How to live now?

Leonid Gozman, who remains in Russia, discusses the national tragedy

I do not know when and how it ends what is told now to call a special military operation. But no less important question for me is how to live now? Those who stayed, how we remained with my wife.

By the way, if yesterday it was our voluntary decision, now, maybe it is almost impossible to leave. The boundaries, formally, are not closed, but all Aeroflot flights, for example, are canceled.

But I'm not talking about that.

Our country, in which we lived all the last years, is no more.

About the inevitable problems in the economy, the fall in the standard of living, the militarization, the strengthening of repression, and so on everything has already been said. And about the worst thing - about human losses - too. But there are two more points.

Since the beginning of the nineties, hundreds of thousands, millions of people built a new country. Foreign companies in our market did not appear by the wave of a magic wand - there were long negotiations and approvals that ended with the appearance of world brands. Independent media were not born by decree of the president - they were created for years. The shuttles did not disappear by themselves - they were replaced by normal retail chains, the creation and rooting of which was spent in Russia. And everything else is the same. Now all this is dismantled overnight, we, like that old woman from a fairy tale, find ourselves in our old broken trough. But the situation will be even worse - then, in the days of the late USSR, there were bastard, but mechanisms for maintaining the system afloat - so that the metro goes, for example. They also did not arise by order, they were formed. They have been gone for a long time, and the old ones are destroyed before our eyes with an unthinkable speed. The usual life leaves them - computers, cars, goods without queue.

But there is another problem that no one is talking about at all. There are different people in any country. And those who read and think, and those who want to help their neighbors, and those who like to scuff a swearing word on a foreign car with a nail. In a normal society, these latter are kept in UES-both with fear of punishment and public morality, which, as it were, explains to them that if you do or say this and that, then you are a marginal, an outcast, you are not a respected person.

Since any system tries to rely on people who are psychologically close to it, in different periods, different people become the base of the system and go upstairs. The attack aircraft, for the most part, did not re -read Heine.

We had a car with a nail in a car, we felt that their hour had come. The new system - and it is new under the previous leaders! - will rely on them,

It is they who will declare them correct people, carriers of the bastard, spirituality and patriotism. Actually, their picture of the world has long been voiced by federal channels, but the propagandists, mostly, were just lying for good money, and these are sincerely. They believe in enemies, and conspiracies, and in the fact that we will defeat everyone. They will be encouraged, promoted, and on their small pranks, such as pogroms and beatings of “those who are in the hat”, look through the fingers. We will now live in a country in which they are in trend.

And how will we now live with all this and with all these? Without the media, without social networks, with closed borders? With the threat of a prison for a word that we cannot but pronounce? And how do we continue the struggle for the Russia that we want to see, which, as Ekaterina the Great said, is the “essence of the European Power”?

Sorry that there are questions, but there are no answers yet - we will look.