Yuri Veksler: Are you ready?

Yuri Veksler - with an open letter to Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Dear Mikhail Borisovich!

Starting from your speech in the Berlin Hotel "Adlon" in 2003 (a month before the arrest that poured in a ten -year imprisonment), I carefully and interestedly monitored your fate, was the co -organizer of the direct broadcast of the Radio Freedom of the concert in Berlin on October 7, 2013 to your support, conducted a report from the opening of your exhibition at the Berlin Museum of CEMP The honor to talk with your mother Marina Filippovna. He conducted reports from your two meetings in Berlin after your release from the colony and briefly talked with you on the sidelines. Recently I watched a new film about you , shot by the German director Kirill Tushi, and since I did not find in it, as in the first film, answers to some of his questions, I decided to contact you personally. I am interested in a lot, in particular, the evolution of your views on the Soviet dissident, human rights movement, at the CPSU, on the coup of 1991, the shooting of the White House in 1993 and so on. But there are questions and more adversity.

Dear Mikhail Borisovich! You still arouse respect for the persistence during a ten-year imprisonment, but after your liberation and appearance in Europe, you also cause more disappointment with your statements and actions. I would like to understand the reasons that, it seems to me, are in the field of building your image. I’ll make a reservation in advance that I remain in a sporting sense with your “fan” and I wish you to play a noticeable role in Russian history regarding the nearest “post -Putin” future. And yet I belong to those people who lack information about your beliefs and their evolution.

Here are some of my questions. In your 2003 speech in Berlin, I remembered the following passage: “Many were surprised by the results of the recently consisted survey, which showed that, despite the fact that 70% of Russian citizens do not approve of how privatization has passed in Russia, nevertheless, Russian citizens believe that the redistribution of ownership in the country will not bring benefits. Because they will not get property, but all the troubles, and all the troubles, and all the troubles, the troubles, and all the troubles, the troubles, and all the troubles, and all the troubles, and all the mature All the problems that were in our society at the privatization stage will fall on the head of these simplest people in the regions. " Do you should once again look back at the privatization, whose beneficiary you have become? Your then thought was dictated by the desire to justify this, as the people said, "grabbing." But what did she bring to the Russians?

If we proceed from the experience of Germany after the defeat of Nazism, then for the restart of the brain of Russians, decades will be required

You said at the same time in Berlin: "Naturally, part or all my condition today is part of my country ... I am ready and interested in conveying what I will earn in my life, society through charity, through various kinds of programs." You were not allowed to implement a formulated program. And all other beneficiaries did not go to your arrest in your path, so did not go along it in the future. Would you, who claim to be the role of one of the democratic leaders of Russia, publicly condemn that privatization, its real consequences and results, even if it was and remains non -alternative for you? You talked about 60 percent of the population of Russia that "they property (in her scenarios. - Yu. V.) will still not get." They did not get it this way and so, but the supporters in this large part of the Russian population can appear only if justice and the return of property to the people by civilized ways.

Or do you still consider the beneficiaries of that privatization of “your own” and believe that you are “your own” for them? In all cases, for the majority of deprived or, more precisely, the robbed Russian population, you still look, despite the persecution and 10 years of imprisonment, a person from the "Semibankershirschyna", despite the fact that you live outwardly modestly.

I recently saw the new yacht Alisher Usmanov worth 600 million dollars. Now it is the most spacious yacht in the world. It is decorated with two luminous stairs like palace. Who, if and when the owner convenes guests, will rise in these steps? What do you have in common with this audience now? In your fateful speech in 2002, you offered Putin and the company to put an end to corruption, but did it just at the moment when Putin, apparently, was already accepted by the exactly opposite attitude - to allow and even prostrate corruption, making it precisely its basis for the system of government.

For the only zombie of the population in recent years, for turning it into a crowd of patriotized savages, the current rulers of Russia should be on the bench of the defendants. And you, having served by the will of Putin for 10 years, you continue to repeat the mantra that Putin is your political opponent, who observes some of the rules of struggle known to you. If we proceed from the experience of Germany after the defeat of Nazism, then decades will require the restart of the brain of Russians. How to deal with a million deduced by the new rich regime? What to do with the fostering of the current government, with the children of current rulers who have grown up and ended with millions (and sometimes billions) of the current rulers? Hamlet said: "Out of pity, I must be cruel." In order to earn the inner right to judge criminals and harshly punish them, you need to separate yourself from them completely and irrevocably. Are you ready?

I would be happy to ask you these and many other questions in a personal conversation.

Yuri Veksler - Theater Director and Journalist, Radio Liberty correspondent in Germany

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  Yuri Veksler

  Foreign Correspondent of RS in Germany Mirgor2017@gmail.com