Anatoly Shot: Pan -headed heads

Each board in Russia had a certain number of faithful sons of the Fatherland, including those close to the reigning persons. Among them were faces of large talents, even geniuses. All of them left the throne, daring their heads. It's not about statesmen, but about writers, scientists, prominent social activists. Not a single king followed their advice. With Karamzin, Alexander I walked for ten years in the morning, visited his house, their conversations lasted for hours. This did not prevent the tsar from rejecting almost all the proposals of the historiographer, the last and the most serious - so abruptly that he in despair called the future in the judge: "Disappropriation! Did I know the name of the Russian citizen? Did the Fatherland love? Did virtue believed?" The king dreamed of almost letting Poland, Karamzin passionately objected: "Neither the heaven is either the enemy or his friend!"

Zhukovsky, Pushkin, Tyutchev, Dostoevsky - all of them from the highest indifference to their opinions fell into such despondency, which is strange, like none of them went over to the rebels. Large and disinterested masters of culture were entered both Lenin and even to Stalin, not to mention the rest, up to Yeltsin. The political consequences in all cases were zero.

Now let's look at the most pious of the "Plain". What to say, does not suit them a lot, something simply outrages both in mode and in itself. But everyone tries to make his comments to the first person so as not to annoy, not to offend ... How many touching pedagogy, a loyal tact in their assessments of the highest speeches and steps! So such a person is decided to speak about the last annual message. It upset him, as they say, to mental pain. But first of all, he notes the calm confidence, the busyness of the Savior of the nation and only then-which would not interfere with a little fire, something, inspiring people. After all, our people, he is so used to high goals, only call him! Immediately, a couple of cautious words about domestic politics: Eh, it would be as strong, clear as external!

Her, Putin's foreign policy, God himself sent them. Hurifying this foreign policy sincerely, they can reliably condemn everything that is happening inside the Fatherland, without fear of blacklisted. They are against the West, for support on their own forces, for new industrialization. In the past, Russia appreciates everything that can help her go forward, they cannot stand the romance of King Gorokh. They do not like the church with her claim to set the tone in society, dream of cropping priests. They are most condemned by the nobleman and their servant: for greed, immodesty in everyday life, "nivo -general". The unspoken is heard clearly: to disperse the bastards, dispossess, lust! They think that such a program will pass, because they are not some liberals, but the hot “Crimean”, seeking again with Russia everyone who was in the USSR with it.

Whether it wants or does not want, the first person personifies the equinim of the main social and political forces

Why is Putin (or who will change it there) and not think of listening to them? Why was not one of the Russian rulers at the disposal of the best sons of the Fatherland? In fact, it would be enough to notice that Tsar Alexander, in addition to Karamzin, had other interlocutors. Kissinger, according to him, all the time remembered that when he does not speak with the president, someone else speaks with him. Whether it wants or does not want, the first person personifies the equinim of the main social and political forces. There and Obama - what does he say to Trump, giving way to him? "You depend on other people." This means that "it is necessary to respect state institutions and political processes in order to make the right decisions."

There is one more thing that will never understand the noblest that are standing at any throne. The fact is that all their advice mean the benefit of the Fatherland and nothing but. And for the ruler, especially in Russia, it usually matters that except. He cares, first of all, about his power, and serving his power and good is not the same thing. And what do you order him to do with spotlights of disinterested and straightforward people who offer exclusively good?!

So it turns out that every honest guardian is doomed to double grief. It hurts not only because you are not very necessary for the authorities. Even more painfully, perhaps, to realize, deep down, the correctness of her negative, which does not allow himself any illusions. This can say when meeting in the next world: "I at least spoiled the mood of a crowned villain. And you? What did you call him with his good advice? Boredom, sir, royal yawn." Here the representative and the third path are racks. This is a person who once firmly laid himself to engage in routine work to collect public forces that can compete with the regime. Well, if there was no such possibility, he left for the time being in private life.

In the course of familiarizing yourself with the program of the current caramzinists, you are amazed to open that they offer to recover the homeland, to educate the service class in the same ways that the West suffered! Independent courts, honest elections, freedom of speech, free private property ... The question is: if you understand all this, what are you looking at the west as Lenin at the bourgeoisie? What are you enclosing the country? What are you fooling around to fellow citizens and yourself? Something ... willingly, but in a hurry, replenishing their soviet education, they went through romantic Russianness. If Dostoevsky himself did not expect anything good for Russia from Europe, or from all these Slavic "earth", which, instead of gratitude for their liberation, will reach out not to Moscow, but to the West, what will you order us? Are we smarter than Fedor Mikhailovich?! That's exactly the point, brothers, which is not smarter.

Anatoly Shot - writer and publicist, leading
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