Your letters. May 26, 2018

I read in fresh traces: “Immortal regiment. There is a lot of talk about this phenomenon on the network. The presence of such phenomena in society is a sign that it is incredibly frightened and not only wants to change, but is ready for anything, just to stop the state of waiting.

Fear. Fear is already at society as a whole. An appeal to his origins is a natural reaction of a person in this state. If mom and dad are alive, we run to them when it’s scary. And if not, not alive? We still run to them! To the place where they are already forever. This is all since the time of the pyramids, if that. How much time has passed here? Garbage. Moment. In general, the hope for the Russian state as an institute has already completely disappeared. It is not for nothing that the Kremlin is now starting all sorts of "social programs" there. They understand exactly there: they will shoot at the garbage trucks from shotguns not only in Volokolamsk. And then no flamethrowers in the Russian Guard will help. Their ("Rosvardiy" and flamethrows, Cossacks and Nagak) is simply not enough. There is not enough money to the Kremlin either. And not because there are few of them there! But because the stage is like that! Fear. He overshadowed everything, and how much do not give - there will be little. It all began for a long time. It is important for me that fear has become massive and rushing out. It is important that the Kremlin already understood this. And they will "engage" - this word puts this word in quotation marks. - The little victorious war did not help the sovereign. And it is precisely the nearest environment, like a hundred years ago, that will dump him, trying to save himself. And like a hundred years ago, it will not save, ”says this far from ordinary, as on me, a letter. The fear of what was once called by the untruth of Russian life - yes, of course. But there is probably something else that is not easier to catch. Maybe people are afraid to forget that they are people? There is a lot of all the vague.

Two feelings are wildly close to us -

In them, the heart gains food -

Love for a native ashes,

Love for fatherly coffins.

These Pushkin feelings are a thing of the past. The world for a modern person expands - expands steadily and very quickly, but not for everyone at the same speed, and the one who, as it were, hesitates to enter it with the most nimble, is lost, languishing, looking for, to grab to be in the usual state longer. And at the same time, he wants some power to not let him do this, turn him over both him and everything around. This is today's Russia. Neither here nor here.

“Dear Anatoly Ivanovich, I am your old listener and I remember how once in one of your programs the Austrian Slavist, professor of Viennese university, translator Solzhenitsyn into German Elizabeth Markstein told you that not only something gives to her Russian students, but also received in return: for example, he heard the word“ demolished ”from them. You seem to laugh then. I recently also had to hear a new word for me: “sore” in the same sense. This is by no means a youth word. It is an intimate-domestic word of people of mature years and prosperous. I had a eater, fucked up, in a secret ... like, what else is needed for good health? By the way, I already hear interesting stories about their trainings from two familiar psychologists. These are peculiar games, something like performances. The roles in them are chosen by the participants themselves, who can be considered by customers, and patients, and simply entertaining. Imagine, there are nuns among them! They turn out to be the most daring: in order of the game they smoke, and drink, and liberately. In general, girls come off. I emphasize: they themselves choose such people, a Ponaroshka like ... Any ban is a dam in the psyche, breaks through one way or another, ”writes Mrs. Romanova. Exactly noticed, Marina Nikolaevna. Not anyone put the dam before Eve and Adam - the Lord God himself, but broke her out for a sweet soul when the time came. It happens, however, without any dam ... now I remembered a place from one very long -standing scientific work. Ethnographers studied the life of a pre -revolutionary village. Interested, of course, and shameful games. “Well, how is it among the children?” The researcher asks the peasant. “Yes, how ... barely stood on their feet - they are already frolic,” the man answers good -naturedly. Young lovers, a shepherd and a shepherd, children of the Hutsul nature in the story of Mikhail Kotsyubinsky “Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors” - it is said about them in passing that they began to sin early - they saw how this is done by the sheep, well, and in the Parajanov film this was not shown - now they would show. Of course, not everything here is smooth, but not everything and disgusting, not everything is useful, just as not everything is harmful. In general, as in everything human. Of the American news news, I was struck by one that had some relation to our conversation. A young teacher sex with her pupils-senior students. The elders are senior, but, unfortunately, the papers are not quite adults. For this, she was supposed to be six years in prison, and it seems to have received sixteen, poor. The top ten was added for not confessing to the court. There are countries where to say a lie in court is considered commonplace, albeit reprehensible, and in the States it is a serious crime.

“Hello, Anatoly Ivanovich! - The next letter. - They say about me that I am a pleasant woman, albeit Rostov. I am without troubles, simple and kind. So boldly write it because I will not call myself. I am a teacher of mathematics, but I have been living in Moscow for a long time and now I am earned by cleaning apartments for ninety thousand rubles a month - one and a half thousand dollars, for a minute! On the weekend, I work as a tutor- one and a half thousand-rubles in an hour and a half. I gave two or three lessons - here I have money for a cosmetologist. My shoes are only imported and only leather. Slapping for five thousand - I go to a walk on the river. I visit, as she said, a cosmetologist - he holler Kolagen, his face stuck with gold threads. The procedure is one hundred twenty thousand rubles. So I look good for my sixty. We, all these nannies -tremendous ones, were in a timely manner that the money should be invested in ourselves - and I consider this a colossal change in the mentality of home staff. I’m not talking about a pedicure manicure, this is by itself - we have seen enough of their housewives and there. Working in families, I can’t say that the crisis somehow affects their provision. There is everything in the refrigerators, the children both went to foreign language camps, and go. I have long noticed that the richest refrigerator for those who live poorly. For them, delicious food is a luxury. So they try to fill the refrigerator with delicious, especially for guests. And the rich, on the contrary, are treated to chic mansions with beer with nuts. They have a mansion to demonstrate prosperity, ”the letter says. In large cities, a new class has formed - a class of home servants and summer cottages. It consists in many ways of visitors. These people make good money, often they are a higher flight than their employers. We are talking about the whole industry. She is in sight and at the same time in the shade, like the garage ... I’ll say to the previous letter, to the place where the psychologist is about young nuns. I imagined all this. Young, slender, all in black, only brisk eyes shine, everything is baptized, everything is spent on what it is supposed, it observes the posts under the supervision of the power of the abbess, he lends to the city as a soldier and, having finally escaped to the treasured office, so that at least there, in the game, to feel like a person - a free, relaxed person.

“That's what will please you, Anatoly Ivanovich,” Mr. Pustovoitov writes from Moscow, “all systems will fail in Russia! In the tax, and not one, there was a failure, and everyone who paid taxes ended up on the lists of non -payers, they took everything away from them for the second time. Who has lost one hundred thousand, and who are millions. And the tax authorities are not their own: “We cannot correct anything! The system does not let us into the base! ” She, this malicious system, blocked the accounts of companies until you pay taxes the second time. The activities of firms are paralyzed! Directors in rabies: how are the taxes not paid like this? What kind of bookkeeping we have?! Who missed the payment of taxes?! I'll fire everyone! Those who are smarter suggested: with money in the country, a tension, so the system solved my problems at the expense of business. Of course, this is only an assumption, but ... so that at once a tax base crashes and all only in favor of the state, whether, you know, an eternal question arises: who is beneficial? While I was going to write to you and a failure occurred in the management company. My mother wrote in the payment that she spent more than one cube of water, as the counter showed, and all twenty -six! They shrugged at the MFC: the system failure, money cannot be returned. Goodbye, Anatoly Ivanovich. You have already prepared to say: “But your Crimea”?

It’s I am always ready, dear Pustovoets, but I am holding myself in my hands, and now I will say about something else. There is the concept of "police state." In a broad sense, this is a state that overtakes everything and everyone, intervenes in everything. In a narrower sense, this is when, if possible, all services are endowed with police care and duties. What you are writing about can be called a police and physical device. The duty, roughly speaking, to tear money from citizens is endowed with all services that can be endowed. Trying by hook or by crook ... The invention of more and more new taxes, requisitions, seizures, deductions, and fines adjoins this. The oldest, I must say, is the most important occupation of the rulers, especially those who are not very lucky or always little to please themselves and close associates, as well as to keep the subjects from the rebellion.

Well, here, someone writes not without sorrow about what the young tribe allows himself, and someone ... I read: “Good afternoon, dear Anatoly Ivanovich! Two things do not give me rest: the Moscow junta in the Donbass and religion. Let's leave the first and focus on the second. I want to talk about religion today, the cave faith in God, the Almighty and the Creator of all things. Either God, or progress, is not given the third. If you profess in all progress, then you automatically do not believe in the Almighty. I understand that most people are ignorant, despite schools and institutions. But you have to do something! The fight against religiosity is progress. So it is necessary to act! ”,“ Further, the author writes how, in his opinion, it is necessary to act with religious people: up to the fact that it is forced to put them in special educational institutions like “madhouse”, he uses this very word. “Traditions,” writes, “let them stay, let the temples stand, Maslenitsa, egg, Kurban -Bayram, Tlalock Day and others let them remain, this is a cultural heritage. Priests to remake into guides. We must converge in only one thing: there is no God! And all! It is so simple ... So I came out of religious, mossy, priestly darkness - it means that any individual can do it. Ancient people did not know God, and we must become like ancient people. Modern man is the same ancient person plus technology. Everything is in order with me, and I have propaganda with others, and three people after long ordeals have already agreed with me that there was no God. If every atheist takes a group of God-growing and will work with them in their free time, then after a hundred and fifty years the number of God-toely decreases sharply, and after two hundred-hundred-two hundred and fifty word “God” will disappear, it will be possible to put a black, juicy and fat cross on it! And there will be no end to happiness ” - these last words in the letter that you have now heard show to those who have not yet guessed that the author was joking, but, by the way, who knows ... A hundred years ago in this spirit, they only thought that they would be managed at ten years old. Just ten years, Lenin took to the creation of communism in the former Russian Empire, which could not be compatible with religion, and after some time and around the world. I must say that they achieved something amazingly quickly. Ready - quite ready! - There were millions to live without God and priests. Belinsky wrote about this to Gogol sixty years before the following verification: “The Russian man pronounces the name of God, scratching his ass. He talks about the image: he is suitable - praying, not good - to cover pots. Take a closer look, and you will see that it is by nature a deeply atheistic people. It still has a lot of superstition, but there is no trace of religiosity. ” Soviet time confirmed that most people tend to believe as power. While the authorities said: believe in God - they believed in him. Or pretended. She said: believe against God - they began to believe against him. The matter is familiar.

The next letter is to the previous peak. In Ukrainian, I would even say: in pyry-this is a rough name of the face. Pusy. “Hello, Anatoly Ivanovich! The profession of a journalist or even a writer is actually one continuous moralizing. All the time you condemn someone or condemn something, and put someone or something in the sample. True, the first more often much more. Critic and expose. These are organisms, they survived, succeeded, and they should rather be praised for it. Why should they be honest, truthful, disinterested, etc.? Yes, if they were such individuals, then their chances to survive and prosper would seek to zero. The characters "Noble Knight" and "Turgenev Baryshnya" can only succeed in the right to birth in a brief status. You can brand only those of them who lost, turned out to be broken. In communist times, they only did what they learned. You are very little different now. And the youth and in general the people think their own. Do you think most Russians are not aware of the personal qualities of a certain ruler? Yes, they perfectly understand - a scoundrel, a liar, an adapter. These are laudable qualities, but many are also rare for this. By the way, Brezhnev was already like that. Everyone guessed who he was. But very successful. Absolutely unprincipled, dumb, but cunning. But the same late Soviet people were the same. He was in captivity of inertia, broke the system after him, and he was more convenient and more reliable to change anything. All these requirements are based on? Nothing. Now, if they relied on God, but he nor you, and nobody needs him, is the end of the letter. So we live, dear listeners of Radio Liberty. One calls to almost execute those who believe in God, the other - those who do not believe. What is this talking about? About that, except other things, that humanity has not yet been determined how to be with its origin, what to row, for what to exist in this world, what is good and what is bad. But it wants to decide, clearly wants, works on it-it means that for some reason he needs it. To know why ...

In the last program, a letter was made about what wonderful products, including beer and cognac, in Russia. The author emphasized about beer and cognac, said that in something, but he knew a lot about it. Listen to another opinion. Tatyana Trushkina writes: “You won’t believe it, but after a trip to Belarus, I came to a persistent opinion that in Moscow the people are eating something completely indecent.
I went to this thought for a long time. That is, the suspicions were still in the distant tenth year, when she first visited Israel, then in Croatia, then in France, etc. But each time, returning here, I thought: "Lord! What are we going here?"
Now I definitely understand that the fact that in Moscow supermarkets lies on the shelves, it is difficult to name a normal, healthy food. I have everything, ”Tatyana reports. They continue to write about the bad quality of products in the Crimea. Both the residents of the peninsula and vacationers there are written there. My attitude to some of these complaints has long been known to the permanent listeners of “freedom”, which does not prevent me from repeating me in any case. Well, if in Moscow and Crimea, the products were better than even in Israel, then: Crimea in Russia would have become legal from this? And in general: then the behavior of Moscow, to which the free world meets with sanctions and a sharp reduction in all ties with it, could be considered acceptable? You can imagine that the free world will say: well, all - finally, from Moscow to the very outskirts, the products have become such that they can be eaten, and beer and cognac - such that they can be drunk (in moderate quantities, understandable), so now you can cancel the sanctions and take this country into the family of peoples who respect the laws and highly appreciate humanity?

Mr. Pavlov sent a note from the distant past. “In October, one thousand nine hundred and thirty -sixth year of the party combined artel of Repyevsky peat bog discussed the behavior of Director Sharonov. “Sharonov for workers is not as a boss, since the workers command them, he depends entirely on them only because he was stuck with them and have been beaten more than once, and so far, Sharonov has a memory from the workers of the bruise under the eye” (spelling and punctuation are preserved). As a result, it was decided to expel Sharonov with the prosecutor’s office, and to put Comrade in place of him. Bochkareva. Three months passed and at the very beginning of the thirty -seventh year the Party combination of the peat bog was already sorting out the business of Bochkarev, who "sold bread without weight", and for the money received "he was singing with workers about what there is a cash certificate." Which one, it’s easy to guess - a bruise under the eye, ”writes Mr. Pavlov. The Stalinist decades are the years of unprecedented cruelty, terror, the destruction of the mass of people literally for anything, but the fact that these years have been years of unprecedented discipline from top to bottom is not quite so. Next to the stick discipline was the slack of which could be called incomprehensible if it really was like that-if it could not imagine a modern person in Russia, and, unfortunately, it can, as much as he can! Imagine it at the sight of what is around him. Все дело было в том, что дисциплина была именно палочной, то есть, ничем, кроме чудовищных наказаний, не подкреплялась. А на одних наказаниях, на расстрелах по классовому признаку далеко не уедешь. Как и на голом энтузиазме. Ленин это понял почти сразу, схватился за голову и помер. Через два года умер и Дзержинский, которому и принадлежат слова, что расстрелами по классовому признаку хозяйственного успеха не будет, потому что не может быть никогда. Но и сама по себе материальная заинтересованность даже при частной собственности - не все, что нужно, чтобы дело двигалось. Население должно дорасти… Расхлябанность, безалаберность, головотяпство, наплевательство, бестолковость – в русском языке их более чем достаточно, слов для обозначения того, чем отличается человек, которого не воспитал капитализм, машинное производство, техника и организация, капиталистическая организация. Только что было отмечено двухсотлетие Карла Маркса. Так вот, не кто иной, как он, этот заклятый и самый ученый враг капитализма, лучше всех воздал ему, капитализму, должное. Капитализм вырабатывает в человеке привычку к дисциплине труда, к культурной работе, и пока он, капитализм, не выварит его в своем горниле, для социализма такой материал не годится. «Цивилизаторская миссия капитализма», - так выразился Маркс. Когда-то я наизусть шпарил весь абзац с этими словами даже на экзаменах. Со всем смаком, не всегда и по прямому поводу. С Марксом наперевес я делал намек, что Ленин поспешил, попытавшись перевести российский рабочий класс, не говоря о крестьянстве, пусть и трудовом, из почти феодализма в капитализм – из третьего класса школы жизни сразу в десятый. Человеческий материал, мол, не был готов. И никто из преподавателей и профессоров, даже в Московском государственном университете имени Михаила Васильевича Ломоносова, не спросил меня: «Так вы хотите сказать, что марксизм-ленининзм в части ленинизма – учение не всесильно, ибо не совсем верно?!». Опускали глаза, кто-то и вздохнуть позволит себе легонько и, чуть торопясь, ставит «отлично».

А вот тот человек, о котором сейчас услышите, - тот нет, не дал бы мне спуску, еще и донес бы на меня куда следует. Читаю: «Сегодня опять слушал соседа. О том, что русские духовные, более, чем американцы и европейцы. На мой вопрос определить в терминах, что это за такая духовность, он отвечал: «Никто определить это не в состоянии. Это витает в воздухе. Как и понятия «любовь», «совесть», «дружба». Нельзя определить параметры этих понятий. Нету определений. Никто их дать не может. Витает в воздухе и все. На Западе эффективность труда, а у нас – духовность». Я ему на это: «И мало кто работает с полной отдачей. Нет такой потребности у многих – работать». Он не тушуется. «Да, - говорит, - все так, но мы интереснее живём, свободнее, а они - рабы. Из них капитализм выжимает все соки». И делает все тот же вывод, Анатолий Иванович: «Надо создать условия для всестороннего развития человека - для духовного роста, для гармонического развития человека». Я был готов его убить. И так – каждый раз. Когда-нибудь и убью. Не будете против?», - спрашивает автор этого письма.