Maternal unity

A formidable force wakes up in Russia

November 4, November 4, looked like a political feint spent by the state just so that the citizens of less tried on the events of November 7, 1917 for their present life. The case is traditional: they say that the feast of February 23 appeared in our calendar initially for the purpose of cover. However, by 2019, popular unity is celebrated with some unprecedented cynicism, against the background of the split society and the war of the security forces against all.

Official speeches about the events of 1612 events memorable for each Russian, not much different from statements on this subject in the previous seasons. For some reason, the “Russian March” was also held, about which the philosopher Maxim Goryunov asks the right question:

“Why do you need a procession of nationalists, if all state policy and propaganda are no different from the slogans in Lublino?”

In parallel, the society, exhausted by the “Moscow business”, counts its political prisoners. Such a unity.

“Levada Center” published a study according to which 70% of Russians do not know the essence of “Moscow business”. But one of those who know, 57% believe that the authorities are about the authorities to intimidate their political opponents, and only 34% believe in the official explanation of the suppression of “riots”. The society is split into those who sees the problem in the “Moscow business”, and those who are trying to not know anything about it. The question is who can convince the indifferent majority so far. Whose point of view will win: propaganda or those hundreds of thousands of citizens who require the cessation of the persecution of the Politicals.

The most important event of this festive week is the unification of relatives of the accused in Russian political affairs, the creation of the Mother's Movement against Political Repressions. So it was already at the most terrible moments of our modern history - the “Committee of Soldiers' Mothers” was engaged in the search for missing people during the Chechen wars, the “Mother of Beslan” sought the truth from the authorities about the tragedy. Now the relatives of the accused have become the first line of public resistance to political terror.

No one is ready to ask about the salvation of only his own son or husband. No one believes a typical Russian wisdom, suggesting that everything needs to be solved quietly.

Yesterday, apolitical people rutino go to pickets, because they understand that they have no other methods of self -defense. Or they will find sympathy and support from other people living in a large Russian society, or will be left alone with a repressive machine.

The solidarity of relatives is a large and formidable force that one day you have to reckon. Once it was from the movement of American families against the draft in the army that a campaign began against the war in Vietnam. The tragic events in Ukraine at the end of 2013 were triggered by the strength overclocking of a student gathering on the Maidan - then the actions of Berkut were also outraged by the mother.

If you want to find folk unity and the real, failure to incarnate the slogan about how we do not throw our own, take a closer look at what the relatives of Sergei Fomin, Azat Miftakhov, Daniil Konon, Anna Pavlikova and dozens of other Russian citizens, who ended up in prisons just to learn everyone else are doing now. The future of the country in any case will require other holidays. Day of the Honest Court, for example.