Dear editors! Watching the rotation of the tablets of history, you constantly come across funny, amusing and tragic repetitions of the same events. The classic taught that history repeats itself twice: the first time as a tragedy, and the second time as a farce. And, indeed, in history you can find a lot of examples of this, after all, the classic was not a fool, not a fool at all! However, there are exceptions to the rules, even when the external similarity of events is striking.