Russia that we have not lost

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In social networks, the summary of the year began - it is difficult to break the habit of breaking. It used to be funny: we are people, generally funny creatures. At first you feel like a sort of Cain and Manfred - you hold on, look down at those who have not endured. Then you feel anxious itching in your fingertips. Then, waving his hand to your own snobbery, you begin: “The radio station of the year has become for me ...”. Well, because how can humanity live without this knowledge?

And now it’s somehow scary-what are they writing there? What are you writing? What will I write? What are the results? One terrible black word that is banned in homeland. Or even gray - which was unthinkable, became commonplace, but this is only worse.

And it’s a shame to stutter, it’s a shame to pretend that there was something else, and it’s a shame to complain-because you always remember that there are people who are really bad. Not like you with your usual whining. And that you most likely have some relation to this. Even if he did nothing bad. Just by right, so to speak, birth. We have such rights now.

By the way, Valery Fadeev, the head of the Council of Human Rights under the President of the Russian Federation, said the other day that "Russia can become a leader in terms of preserving, protecting and developing the ideology of human rights." And maybe, that’s the trouble. But, on the other hand, it may not become, maybe it will also cost. Let's hope.

“Losses, as if the cattle are homemade, the nomad will observe,” said our great poet, who is now fashionable not to love, and I will continue to love with your permission (and without your permission I will continue too). You start, as in a children's counting about a forty-thief, to bend your fingers: this one left, this one also left, this is now a foreign agent, this was generally planted. Of course, for nothing. But then you remember where you are and what are around, you are caught, you reproach yourself: do you have losses? After all, there is enough impudence to declare this.

And then you remember something else. In our courtyard, where there used to be garages-racches, demolished under Luzhkov, arranged several houses for homeless cats. With houses, a whole small pride - all of them feed them, everyone loves. Recently, home -made wild cats were nailed. Probably threw someone. Or the owner was rejected. Or called. The house on the street cannot survive, but the entire house chat beats for his fate. We are talking with shelters, looking for volunteers, collecting money. Right now, when, it would seem, no one should care about this unfortunate beast. This is generally a trifle, of course, a trifle. Yes, even humanity may turn out to be a trifle, such times now. And yet-he is, this human impulse.

Human rights activists (not post-law enforcement officers from the Human Rights Council, but real human rights defenders, whom the state still cannot lime under the root), report that more than 19 thousand people have been detained from February 24 for an anti-war position in Russia. They are, these 19 thousand people who knew exactly what they were going to, and still went out. More than 300 criminal cases, more than five thousand (five thousand! - You think) administrators. This is no longer a trifle.

I see how the state turns into an element. It is useless to try to agree with the elements, there are no rules for peaceful coexistence, he will notice - to devour, and if he does not notice now, he will notice later. But I also see people who are not afraid of the elements. And I see how a sketch of some new country-Russia, which we have not had time to lose on top of the borders, is drawn on top of the borders.

After all, there are not only mutual, ridiculous, ridiculous, very now unnecessary squabbles between those who understood everything about the state, but also a cautious, almost touch the movement towards cooperation and mutual assistance. The state is bold, as it seemed to it and it seems, the entire independent press - but many managed to resist. And how many new publications arose from nothing. And all this, it turns out, is necessary for people, because only at the expense of people and survives.

Here, of course, professional vision aberration: of course, journalists who save old medias prevail among my acquaintances, create new media, turn into media, into YouTube and Telegram. But there are also lecture courses, training centers, there are a whole independent university ... And there are a help network created from scratch for those who need help. This is probably the most important thing.

One could climb under the table and cry (and by the way, it is not harmful if you do not bring their life to this), but people take hands. Here to insert something pathos. Well, I don't know. “It gives hope,” for example. But I am not ready to lie: with hope we are not very-reasons to believe that the terrible will quickly end, and the world will somehow change by itself for the better, a little. The sketch of a new country with a high degree of probability can remain just a sketch - this must be kept in mind.

And yet-we are alive, we are, we can do something, we need each other. Is it not enough? Little, but definitely more than nothing. I can’t choose the right words, it’s not about stupid optimism, of course. Just do not rush to write yourself in the dead before death. And without you, without us there will be those who wish. Better look around. Even if you are in despair, you are not alone. Until mostly, it must be, but not alone.

And finally, one important consideration. I read with interest a lot of what people who are not written, to put it mildly, are my like -minded people. And who, respectively, enthusiastic fans of Russian foreign and domestic policy. Today I read in one popular channel : “How could we experience the stability of our air defense system on simulators? Could not. Now we understand that we are vulnerable, and this understanding is worth a lot-otherwise we could endlessly be in illusions until something more serious would fall on our heads. ” This is about the attack on the airfield in the city of Engels of the Saratov region. A person rejoices, he sees benefits. And a little earlier - in another popular channel : “Imagine that the initial calculations were justified and the Kiev regime would collapse in a month. Our victorious soldiers would have met with flowers. Victory parades would be held. We would strengthen in complacency. And we would not have learned anything about the collapse of army logistics, about the unpreparedness for mobilization. The West would not have time to introduce all the waves of sanctions, and we would not have learned anything about the fiction of import substitution. The liberals and the “apolitical” would not have time to escape and manifest in all their glory. ” Also a good reason for joy. People know how to be optimists, not for me a couple.

So. God forbid, to become like these enthusiastic citizens, simply changing the sign. Honestly, I would give it dearly so that we have no reasons to rejoice at the glimpses of humanity, seek support, master the skills of cooperation and mutual assistance. So that we continue, as a year ago, to be quietly horrified by what is doing with us - with us and only with us! - Homeland, and so that we do not collapse on the shoulders for what now we will definitely have to answer.

But the Lord, when he created the world, was so carried away by the process that he forgot to think about the “rewind” button. We do not care continue to live with what is. Well, let's at least remember that while it still remains-a hint of the possibility of Russia, which we have not lost.

The author’s opinion may not coincide with the opinion of the editorial office.

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