Spring on Cross Street

The slogan of the day: "Peace, labor, whip, gingerbread!"

Well, the day turned out to be last week! Now you can already calmly look around: have we missed something to that hectic environment. Did you listen to the president's message? But what about! Did you go to the protest in support of Navalny? Judging by the cones and bruises, some went. And some have not yet returned - they will wait for 10-15 days.

And now about the largest event of that day, April 21. Only honestly. Have you celebrated International Gingerbread Day? Well, how so? They sat and drank distant tea with cheesecake, when all the progressive humanity - with gingerbread?

What is characteristic, our people are not indifferent to the gingerbread. This flour product was reliably fixed in jokes-prisoners and sayings. One of them has an undoubted public sound: “We’ll wait, and a truck with gingerbread will overturn on our street!”

You must admit that in this phrase there is an impeccable expression of folk interests and a directly program of action. More precisely, inaction. So you imagine some bumpy 2nd transverse street. Our people are sitting at the gate, having wide open their mouths (mouth - it is here for rhyme and give a plot of a joke in nature), and with hope they look at passing transport. One truck is past, the second is by, the third ... Nothing, today is not lucky, we’ll sit tomorrow. The bag and scoop are ready.

On April 21, nothing overturned, but some gingerbreads still fell asleep to the people. Vladimir Vladimirovich promised the Russians then, and, as at first it seemed, he did not stint. To some categories of citizens-more than 5 thousand, some-10 each. Is it bad? This is then boring commentators and tedious financiers ruined the mood for everyone. Well, who asked to explain that the promised measures of social support for the population will cost the budget in two years only 400 billion rubles! And that these 400 billion are only 3% of the National Welfare Fund. Say, it was possible to scatter the gingerbread plow tired of the expectations of the country. And without holes, like a bagel.

What billions? Yes, we never looked at the safe of this fund. It seems that even the Minister of Finance opens it only for ventilation and laying the records from moths. How many billions are there and for anyone - we do not ask. We would have to deal with our income. And they, as not by the time, prompted irresponsible analysts, for seven years now they have been continuously falling. And, it turns out, baking with glaze, in what packaging it will not give it, will not replace the indigenous measures to strengthen the economy. We have, at first glance, frail and unexplored, but I don’t want to throw a second look at it at all.

What else about gingerbread? The most closely in folk speech is the gingerbread is connected with the whip. And together they, a whip and gingerbread, have long been associated with the methods of government. The combination in the Russian language of Knut and the Gingerbread is unexpectedly attributed to Lenin, who allegedly borrowed this allegory in Germany from German folklore. Of course, it would be better if Vladimir Ilyich was mistaken in translation and would bring to us, for example, a policy of sweets and gingerbread. But the whip is like a whip. And he himself liked it more, and everyone was already used to it.

And on April 21, the whip, along with the gingerbread, came to the fore again. True, this time he turned out to be shorter than expected. It is clear that the authorities clicked with a whip from the heart in many cities, but if Petersburg did not take into account, then the victims were less than usual. And how do you not take Petersburg into account if peaceful and unarmed citizens there were detained 30 times more than in Moscow, if on the gingerbread day they were delayed with batons and even electric shockers. Who is older, remembers that

A program of electrification of the whole country was once carried out. Was there at least one point on electric shockers?

Or maybe it's time for us to celebrate the day of the whip? As they have not yet guessed! You can arrange theatrical flogging of oppositionists in the squares. The security forces and governors would be measured by whip. Shepherds and circus trainers would have performed on small sites, but would also affirm the supremacy of the whip ... A minute, here they suggest that the day of whip is already celebrated somewhere. No, this is a little wrong. This in Sweden and Finland celebrate the day of the Holy Knut. Those who inadvertently forgotten, recall that Lavard (in Swedish-Knut Lavard) was a Danish prince and lived almost a thousand years ago in an unlit and unheated XII century. He was killed by a relative, an opponent in the struggle for the throne, and later declared saint. Well, what can you say? There is practically no one left for the contemporaries of the whip, to ask there is no one, but one can guess that at that time they fought for power by unworthy methods: they killed competitors, used an administrative resource, and dumped ballots into urns. And after counting the voices, probably protesters and clubs were dispersed. Medieval wildness.

But we are about our own. In our conditions, the emblem of the “whip and gingerbread” could well replace the symbol “sickle and hammer” who surrendered positions. Some of the sculptors could scold the monument like a "worker and a collective farmer." He would call him "riot police and confectioner." Although the confectioner does not play a special role here, they are not expected from her gingerbread.

But, it seems, they waited. A commotion is heard on the 2nd Transverse street. The truck has overturned! But what a disappointment! He walked for a emptyness ...