Your letters. September 29, 2017

“Something is not very good for Moscow,” writes an entrepreneur of the middle hand, as he imagines himself. - All these EIRCs, MFCs, Mosenergos, and other state-owned counting institutions depress us and make longing. Was on business in Mosenergosbyt. They say that tenants of non -residential premises from the center move to the outskirts, that large stores are concerned with tariffs: high payments, and the profit has decreased greatly. All the same, crisis and sanctions. It is more and more noticeable to squeeze money from the population. They require advances for electricity, insist on replacing counters, although the warranty has not ended. Employees who work with the population receive fifty thousand a month, but they twitch them a lot and stupidly, ”the letter says. I highlight the word "line" from it. This is a serious word. This is a very serious word. This is perhaps the most serious, meaningfully formidable word from the Soviet managerial language. It means a course, a policy that is far from always publicly pursued, but harshly and clearly. The line for collectivization - and peasants are driven to collective farms. The line ... I have already forgotten what it was called - and the cows are taken from the collective farmers, promising that the collective farm would supply people with milk, which no sane person could believe. The current line requires the replenishment of the treasury with money. To extort from people superfluous for everything that is possible, and for which it is impossible - even a penny, but billions should make up. Without looking back at laws, rules, decency. Small requisitions are folded in great robbery. Small arbitrariness turns into serious and already, perhaps, feverish lawlessness. All this together resembles a kind of emergency regime, especially in the field. The thought of tomorrow becomes forbidden. Just to hold out today. Prevent a sharp deterioration in the financial situation of millions. Slowly to rob some to calm others. They are afraid of such discontent, which will have to be responding with terror. So far, this fear looks excessive, the supply of Russian strength is far from exhausted, but fear is great in fear-this is what is dangerous about what our listener says: "Something not very good rolls to Moscow."

The former professor of Marxism-Leninism writes. He emphasizes that at one time he was almost the youngest professor for this part in the Soviet Union. Now he is also a professor, already, of course, elderly, and his subject is called political science. He once could not think about such a transformation in a terrible dream, and then he didn’t have to think especially in reality. Everything happened quickly and, as it were, by itself. The previous sincerity and inquisitiveness did not leave this person, which did not allow him, according to him, to become a Crimean -year -old in the fourteenth.

I read: “That's what eccentric, Anatoly Ivanovich. The conspiracy of silence against the two historical events of the last time. These are new American sanctions and the participation of NATO troops in the Parade on Khreshchatyk in Kyiv. Something weak ours react compared to how they can. Shastay on the Internet. Official experts do not particularly manifest themselves. But most of all my head is busy with friends. They repeat, like parrots, only what they hear from the TV, and what he is silent or clings through his teeth, about that. The tops and bottoms do not want to dwell on heavy facts. To which he closed his eyes, shut his ears, that’s not. In this, the people and power are one. In the days of my Marxist youth, it was said: people and party. They are one today, as always. They are more united than it seems to them, ”the professor writes. I consider this the most important thought of recent times. They are more united than it seems to them. But they are also afraid of each other. I return to the letter: “For some reason, you avoid making socio-political forecasts, but in Russia we are going around and read these things. The US intelligence is ordered to collect detailed financial information about the richest people around Putin. In late February - early March, the Congress will be presented with an appropriate report. Previously, breathtaking amounts are called on foreign accounts. Confiscation is not excluded. What can this lead to? What will the defendants say? Your forecast, Anatoly Ivanovich? ” My forecast has long been ready, Mr. Professor. In such cases, forecasts are made without hesitation. They will get water into the mouth, so Russia will notice almost nothing. I can be mistaken, but in a different way it will be only if these persons involved in the literal or figurative sense are in the ground. I predict by a visual analogy. You pointed to her: do not spread too much about the defeats. The American decision to retire from Russia as far as possible in a scientific environment is called institutional circumstance. This is not akin to the weather, something that is, as it were, built into stateganeseism. In such cases, they simply sigh: we must live with this - take into account this, adapt to this. Such a mood tells the power to the population, and it is still accepting a hint.

Listen to a confession that explains everything that is happening between Ukraine and Russia. In any case, to me. All. “I grew up in the Donbass, so I have the right to say what I will say. Donbass is a native land to me. Starting from the ninety -first year, Ukraine has become another country. I won’t surprise anyone, but I will remind you: Donetsk was within Ukraine all these years. I cried in Russia when my Ukraine turned away from Russia and declared independence. When they signed the law on friendship and cooperation, which secured the statuses of different states, I realized that this is the end, ”she has a different word, a bad word, further many different, but I will limit myself for greater convexity. They directly relate to the defeat of Russia that we just talked about.

“You, Anatoly,” I read from the following letter, “now revel in the superiority of the West. Especially counting on invincible America. Which, however, was drawn to themselves. She has many missiles, submarines, aircraft carriers. But did the USSR have much smaller? It is hardly. All this silushka Yankee will be paralyzed when an internal crisis arises in this country. Who has already gone. The American president Won is already reproaching with dependence on enemy intelligence and someone else's mafia. These are flowers. The 3 -Apad world is covered by an unprecedented decline. They note the insignificance of his leaders. But she, this insignificance, only reflects the degradation of your model of democracy. They are sold and crayons, wretched and limp. Already. Then it will be bore. And you scare us to us. ”

Almost on the very day when the letter came from which I read this piece to you, in the suburbs on the Russian Parmesan Syrerovark, a solemn fair took place, which our listener called the cheese festival. Farmers from the Kaluga, Vladimir, Smolensk and Tver regions gathered. So many people ran into the people that a cork was formed at the congress from the Novorizhskoye Shosse - a cheese mash! “To remove the cheese house,” she writes, “the central, cable, and district television arrived. Only CNN was not enough. They released a delicious product three hundred grams in one hand. By dinner, the cars stood in a blank cork, people threw them on the sidelines and walked five kilometers for cheese on foot! The best Russian farmers were named, which own magic - they have thoroughbred cows, the cows have the right diet, perfect cleanliness, and use imported equipment. There are no other secrets. All the cheese ranges together came together on one thing: "If only they would not cancel the sanctions! We still can’t stand the competition with Western products, we are ruining!" Even cheese sweets were brought to the Fair festival. Three things - two hundred rubles! They are made of good Belgian chocolate and expensive Swiss cheese - there is no firm in Russia, ”close quotes. I read this, as you understand, to the question of the degradation of the West, which was mentioned in the previous letter.

In the last program, a letter was made from an elderly person with the Kuban, who is bitter that the young spouses were in a hurry not to start children, but dogs and cats - they are surrounded by truly human care and warmth. I said that I do not see anything wrong with that. Family planning is the most important sign of conscious life in a time when not everyone can boast with a thoughtful attitude towards themselves, when many are born like grass, and spend time he released, and leave it as grass. Listen to what I received either an objection, or an addition: “It is bitter from the fact that the holy human need to love and take care of those who depend on you is not closed on a little man, but on a domestic animal,” the letter says. I am all this, guilty, calmer. We have to make sure every day that such a need is: “To love and take care of those who depend on you,” many do not experience, so there is simply nothing to transfer to animals. You are also convinced that even the greatest love for the animal implicitly realizes that it is addressed precisely to the animal, and not to a person. These are still different feelings, even if it seems to someone that she or he loves her cat, like a native child. In short, I do not see anything more terrible in my life than it was still in it. To contrast family planning and hobby for animals is, whatever you say, overlap.

The next letter: “Yesterday, at the doctor’s appointment, a conversation about the past. He: I used to eat for twenty (or forty?) Kopecks all day, but now there’s not enough money for anything! I: quit nonsense to say what you eat there?! He: I: I can do so now. He: no, now there’s a lot of cents (dreamy).” The eternal opinion that the Russian people used to be as indifferent to each other as now, when such a speech, the first Russian philosopher, which was the first Russian philosopher, was so indifferent to me. Slavery to the top, has not been and will never be known in the world and will not give him anything, except for how to live before writing, he, having stood abroad and wanting to extend the stay there, among the Germans and the French, sold his peasants (Russian serfs, have for sure), that is, he sent his slaves into even more terrible slavery The many years of soldier, which, of course, was mourned: “I hope to pray to the peasants to the brother,” wrote to his brother. The number one philosopher would have to sell his men, like cattle, to have more leisure to communicate with European thinkers.

He writes Miron from Sergiev Posad: “He visited a friend. Big patriot, Crimean -to -cash to the bones. Her twelve -year -old son was told at school to draw a tricolor and compose poems about him. She drew a tricolor for him, and she turned to me for poetry: “Write, Miron, you cost it nothing, I know, you have a poet in our class.” I answered her that her son received the task, not me. She was offended, but still taught me how to distinguish our flag: what color goes for. “This is,” he says, “it’s easy to remember. Red, blue, white - KGB. ” I could not recover for a long time. Choking from love for the Fatherland, for power - and immediately inflate them: the homeland, and power, and the offspring to accustom to the infantry. We are, Anatoly Ivanovich! We! And what to expect from us? ” Yes, the same, apparently, is waiting, Miron: love for the Fatherland and swelling.

Willy Miller, a driver of heavy trucks, a former Kazakhstani German, writes from Germany: “I am in great respect for people who are ready to leave their homes to achieve their goals. I remember how seasonal workers from Armenia, Ukraine and other union republics came to us, already raised, already raised. I especially remember the guys from Mukachevo. They spoke Russian, Hungarian and Ukrainian. They then wanted to live in European. They worked under a contracting agreement, demanded that there were no interruptions with building materials. In one season, they earned that the local builder - in a couple of years. Now, Europe has become Europe for purposeful people. Somehow, when unloading, I met a young Estonian, a truck driver. The salary is tolerable, but, as it turned out, he does not need so much. It was also enough that he earned before Russian sanctions when he carried cargo to Russia. It is Russian sanctions. The work began on Monday and ended on Friday. During this time, he traveled only from six hundred to thousands of kilometers, because he was happy to idle in a “Role”, that is, in line at customs. And here, in Germany, he already today: he plunged the load, it was necessary to open both sides of the truck, throw fifteen belts, take the cargo to the consumer, unload, then return everything to the transport state, go to the company, take another truck and - to the new client. Job! He had entertainment with Russia, and work with Germany. Who will like it? “I read on his face,” writes Mr. Miller.

Around these days, our listener spent some time in line from trucks on the Belarusian-Lithuanian border. This queue was about ten kilometers. An inquisitive woman asked the drivers languishing in anticipation for three days. She was interested in, among other things, what for the goods in these huge wagons on the road wheels. “Yes, a mug, mostly,” one guy told her. - I’ve just taken plastic crumbs from Warsaw from Moscow, now I’m taking it to Lithuania, they will re -final, stick a new label and will already be “made in the European Union” and again this baby will go to the Warsaw Highway. ”Other drivers told the same. Belorussian furniture will be brought to Lithuania, Lithuanian tags are pasted and drunk to St. Petersburg: Moscow: Moscow: Moscow: Moscow: Moscow “Made in the EU”.- here is an export- imports, the manufacturers of Gesheft took off. It turned out to be processed in the EU ... From the real export of the Old Oskol to Germany, metal was driving, and back to Russia, the bearings will go from this metal that you can buy the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs from the car and then - without a queue, green light on the frontal glass: this talisman, I think this talisma The demand that the demand gives rise to the sticker more than what is under it, he will definitely receive it. You say, to carry the boards back and forth? But if you reason, it is easy to come to the conclusion, which is impossible to refute, namely, almost all of the human labor, go to any store. Health is taught by multi-kilometer queues at the borders, then they are not teaching anything! The equality of free competition, and it is clear why in all revolutions there were a lot of cops, because of the mentality of the computer system, because of which a ten-kilometer queue was formed on the border? The other is a border of the system, that’s the usual story, why did not break the truck drivers through the slagbaums with a scream of the whole world? There is a rebellion or revolution.

“Dear Anatoly Ivanovich, you dared to speak positively about political correctness at such a historical moment, under such a mood of many in the West and in Russia that I am simply amazed. You uttered great words that this is a legal child of humanism and the highest achievement of civilization. За эти слова вас могут побить на некоторых кухнях где-нибудь во Франции или Америке, особенно - на кухнях бывших советских людей. А ведь вы сказали всего-навсего о том, что в политкорректности допускаются перегибы и что не следует на этом основании с водой выплескивать ребенка», - пишет господин Осадчий. Политкорректность сродни идеологии, а любая идеология - это такая вещь, от которой здравый человек держится подальше. Это вера, а всякая вера хочет быть обязательной для всех, потому что считает себя единственно правильной и посему призванной осуждать и преследовать любые другие веры. Так идеология сама по своей природе рождает своих перегибщиков, своих ретивых не по уму приверженцев. Утешимся тем, что перегибы вызывают протесты. Идет вечная борьба. То берут верх одни, то другие. Бывшая москвичка, много лет живущая на Западе, преподававшая в одном из немецких университетов, пишет, как ее достала тамошняя политкорректность. Приводит примеры глупейших, писаных и особенно неписаных, правил, запретов. Боже упаси рассказать, например, еврейский анекдот! Она даже на своей странице в фейсбуке осторожничала, чтобы товарищи по работе не усмотрели чего-то недозволенного. Причем, не дозволенного ими, а не правительством. Теперь она на них не оглядывается. «Но я, - пишет, - стала это делать только после того, как вышла на пенсию». Я читал эти строки и видел другую преподавательницу университета, только не западного, а русского, самого МГУ. Знаю ее много лет. Она тоже таится от студентов и коллег, не говорит им, какого она мнения о путинизме, о его идеологии, которой будто бы нет. Точно так же обе эти преподавательницы в свою бытность студентками этого самого МГУ держали при себе свои мысли о советском образе жизни, о дорогом Леониде Ильиче Брежневе. Теперь одна, как вы слышали, дождалась немецкой пенсии, чтобы, наконец, безбоязненно высмеивать уродства политкорректности, а другая, думается почему-то мне, и на пенсии будет держать язык за зубами. Разница не только в этом, иначе русская молодежь не стремилась бы на Запад, а в Россию шел бы поток западной. То, на что нападает одна, - издержки идеологии, если уж так ее назвать, - идеологии, призванной мирить, успокаивать, облагораживать людей. То, на что не решается ополчиться другая, которая в МГУ, - это нечто такое, в чем нет простого здравого смысла.

«В общем, не навру я вам, Стреляный, - следующее письмо, - когда скажу, что подьезды в российских домах стали чище, чем двадцать пять лет назад. This is a fact. Могу подтвердить как свидетель. Наверно, это идет против вашей шерстки, ведь вы привыкли к присказке насчет грязных подьездов в России, чтобы ставить на место и давать отпор собеседникам, которые выскажутся в том смысле, что Россия должна действовать активнее в мире. Ваши речи к россиянам на тему "чистите свои подьезды, а не лезьте в Сирию или на Украину"! - все это воспринимается чрезвычайно скептически», - пишет этот слушатель, и пишет он правду, отдаю ему должное. Очень многим в России действительно не нравятся разговоры о грязных подъездах, о мусоре, который выбрасывают куда попало, о липовых дипломах, о взятках и поборах и о прочих отдельных недостатках. Выражение на века: отдельные недостатки. Еще встречаются кое-где иногда.

На волнах Радио Свобода закончилась передача «Ваши письма». У микрофона был автор - Анатолий Стреляный. Наши адреса. Moscow. Улица Малая Дмитровка, дом 20, 127006. Пражский адрес. Радио Свобода, улица Виноградска 159-а, Прага 10, 100 00. Записи и тексты выпусков этой программы можно найтив разделе "Радио" на сайтеsvoboda.org