
Kremlin, Moscow, May 17, 2023. Photo: Alexander Nemenov / AFP / Scanpix / Leta
To whom Gogol addressed the question of where the three (Rus') is rushing, it is not completely clear. Who did he ask, horses? So they are subordinates. The three rushes to where the coachman leads it. Where? Does he know? Ask him, he will not say or will lie.
The states and their rulers have always set themselves some more or less achievable and understandable goals at least elites. Build a pyramid, the city lay the “spite of the arrogant neighbor”, crush Byzantium. But the more democratic states become, the more their goals are shifted towards the interests of citizens - their well -being and security. Of course, the carriers of the authorities of citizens often deceive, promising one thing, but doing the other, but not to talk about how people live, it becomes no longer impossible. If Peter laid Petersburg now, even in the conditions of the autocracy, he would have to talk about new workplaces that would appear thanks to the construction of the city, how good it would be to live there as its subjects, and so on.
Even the state of the Bolsheviks, no matter how crazy and divorced from reality it may be, after the Communists have established themselves in power, spoke not only about the messianic purposes, but also about the "all -terrible satisfaction of constantly growing needs."
That is, freedom to Africa and the struggle for peace - yes, as without it, but it would be good if people would have, at the same time, that they have, so that they do not live in the huts, and dress not only in quilted jackets. These goals were not achieved in the best way, but at least they were declared. The same can be said about the Romanov Empire - Russian autocrats had messianic motives, but they were not declared as the dominant goals of the state. A hail of kitezh or straits on its own, everyday politics - in itself.
But our current government went to the astral, this was not dreamed of either the Bolsheviks with their world revolution, nor the pharaohs. The declared goal is increasingly becoming the creation of a certain kingdom of good, opposing the rest of the world - the world of evil. There is simply no place in these plans and the life of people in these plans. But in Ukraine, the authorities report, we are fighting directly with Satan.
You don’t understand why we are gunsthing the whole world? But because we have traditional values, but they have the opposite. They, as in the eleventh century, said Ilarion Kiev, live by law, and we are in truth (that is, having spit on the law)! These words seem to be declared by the leadership of action as a letter from Bogdan Khmelnitsky, with links to which Putin justifies aggression. It did not occur to Father Hilarion to Hilarion that laws could defend the truth, but claims, of course, were not to him.

And for the sake of the triumph of traditional values, we are fighting, which cannot end with nothing other than the death of our country and, with a high degree of probability, of all of humanity.
Traditional values are not just words. Under this crazy construct, management decisions are made. Here Putin commanded in a simplified order to give a residence permit to those citizens of Western countries who are dissatisfied with non -traditional values at home, but they want, on the contrary, traditional ones, with us. And Maria Zakharova has already announced that there are many thousands of such people in Western countries, they besiege our embassies and, together with the children, do not want to leave the premises until they agree to move to Russia.
Or is the “Seat Devilment” course, developed under the patronage of the Federal Assembly, that is, the best people of the country and the Andrei Fund of the First -Called (who forgot, this is Yakunin and the delivery of the Blessed Fire to Moscow with a special flight).
Maring, large families and, at the same time, chastity should be promoted. Sex in the course, of course, is not mentioned - this is the dirt and the heresy of Latin.
The initiators of the course say that it is needed because we have bad demography. Not the same word, bad! But this course, and, in general, the entire policy of the authorities in this area only worsen the situation (I do not dwell on this in detail-look at the article in the New European Europe, everything is clearly explained there).
What are traditional values is difficult to understand. Laroshfuko said that real friendship is like a sea snake - everyone talks about them, but no one saw. Nobody saw traditional values either. Putin, determining them, lists just all the good, the propagandists whom I had to ask about it, they only said that we, they say, against homosexual marriages. I replied that yes, I understood, but for what? They do not give an answer. Like those horses in the three.

Let's try to figure it out, focusing not on the words of our bosses, but on their affairs. And then it turns out that traditional values are a thing, unexpectedly, quite understandable. By points:
1. The most important traditional value is autonomy. At all levels. The state should be like under Stalin or Ivan - so that everything is in the same hands. In the economy, it is ideal for serfdom, where the landowner is the father to the peasants and does what he wants. Well, the sole, unique, unlimited power of the owner or director at the enterprise. No trade unions, of course. And the family also has the unlimited power of the “head” without any intervention from the outside. Therefore, no laws on family violence and other Western nonsense.
True, autocracy in separate segments - in the family or at the enterprise - is limited, but not impersonal law, naturally (see the about. Hilarion), but by the will of the supreme or higher autocrat. Remember, the head of the region demanded that the boy who was with his parents, by the way, had a pomponchik from a hat, and then personally torn this pompom - not a girl, they say! Rough intervention in the life of the family in this case does not contradict traditional values - the power of the governor, of course, is higher than the power of the parents.
2. Traditional values are archaic. It was good in the invented past, therefore, we are looking for (invent) samples for life exactly there. The future should be a repetition of the past, the idea of progress and development is rejected. You should live according to the covenants of the ancestors, and according to the version of these covenants that the bosses formulates you.
3. Traditional values are the zero value of human life, any, except for the life of the leader. People are no different from other consumables that may well turn out to be more valuable, and therefore subject to more economical consumption. Therefore, it is not necessary to save the sinking cities or the people left in the middle of the winter without heat - they are not carriers of unique skills, they are easily replaced. Therefore, unprepared boys can be thrown into battle. Therefore, you can discuss on television the plans of carpet bombing of their own territory, and the scientific lady-luded, who offers this, is not put in prison or in a crazy house. Actually, nothing new - Comrade Stalin in the “temporarily occupied territory” in a terrible frost burned the houses of civilians - he fought with the enemy. The winged phrase “women still give birth” Zhukov, it seems, did not pronounce, but she stuck to him because she very accurately reflected the attitude of the then leadership towards subjects. The current ones are the same.
4. Traditional values are not just submission, but voluntary, joyful submission. Orders of the authorities are not enough just to fulfill - this should be done with enthusiasm without never asking, but why? Such a question itself gives you a person alien to the traditional values of a person, even if then you do everything as ordered. "The enemy is not a letter to the king, but a doubtful letter." It is interesting that in the “Orlenenok” Central Committee of the Komsomol, which arose during the “thaw”, which arose during the “thaw”, which was not in our country - they actively fought with this thoughtless subordination, they taught children to always ask why they were ordered to do what to do. After returning to schools, children had problems, and the “eaglet” was destroyed.
5. Traditional values are seriousness in everything, the lack of joy and fun. People called the most popular cafes in Leningrad the “frog” (there the walls were green). But formally it was called "Cafe Number of such and such." In the dashing nineties it became a “frog”, but for a short while, then again they renamed, and they completely closed it. In the same St. Petersburg, in the restaurant "Idiot" in the list of drinks was the cocktail "Pi @@ Ec Bacillus". At first they began to be called Latin letters, and then they completely renamed it - not up to jokes at such a time! The Strugatsky also wrote about this - in Arcanar everyone became terribly serious, everyone knew exactly what was needed for the good of the state.
6. Traditional values are a cult of death. The cult of death is their ultimate expression, apotheosis. The highest goal and meaning of life is to die for the homeland. Do not live, namely to die. There is no talk of life at all. In the heroic death for the homeland, there is the purpose of a man, for this, that is, for death, he comes to this world. And the purpose of the woman is to give birth and educate a soldier, and not one, but several (large families), and then be proud of them.
Traditional values are the death itself, which the country promises and all its current leadership. The three rushes into the abyss. Actually, she is already there.