One hundred years ahead

The New Times followed the preparation for the celebration of the anniversary of the October Revolution of 1917

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Tandem

Ordinary Muscovites are crushing in lines: a new iPhone was brought in the Selpo. Masters of the pop genre also do not sleep at night and check the numbers on their hands - these want to be president. And on the political horizon, the contours of the political union, capable of truly changing Russian life, emerge.

In anticipation of the centenary of the October Revolution, Natalya Poklonskaya and Ramzan Kadyrov found a common topic. We stood at the coffin of the leader of the world proletariat and call the leader, finally, bury it. “I am personally convinced that it’s enough to stare at Lenin's corpse. And the head of the revolution is high time to bury, it is both reasonable and human, ”Kadyrov said directly and without abyss. Poklonskaya responded gently, not without some tenderness: “I support Ramzan Akhmatovich and I also think that looking at a corpse in the center of the capital is at least inhumanly and not humanly. Is it possible to find a dead as an exhibit for a mass view to bring joy and bright feelings in someone’s heart? If the decision on the burial is made, then a new stage in the development of our Motherland will come with an inverted page of the past and willingness to move on, remembering the lessons of history. ”

This moment should be supposed to enjoy properly. Well, or just remember: not so often we find ourselves among the like -minded people of Kadyrov and Poklonskaya. This is surprising in its own way.

And immediately boiled Gennady Zyuganov, who announced that the calls to finally bury Ulyanov-Lenin were unnatural. Probably, this moment would be worth remembering: a person who was tired of the “traditional values”, who has long turned the nominally left-handed part of the Communist Party into the Black Sotnoye, considers the idea to bury the old corpse of unnatural. But to celebrate the centenary of the revolution at the Renaissance Moscow Monarch Center hotel - it is there that the top of the Communist Party is going to walk - it is apparently natural and laudable.

But this is not as interesting as the reaction of the Chechen one -party members Zyuganov. The Communists of Chechnya in a single impulse supported the initiative of the leader of Chechnya. “I believe that the greatness of the life and deeds of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin will not suffer at all from the fact that he will be buried in Christian. That would be very true, very correct. And Russia after that will gain stability and calm, ” said Magomed Daduev, secretary of the Chechen branch of the Communist Party . Where did the lad come from the Christian sadness, the sources do not report, but many observers suggest that soon Gennady Zyuganov will listen to the opinion of colleagues and apologizes to Ramazan Kadyrov.

And we can only delve into these disputes, eternal as the Motherland, and dull, like autumn. Once a year, someone will definitely offer the leader. So accepted. The eternal president in the Kremlin, a tearing grave in the main square is also eternal, and ritual dances around this grave, tied to understandable memorable dates - forever. We will now hope that Natalya Poklonskaya will add unexpected beauties to these dances. We know, she can.

All power to social networks

The list of eternal topics for domestic disputes is extensive, and one of them is New Year's lights. The transition from autumn to winter is also a transition from discussions around the prospects for Lenin’s Burial to complaints about fatigue from festive programs of domestic TV, where Alla Pugacheva, eternal, like Lenin and her vast clan, are raised for a year after all the long winter holidays.

Evil languages ​​say that there have been no honest elections in Russia since in 2010 we chose the name for the new dog of Vladimir Putin. But the proximity of the centenary of the revolution can touch anyone. Konstantin Ernst seemed to recall one of the main slogans of that coup - "All power to the Soviets!" - And he arranged popular elections of musical groups that will take part in the New Year's Eve on the “First Channel”.

Voting was held on the basis of the Social Network “Odnoklassniki” (oh, “Facebook” users saturated with snobbery, you love, distracted for a short time from discussing some second-rate series “Channel One”-“Nearrs”, or what it was called there?-inform each other that you don’t look at the TV at all; you didn’t invite you to virtual areas, blame yourself). More than a million fellow citizens took part in the voting procedure.

The Russians got and chose Alla Pugacheva . Now have fun.

Politics price

There is another topic that already seems eternal, although it is actually innovative. Russians are not only getting used to good quickly, and now such news also seem to Rutina, the usual background of being, such as talking about the burial of Lenin in November or Alla Pugacheva on the TV for the New Year.

"Assistant coordinator of the Tambov headquarters Alexei Navalny Leonid Yarygin was arrested for 25 days." "The assistant coordinator of the Tambov headquarters Alexei Navalny Igor Slivin was arrested for 20 days." "The coordinator of the Tambov headquarters Alexei Navalny Diana Rudakova was arrested for 7 days." This is only one city, one day and one rally. These are just young people who tried to realize their own constitutional law. Not the bandits, they did not rob the forest and did not shoot the unfortunate in dungeons.

However, in spite of the poet, to those who were unhappy in dungeons, in their homeland it is precisely accepted to respect and even pet.

These lists are the names of cities, surnames, the number of days of arrest - now it seems like a price list, the price for the desire to participate in this policy. Rather, this is a real policy. The state gives doubt a simple way to distinguish a real policy from amateur productions. And then many confuse.

Here, probably, the question arises, where is the connection of another routine story about arbitrariness and lawlessness with the declared theme of the coup? Well, if you think about it, you can notice such a connection. She, unfortunately, is.

These lists are the names of cities, surnames, the number of days of arrest - now it seems like a price list, the price for the desire to participate in this policy. Rather, this is a real policy and is

Great victory

But full to be sad. It's time to talk about good. It's time to look around and look for reasons for legitimate pride. You look around and see - there is only a debate about the past: was the October Revolution or great accomplishment? The heirs of the Soviet Union or the Russian Empire? Sob or have fun on November 7? Bury the leader, or let it lie? As if the homeland does not have any present.

And it is. And in the present there are breakthroughs, victories, accomplishments. Well, for example. “At the Voronezh small -optical base“ Chernozemye ”, 150 kg of fresh pepper was found from an individual entrepreneur, the regional department of Rosselkhoznadzor said. The package indicated that these are Polish products. And she, as you know, falls under sanctions. There were no commercial and phytosanitary documents for pepper. “The pepper party was removed from the implementation and destroyed at the Kaskada training ground in the Semiluk district mechanically,” the regional department of the Rosselkhoznadzor said .

You read and see how criminal peppers, red, like the dreams of Gennady Zyuganov about Inessa Armand, fight under the caterpillars of the bulldozer. You read and understand that the enemy will not pass, that the victory will be behind us, but what will be there! You read and suddenly, pride in a rush for a second, asking yourself for a second: Lord, do we really have nothing more to do?

Source: VTsIOM, November 2017