Our, Soviet, Orthodoxy

Yesterday, many noted that Putin in the film “Russia” about Valaam compared the mummy of Lenin with Christian shrines. The comparison of the bloody atheist with the martyrs for faith is natural and reflects the ideological processes at the top, in other words, clearly demonstrates that for hellish porridge is cooked in their heads.

I have no insiders in the Kremlin, but in order to understand the mood at the top, I just sometimes go to the page of one friend of my friend. Once he was a sweet smiling guy, and now-one of the leading reporters of the RTR. For him and his like -minded people, the issue with liberals has long been resolved. This is garbage, dirt under the feet, which is disgusting to mention. A few squeamish posts, including a homophobic joke about Serebrennikov, is all that the reporter wrote in his FB about liberals over the past three to four months. He, a convinced Stalinist and Soviet revenge, leads a much more exciting and emotional dispute with Orthodox monarchists. Even on the Savior channel I went for this - just talk about Lenin. The monarchists were indignant at the crimes of the Soviet regime (simultaneously pronouncing, of course, the West and liberals), the postalinist reporter was sincerely indignant at the "creeping desovetization, in which for some reason the Orthodox Church participates." Watching the polemic at the Savior, you understand that in this intense battle of the Stalinists and Monarchists and the next six years in Russia will be held. Of the ridiculous in the 21st century, a dispute of supporters of two obsolete reactionary ideologies is going to create new crosses. The processions of the traffic cops, the consecration of launch vehicles (which then fall), new monuments to Stalin throughout the country and prohibitions, prohibitions, prohibitions-this is the approximate image of Russia of the future. This will have nothing to do with the future of the rest of humanity - just the largest country in the world decided once again to walk in its special way. What these walks are worth, we know well from history, but with sadomasochistic perseverance we continue to break our foreheads on the same rake.

For ideologists of the regime, all these battles of revenge and Orthodox are like a balm for the soul. There was one religion - communist, now two - cool! It is curious that there is not a word about communism in this current co -focus (amazingly accurate term). No one believes in it and does not even mention it. “He accepted with Sohu, left with an atomic bomb” - this is the main mantra. They worship the scoop as a totalitarian state, forgetting, for the sake of which, in fact, the whole giant gulag was erected. Because monstrous stratification, 25 million people living below the poverty level, vs. A handful of billionaires-the president’s friends-is somehow not at all in communist.

A similar situation with Putin Orthodoxy. None of the hierarchs and state defenses say the main thing that Christ brought: about love and forgiveness. The Word of God was generally somehow lost behind all these holy relics, miraculous icons and banners on pompous processions. Think of Christ to make a second coming in modern Russia, a prison would definitely wait for him to insult the feelings of believers, as in the legend of the great inquisitor. Because otherwise, the first thing he would have dispersed to all these thick -moraine priests for trading in temples and violation of the commandments. The authorities need not good news, but another power organ - a formidable ideological department, punishing for thought crime.

As a result, you can observe a curious metamorphosis. In many heads, the co-focus and the Orthodox monarchism merged together in some bizarre figure-something similar demonstrated “night wolves” at their festival in Crimea: the Soviet coat of arms, in which the tsarist two-headed eagle was inscribed. Apotheosis: Congratulations to Zyuganov with Merry Christmas - "Feast of the Future." Red-Orthodox ideology (as in the anti-utopia of Voinovich: Father of Zvezdonia, etc.) is drawn up in front of his eyes.

The film "Valaam", which, among other things, tells about how good the Red Army were towards the ministers of the church - one of the milestones along this path. “Spiritual, strong, joyful” - with such headlines, Prochrevsky sites noted the film's release . The vector of movement is easily explained by the characteristics of the biography and personal addictions of our president. On the one hand, a native of the KGB, on the other, the church visits on holidays, is baptized under the cameras. It is necessary to somehow marry it-well, they get married as they can. There is a deconstruction of meanings, the transformation of the strongly strongly into a postmodern trash-chapito, a favorite product of Putin ideologists. And it is obvious that this wretched brew will rinse the brain in the coming years. This is with an optimistic forecast.

The pessimistic forecast is described in the film "Dr. Streinzhlav, or how I fell in love with a nuclear bomb." Like all world outcasts, Putin is increasingly clutching the weapon and waving them in front of the nose of the venerable public as the only argument. All this militaristic foam, which rose after the annexation of Crimea, seemed to began to fall in the last year. Putin hardly wants to turn into a caricature villain Kim Jong -un, terrorizing the world with nuclear weapons; On the other hand, he himself did not leave any other choice. The war with Ukraine will smolder while Putin is in power. Therefore, other symbols will necessarily be added to the monument to the output, there is no doubt about it. But I want to believe that at least not new wars. Better Orthodox scoop than the DPRK.