Pragmatists from a high road

Daria Navalny explained to the leaders of Europe that their pragmatism is cynicism, duplicity and corruption. The Rostov court officially recognized that the Russian Federation and the LPR are located in the Russian Federation. In Berlin, a citizen of the Russian Federation was convicted of murder by order of the Kremlin. Sokurov wrote that he was threatened with murder, and asked for forgiveness for this.

In recent days, four Russian citizens elevated their vote against the dictatorship. The speech of the actress Leah Akhedzhakova at the award of the "Star of theater". Nobel lecture by Dmitry Muratov. The manifesto of director Sokurov, thrown into Putin's face. Daria Navalny's speech to the deputies of the European Parliament at the award of the Sakharov Award to Alexei Navalny.

Four very different people. With different life experience and different life history. Located in very different life circumstances. I understand that it is difficult to compare their words and, probably, it would not be necessary, but how to not compare when these speeches were heard in a row, one after another and in fact about the same thing. About dictatorship and human freedom. And it so happened that the most reckless, most piercing and most uncompromising words were said by two women: 83-year-old Liya Akhedzhakova and 20-year-old Daria Navalny. This is not a reproach against Muratov and Sokurov - they said very important and very correct words that hit the target and caused a big resonance. But the fact that it was the women who turned out to be the very bright fighters with dictatorship in the world, which is still the masculine world, is arranged by men and lives according to masculine rules is an important circumstance that makes them think.

Daria Navalny’s speech was not only an angry protest against Putin’s dictatorship, but also a direct accusation thrown into the face of the Western politicians.

This 20-year-old girl, a little timid of the rostrum with which she had a chance to speak, asked the West leaders a naive but very tough question. About why Europe, so great and powerful, accepts such correct resolutions, and her father is still in prison. And this applies not only to Alexei Navalny. And previous Sakharov Prize winners are also mainly in prison. And the Laobel Laureate of the 2010 Nobel Prize of the 2010 Liuzovich died in prison.

And, having asked this question, Daria Navalny gives an answer to it. Evil triumphs because in the West pragmatism triumphs, and " cynicism, duality and corruption are hidden under the flag of pragmatism . " The 20-year-old student Daria Navalny offers adults and solid uncles and aunts, European politicians to open a history textbook and make sure that "the peace of dictators and tyrants has never worked."

The deputies of the European Parliament applauded standing when Navalny’s daughter completed her speech with the words: “We strive for European ideas, protecting human rights, democracy and integrity. We are not striving for Europe, chancellors and ministers who dream of getting a job in the board of directors of Putin state -owned companies or swimming on oligarchs. ”

Daria Navalny uttered the anti -word the year - "pragmatism." And this is not a well -worthy philosophical teaching that found its development in the writings of Charles Pierce, William James, John Dewey and George Santayana. Today in the world two types of completely different “pragmatism” - “pragmatism” of criminals, state killers and terrorists and the pragmatism of hypocrites, who, in the words of these criminals, killers and terrorists, condemn, but in reality they work with them, and quite in brilliantly.

“What is better for us to believe is true,” said one of the founders of pragmatism William James. The events of recent days confirm that Russia is led by “pragmatists from a large road” that James has not read, but the truth for them is what is beneficial for them here and now.

The verdict was deleted from the website of the Rostov court, which spoke about the supply of food for the Russian military in the DPR and the LPR. A banal sentence to a corrupt official who gave bribes to the head of the Center for the State Sanitary and Epidemiological Supervision of the Southern Military District. The sensation was that in the sentence of the court in black and white it was written that once every two weeks, columns from more than seventy cars were sent to terrorist enclaves, which brought products for the "military units of the Russian armed forces that are deployed in the territory of the DPR and LPR." Peskov, commenting on the verdict, stated that we are talking about the error of the person who wrote this text. Peskov is not a judge, not a prosecutor, not a lawyer, not a side of the process at all. Claims an error in the verdict. Who, if not the head of Peskov, loves a little that to declare the independence of the court and the impossibility of interference in his decision. Remember William James: "That is what is better for us to believe is true." They obviously did not read sand and Putin, but they are guided.

The day before yesterday, on December 15, the Judge of the Land Court of Berlin Olaf Arnoldi sentenced - a life sentence to a citizen of the Russian Federation Vadim Nikolayevich Krasikov for the murder of the former Chechen field commander Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, committed in the center of the German capital in August 2019. Reading the verdict, the Berlin judge said: “The accused acted by order of the central Russian government and was part of the Russian power apparatus. The motives of the Russian Federation were revenge and retribution. In addition, such a crime was to be a public signal ... This is nothing more than state terrorism. ”

Two vessels, Rostov and Berlin, at one time issued two sentences confirming the terrorist character of the Putin regime. And the fact that the Rostov court dropped the word of truth by mistake does not matter.

Director Alexander Sokurov wrote an appeal in the name of the head of the HRC Valery Fadeev, in which he apologized for what happened at a meeting with the president and said that his friends warned him about the existing threat of his life.

“I was shown an angry reaction to my behavior by the president’s press secretary. He is right - I am an amateur and, apparently, there is no place in such a respected professional environment as advice ... My friends tell me about offensive statements from the Chechen sector. And I know - no one in the country will defend the honor and dignity of a member of the Presidential Council. This was already when the head of the committee against torture was subjected to insults and bullying. My friends warn of the threatening danger of my life. The only guarantee of my life may be obstruction by the president of such a radical denouement. ” The end of the quote.

Having reported that they want to kill him, Sokurov asks for forgiveness: “I am just a citizen and artisan of my workshop, a teacher. I do not own diplomatic skills. I know that I insulted with my act, the behavior of many members of the Council. I apologize to everyone. ”

What is happening with Sokurov, perhaps, even more than the sentences of the Rostov and Berlin courts, characterizes Putin's Russia, its internal deep essence. The new Dostois region, "enriched" by the experience of the Gulag, denunciations and collective persecution. The outstanding director pronounces the manifesto of freedom before the dictator, telling him about the troubles of people on the lands occupied by this dictator. The dictator sternly reports him, after which a scumbag named “padisha” with the usual rudeness and insults is closed into the director. The director is threatened with death, for which he, an outstanding director, asks everyone for forgiveness. This is Russia, the third decade of the 21st century. Curtain.

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