Farewell without forgiveness

The relationship of the beloved leader with the population controlled by him is not easy. By imitating the philosopher, one can even talk about the flowering complexity of these relationships. For in them the most diverse means of influence are used by the authorities. Including fatherly affection and rampant terror. And it also happens that the highest authorities, flowing, like a heresy, into unheard of simplicity, concludes equal allied ties with the people. More precisely, it forms such an alliance - according to the most exemplary democratic canons.

Of course, too picky the viewer, looking from the side, can suspect something wrong. He is told about how you and I won the elections in the most severe struggle, almost freezing near Moscow, and now we rejoice and cry - but he does not believe. Like, everyone knows what these were the elections, how the state employees were driven there and how they dispersed the disagreements who wanted to ruin the inauguration of the doomed to win. However, a sense of unity at the moment when the triumph goes to people, without hiding furious tears, really covers many, and there is no doubt that they make up the whole. They are now together: the leader and the electorate. Actually, no one almost doubts, except for too picky spectators.

Or take Crimea. Take and divide the responsibility with the people who joyfully sakes the Bikes that the Crimeans who dreamed of reuniting with us in order to speak Russian freely and impunity, we literally saved from inevitable death at the last minute. Through the muzzles of almost invisible referendum machine guns and with the active participation of army units, which were not there. This is perhaps the highest degree of trust in relations between the legally elected and supporting him. Here is the unique case when their proximity comes to the point that they, as it were, wink at each other. In solidarily stolen, drained together, we will use the cathedrally. This is a very touching moment.

The plot withthe funeral of Yusup Temerkhanov - from the same all -Russian series, albeit with a unique local color. The prisoner died in Omsk, serving a 15-year term for the murder of the ex-colonel Budanov, tens of thousands of people came to say goodbye to him, a little later Ramzan Kadyrov joined the demonstration of sorrow-and this, of course, was a moment of exemplary consolidation of the Chechen leader with his citizens. All of them were sincere: relatives mourning the deceased; compatriots escorting on the last journey of the hero; The head of the administration who came to them.

Nevertheless, a good organization of the event should be noted here.

The fact is that Temerkhanov became a hero for the Chechens long before he died. Regardless of whether he killed Budanov or did not kill. As well as the former colonel was declared an enemy of the Chechen people long before he was shot in Moscow in June 2011. The fact that the killer of Elsa Kungaeva must sit, Putin personally convinced and convinced Akhmat Kadyrov, and his son brought fellow countrymen to massive demonstrations of protest, when the convict was about to release him at parole, and promised him to "pay off" when Budanov nevertheless went free.

In short, the death of Kungaeva, the death of Budanov, the death of Temerkhanov - these are all episodes in the endless Russian -Chechen war, and farewell to the sentenced is also part of this endless chronicle. For all the tragedy of what is happening, with elements of cunning, as it often happens during the hours of an excessively organized union of power with the people. In such hours and days, when they really at the same time, making nonsense or atrocities, calling for revenge for crimes or mourning the one who took revenge. As if conspired.

The leader with the people can be united by a common Victoria, in the elections or in a neighboring country: everyone is in a putty and everyone is happy. Either the general grief, and if the war is frozen, and the invader became the best friend and sponsor, then some tricks are accompanied by the process of unity of the head of the Chechen administration with fellow tribesmen. Then their huge crowds bury the avenger, the father of the deceased Elsa praises the “real man”, while Ramzan Akhmatovich politically correctly reflects aloud about the “judicial error” in the Temerkhanov case - and go, he jokes, he really or the real killer Budanov really left punishment. And stands in the crowd, seeing off the hero appointed by the killer and grinning mournfully into the beard. It doesn't matter. It is important that the enemy is again named and cursed, and a strong managerial hand extends over the human element in the village of Geldagan of the Kurchaloevsky district of Chechnya.

The element legitimizes retribution. The element to which citizens from other Caucasian republics join is merging in hatred. Then she will subside, hide, return, cursing someone else on a completely different reason, such as insulted religious feelings, and it is certainly worth it to enjoy that there is no Anna Politkovskaya, nor Natalia Estemirova, nor Boris Nemtsov in the Chechen martyrologist, but nothing can be done here so far. In the history of the peoples there are such periods when the authorities tell the praise of their infantrymen, visible and invisible, polite and not very, but no more to glorify anyone - and the people willingly respond to these calls. In order for the situation to change, the war must end, and not one, but it is still very long, because it is sometimes difficult to distinguish funerals in the Chechen village from Russian elections and Russian victories.