Evgeny Nilov: "Some want Leonid Ilyich Stolypin, while others Peter Arkadyevich Andropov"

"The latest surveys testifying to the next record level regretting the collapse of the USSR, and a very high level of spare about the collapse of the Russian Empire from among the Echo surveyed in the morning air, rather indicates the indigenous confusion of both powers in the mind," the human rights activist and publicist writes on his Facebook page.

“But at the same time, these polls nevertheless demonstrate the marginality of radical -democratic projects on the transformation of Russia into the Union of Cultural Sovereign Russian States. Although we know the formula of the apocalypse:“ And the latter will become the first ... ”And any social revolution is always a“ away session of the Last Court. ”So precisely utopias are usually received.

But about empires. Something tells me that the USSR is now perceived as an ideal liberal empire (according to Chubais): freedom of departure to Turkey, freedom of printing Dontsova and Akunin, freedom of the Orthodox faith, freedom of trade in raw and wine, and at the same time - the Russians are the most important ... and there is no forced "internationalism", and there is no need to "pull up" backward republics (here in Belarus of Kopeyk They believe, and even about the forgiveness of Africa of hopeless Soviet debts so many moaning, as if they had taken out a piece of mouth, but 30 years ago they fed half a world - from Poland to Yemen and Nicaragua) ...

But the Russian Empire (Silver Age) seems to be the perfect monarchist Stolypin Soviet Union. Without the Pale of Settlement (including the “internal”, which turns the places into Jewish “Bantustans”), without discrimination of the Old Believers, Russian evangelists and the Armenian church, without violent Russification, without demonstrative estates - one decree “On the Kuharkin children”, which closed universities for many talents, which is worth it.

But obviously, no one wants to bear the burden of the empire: to send troops to separate the warring tribes, to build infrastructure on the outskirts. That's how it all overwhelmed. Some want Leonid Ilyich Stolypin, while others Peter Arkadyevich Andropov ... "