Commander who led a detachment from a quagmire

Memory of Evgeny Yasin

In the office of Yevgeny Yasin (while he was the scientific director of the tower) a portrait of a doctoral sausage hung. So he called the image of the sausage loaf. And he added: "I am a Soviet man, pink sausage - my love."

Is it true that he was a Soviet man? To some extent-yes. In the sense that household solidarity, naive respect and installation for a good outcome were inherent in him in full. "What is the good of this?" - So he often completed the Sitans (situational tests). Although no one was going to withdraw anything optimistic from the hard work of the topic. It doesn’t matter, economic or social. As far as his closest friend, Dmitry Zimin, was focused on Alarmism as a norm of life, so Yasin physically needed “justification of good”, hoping as a general denominator of history.

Yasin would not believe in her happy final, he would not have taken up the hard work of the selection of teams for economic reforms in 1991; Is it necessary to clarify that then it depended on his position a lot. And holding it - he would not put on Gaidar, but on the Generally understandable Shatalin and Petrakov, along with the Yavlinsky who joined them.

But Yasin believed - and therefore chose those who were not like dreamers. And he himself joined the risky transformation process; In the Yeltsin-Gaidar government, he became a minister without a portfolio, some like a minister-mentor.

Can we say that the experiment failed? And that the market economy created from non -existence itself relaxed political reality? No, we can't. Sausage ceased to be a portrait - and became a reality, the markets were born and earned at full power. But the politics changed too slowly, and then instantly degraded. And the economy helped the degrading policy to keep afloat.

Is it necessary from this that there was nothing to start? In no case. The commander, who took the squad from the quagmire, is not responsible for the one who decided to shoot himself a second before the appearance of solid soil under his feet. And he caused fire on himself - and at all. The commander’s business is to display. And nothing.