Without fear and oprichnina

The meanness and deceitfulness of the system. Band of investigators. Total oprichnaya cannibalism. The property of publicity, the letter of Alexei Malobrodsky, addressed to friends in America, became only in excerpts , but these mean lines make a strong impression. So strong that “lawyers” and “political scientists” who painfully reacted to the publication have already been activated on different garbage resources. There is nothing to polemicize with them - people in the service.

And in the circles of the liberal intelligentsia against this background, discussions about what was happening in the country again aggravated. Here it is especially worth mentioning the post of Ksenia Larina, who indicates the private nature of the letter and notes that Alexei Malobrodsky did not write any appeals to the world theater community and did not ask for anyone. Some other readers express the opinion that the arrested was too late. Say, about the system and about the oprichnina has long been known. I want to argue with them.

Firstly, the text does not contain any political insights. Alexei Arkadievich shares in it only by personal prison experience, as for the oprichnina, the author indicates future times when this phenomenon can become irreversible . We agree that the country has not yet reached the total terror and, let's hope, will not reach. Secondly, it is in order to effectively resist the gang , he calls for everyone who hears it to create a precedent of uncompromising resistance, a precedent of victory . Thirdly and the main ones, the letter of Malobrodsky does not boil down to the description of morals in one individual dungeon or to futurology. This is a cry for help addressed to all of us, and a very useful advice. Regardless of whether we belong to the world theater public or theaters do not go at all.

The recent news associated with the “Seventh Studio” case, according to which Serebrennikov, Malobrodsky, Itin, Maslyaev, also give additional weight to the words of the former director of the Gogol Center. Two in jail, two under house arrest. Since we have learned that employees of the 2nd Service of the FSB, who protect the homeland from spies and terrorists, have made a scandal gained the scale of the struggle against enemies of the people. The struggle is both implacable and selective.

For example, those whom the state (probably not without reason) considers real enemies, special services strive to be caused by preventively - as some yesterday's "immigrants from the Central Asian region" who thought unkind. On the contrary, those who in the Kremlin (also probably for good reason) consider the enemies of unreasonable enemies, the organs cannot prevent prevent or do not want to - like some of the local type of attackers yesterday, who were thrown by Molotov’s cocktails, the Landok building, where the teacher of the teacher, the creator of the great film about the Great Matilda is located. There are even stubborn rumors that extremists of this type, not distinguishable from Nod figures, Serb’a and other similar militants, are therefore elusive that are closely tied with anti -extremist divisions of the Russian Federation.

It is not easy to say rumors or not, but it is easy to guess what department the arrested theater workers go as enemies. Obviously, the same thing that yesterday’s immigrants and the rest of the ISIS (forbidden, if suddenly forgot, in the territory controlled by Roskomnadzor). Once this was already manifested in the hearing in the case of Malobrodsky, who was left in a pre -trial detention center, since he, as prosecutors, expressed a dual citizenship and ties in the US embassies and Israel, could have a danger to Russia and under house arrest. And all this means that certain features of the oprichnins, that is, fierce arbitrariness in the relationship of power with citizens, are already looming in those pictures where a state machine that presses people is depicted.

Although not all in a row, as under Tsar Ivan and under Stalin, but with active assistance, if nevertheless very similar to the truth, rumors are faithful, socially close scumbags. It is indifferent to who to kill, beat, set fire to - the disagreed policy of Nemtsov, volunteers on the bridge where he was shot, or the studio of the director -patriot of the teacher. Where they indicate, they will go there and throw, rush with shit or bottles of incendiary mixture.

That is why Malobrodsky is absolutely right: in order to turn the situation and fight back the modern oprichnina, a precedent of victory is necessary. It is necessary to stubbornly and daily resist these investigators, these prosecutors, these judges, this system. In the country and the world, despite the fact that the sad experience shows with what pleasure the power spits on the protests of the world public and how crushed, fragmented, servile creative intelligentsia within the country is fragmented.

Nevertheless, protests go on increasing. Culture figures stand up for the former director of the Gogol Center. Chulpan Khamatova talks about how scared to live after the arrest of friend Cyril. Oleg Tabakov demonstrates a fragment from Serebrennikov in his theater and does not lose faith that the sitting under house arrest will still work on the Moscow Art Theater.

All these events and speeches are unlikely to act on Bastrykin with Bortnikov, not to mention Putin. However, it would be much worse if the famous Russians, including presidential proxies, were silent as one. Or, like the Mikhalkov brothers, they took a feasible part in the persecution of their comrade and his accomplices. It would be worse if the masters of culture in a skew, as in the old days, demanded to execute those whose affairs are investigated by the valiant fighters of Batyr Yezhov. Many of the current ones could almost certainly have been able to successfully participate in such a performance, but not all, far from all. And it pleases, right to tears.

In general, the letter of Alexei Malobrodsky appeared very on time and the words are very accurate in it. From the gang of guardsmen, everyone should be saved - and the innocent, who are already sitting, and themselves, who, according to the oversight of the authorities and the unforgivable humanity of subordinates, have not yet been involved in any article. And this thought and the dream of the victory over the Peshegolovs, it seems that today it begins to slowly take possession of the minds, which gives rise to an absurd one -looking hope for the elimination of the oprichnina as a class in a native country.