Children are not sorry. Ivan Belyaev - About the indifference of the elders

In recent years, the Russian political protest in recent years has abruptly younger. Since last spring, they talked a lot about students and even schoolchildren on the actions of Alexei Navalny. And the Saturday action "He is not the king" only confirmed this: people who are ready to go to inconsistent actions are really very young. Dozens of photographs of very cruel detentions flew around the Internet, in which the police drag into the auto -zaks of very young guys.

This is not a reason for jokes. The cops delay children using force, which is directly prohibited by the Pic.twitter.com/nsilphmxwe police law

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Meanwhile, the conclusions that many observers make from this seem controversial to me.

"A record number of detentions in 30 cities, terrible videos, where riot police beat ordinary citizens with a brutal, the ultra-rights with whips attack the gathered on Pushkinskaya Square, a 12-year-old teenager with a painful reception leads a large muzzle" Vertuhai. Excessively evil, archaic and hating "population" (anti -people), ”Alexander Morozov sums up .

"Separately, it is worth noting today's photos of detained children. Their appearance on the network is a great luck of the opposition. One such photo will tell the layman more than thousands of words of professional propagandists," writes political scientist Abbas Gallyamov.

Actually, the script "The mode is viciously beaten by students-the regimen sweeps the crowds before loyal, but enraged by such barbarism" can be found in history, from a velvet revolution in Czechoslovakia to Ukrainian Euro-Maidan. However, did you hear anything about how the Russians reached the marches of protest against the beating of their own children? I have not heard yet.

Violence against Russian boys and girls did not undertake the regime on the iot

Oddly enough, no matter how disgusting it is to say, but obvious, unnecessary, unmotivated violence against Russian boys and girls did not undertake the regime of iot. Russian society for the most part is not very young and continues to age. A significant part of the people, especially the carriers of the Soviet past, are convinced that the youth was baked, drew, did not want to work and study, wants to get everything by pike attenuation, does not recognize authorities, and most importantly - does not understand the well -fed life that she got, unlike the senior and frozen elders.

“Son, at your age, I went to school in the snow for ten kilometers, and the road went uphill in both directions” - parents who love to tell for educational purposes about the hardships of their own childhood are too far in America.

The same Russian inhabitant, who ideally should terrify the scenes of police cruelty, firmly learned that he went to the Uphill Both Ways snow school. Well, these jerks of life did not see life, and there they climb into the rampage and teach him to live. The anger and aggression of the majority is caused by the free thought and courage of young guys, and not the batons of riot police.

Here is a indicative and also completely new example. In April, half a Runet went around the video : a former FSIN officer, appointed by the director of the industrial institute in Ukhta, communicates with students in a hostel. He swears, sprinkles with insults, flaunts the past the prison overseer, promises to break the doors in the rooms and take out electrical appliances from the hostel, including computers. This is such a shameless rudeness and beast that it would be difficult to come up with such a thing.

Ukhta is a small city by Russian standards, less than a hundred thousand people. Friends, acquaintances and relatives for students should be almost throughout the city. And be people at least a little important the dignity of these guys, the whole Ukhta would have stuck. This did not happen.

It is possible to ironize this term, but people of eighteen to twenty years are a really "blanket generation." They grew up in the world of social networks, information openness and lack of borders, at least in their own heads.

But the country in which they live politically belongs to people whose philosophy’s life is “sit and do not protrude”, “Are you the smartest?” And "the eggs are not taught chicken." OMON can beat young freedoms over the heads and break their hands; For their parents, this is only a reason to gleam about young loafers who have nothing to do, it would be better to go in construction.

Ivan Belyaev - Journalist Radio Liberty

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