A sad anniversary occurs. June 22, 2006. Day of memory and sorrow. And so, 65 years after the start of the Great Patriotic War, we look back into the past and see hundreds of thousands, millions of heroes, blood and life defended our right to exist. When we look around, it turns out that in modern times the heroic myth is dead. Even the heroic myth of the Great Patriotic War dies, since its carriers die - veterans. As for the modern heroic myth, it simply does not exist.

In Ukraine, the creation of the "Orange Coalition" has been announced. At the next meeting of the Supreme Council (Rada) of Ukraine on June 21, the "orange" factions said that all the contradictions between them were removed and it remained only to fasten the agreement with formal signatures.

The famous political science writer states: " The mission of the Soviet regime consisted in the fact that it - and only it - was able to maintain Russian civilization in inextricable historical unity ." This is trivial and it seems like a harmless conclusion is made with the only purpose: to refuse modern Russia in continuity in relation to the "Russian" . Today it is not just an erroneous, but also a harmful political position.

My late friend, political scientist Andrei Fadin, said that a rubber truncheon is an attribute of democracy, while a Kalashnikov assault rifle is an attribute of totalitarianism. Life regularly confirms that he is right. Rubber sticks (colloquially “batons”) appeared among the police in our country under Gorbachev.

Out of the corner of his eye, he looked on the “Culture” channel “Transfer“ Meanwhile ”. The "Theme of Glamor" was discussed. A certain lady, the editor -in -chief of a fashionable glossy magazine, said that she was pleasantly surprised by the recent film Garpasto . Its special delight was caused by the fact that, as it turned out, the operator of the picture worked for some time as an assistant to the glamorous photographer Friedkes .