы преградили автоматы. «Повторяй за мной, и он тебя пропустит», - говорю жене. Но она женщина, и у нее врожденное недоверие к сложной технике. Короче, я прошел, оглянулся и вижу её мучения – не той стороной, не туда прикладывает она к автомату свой документ. Почти непроизвольно у меня вырывается: «Горе моё!». А недалеко женщина-контролёр, миловидная, средних лет, тут же, с улыбкой глядя на меня, поправила «Счастье моё!» Все, кто слышал, заулыбались. Напряжение улетучилось. Жена, не без помощи контролёра, присоединилась ко мне, и мы с удовольствием пошли в гости».

На волнах Радио Свобода закончилась передача «Ваши письма». У микрофона был автор - Анатолий Стреляный. Наши адреса. Moscow. Улица Малая Дмитровка, дом 20, 127006. Пражский адрес. Радио Свобода, улица Виноградска 159-а, Прага 10, 100 00. В Интернете я в списке сотрудников Русской службы на сайте: svoboda.org