Historical arithmetic

Putin repeated the numbers twice, and no one told him that our story is much longer than it seems to the president

On November 3, 2023, the President of the Russian Federation at the Victory Museum (a symbolic place is chosen!) Matched a meeting with members of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation - that is, (through these members) he spoke with the entire society of the Russian Federation, that is, with all of us. More precisely, with all of us who live now, and with those who someday someone will be born, because this speech, of course, will go into school textbooks. And not only stories, but also arithmetic.

Putin. In the very name of this holiday, its deep meaning is laid down - the Day of popular unity. First of all, I congratulate you all on this holiday-and all citizens of our country. This holiday is dedicated to events that occurred relatively recently-some four hundred with a little years ago. What is 400 years? This is for five or six generations, it quickly flies very time. Five to six generations of everything, and how many events have occurred in the history of our country during this time, and at all its turning point the unity of the people was a key component of Russia's exit to new borders.

Sometimes a strange feeling is mastering when you decide to overcome indifference and listen to the president’s words, think about their meaning. After all, someone wrote them, someone edited, coordinated; Probably, a highly paid and deeply proven team worked for more than one day; And the president himself (as they say) carefully reads and rules the prepared text.

Confused by words about the turning point. In fact, the stage is something long (especially when it comes to historical stages), and a fracture, respectively, is something short, simultaneous.

A good example: fell, lost consciousness, woke up, gypsum - it was a fracture; And then for two months you go to gypsum - this is the stage of recovery. And with the story exactly the same. October 25, 1917-a revolution, that is, a turning point, and then ...

Reread: "In the history of our country, and at all its turning point, the unity of the people has always been a key component." Listeners in the Public Chamber, who were checked and planted for a long time, can, of course, nod in agreement, approval or, excusable, simply falling asleep; But we do not sleep, we listen and-are perplexed.

"At all turning point, there is always the unity of the people." And the civil war? In the very name of this stage, its deep meaning, tragic meaning, and no unity is laid. And dispossession? Когда миллионы граждан России были лишены домов, имущества, лишены всего и (вместе с малыми детьми) вышвырнуты в необжитые районы Северного Казахстана, Сибири; Thank you, if in the forest, worse, if in the tundra.

And the deportations of several peoples in the 1940s (list on Wikipedia)? Is this a stage of unity?

Finally, decades of repressions that have destroyed people with millions, are unity? Or, as exactly in 1956, Akhmatova said: "Now two Russia will look into each other's eyes-the one that was sitting, and the one that planted." There was also a third Russia - millions that did not fall into execution lists, but simply dead at the stages and in camps. They did not return and did not look into the eyes of the planted. Perhaps some have dreamed. Perhaps they dream of their descendants who occupy important posts. After all, no position and no guard can protect against nightmares ...

Ah, yes - it was promised about arithmetic. It is very simple. Recall an important place (all the words of the president of the country are important!).

Putin. What is 400 years? This is for five or six generations. Five or six generations of everything.

He did not make a reservation. Firstly, there were papers in front of him, and secondly, he repeated this arithmetic twice.

In all countries, even where life expectancy is noticeably higher than ours, it is believed that one generation is 25 years. One century - four generations. 400 years - 16 generations.

Our story is much longer than it seems to the president. And much more complicated. It is enough to notice how with the upcoming folk unity holiday, ahead of the president for five days, we were all congratulated in Dagestan.