Echo "crocus"

Leonid Gozman - about how the terrorist attack launched a chain reaction of violence and repression

Vladimir Vysotsky

Such a terrible tragedy as a terrorist attack in Crocus cannot but have large -scale consequences.

The most natural would be to clarify the reasons for the failure of the structures responsible for the safety of people: actually security forces, bodies that control fire safety, and so on - and the reorganization of the entire complex of measures to prevent such a nightmare. Well, the punishment of the perpetrators, whether it be corrupt from among numerous controllers or officials and security officials who contributed to the terrorist attack, if any are found. But it seems that our authorities are not going to go along such a natural path. Anyone speaks of responsibility of the FSB, but not their colleague and his employees working as president.

Well, the fire seemed to have occurred by itself: at least the name of the owner of the Crocus, which is personal responsibility for the state and readiness of fire systems, is not even mentioned in official messages. What looks especially amazing against the background of the fact that the owners of the “winter cherry”, “lame horse” and others were responsible. However, they say that Agalarov, the owner of the “crocus”, is personally close to the most important thing. In this logic, apparently, a fire in Crocus, as a result of which more people died than from terrorist bullets, not such a serious event as, for example, a naked party to immediately take all the involved to clean water.

But you can, not particularly worried about the prevention of the following tragedies, try to use it in your interests. The benefit of our state has experience - after and in connection (!) With Beslan, the elections of governors were canceled. Do the authorities use the “Crocus” now to realize their own, which have arisen long before the plan of plans? First of all, to justify the war - going and the future?

Yes, but not very effective. It seems that the terrorist attack was unexpected for the country's top leadership (just don’t think that I deny the FSB involvement - I just don’t know, and you don’t know). They obviously did not decide in advance what to say. Ukraine as a customer is mentioned, but sluggishly, without passion. The terrorists went to Ukraine, where they prepared a window on the border to get a reward. Apparently, under the camera, right from Zelensky’s hands in the form of a bag of diamonds. If you think about half an hour, you can come up with something more believable. And one of the detainees allegedly admits that they were promised as much as five hundred thousand rubles - it is not even clear, for everyone or everyone. I understand that there are people who are ready to kill for some crazy idea. I understand what there are, those who are ready to do it for money. But for real money. And the intelligence of a person who goes to such a five thousand dollars simply will not allow him to remember at what end the machine gun shoots. However, the detainees look like that. Not all this works, a folk impulse to beat Ukrainians and their overseas patrons do not arise.

Yes, Crocus occurred when more and more people in the world are realized that Russia's war with NATO countries is almost inevitable, or at least highly reliable;

It is believed that Putin has already decided to transfer the war from Ukraine to the territory of other European countries. This, alas, looks like the truth. He had just warned the Western states that the airfields that they can provide for the transfer of the F-16 to Ukraine will become a legal military purpose for the RF Armed Forces. This statement is not only the recognition of the importance of the F-16 as a factor in the war, but also the direct ultimatum of NATO. And the fact that this is not said by one of the officials, but personally the supreme commander, makes these words especially significant. He understands that he will not stop the supply of aircraft to Ukraine - he is looking for Casus Belli. But the Kremlin has been carrying out the course for the war for a very long time, clearly and consistently. “Crocus” is not yet used as a reason, although the opportunity to use the tragedy to justify the war, of course, remains. They drove for a reward to Kyiv!

Many believe that Crocus will be used to tighten repression. Yes, repressions will become - every day they become - more ambitious, but this process, like the movement to the war, has been going on for a very long time and without any “crocus”. It seemed impossible yesterday that they would plant for what they planted for today. And this, alas, is not the end. The system got into the rails and moves along them with acceleration G. The attack has nothing to do with it.

Both the movement to the war and the repression would be without Crocus. But there are things related precisely to him.

Firstly, this is public torture. The torture itself is not news, the image of Themis with a mop did not appear yesterday. But they were silent about torture, pretended that they were, as it were. Now they are demonstrated to dozens of millions of spectators, and Margarita Simonyan, looking at these terrible shots, "is satisfied." That is, you need to experience satisfaction.

This, of course, is an attempt to intimidate. Only not terrorists, but all the disagreements: see what will happen to you if you dare to oppose us. There is no more law, there are no restrictions that seemed unshakable either. We will torture you and mock you not in order to get something from you, but just like that, because we want. Because we are like that. Always remember this.

But the main thing is the message to those sadists and geeks who are ready to torture, who like to do this. Such people are in any country, but in normal - they are kept in junction. And our power relies on them, declares them the color of the nation and says to them:

“Go ahead, guys! If you are for the king, everything is allowed to you. ” They will use this permission, do not hesitate.

And secondly, the crazy persecution of migrants from Central Asia was the direct consequence of Crocus. Catching migrants is absolutely meaningless. That illegal and immoral, I am silent: talking with our authorities about the law and morality is the same as looking for a pulse on the prosthesis. It is clear that those who manage this process do not think about the economy, they do not care that the country will become even less attractive to labor migrants, without which the Russian economy, by the way, and Western countries, simply cannot survive. But in general, there is no sense. If it is true that the Tajik group has committed the attack, will this increase security? The authorities are making another attempt to rally society around themselves with common hatred and fear. You are afraid and hate them, we, too, and we will protect you from them. We are your hope. We are together. And the fact that we have golden toilets, and you have nothing to eat, and your sons tomorrow will lay out your head, noting, so it doesn’t matter. The main thing is that we will save from Tajiks.

It has already been in other countries and with us. Somewhere a long time ago, and recently we have: LGBT, in foreign agents who left. Of course, there is a response, but insufficient. And many people really do not like migrants from Asia, why not try? Yes, and there is something to report to the higher authorities: not in vain we eat bread, how many Asians they caught. And what they are to blame for, not our mind is a matter.

But I think we are not dealing with cold calculations: such a percentage of the population does not like Tajiks, but for Putin this is such a percentage, so it is profitable to run into Tajiks. Rather, it is just a spontaneous reaction of the system that does not know how to do anything constructive, but it has not just skills, but formed by the willingness to grab, plant, fine and send. Any challenge, no matter what he touches, activates these grabbing skills. As a hero of a primitive action movie, the authorities, without thinking, shoots at any movement simply because it is the only reaction accessible to her.

Jin from Vysotsky’s song did not know how to build palaces - he only knew how to beat his face. These too. They were released from bottles to die of our country, and maybe the whole world.