Yakov Krotov: 1984, year Surka

Andrei Amalrik was strikingly guessed: it was 1984 that is the perfect year, in any case, for Russia. The year of the groundhog. It was 1984 that is a year that tens of millions of people carefully restore. Many of them are not aware of this, they say that it is enough for them to return to 2002, in 2001, but it was 1984 that remains the standard year of "Soviet people", "Vata", "Putinoids".

What is special in 1984?

If you look at him by the eyes of Leonid Parfyonov-through the eyes of the 2000s, eyes, terrible typical-then there was nothing special this year, except for the death of the Secretary General and losses in Afghanistan.

Here is a list of events of 1984 in his series.

ASYSIAI/NOTA-the first domestic video METHOTHER-the strike of miners in England-the death of Andropov-Chernenko-the fashion for Break Dance-began to record the school from the age of 6-the reburial of Chaliapin-the match Kasparov and Karpov-the Smerch in Ivanovo-Vietnamese Gastarbayters-reduced prices for Ivasi almost twice-Boycot Olympiad In the USA - fashion for geometric lines in clothes and on a blown boots - a plan for turning the rivers - the new "Zhiguli" - the murder of Gandhi - the opening of the house cathedral in Riga after restoration - the European Football Championship - losses in Afghanistan - the restoration of Molotov in the CPSU - the film "Love and pigeons".

22 events for 40 minutes.

A terrible, crazy diffraction. There was no such 1984! Even in the sense of the most popular cinema - “love and pigeons” not smelling from polyethylene clockwork, and, of course, a “cruel romance”, smelling of velvet from the same polyethylene. In 1984, no one was interested in the Domsky Cathedral, the strike in England, the Vietnamese and losses in Afghanistan. The film states that the fall of the USSR the result of imitation of American custom - the dead were not buried in Afghanistan, but brought to Russia, and the people were indignant, if they were buried in the distance, "Afghanistan would be subdued." But this is a stretch, a misunderstanding. At least 10 thousand died, even a hundred, even if they were buried under the windows, it was all the same. The most terrible thing is that it is important for the creators of the film how many soldiers of the Soviet Empire died, and how many the imperial army killed the Afghans is not said. Full national autism, heartlessness, fixation on oneself.

More or less adequate and just correspond to the spirit of 1984, small cookies in large pockets: the lines for the shortage, not, the old nasty in the Kremlin, fish Thursday, what muck, we ask not ground, but in grains.

We professed communism! That was happiness. They knew nothing, there were no rich, or they sat underground or on the Tsekovsky dachas and did not call anyone, they did not show off, everyone was equally beggars.

Today in 1984, not only despotism wants to return, but also those who "fight corruption." And what does "defeat corruption" mean? So that the rich do not call their eyes, so that the authorities are not to eat caviar before our eyes, so that everyone is equally beggars.

1984 is a reference one, since this year in Russia everything was an imitation

By the way, in the sense of the fight against corruption, just 1984 is completely magnificent, only in the film about this is not Gugu - after all, it ended with Schelokov’s suicide, which the Chekists made the main corrupt official. I wish Putin would bring to the suicide any of his ministers, how many grateful joy he would receive in return!

And the war - it already exists already. There was a war in Afghanistan, quite hybrid (Karmal is no better than Girkin), the war in Ukraine was. More precisely, in 1984, Russia led dozens of large and small military-terrorist hybrid wars around the world, and today it does the same.

In fact, in 1984, and in 2017, and throughout the years, Russia waged war with a single enemy-the United States. Ukraine and Afghanistan are only tentacles of American imperialism. They are in us - in our England, in our Germany, in our Europe - they place their missiles, you are! In general, read Orvella.

1984 is a standard year, since this year in Russia everything was an imitation. More precisely, the country itself was an imitation of Russia. Scarecrow. Everyone imitated peace -loving people - and everyone to one degree or another worked for the "defense industry", that is, for war. Until the "creative intelligentsia", entertaining front -line soldiers. Most of all were paid to those who entertained the "soldiers of the invisible front."

1984 was, of course, the year of exemplary hack. Holtura is an imitation of labor. Our microcalcoles are the largest in the world. They pretend that they pay us a salary, we pretend that we are working. There was one catch: hacking good is evil, and the hackshot is still not good, but evil. Nobody dies from bad acting, and poorly dressed, undisciplined soldiers still kill. Russia killed hacks and continues to do it. In the 21st century, Russia became the only country successfully leading conquest, although its army is bad. Bad, hack, but - kills.

In 1984, just as in all others, there was no legal state. There were some courts, but the right was observed in a very narrow range, when the husband and wife divided the dentitions. Step to the right, step to the left - life began "according to concepts." Everything "understood". Like Orvels: "This was not a crime, but for this they gave five years."

Imitation was a cultural life. The process of changing Marxism to Orthodoxism, fusing a pre-revolutionary myth with the Leninist-Cokerist myth has already begun-evidence of the same transfer of the dust of Chaliapin. Church hierarchs ate red caviar in the Kremlin, and the preachers of Christ ... Father Gleb Yakunin was serving a link, Alexander’s father in 1984 continuously dragged me for interrogations in the KGB, imprisoned Sandra Riga, for the biblical circle Elena Sannikov.

Unless the safety, predictability, guaranteed a humaninic institute were not imitation. Another thing is that they were a completely barracks. Rat safety, cockroach predictability, guarantee of the viper. Real, genuine indifference to those who are next to you in your country dies of poverty and illness, although - if you do not spend on war, if you live according to the law, and not by concepts, could live happily ever after.

1984 was, like all others, a year of deficit. There were not a lot of things and was even more, but it was in short supply. Eternal agony, that's what a deficiency is. As Euphrosyne Kersnovskaya put it, they will not let them live, but they will not allow to die. Economic explanations are incorrect. The deficit was not obligated, it himself was artificial, although not always a conscious product. The deficiency of the psyche, life in need is not the result of poor management, but the result of the devilish calculation. For example, the terrible shortage of the border of 1991 and 1992 was absolutely artificial and passed immediately after raising prices (not to mention the untouched strategic supply of food). An even more obvious example is the sanctions voluntarily imposed on the invasion of Ukraine. Refusal to purchase food in the West. The fight against business, especially small ones. The ideal is 1984, when there was no street trade, except for stalls with ice cream and newspapers. Deficiency, lack of power. In order for everyone to control, drive everyone into one hut, and so that they could not agree with each other, keep in a state of eternal search for food and water. Not always for yourself, by the way: in Russia in 2017, an artificial health care deficit, for example, thousands of people instead of politics collect money to pay for people's treatment, although they have already given money to the state twice and three times. Well, on paper, everything is designed differently, of course, this is the same 1984, where the paper replaces the air.

Orvell could not foresee one detail. He writes a lot about the difference between the "flows" and the fact that in a totalitarian society is a middle class - an intermediary of different types. Basically, these are censors, intermediaries between the brain and reality, security officials are intermediaries between the body and reality, and, finally, “morons” - set to hand out the rations. In 1984, these were red directors, in 2017, various oligarchs, but they do not perform the management function equally, but the distribution function (and theft, of course, steal everything in utopia).

The main character of Orvell is the censor of the middle hand. Propagandist. But someone should work-Orvell did not even discuss this. But in reality, this is not necessary! You can sell oil. You can simply blackmail others with nuclear weapons. And then another industrial revolution, information civilization arrived - and Uncle Vasya and Aunt Mani from the Grams turned into all kinds of clerks. Society of circular censorship, where each other overseer. Accordingly, the layer almost disappeared from the supervision.

1984 is ideal in one other respect. It was the year of peaceful and calm transfer of power. One died, the second was chosen in his place. Meanwhile, the moment between the death of one dictator and the reign of the next is the only problematic moment in the realized utopia. This is from the point of view of the Living in utopia. From the point of view of the historian, 1984 is noteworthy, since it shows the role of a person in the history of utopia. There is no such role! The person does not play - Andropov, Gorbachev, Yeltsin, Putin - no role. You can remove them, replace Chernenko with half a trap, and still nothing will change, even somehow looks more stable.

Despotism does not have irreplaceable. One bastard will die, millions of the same

Thus opens up a great and sad military secret: Russian despotism-imperialism not from above, but from below. More precisely, this is a motor -coal system in which slavery and militarism echoing from Moscow to the very outskirts. This is his strength - despotism does not have indispensable. One bastard will die, millions of the same will play its role. Millions of scum will look at the origin of the sprouts of freedom - they will remind them from above that it is time to mow grass in the toilet.

Orvella’s novel explains, by the way, a delusional, idiotic mania to perestroika as "we are all, we will destroy the old world." Many people remember that in the novel there is a “New Mine”, “Minihuly” and other linguistic goodies that create an illusory world, the world of propaganda bubbles, a world in which you cannot be sure even whether there is a courtyard in front of your house, or you have a yard and a house. This is opposed to this - which is not read by everyone - not so much love as a glass ball with a piece of coral, an old engraving, an ancient fountain pen - in general, objects. Not feelings. Feelings need reality, despotism, therefore, destroys the reality that he wants to destroy feelings and make himself the only source of feelings for a person.

This is a narcotic being, and it is quite implemented in modern Russia. A drug is far from just a TV. These are gray lifeless spaces around, it is a paranoid combination of glamor with dirt. This is an anti -real world in which the desire for reality is the main crime.

Of course, the main threat to this world is love. The beloved face is a reality, and Gabnya makes every effort so that a person recognizes a rat’s face with a reality, which time shows from time to time.

As for love, the main lie of the film, of course, through the silence. In the real 1984, there was not only Winston - the being originally mutilated, ready to betray - the absolute analogue of Ivan Denisovich, only more talented, of course. Of course, there were legions. But like the 1984 novel, the main source of hope was the author of the novel, which was outside the nightmare, so in Russia 1984 there were people who loved, although their face bitten by the gates. These were dissidents. Sergei Grigoryants wrote absolutely remarkably about this, exposing the gabash lie that the dissidents were a bunch of a drooping demshiza:

"The most important feature of the democratic movement ... is love. To convey how all these people, united by a desperate confrontation and expectation of close death, loved each other, impossible in any words. The atmosphere reigned not just mutual assistance, support for each other, but it was a flowing atmosphere of love. ... I can not forget how the birthday of Sofia Vasilyevna Kallistratova was celebrated in the fall of 1982. The late Elena Georgievna entered the room, holding on his outstretched hands the cake for the newborn that had just been baked by her: with what is the pie, Lusenka?

It is clear why in 1984 Elena Georgievna Bonner Dali Dali 5 years of exile? For love! It is clear why Sakharov was starving in 1984, why in 1984 the father of Hedgehog Popelushko was killed in 1984 in 1984, Ukrainian human rights activists Valery Marchenko, Yuri Litvin and Alexei Tikhiy died in prison, why they sent Mustafa Gemielev to prison (who would be happy to be sent there with pleasure, and his son was sent), and also put his son), and also put him up) Pavel Vesikova, Vladimir Poresh, Enno Tarto, Alexei Kuznetsov?

About all this - not a word, nor Kadrik with Parfenov and other inhabitants of the eternal 1984. Note that all this was done under Chernenko, Andropov died at the beginning of the year. The system makes evil perfectly and without impregnation from above.

Nevertheless, the main thing in the real 1984 was that being was not exhausted by the system. The Kafkian castle of the bloody gabny rose and rises in the middle of a normal world. Who will win? More precisely, can a normal world win? And he does not need to win, he is, and the Gabeshny 1984 is a void, a cancer tumor trying to take possession of humanity and does not understand that as a result it itself will disappear. What to do with the oncology of militarism? Well, they don’t kill cancer patients - to respond with guillotination, militarism to militarism means simply becoming part of it. There are pills, there is chemotherapy, in general - the deeds of good, the rays of love. Yes, not in the love that cancer cells should be cherished and cherished, but not to live cancer, not to walk cancer, but to live and be a person-both in 1984 and in 2017. Which is much more difficult than we would like, but much easier than it seems and what we whisper and shout from the last 1984.

Yakov Krotov - historian and priest, author and host of the Radio Liberty program "from a Christian point of view"

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