Your letters. February 17, 2018

“Anatoly Ivanovich! Why do we need an army? Protect oil, gas and emptiness of Siberia. All income from oil and gas goes to the imperious hundred, its officials and guards - to protect them from us. They do not need us, we, like convicts - still need to feed them. Well, if we are convicts, we must profess the main commandment of the zone: do not believe, do not be afraid, do not ask. And we do not need them. As long as we can’t get rid of them, we need to live past the authorities. Like free volunteers. "

Did you hear this letter? From such speeches on a different noble crown, hair is already starting to move. There is evidence that this happens this way: hair moves. There are evidence both straight and even more indirect. Yes, do not believe, do not be afraid, do not ask. Yes, live past the authorities as far and profitable. But write to her and write about her anyway, set your requirements anyway! They do it.

Now listen to what the Russian resident of London writes. He has been working there for a long time in one of the banks. He has better mood. I read: “Putinism is a multi -layer and complex phenomenon. There is not one Putin there. Around whole echelons - including wealthy people and those who wish another. Especially children of the first and second circles. I came across some in my career. These people also want to live/be like in Europe, like all of us. They will receive billions from their parents and want to be not in the Cold War with Europe. They want to have everything there and that the western money goes to Russia. That is, Putinism grows the grave through children. They more or less understand that it will not be possible to manage soon as Stalin, but to live like Abramovich. ” He hopes, therefore, this person, that by the efforts of the offspring of the first, second, and other circles, Putinism is relatively calmly converted into something suitable for a normal life. It seems to me that not even cancellation, but some weakening of censorship will lead to such changes that they are afraid of and think about. Recall. What did the owners of the Russian regions from Putin demand, as soon as he first became president? To end with the freesty that journalists, their readers, listeners and spectators enjoyed under Yeltsin. The local seal and then was not so free, but still finished, it happened, to the authorities. The governors directly told Putin: either with you we will put the slogkopers, or we do not promise you order and tranquility in the territories entrusted to us. So it began, Putinism, exactly. We saw this, we know it very well. Here's what they said - with their own, of course, by the words - local princes to Putin, according to the speeches nodding them: “Give us power over the slit -buckets below and take it according to the rank. In turn, take power over the sloglkoers at the very top and also the opportunity to take in your own - the highest, of course - the rank. ” So you think whether it is possible to hope that the heirs of these people will abandon the censorship and thieves' powers of their fathers, and if nevertheless there is such a miracle that they will try to do this, then what will happen to them. So I wrote about this Russian man in London. “I don’t even hope,” he answered, “I know that the offspring of the current owners of Russia will begin its democracy. I saw many: for the most part they really want to "live like Abramovich", that is, in Europe and Russia, have yachts, villas, etc. Putin will go away - and they will all be rebuilt quickly, you will not recognize them. It is like a Soviet nomenclature and CPSU money. Remember how quickly many of them were transformed into the capitalists? And the next changes will begin, most likely, by twenty years and precisely according to the Soviet scenario. Putin’s successor will go for discharge and partial liberalization, ”the letter says. Did you understand, friends, the essence of this, so confident, foresight? Like, the heirs of the current largest Russian thieves ... Yes, not the thieves themselves, but their adult heirs will offer a deal to the native people: we give you a little more freedom, and you leave us all the grandmas of our fathers for this.

“Dear Anatoly Ivanovich! - The next letter. I think: for today, retired lieutenant colonel, twenty -five years of impeccable service. Grandfather on his mother’s line went through the whole war, behind him the First World War - the St. George Cavalier (Soldier). Grandfather through his father went to war on June twenty -second. The last message about him is August forty -third. The fellow soldiers-lands saw how he was loaded on a sanitary train with a severe wound. After that, no information could be obtained anywhere. He read that the Minister of Culture of Russia Vladimir Medinsky discussed with the family of People's Artist of the USSR Vyacheslav Tikhonov the possibility of installing a monument to the actor in Moscow in the image of Isaeva-Shtirlitz. He noticed that this could not only perpetuate Tikhonov’s memory, but also become a symbol of the domestic acting school. What do you think: people (the same Medinsky) who voiced such ideas should undergo a psychiatric examination before appointing to the position? ”Asks the author. He is not the first to ask this question in connection with the Minister of Culture and not only with it. I don’t know, Mr. Lieutenant Colonel, whether such persons should be subjected to psychiatric examination - I know that they are subjected to, and without fail, albeit unspoken and informal. The thing is who spends it. In the case of ministers, the main expert is known who is known. People with medical education also take part. This is necessarily, this is an order, it has been instituted for a long time, even under the Soviet regime, the unspoken, I repeat, order and unofficial. As for the monuments, as well as architectural and urban planning creations, we, in my opinion, have no choice but to relate to them in the spirit of a well-known consideration that any ugliness or eccentricity for this part over time becomes a landmark, as almost everything that was built in Moscow, for example, Luzhkov, including with the participation of Cerenettes. The guides are already saying: and this is a monument of the era (and the era!) Luzhkov, there was such a mayor, it was also called: Luzhkov-Baturinsky. Baturina is the name of his wife. She was a billionaire, talented, we can say - a brilliant entrepreneur, like all the spouses of the first and even tenths of the state. And the psyche of Medinsky, judging by his activity and behavior, exactly corresponds to the task that is set before him: to distribute the money entrusted to him so that they do not shake the existing order, but strengthen it. What is doing.

Something a lot of fairy tales and fairy tales appeared, friends, or does it seem to me? What they just do not compose ... This mental or heart need is guessed - give me a fairy tale! Do not serve - I will compose it myself. I read: “Inhuman efforts were created an industry that produces inhuman, not killed technology and all this for the good of man, in the name of man! And I recall how the head of the first city hospital drove on a raven horse, harnessed to a beautiful brick with wings over wheels, and was harnessed with brushes. Yes, and the hospital itself was located in two -story log buildings, all the incoming patients washed in a huge snow -white bath with water, warming in a large boiler of a wood stove, from which water was poured into the bath with a large copper bucket. Most of the incoming patients were washed with stomach or kristry. I recall the therapeutic department, and the head of this department lived near the house in the hospital. I think that it is quite obvious from the description that both the hospital itself and the orders in it were inherited from the previous, pre -revolutionary civilization, which did not set the goal of man, but simply gave people to live in a natural environment. And so, when the human resources that kept the foundations of these human orders were exhausted, there was one inhuman, not killed technology, mortal people and the remains of an eternally living leader, who destroyed this human world! ”

It is beautifully written, right? I want to cry, how beautiful, unless, of course, to know anything about the civilization that, by the beginning of the last century, has changed itself to itself to the point that I decided: let it become much worse, but there is only what is. As if we did not read the "Chamber No. 6".

Talking about why Russia did not succeed in democratic capitalism, Leonid Vakhramev recalls the first post -Soviet time. I read: “Russian (and Ukrainian, too, this applies to all the fragments of the empire, except for the Baltic states), the merchants turned out to be extremely ineffective owners, which was also expressed in the fact that they were not able to protect their property from the state. But the main thing is that they stole too much. Officials who combine their posts with the actual possession of the official or in the appearance of private property are easier to control, which is why they steal less ... It turned out that the deurafs not only steal. They are not able to negotiate among themselves, began to cripple and kill each other and not only each other. Therefore, the epic with self -regulating structures, which the state intensively imposed on the merchants at the beginning of the zero, ended with the next massft - and the state again had to take everything over. The thief without supervision poses a threat to the very physical existence of citizens, and there is no one to control them more - only an official who, of course, does not miss his own, but takes a rank, ”writes Leonid Vakhramev. There is a lot of truth in the words of this serious person, a lot. Yes, Leonid, what you are writing about, I knew from the first post -Soviet day, or rather, from the last Soviet, but how to say this truth even today? No matter how many reservations you do, they will still decide that you justify the existing order. Woe to me, woe! Since then - from the end of the eighties - I have not met a single person who would stop, as if dug, before any law and public decency, through which it would be possible to cross with impunity. Everyone is ready to break everything that can be broken. Enchanted circle. You can’t break it - you will not live, you will not survive. And if the population will only do what to violate everything that can be violated with impunity, it will never live humanly.

The next letter is about IKEA, whose creator has recently died, but more about Russia, about changes in the everyday life of Russians. I read: “Ikeya’s world network has produced a household revolution in Russia. People first went to the store on an excursion. View a convenient clean house. Then we reached out for purchases. Having traveled around Europe, we were convinced that for Europeans clothes and furniture were not for furniture, but for convenience. They do not buy anything for life. Do not cover sofas with bedspreads! We began to easily change towels and bedding on a new one. There are fewer rags in the cabinets - not ten duvetings. The car erases and squeezes well. In the morning he washed - put on in the evening. Drying machines with napkins appeared, which soften the fabric, give it freshness, as if they were from frost. In the apartments there are fewer things and more air. Do you know what the most common loan in Moscow? For repairs! Even those who live from salaries to salaries are taken: in one year they will make a modern kitchen, in the other - the bathroom. I walk around the house in white socks. They’ll darken a little - it's time to wash the floors! There were courses of cleaners-gang. Eco-pardon! Orthodox cleaning! Wash from floor to ceiling! Dear courses, by the way, and not only these! People began to work much more. Vacation in firms - two weeks. Intensive work demanded intense rest and caring for himself. Hence all these fitness, massage salons, makeup studios. Plus all these double boots for cooking without oil! A box with sprouted cereals costs more than a liter of milk. People want to look good - they need it at work. When my friend considered how much she spends on office clothes, makeup, masseurs and cosmetologists, on a car and how much remains from a high salary, she took and left to live in America! There is cheaper and more convenient. English learned - and go ahead. She is from Kozmodemyansk. I am also from those edges, ”this listener reports and puts a point here in her letter to“ Freedom ”. Courses of cleaners, I will tell you, is not the last sign of Moscow time. Cleaners and maids.

The next letter: “I can’t hear about the Crimea in your program! This is only angry of the Crimean. They say: “The whole story is about wars, about the division of territories. If in the interests of the state to pick up any piece, this is good. ” I know our middle class. Like Westerners, but the scoop. Here is one of my friends, Victor. He works as a general director in a Western company in Russia. Very strong professional. He reads a lot, he tries to read all the Nobel laureates. A person is not poor, but not rich - money does not climb from his ears, earns honest labor, even does not shy away by bus. And he, in general, is good, he does not seek all the benefits in everything, responsive. And what do you think? In any conversation, he offers Russia. He tells me what beautiful roads we have, as if I don’t drive them, hospitals and so on. He believes that Russia is not loved because it is strong. What, I ask, is she strong? Territory! He worked in Vneshotorg for many years, tells how beautiful trade was going on. How? - I ask. Here he has a shadow in his face: oil and gas. “I know,” he says, “that the planned economy slows down development, but there is no better communism as a building. Capitalism at a dead end. " He does not tolerate any criticism of Russia - do not touch the music with your hands! “Don't like it? Good riddance!". But here's what, Anatoly Ivanovich. He dreams of traveling around Russia, but so far he is hindered by the lack of proper service. I got used to the Western hotels, and we are not everywhere here. As you can see, the habit of comfort is a terrible force. It does not allow the dream of a Russian patriot! So the war between Russia and the West, Anatoly Ivanovich, is not on TV. She has people inside! One of the historians-humorists once said: "The centuries were so-so-medium-sized." So in Russia now the class is so -so, medium, only encourages itself. I would like to save my business, I want stability to continue to teach children in the West, go there and go, and at the same time continue to harah it. I don't understand this! I don't understand! And alas, the circle of communication narrows and narrows. And there were people like people to the Crimea, ”writes this listener.

Once upon a time, the best people of Russia wrote a lot and with great sadness that in their country there are two people in one, and they, these two nations, are strangers to each other, in something more than foreigners to each other. Bar and peasants, serfs and their owners, gentlemen. They even spoke different languages, some in French, others in Russian. The bar was raped by the peasant women, and their grooms, husbands and fathers - all these grooms, coachman, stoopers, gardeners, what was called the Dvil - these, in turn, were pleased with the lady and ladynecks, well, and then, when the time came, almost everyone killed them. Today, too, two peoples in the same Russian people. One lends itself to official propaganda, the other is not amenable. The first, of course, is more. And these two peoples in one is also to each other as foreigners, and speak different languages. Words that all mean for some: freedom, legality, human rights, for others do not mean anything. What will come of it, God news. It’s enough to just see this from us and understand it. Here is a letter from a representative of one of these peoples. What, now you will find out. I read: “You are all against the Soviet. And I do not think that the Russians are more false of Europeans. On the contrary, I suspect that the concentration of lies in Europe is even thoroughly. ” The Russian person who wrote this sixty -two years lives in the West, of which, according to him, forty years deliberately looked at him, we might say, studied. In some, his conclusion will cause laughter, for others - bewilderment. So, it is not at all necessary to live in the West sixty -two years to make sure he is a boat. It is quite enough on a farm near Dikanka, not going anywhere, except for the mentioned savage, where there is a library, to master such a university subject as “foreign literature”. Almost all of it is about how sinful, even vicious, this West, hypocritical, “counting-meaning”, in the words of the famous German philosopher. The wife called him a fool, and in which he justified her assessment, including in this definition of the West. The great Western satire, the greatest dramaturgy, prose, this immortal “critical realism” is all about that, all about the inescapable impulse nesting in the human soul. As, however, Russian literature - about Rus' and its inhabitants. On the same farm you can learn that there is no and cannot be more reliable sources for knowing any nation than its fiction, images and paintings created by it. But it seems more important to Mr. Polyakov to say what is guessed by his words: "You are all against the Soviet." It is important for him to allocate and defend to him. Stand up in front of us, who are still saturated with that consistency to the brain of the bones. Does he want us to be saturated with this thing even deeper? In general, the pictures are still those. One Russian tells how we heard, to another Russian, what beautiful roads in Russia, as if he did not ride them, well, and Mr. Polyakova, who lived in the West for sixty -two years ... Well, you also heard. He does not want you to eventually cease to be Soviet. Be such forever that it is pleasant for him to look at you from the shores of the Thames.

Someone can no longer hear the mention of the Crimea in the program “Your Letters”, and for example, I have long cannot hear and read the reasoning with complete calmness, which is almost the best for Russia to the end of the century-authoritarianism, one-man, Putinism, in short. Его, мол, требует все русское, всё без исключения: русская душа (это - прежде всего), русские пространства, русский климат, вся русская история. You are the boss, I am a fool. Я – начальник, ты – дурак. И все счастливы. Тут всего один вопрос. Если вы вот за это, и не только на словах, но и на деле, и утверждаете, что и страна не против, тогда зачем ей рядиться в демократические одежды? Зачем демократическая конституция? Почему не примете новую, такую, которая бы полностью соответствовала всему русскому, как вы понимаете это все? Зачем игра в демократию? Вы же никого и ничего не боитесь, вам никто не указ – зачем же подделываетесь под своего вечного недруга, под Запад? Читаю: «Подлинно революционным мероприятием, - нравится мне это слово: мероприятие, - было бы узаконить практики, - то есть, порядки и обычаи, - сложившиеся у нас в России. По крайней мере, стало бы чуть больше людей, замечающих то, что у них под носом. Ничего не менять, все оставить как есть, но узаконить». Мне близка эта мысль давнего слушателя «Свободы» Елисеева. Ближе всего к тому, что он предлагает, были в СССР такие союзные и автономные республики, как та же Чечня и весь Северный Кавказ, Закавказье, Азербайджан, Средняя Азия. Никто там не терзался противоречием между советским законом и местной жизнью. Для всех само собою разумелось, что с минуты, когда человек стал директором государственного молочного завода (какого же еще? - тогда все было государственным)… Стал – значит был назначен, а на самом деле купил эту должность… С этой минуты завод поступал в его частную собственность со всеми, естественно, ограничениями, не зависящими ни от кого. Достоинств у такого преобразования, которое предлагает господин Елисеев, было бы несчетно. Было бы упразднено все, о чем говорится: обозначено в меню, а в натуре нет. Выбросить такое меню – большое же дело! Была бы упразднена конституция, раз ее никто не знает и не обращает на нее внимания, а с нею – все, что существует только на бумаге. Получилась бы, кроме прочего, заметная экономия денег. Одно только исчезновение госдумы, всех местных дум и правительств пополнило бы бюджет чуть ли не под завязку. А вот что касается судов, то тут следовало бы оставить все как оно сложилось, только чтобы все делалось открыто. У кого есть деньги, тот пусть откупается, как и сейчас, у кого денег нет, того - за колючку. Все, что делается за деньги, пусть делается и впредь, все, что по блату – тоже. И вот когда такое революционное предложение прозвучало бы на всю страну, тогда нагляднее стал бы смысл всех липовых учреждений, всего липового устройства, стало бы понятнее назначение фигового листа размером в седьмую часть Земли – и почему без этой брехни страна не может обходиться, почему не может прекратиться борьба за то, чтобы все, что обозначено в меню, было в натуре.

«Конечно, все мы приспосабливаемся к миру, - последнее письмо. - Но у нас, верующих, особая позиция. Для нас этот мир не прекрасен, он омерзителен и жесток, но на нём существование не закончится. Оно продлится, но я не хочу вас обрадовать этой новостью. Иной раз мне кажется, что потусторонний мир не менее чудовищен и нелеп. Тогда я понимаю атеистов: лучше бы его вообще не было». Да вы, батенька, будете похлеще безбожника, скажу человеку, написавшему это. Я даже не вспомню сразу, кто еще, кроме вас, додумывался до такого.

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