Results-2021. Branch for violent

Maybe someday and even soon we will recall the outgoing 2021 year with sad nostalgia: after all there is no war, life is still everydayly stable. But now we say goodbye to him completely without regrets. I don’t remember anything good.

The pandemic began earlier, but somehow strengthened. It seems that the repression did not begin now, but they became more massive and somewhat unhealthy. What has definitely changed is the stylistic of the regime, apparently, he has reached milk-school ripeness. The feeling of shame disappeared, everything began to spit on everything, and inside, and outside - Gori everything with a clear flame. It’s rude to be rude, to forbid how to prohibit, to plant so, to torture so torture. Everything is almost openly, not caring about the arguments, neither moral nor legal.

The power structures, more precisely, the state security organs that took possession of the country have already created their unique gabes-glow atmosphere. The people are silent and monitor the rapidly rising prices in stores.

Humanitarian education and science, in particular, history and philosophy, are occupied by Orthodox-patriotic activists. The state attack on the Memorial*, until recently unthinkable, is no longer surprising anyone.

And a completely untied militaristic hysteria. Open military threat. Everyone has already been accustomed to the fact that the war is not a force majeure, it is normal and even good, because they, thick-bruised, are frightened, and we, ashamed and muscular, have nothing to lose and victory will be behind us. The ideology of the post -stabin USSR, lying, but at least outwardly peaceful, is recalled with longing. Those guys in power went through the war and were rationally afraid of it, these did not pass anything and were not afraid of anything, neither for themselves, nor for us. That is, if in the USSR there was a feeling that we were in the madhouse, now it seems that we were transferred to the department for violents in this madhouse.

There is nowhere to translate further. Further war.

And still no anti -war movement. Which could become the main unifying political force and political program.

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* International "Memorial", the Human Rights Center "Memorial" are included in the Roskomnadzor of the Russian Federation in the register of foreign agents. December 28, 2021 "Memorial" was liquidated by the decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation

Photo: Frontispiece to the poem by A. S. Pushkin “Copper Horseman” Alexander Benois, 1905/Archive Hedgehog Archive