Poklonsky bias

"Ukrainization" of Russian politics. It was not me who said this, but one of the main jesters of Putin’s propaganda Vladimir Solovyov, one of the first to smell the unprecedented: the deputies of the State Duma, called as one - at least after the “Crimean” - to rally under the banner of patriotism and unanimity - they insult each other and argue. And what! About "Matilda"!

Fragments of the meeting of the Duma Culture Committee with a rebuke to the former Crimean prosecutor Natalia Poklonskaya, I re -read with the same sincere amazement with which I read the stenographic reports of party congresses dedicated to the fight against the opposition in my school years. Neither Zinoviev, nor Kamenev, nor their opponents caused me sympathies, but in the heat of confrontation the recent Bolshevik leaders, cast off from Olympus, suddenly turned out to be passionate and honest, their critics easily moved from ideological invectors to personal insults, and most importantly - it turned out that this whole audience, which had recently rallyed in a single gangster man He knows what is actually happening in the country.

So here. The directors of Govorukhin and Bortko, who competed in the sedimentation and protection of any Putin's madness yesterday, suddenly talked about censorship, anti -Semitism, obscurantism and even how the state Duma is enjoyed among the people - it turns out that they all know, share and understand. And this is just a reaction to some Matilda and Poklonskaya. It is terrible to imagine what Russian masters of culture will say on the day when on TV they will inform about Putin's resignation. However, now it is approximately clear what.

But sincere bewilderment is mixed with irritation and hatred. They sincerely do not understand why the retired prosecutor, which, before the occupation of Crimea, was literally by anyone, and after the annexation gained popularity, the office and the position, so behaves. And this shows that they really do not understand that they have joined. Neither Govorukhin with Bortko, nor Medinsky, and probably Putin understand.

Putin drags Russia to the Soviet Union - small steps, but so that it does not break out. Hence the restoration of the Soviet anthem, and quotes about Stalin in the subway, and the return of the Red Banner, and the style of propaganda. And all his brethren - from Medinsky to Govorukhin from Drapeko - lined up for the restoration of this myth. And in the Crimea - in those circles where Poklonskaya rotated and where she returned - there was another myth, Imperial. After all, Putin gave Crimea not the old Soviet nomenclature, not the Donetsk, but the team of Chauvinist Aksenov. These people have always contrasted Ukraine with the Russian Empire, and not the USSR - it was easier for them to perceive themselves with counts, and all these Ukrainians - peasant men. The monument to Nicholas II appeared in the New World before the annexation of Crimea, and the monument to Stalin in Livadia - after. But in Moscow they preferred not to notice anything like this: who is interested in native prejudices.

And Poklonskaya is a child of these prejudices. It is clear that, like any conjuncturer, she plays and replays, but she can be sincerely sure that this is a win -win party - because it was still the deliberate obscurantism that helped her career and, surprisingly, self -awareness. Poklonskaya is a prosecutor from the Tauride province, and Govorukhin with Bortko are Soviet filmmakers. How can these people even understand each other?

And she is not the only one there. The only colleague of Poklonskaya, who supported her on the committee and spoke of her "Orthodoxy", was also from the Crimea. Yes, Putin could lean on such Crimea. He has no other Crimea. And Govorukhin does not have Bortko. Normal people who watched their own films at the time when the deputies were still directed, do not support adventures. The Crimea that Russia acquired is the Crimea of ​​the Black Cat and the Orthodox Sharikovs. And one - or rather, not one - such a Sharikova became a deputy of the State Duma.

So Soloviev is not quite right. This is not entirely “Ukrainianization” of Russian politics - although in its desire to crush opponents, Poklonskaya acts with the very understandable Ukrainian initiative and inhale, and not with Russian submissiveness and eternal fear of the authorities. Nevertheless, this is the "roofing" of Russian politics. Crimea is your.

And there is nothing new in this. At first there was a "leaky man", now "Krymization". In his desire to conquer the metropolis, the colony often imposes its own rules of the game.