"We are all Anna Frank" vs "Who is Anna Frank?"

What does the last loud scandal in Italian football teach

Lazio players reached the pre -match warm -up in T -shirts with an Anna Frank portrait and the inscription “There is no anti -Semitism”. Photo: Sportarena.com

In the modern world, complete not only aggression and hatred, but also good and solidarity, private initiative often turns into a mass public action. And official structures, in order to save the face, join it. Because it is indecent not to join. This is where the Western world rests, the funeral of which was somewhat dragged on.

The article on the first lane of the Roman newspaper La Republica, in the October 24 room, called Siamo Tutti Anna Frank (“We are all Anna Frank”), which was written by the editor -in -chief of this newspaper Mario Calabrazi, scored 3.4 million “likes” by October 28. And its heading became the slogan of the general Italian action against racism and anti -Semitism.

Then the central defender and captain of the Fiorentina football club David Astori recorded a video where he reads a fragment from Anna Frank's diary. All matches of the tenth round of the Italian championship were opened by reading a fragment and a minute of silence, or rather, in Italian-a minute of thought.

"We will play this scene"

It all started with the fact that on October 22, after the Roman “Lazio” match with the Chalia club, on the southern guest tribune of Stadio Olimpico in Rome, which stores traces of the totalitarian art of the Mussolini era (“cast in granite”, I myself saw a few days ago, passing in the north of the Italian capital past the stadium). Tiffozi left disgusting stickers. They were addressed to another Roman team - “Roma”, with which the confrontation with which has been fundamental in nature for many decades. Anna Frank, who was put on the yellow-red T-shirt “Roma”, was elected with the symbol of his rival, the “Roma” yellow-red shirts were listed near: Romanista Frocio (“Roma fans”) and Romanista Ebreo (“Roma fans”-Jews-Jews). This symbolic series is interesting in that at a poster level, it makes the world the consciousness of real Pithecanthropes: in their eyes, a girl, leading the most famous diary in the world and who died in March 1945 in the Bergen-Belzen concentration camp, is a symbol of world Jewry.

It is no less symptomatic that the Club of Roma, founded by Mussolini, ultras - extreme right and have nothing to do with Jews, blue, liberals.

Nevertheless, the historical and sports mythology of the two teams, sharing the home arena with each other, developed once and for all: blue and blue (“Lazio”)-the guys are simple, from the northern quarters, and “fascizoid”, yellow-red (“rum”)-indigenous Romans, and not some kind of limit, they should be left. The toxicity of the reputation “Lazio” at one time added the idol of the team - Paolo Di Canio, a very good football player, but the most perfect freak in his public behavior and political views - he loved, scoring a goal, throwing his hand away in the fascist Saluto Romano.

Of course, a scandal broke out. Already on October 23, Rut Dureghello, the head of the Roman Jewish community, drew attention to the intolerance of such actions, officials spoke out after her, including the Prime Minister and the President of the Republic. The leadership of Lazio had to be done urgently, and it was decided to put a wreath in the Roman synagogue as a sign of an apology. But the transparent era of new technologies failed the president of the club Claudio Lotito: someone managed to record his business conversation about the script of this action. Among other things, words appeared, which also became almost a meme: “Famo Sta Sceneggiata” - “We will play this scene ( with the laying of wreaths. - NT)”. After some time, the flowers from Lazio were found thrown into the Tiber River. The Jewish community did not hide that Jewish youth indignant by hypocrisy of Lotito did it.

Lazio players, who reached the pre -match warm -up in T -shirts with an Anna's portrait and the inscription “There is no anti -Semitism”, like teams throughout Italy, stood at the central circle, bowing their heads and hugging, and the announcer read the lines from the penultimate record in Anna Frank's diary Frank

And on October 24, the already mentioned column Mario Calabrazi, illustrated by the portrait of Anna Frank in the form of key Italian teams, saw the light. Calabraisi was categorical: all teams should go out in the form with the image of a Jewish girl. During this time, sports functionaries, inspired by this text and video recorded by the captain of Fiorentina, decided to start matches of the next round with a memorial action.

Those who do not give a damn

On October 25, Lazio played on the road to Bologna - the match was with a local club of the same name. And here again the invisible playwright set a stunning play.

The guest tribune at the Bologna stadium is named after the Jew of Hungarian origin Arpad Weiss, who died in Auschwitz (Aushwitz). Vais coach twice brought in the 1930s Bologna to victory in Skudetto-that is, in the national championship. The guests, of course, were Lazio fans. Lazio football players who reached the pre -match warm -up in T -shirts with Anna's portrait and the inscription “There is no anti -Semitism”, like teams throughout Italy, stood at the central circle, bowing their heads and embracing, and the announcer read the lines from the penultimate record in Anna Frank's diary. The stadium listened to the words of the Jewish girl, which she recorded on July 15, 1944 (I bring in the classical translation of Rita Wright-Kovaleva): “I see that the world is gradually turning into the desert more and more, I hear the thunderstorms that can kill us, I feel the suffering of millions of people, and yet, when I look at the sky, I think that everything will turn out for the best, that this cruelty should come to the end and again. Peace and peace will reign on earth. ”

It was a truly amazing action.

But the Lazio fans ignored her, and then sang one of the most famous and disgusting fascist songs “MEN FREGO” (Me Ne Frego), adding to this several banal insults of the hosts for the ultras: “You only know how to do Tortellini ... Bolonets - whores.”

All the efforts of the leadership of the club, who was trying to hush up the scandal, went to dust.

The police quickly found almost two dozen guys brewing this porridge, two of them are less than 16 years old, and they cannot even be held accountable for inciting racial hatred. The Lazio Club awaits serious sanctions. The unification of the “Lacian” ultras with the characteristic name “unbending” (Irriducibili) was outraged by the reaction of society and the authorities, saying that they simply made fun of the fans of Roma.

However, this story must have morality.

Triumphant ignorance

In an interview with Milan Corriere Della Sera, Ruth Dureghello said: “This is a crisis of values ​​in the world of youth, and it would be intolerable simplification to reduce what happened to the problems of football.” As the results of the elections in many countries, especially European, are shown, the fascist of consciousness is not even exclusively the problem of the young generation.

It is significant that the “Lates” ultras knew something from history, at least at the level of symbols-it was no coincidence that they chose Anna Frank in this capacity. Moreover, in recent years, numerous diaries of adolescents - the same age as Anna have become known. In the same way hidden from the Nazis. And from different ghetto - Vilna, Kovno, Warsaw, Krakow. In 2006, the Diary of Polish Anna Frank, Rutka Lasker from the town of Benjin, who died in 1943 in Auschwitz, was first published for the first time.

Another phrase flying around Italy was the statement of the coach of the Torino club, Serb Sinishi Mikhailovich: “Anna Frank? I don't know who it is "

But, of course, the fascist fans use the most recognizable way and symbol. Worse, if there may be something worse at all, ignorance and ignorance. Another phrase flying around Italy was the statement of the Torino coach, Serb Sinishi Mikhailovich: “Anna Frank? I don't know who it is. " Questions to the education system, by the way. At the school, as Mikhailovich said, he, as far as he remembers, was held by Ivo Andrich ( Yugoslav writer, Nobel Laureate of Literature. - NT), but Anna Frank did not read.

The Lazio leadership promised to take 200 fans annually on an excursion to Auschwitz. If it holds back the word, he will do a great deed. The struggle against ignorance, especially young ones, is the only way to wean them to sing "do not give a damn."

Human solidarity, conscience, complicity - work. Those who say “we are all - Anna Frank”, more than those who defile her memory and memory of millions of dead, and those who “have not read”

Safety grid

Western intellectuals bury the old world order, forgetting, however, that the West, “rolling up”, each time rises from the ashes and remains attractive to the whole world - its culture, and the economic way, and lifestyle. The incredible degree of banality nagging about the failure of liberalism and a new order, where Putin's Russia will play a very serious role, I had to listen exactly in the days of the scandal in Italian football from venerable Italian professors - it is good that students, including “two young brunettes”, as if emerging Brodsky, did not seem to understand what these were interpreted at all what these were interpreted at all Gray -haired masters. Although, perhaps, they understood something else. That in all kinds of populism there is counterpopulism. That the ultra -right are obscene. That the institutions of the West, the same, liberal, know how to resist.

Human solidarity, conscience, complicity - work. Those who say “we are all - Anna Frank”, more than those who defile her memory and memory of millions of dead, and those who “have not read”.

The Western world so far, in contrast to the archaic world of the Russian one, does not pursue hatred and aggression, but finds ways to confront them and stop them

Yes, on the streets of Rome today there are noticeably more police and even military, especially around tourist attractions. But the city is the same, people - the same, their values ​​- about the same as decades ago, when the inhabitants of the eternal city themselves got rid of the Mussolinian trouble, and their neighbors - from Hitler. Private property is sacred and inviolable: “To our restaurant,” the waiter answers me in affirmatively to the question of whether the name of his establishment with the name of the owners, “is more than sixty years old, is now owned by the grandchildren of the founders, and I myself have been working here for thirty -two years.” Trenti Due Anni! Yes, during this time, such a restaurant in Moscow, and even next to the station, would go from hand to hand ten times using an administrative, if not a military-technical resource ...

By the way, Russian speech sounds everywhere, marking the readiness of the Russian person on Rendez-Vous with the West-to consume his cultural and material products. Gogol’s apartment, they say, also bought Russians. And my senior comrade, Russian old -timer Rome, grins irritably: "With this new mayher, the whole city was guessed."

The main thing is that this Western world so far, unlike the archais of the Russian world, does not pursue hatred and aggression, but finds ways to confront them and stop them.

“We are all - Anna Frank” - still matters. And no one canceled this, from Brodsky: “He was in Rome. He was flooded with light. "

And all this is about culture, the only safety net for humanity.

* The author is a permanent columnist NT, the head of the program of the Moscow Center of Carnegie.