Fires over the country. "Special operation" sister "Clap"

The Soviet Union of the first half of 1991 is not the best place for life, but excitingly interesting. The economy is collapsing, in January, the country was confiscated monetary reform with the exchange of bills, in April (the national economy is still planned), the government sharply increased prices in state trade, but this did not solve the deficit problem, the country is on the verge of hunger. Shakhters are striking. Gorbachev introduces tanks into a separatist Lithuania, in Latvia local authorities confronts the loyal riot police. In Karabakh, the war, in Uzbekistan pogroms, the Russian authorities, led by Boris Yeltsin, declares himself as an alternative to Gorbachev, and the security forces are preparing a coup d'etat from his environment. Five minutes before the collapse of the country, the time is extremely harsh.

But even against such a harsh background, a large fire in Leningrad does not go unnoticed on February 23. The hotel of the same name is on the city on Pirogovskaya Embankment. A preliminary version - a fire of a TV in one of the numbers (Soviet color TVs of that generation often exploded and burned). Fire throughout the facade, fire truck stairs do not reach the upper floors of the nine -story building, and the guests go out into the street along the bound sheets, fall, break up to death. The hotel lives the widow of Vysotsky actress Marina Vladi, she is removed from the burning floor. Mark Grigoryev’s journalist Mark Grigoryev dies in the fire, and rumors have gone that it was for the sake of his murder that everything is adjusted - Grigoryev’s head was punched, but the forensic experts believe that the skull could burst from a high temperature in a burning room. All -Union sensation, nationwide shock, the first lanes of newspapers, emergency news releases. On the cruiser Aurora, on that day, celebrations should have passed on the occasion of the Soviet Army Day, everything was canceled, of course. Large emergency.

The day of the fire in St. Petersburg is still remembered. On February 23, when Leningrad was burning - the official city commemorative date, the day of memory of firefighters of all generations, commemorative events are held in our time. The city remembers.

Sixteen people died at the Leningrad Hotel. Nine firefighters, seven civilians. It’s not good to measure with such numbers, but just for understanding the scale - when 16 people died in the fire, even the Soviet Union of 1991 shocked, when life itself was a continuous shock, and now in Tver the military research institute burned down, there are twenty dead (rather twenty -three - they write that the three have not yet found), but who will call the incident to a national emergency? The provincial chronicle of incidents, no more.

Is the conclusion that society has outlived, and life has depreciated - yes the devil knows it. It may be more significant that it is in our time that the official structures and the media learned to give even the biggest trouble (recall the “Winter Cherry” ) in parts, as in a song about a beautiful marquise. The years of “cotton” and “smoky” were not in vain, no one is in a hurry to count the dead, and the dead in the world of cotton, in general, there are no victims , the word is not at all frightening, especially if the number of victims grows slowly, reaching anxious values ​​only by night, when the program “Time” has already ended for several days, and on April 21 , about twenty deceased, about twenty deceased, about twenty deceased. declared the 27th; A week is more than a sufficient time to forget about the fire in general. On Tuesday, one of the victims , 82-year-old laureate of the State Prize, professor and colonel Valery Kretinin was buried . Who knows this surname, who heard her in the news? Does the titled designer deserve from the defense industry so that his tragic death becomes a noticeable informational occasion? Apparently not.

Minimizing negative emotions in the mass audience of news, these “claps” are already quite a long -standing state policy, almost public; They wrote a lot about her, and the journalists even managed to find out that the “regime of information favors” and the “installation of damage to the damage” are designed to “focus on good news” so that society does not panic. This terminology itself now sounds like a sweet pre -war retro - there were times when the authorities worshiped ratings, prepared for electoral cycles, led a tricky information policy oriented towards maintaining a half -slee social state. Now everything is in the past. There is a war, at the front to the dead already on thousands, and now the first funerals are already received by their native soldiers who died on the Russian side of the border. News of the type “Air Defense works on Belgorod” sound already routinely, they do not force them to tremble. They do not force a shudder, but they influence the context, and the story with the central research and space defense burned in Tver is part of this context, regardless of how true the official version with the closure of worn wiring is. When a military facility is destroyed during the war, the first version of the default is a military. And not only this applies to military facilities. Does the shopping center in Siberian Ishim burn - is it just burning, or set it on fire? In the country of Governor Vorobyov, next to the castle of Minister Shoigu, there was a fire - suddenly he is connected with the war? The mysterious deaths of top financists from the gas industry with families-is this pure crime, or indirectly military history? The collision of two helicopters in the Saratov region is just a clash, or?

The ominous military information background naturally grows, devouring all the previous, even peaceful spheres. The previous state policy of concealing bad news, once focused on ratings, now has become part of the war-there is no difference what losses hide, losses in a fire or in war-the technology is the same, the principle is the same, the “special operation” of the “cotton” sister. The line between death in war and death during the war is indistinguishablely subtle. Professor Valery Kretinin and soldier Nikita Koshelev lie in the same earth on the same day. The concealment, which was yesterday by political technology, today becomes meanness, and questions left unanswered, replenish the collective experience of not well -fed indifference, but the inconsistent of trouble, the indifference to which is already indistinguishable from complicity. National injury - it is already here, and the longer it is not to notice it, the more severe it will be.