Russian Museum of Man

Former commander of Donbass militias Igor Strelkov (Girkin) put up for sale a medal for the capture of Crimea. This event was interested in publicist Ivan Davydov

A very medium -sized thing: 79,23 g. True, gold. 750 sample. On the Avers there is a profile of Vladimir Putin in a laurel wreath, as if specially made for a reconstant who loved at the time of the pre -wars to dress up with a Roman legionnaire. And the inscription in Latin: “Deo ducente virtuti Putini Crimea Recepta”. I taught Latin for a long time, without care, and I remember unsteady, sorry, but this approximately that God leads the Putin's power to the return of Crimea. On the reverse is the Crimean map and another inscription: "The enemy is humble to me with meekness." On the gurt engraving: "B.F.S.V.V." And number 4. with an abbreviation is easier than with Latin - this is the charity fund of St. Vasily the Great. Founder - Konstantin Malofeev. It all started for the help of sick children and supporting Orthodox educational institutions, and continued with the financing of French ultra -right and the coinage of medals in honor of the annexation. How it ends - we will not guess.

A conversation about the medal - not in order to gloat or speculate how the system throws its own without pity. There is no news in this, and there is little truth: everything is with the throne, where the remnants of state money are divided

The medal behind number 4 is still belonging to Igor Strelkov, the former leader of the militias of Slavyansk, the former “Minister of Defense of the DPR”, a man who boasted in an interview that he had almost personally unleashed a war in the Donbass, as well as the author of the phrase, which is still in history textbooks. “The bird fell by the terricon, the residential sector did not hook. Peaceful people were not injured. " From the public “Summers from Strelkov Igor Ivanovich” the record was deleted as soon as they realized that not another Ukrainian transporter was shot down, but by the Malaysian passenger “Boeing”. But the network retains everything, especially words. There are enough screenshots.

It still belongs - because it is sold. It is exhibited to one of the online auctions for numismatists. The starting price is a million rubles. In VKontakte, Strelkov confirmed that the medal is him. The former hero of the war has financial problems. “I never had a special pet to this award, since it: a) not state, b) not combat, c) with the image of a person whom I, in general -, with the exception of a very short period in 2014, never respected, and since 2015 I have frankly despise,” writes Strelkov.

A conversation about the medal - not in order to gloat or speculate how the system throws its own without pity. There is no news in this, and there is little truth: everything is with the throne, where the remnants of state money are divided. Other systems are not their own, they are used and thrown out of unnecessary, shooters are not the first and definitely not the last in a series of used. Something like a paper handkerchief-stained in the blood and threw it into garbage. Well, this is so, softly, not to look for more humiliating comparisons.

It’s just that this lightweight, up to eighty grams did not reach the circle, is a very curious artifact. In order not to say - evidence. Unlike the wide popular masses, shell -shocked by television shelling, people who minted these medals and awarded each other perfectly understood what they were doing. What next are inevitable problems with Europe and the States, sanctions, crippling the economy, that is, worsening the lives of ordinary Russian people, and almost certainly war. So, they consciously chose this path for the homeland. I really wanted to play the war with living people. And it turned out to play, and thousands have already died, and it is still dying, and it is not clear whether the war can ever end at all. Consciously chosen, proud, seriously called themselves patriots, minted medals, unsubstantially fearing that the state, due to the times covering it of strange shyness, may not note their feat.

Russia is in trouble, but I would like to believe that Russia will once come out of trouble. No, of course, there are not so many grounds, but when did this interfere with Vera? And if you get out, it would be correct to relate to the memory of the mistakes made and committed crimes with greater frugality than it is usually accepted here

Such things should be understood and remembered, and the medal makes the memory tangible.

Someone will certainly buy this medal: rarely fair. And it will be a pity, if it is eventually lost, will settle in a private collection, and will hide from prying eyes.

Russia is now in trouble. Many understand this. Many even of those who, fingering the indistinguishable imperial complexes, were going to rallies in honor of the return of the cursory peninsula to his native harbor. Well, that is, how he was going-they brought it down, but this is another paradox of the Russian modernity: they were brought by forcibly, but they rejoiced at the same time sincerely. And now they notice that pension reforms, figures in payments and numbers on price tags in food stores are somehow related to that jubilant. And they are sad.

Russia is in trouble, but I would like to believe that Russia will once come out of trouble. No, of course, there are not so many grounds, but when did this interfere with Vera? And if you get out, it would be correct to relate to the memory of the mistakes made and committed crimes with greater frugality than it is usually accepted here. Create, for example, the Russian Museum of Man. Here this medal would be in a place of honor. It is at least a small thing, but it allows you to understand a lot.

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