Too free. Gleb Pavlovsky-On the connection of Putin-2021 with August-1991

In the anniversary of hypocrisy cannot be avoided, especially congratulating themselves. At the fifth or seventh discussion of the thirty years of the State Emergency Committee (Putch's Day on August 19, over the years, replaced us with the date of the city uprising in Moscow - August 20), the Yeltsin tank lengthened as the famous Lenin log on Saturday - all there were located. “Standing on the tank, I understood ...” - sounded a refrain. Medinsky in the Museum of the Revolution impressively opened the discussion and as a veteran of the defense of the White House defended the State Emergency Committee.

The events of Augustus Solzhenitsyn christened the “Preobrazhensky Revolution”, to which the pious Putin only squeamishly grunts. But the revolution won and brought out of non -being a group that took power in the country. Perhaps we correctly celebrate this day of two stocks opposed to one another, to immediately merge together. Day of Freedom, but whose?

Team

The eternal minister Shoigu (Dwinen of the Russian Federation became a minister when he was not yet) announced the other day: “We are a Putin team.” I think Putin grimaced - he never loved this word. But the Kremlin team exists, and this is a team of Augustus. It took 30 years to rally. And it began with the events at the White House.

All of them are children in 1991, the same rebels as Muscovites. The famous photo with Yeltsin, Zolotov and Korzhakov on the tank is a significant symbol. They risked terribly: they would have a putty real, lanky Zolotov - an alpha light target for snipers.

During the liberation of August 1991, the old power in man evaporated. He opened for power over himself, but could not stand it and gave it out. To whom? Those who were stronger than freedom for themselves personally.

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