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Date
02/04/2021
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Ирина Петровская
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Novaya Gazeta
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Excited destroyer with an ax

The propagandists saw in Navalny Yeltsin-2

Illustration: Peter Sarukhanov / "New Gazeta"

The 110th anniversary of Baba Wangi on Channel One was celebrated on a grand scale, dedicating the famous clairvoyant for several hours of airtime. Twice (day and evening) showed the world premiere of the Bulgarian documentaries “Vanga: Man and Phenomenon”, in the prime time they discussed “Man and Phenomenon” by Maxim Galkin in the program “Tonight”.

The 90th anniversary of the first president of Russia Boris Yeltsin has passed much more modest. Several duty stories in the news of different channels and the documentary of Sergei Medvedev five years ago “Boris Yeltsin. You can’t retreat ” - that’s all. However, his name was still mentioned, remembering the ranging prophecy of the same Wanga: she delayed his re-election for a second term.

And two days later, withstanding a short pause after the round date, the first president of Russia was already spoke in the current context in the talk show near Solovyov.

The topic was stated by director Karen Shakhnazarov, a regular member of the Solovyov evenings, acting as a sage, who is listened with reverence for both the leader and his loud guests, usually mercilessly interrupting each other. “I have no doubt that Navalny is a script for the second Yeltsin,” this sage shared the “discovery”.

Judge for yourself: “That Yeltsin had neither ideology nor a plan that Navalny has. But Navalny, like Yeltsin, carries a gene of destruction. "&

The thought of the “guru” of Shakhnazarov was picked up by another guest of Solovyov, a frantic political scientist (they don’t keep others there), who informed the venerable meeting: “What is Navalny, we saw yesterday. This is a crazy, whining, screaming, already middle -aged person. ” “Yeltsin, who at the age of 14, found a grenade and struggled with a hammer on it, also raises questions,” Shakhnazarov laughed. Another political scientist demanded to finish the matter and right now, when Navalny is already in prison, to initiate another thing against him about extremism in his former statements. The delay in death is like. We are talking about saving the country and primarily its young generation. Otherwise, then "we will get a new Yeltsin, such a ruin destroyer with an ax ..."

Such a posthumous "glory". The name of Yeltsin was not mentioned on the federal air for a long time-it was awkwardly, probably, the one who brought the country a lot of troubles to the “dashing nineties”, but at the end of the presidential term, he was happy with Russia as a successor. And it was better to invent. But the trouble came from where they did not wait. "Want to repeat?" “Political scientists” menacingly ask.

But the name of the one who, until recently, could not be called, is now coming from each iron. From morning to night. In all news and talk shows, they scare children and their parents on all federal channels, so even the most backward layers of the population, who previously knew about him in viger, aware that there is such a terrible Navalny and he is the main threat of the country's stability.

Sometimes, however, not only threats, but also subtle hints are allowed: they say, we understand everything, but we cannot break the rules of the game, so be content with allusions. Ivan Urgant late on the evening of February 2 gracefully beat the main theme of the day: “Today we all watched the news and wondered: it will not work, it will come out - it will not come out. Well, did not come out. I’m talking about a groundhog ... ”On other, less dramatic days, one could admire the courage of the host and the very first channel, albeit an ezopian language expressed their attitude to a sentence announced a few hours earlier. But there are circumstances when humor seems awkward and inappropriate. "The jokes are over!" - As one of the constant “heroes” of Ivan Urgant recently barked on his air, commenting on protests and repressions that followed them.

The host of the current show “Time will tell” Artem Sheinin also remembered the groundhog, who simply overslept his day in the Moscow Zoo, and concluded: “This suggests that spring is not soon, and the winter will be long.”

Hint again? Not at all. He had in mind exclusively a folk sign, and looking for a different meaning in the words of propagandists is a useless thing. Moreover, Sheinin immediately continued: “I look at these yesterday’s shots (ships and sentences) and I understand: Alexei Navalny behaves like a person who does not only know what he will sit, but he wants to sit down.”

Following the analysis of plots from spontaneous street protests. Look. Now it is customary to brand the security forces for excessive cruelty when the protesters are detained. But here you have shots (there are shots where riot police fiercely pounding young people pressed against the wall):

“See the girl in the hood? They work with sticks, but they do not touch the girl in the hood. This suggests that there was no team to wet everyone in a row. ”

Or one more thing: riot police stop a taxi and dragging a passenger and a driver out of it. “In Belarusian events, the car would have been spaced to smithereens.” We only hit the passenger from the foot in the groin, who seemed to shout out some insults to the security forces from the taxi window, and therefore, they were pulled out of the car and put him with his face on the hood. Deserved. But this girl cries, and the riot police comforts her and shows the way to the subway. And this middle -aged policeman, having checked the documents from three young men, lets them go with good parting words. “On each side there are healthy people. We must understand. " Have you beaten a journalist? But he did not come there to get a head and shout? If it has a vest with the inscription "Press", does it make it a journalist automatically? Moreover, he is not a journalist in the classical sense of the word, but a blogger and, therefore, automatically loses immunity, like all other participants in an unauthorized action.

Solovyov in the show is still more unambiguous. The journalist was given a club on the head - he is to blame, do not climb under the feet of people when they work. By the way, it's time to "take a better look at those whom we call journalists." University teachers with incorrect political views drive away from our children with a filthy broom. Employees of law enforcement agencies, judges, officials should be protected from pressure from the press and the Internet community. People go out to defend their homeland, and here the limits of the permissible should be wider, and society should relate to them more condescendingly, otherwise they will be afraid or be shy to fulfill their duty. “It is dangerous to speak in my field today,” the sorrowful sage Shaknazarov shares.

And in everything, of course, Navalny is to blame. At the same time, while his supporters are hammering and delayed on the streets, he is sitting in the warmth and comfort of the prison cell (so!). I got a job well.