Jeans, chewing gum, Tesla

After the death of the G8, you can only talk to the mask

Entrepreneur Ilon Musk spoke at the educational festival organized by the Knowledge Society, which in the current form was established in 2015 by the Russian Ministry of Education. The performance is actively discussed on the Internet: it seems that if it weren’t for Musk, no one except the direct participants would have learned about this grandiose festival of science, where, among the 150 speakers, for example, the head of RT Margarita Simonyan, with the motivational report “Personal Success on Television”.

Mask told Russian students about his vision of the future: all transport, except for missiles, will be electric, unmanned vehicles will become the norm, and for some reason humanity will colonize the cosmos. Then the entrepreneur announced his desire to start selling Tesla electric cars in Russia and Kazakhstan, and even not too definite plans to open the production of his company in our countries. Finally, Musk confessed to the love of Russia, in which there are many talented people, its contribution to the development of the cosmos is huge, and in SpaceX there are conference rooms named after Tsiolkovsky and the Queen.

The next day, a representative of the Ministry of Industry and Trade said that officials were inviting a mask to Russia to discuss the construction details of the Tesla plant (it was unlikely that the American was ready for such a speed of state). Fierce disputes are held on the Internet: some condemn the mask for participating in a propaganda event, while others, on the contrary, admire the fact that one of the most famous people of the planet recognized the achievements of Russia, and in this regard, it seems to be no mention of any international isolation of the country.

The unprecedented stir around the “Russian speech” of the mask in 2021 easily explain. It took place in conditions when the number of international sites with the participation of Russians is constantly declining, politicians brought contacts with the West to a minimum, the international business after 2014 is trying to bypass Russia, and for “communications with foreigners” it is easily possible to get the appropriate status of “agent”. In this context

Ilon Musk for us is the new Samantha Smith, an American schoolgirl who visited the USSR in 1983 at the invitation of Yuri Andropov, at the last peak of the Cold War.

Musk/Smith demonstrates the symbolic connection of Russia with the “real world”, where there are jeans and chewing gum (in the 2021 version higher - Tesla, innovations and private cosmonautics), and also give us such a desired opportunity to “be seen by their eyes”, “get approval of a Western man”. Such pieces have been widely practiced in the USSR, since the time of Lenin and Stalin, and here we again need "foreign friends from bourgeois countries." Such needs are updated when the country begins to close.

The mask for modern Russia has a more specific role. It is called "eccentric American millionaire, a great friend of the Soviet Union."

At the beginning of the era of Leonid Brezhnev, such a friend of the USSR was served by the oil magnate Armand Hammer - he played the role of an informal intermediary between Soviet leaders and American elites.

The national tragedy is that instead of being an open country that defends its interests among other great powers and uses all the main international sites for this, primarily direct negotiations within the framework of the Great Eight (G8), Russia is returning to the Archaic of the Cold War again.

Roscosmos tries to keep up with the news about the upcoming Tesla plants planned by the Ministry of Industry and Trade. The department of Dmitry Rogozin registered the trademark “Technology, proven by space”, under which, in particular, alcohol and panties can be sold.