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The world is crazy, definitely. Everybody yells: "Democracy! Democracy !!" Well, everything is simple: the left and the right, and the gray-brown-crimson speckled. They are silent only in North Korea, but what do they think there silently - who knows? Maybe about the same? And they shout something differently: who is demanding, with the expectation of a salary in 3000 euros, as in Belgium; who is indignant, with the pleasure of grazing the letter "p" - so that it turns out "shit-sh-rmokratiya!" Everything is clear with the first ones - they succumbed to a “pernicious influence”, while the latter want order and strict discipline. All the brains have already been bullied by this democracy, Ёshkin cat, because each of the shouting understands by democracy what is beneficial to him. Some believe that it is too small, others - that is already too much. Who counts? Where is an independent and honest commission to count the number of democracies? And in what units do they count - in dollars, "EUREKA", yuan, rubles? They say that the Civilized West has entire institutions that, both at the government level and as a private initiative (such as rich Uncle Soros), are promoting this very democracy in the Wild East and the Barbarian South. Especially the Anglo-Americans are trying in this direction. By all indications, they have a clear program of democratization of underdemocratised regions of the world, such as Iraq and Afghanistan, for example, and others too. Forces and funds allocated for this program are considerable, now urgently super-powerful bombs for the destruction of underground shelters of barbarians, the Americans are developing. George Bush once said: "We had a good administration meeting at which the Secretary of Defense and Secretary of State told us about our passionate desire to spread democracy throughout the world." Russians know this. We also once tried to drag the whole world into the bright communist future. And weasel-tales, and handouts, and the troops were sent. As a result, they themselves did not get into the “paradise”, and many neighbors were let down. Here we are now turning back from the blatantly bothersome preachers of the only correct line. Even the derivatives of the word “democracy” in Russia are thought up in a negative context: “democratizer” - a rubber police baton, “shitty democracy” - this is when democracy was built, but it turned out as always.
What is democracy really? The word itself translates as "the power of the people." That the Greeks came up with the first. The people, then, rule. Over whom Above oneself. Through elected representatives. Oh, those elected by the people! How many beautiful and correct speeches were said, how much paper was written, how many noodles were skillfully cooked and beautifully hung, and most importantly - what a great many ears! Land - the peasants, the water - the sailors! Swam - we know. What is the result? Goal - power - achieved? All Ambets promises, begins to divide the pie. All on the thumb: you are now in the cage, people's choice. Those in power have their own algorithms, which are violated only in the most extreme, in fact, revolutionary case. And it’s necessary to make a career, and I don’t want to fall away from the trough either. It is impossible to encroach on a holy one, it is impossible to demolish the foundations, nizya-a ... These career-feed rules work in almost any system: at least in a democratic one, at least in a totalitarian one, or some other one. We summarize: a real democrat (I mean, a fighter for the public good), the people's choice is, as a rule, only during the election period of himself — there, upward. After the election, he no longer belongs to the people, but is an integral part and, in fact, the property of the nomenclature (establishment, elite, "family"), etc. Is not it so?
Democracy’s scheme is simple in appearance: free elections, independence and separation of legislative, executive and judicial power, a constitution guaranteeing freedoms and rights of citizens, a market economy and strong independent media. These are the basics, the basis. Of course, to deny that it was the countries with a democratic system of government that achieved the greatest success in raising the standard of living of people is stupid. The tremendous advancement of many countries of Western Europe, the "southeastern tigers" - South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, to the high standards of human life is obvious. In these so-called developed countries, the average monthly total income per capita ranges from 2 to 4 thousand dollars. The parliamentary kingdom of Norway has been one of the leading places in the world for the standard of living of the population for a year Japan, Switzerland and Canada Norwegians breathe in the back of the head on the same indicators. And well done, and - bravo !! Anxiety, however, is not caused by the real achievements of the so-called "Western democracy", but by dubious ones. We also note that almost all countries — world leaders in terms of the standard of living of their citizens — practically do not engage in either ideological or rocket-artillery bombardment of other countries. It can be seen that they have more important things to do.
Oh, do not scold us, gentlemen, American Democrats, do not call the Russians Stalinists. And then we'll call you McCarthy. And what happened? It was. From the work of the Americans expelled for ideological reasons? Expelled. At the "party meetings" McCarthy was sandblasted? And how. Say, your maniac Minister Forrestal, shouting "Russians are coming!" did not jump out of the window without a parachute? Jumped out. And don’t remind us of Afghanistan, otherwise we’ll recall your democratic carpet bombing of Vietnamese people. And do not remind us of Prague, otherwise we will remind you of Grenada. Rub your eyes more often, you see, a log and pop up.
How would it be nice to ask the Western Democrats - those who are particularly vociferous: do not yell at us, please. When they shout at us, we can be frightened, and in fright of what kind of careless movements you can’t do. We have become so nervous. Russia over the past 20 has survived the collapse of the country, several wars, rampant banditry, a couple of monetary reforms, default, etc. - tired of listing. And here you are with your regular cries about the shortcomings of the Russian sprouts of democracy. Say, we are stunted sprouts. It is interesting, by the way, that in Russia the loudest shout is "democracy!" people who have fallen to the weak feeder any. And then - look! - and the screamer has already caught a trace, is soon found abroad with a US or English passport, and a tightly packed purse. And when the Russian oligarch, Mr. Khodorkovsky, is sent to the Baikal colony for tax evasion, it causes in certain circles no less than the universal grief about the end of the Russian democracy. All out. Democracy simply died in convulsions in Russia, in the opinion of the West and local pro-Western screamers. Even the Baikal seals from the cleanest water in the world protrude, and they look plaintively, they seem to be asked: “Well, release this“ victim of the totalitarian regime ”, otherwise it stinks from the reputation of him and his well-paid defenders - like water in a lake not spoiled. "
It is interesting: as soon as the Russian criminal settles in the territory of Great Britain, you cannot pick it out with a crowbar from there. Because all of these are solemnly given the honorary title of “the innocently injured by the totalitarian regime,” a British visa is awarded and guarantees of non-refoulement are issued. And the score of such “sufferers” went to many dozens. Such shows are arranged, even famous actresses are attracted, as in the case when Akhmed Zakayev, a Chechen terrorist, was personally protected by Vanessa Redgrave. Boris Berezovsky, still a "victim", is also hiding in a British oasis. Remember how quickly he caught the people they captured from Chechen gangsters? Only they will seize who, looking, and Berezovsky, at the airport, is already meeting the frightened, deprived person, posing for the cameras. Such a clever guy!
Something stopped about the independence of the freedom-loving Chechen people in the democratic West to speak. And before what was standing! At the level of the US State Department, emissaries of Dudayev were received. Then it somehow came to the conclusion that the enemies of Russia are not necessarily friends of the United States. It came a long time, but somehow it came to. When the British telecom operators in Chechnya had their heads cut off, and they laid it out on the side of the road, clearing in the heads of overseas democratizers came. Before that, how many local Russians in Chechnya had their heads cut off, were they thrown out of their dwellings, turned into slaves — in the West zero attention was paid to this. After all, if you cut your heads with shouts like "Long live free Chechnya!", Then this is not a crime at all, and not genocide, but a liberation struggle. The national liberation struggle led by the partisans, and God forbid call them bandits! Here there is such a democracy, cross-eyed.
It is an obvious fact that the Western countries, united under the dominant role of the United States, organized the forcible expulsion of the Serbian people from their places of mass residence in the territory of the former Yugoslavia, to the territory directly of Serbia. And they expelled almost from everywhere: from Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo, etc. And with the support of modern aviation and other means of fire support of the democratic initiatives of the West. So it’s not tens of people who were expelled, but many tens of thousands, and they killed a lot at the same time. This is real genocide. How to understand this in a democratic context? Where are your charters and declarations of human rights, gentlemen? Where is the spirit and letter of Helsinki? Why are numerous European human rights defenders silent? Why not shout about it?
That's interesting: what exactly is the difference between love of freedom and the desire for independence of the Albanian population of Kosovo and the Abkhaz population of Abkhazia? In the West, it is believed, and they are confident in 100%, that such a difference exists, therefore Kosovo can gain independence, and Abkhazia cannot. Why is it possible for “democratic” Georgia to kill its neighbors for the sake of the idea of the territorial integrity of the country, while it is impossible for “totalitarian” Serbia? If this is not hypocrisy and double standards, then what is it then? Many do not understand this balancing act strangely democratic. When Germany was united, the West solemnly promised not to expand NATO to the East. And what, where are these promises now? Why is this bringing Georgians to the neighboring nations through the full support of the course of aggression - both political and military? Few have they fought before? Why is the Middle East for many years a powder keg with a constantly smoldering wick? On what basis is Iraq occupied? Today with the help of the US nuclear weapon Received Israel and Pakistan, and tomorrow who will receive it? And what will happen the day after tomorrow? What a strange policy: with one hand Uncle Sam gives the US allied countries nuclear weapons, and the other is trying to keep other countries from creating them. What long arms! And what about the fact that many countries have a long time in actual dependence on the financial policy of the United States and the US currency? Today, in different countries, and even in the United States themselves, they are thinking: isn’t the current escalation of tension, especially in the Muslim world, a consequence of this very specific democracy in the American way? Or maybe this is not a democracy at all, but only an attempt to embellish unseemly financial affairs, give them a “civilized” look, fight off the steady smell of blood and big money from military operations under the banner of “freedom and democracy.”
Heh, Barack Obama - the president of the most belligerent country (and the most democratic, part-time) was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, is this a democracy by which option? In Scandinavian, or what? You yourself are not funny, Scandinavians? You do not know whether it was the Americans who were the most physically destroyed on the planet since the Second World War, using the most modern achievements of democratic science and technology? Only the Americans deliberately destroyed the Vietnamese themselves with chemical weapons, and their fauna and flora did not know, did they? You have not heard how many people are dying in the “liberated” Iraq - have long surpassed Saddam’s bloody atrocities?
And here's another interesting thing: what is happening in China, is it democracy or what? The whole world is floundering in a deep crisis, and top managers of different countries ask each other:
- And you have not got out yet?
- And you?
- We are not.
- Well, we still swim.
And in the homeland of silk and Confucianism, solid growth and stable prosperity. At the same time, there is only one party in power (the communist one - a nightmare!), Which explains to everyone - what and how to do, is somehow inaudible about the freedom of the press, and large-scale fined officials and businessmen are sentenced to death, however, they are completely dependent courts - clearly on command from above. It is also interesting: China, which is rapidly growing rich, is investing a lot of money in American assets, and the more it invests, the quieter the voices from Washington about the shortcomings of democracy in Chinese. Recently, these voices have not been heard at all. Like, in China, democracy is up to par. Tibet China annexed, and - what? Iraq tried to annex Kuwait, so immediately such a "Desert Storm" began - Mama Do not Cry. And where is the "Mountain Storm" and fair retribution to the Chinese for oppressed Tibetan monks? In Tibet and in the Uyghur Autonomous Region, Chinese-style democracy periodically crushes local discontented people - using tanks and armored personnel carriers, as recent events show. However, Chinese modern realities, although built by communists, cannot be called communism. Communism, as is known from the course of Marxism-Leninism-scientific communism, is when public ownership of the means of production. With this, the Communists strictly. And in China it’s private. What are they building - the Chinese - democracy, communism? Or maybe something else, special - on our planet, many people like to torment their own path. Be that as it may, today the Chinese Communists are teaching democrats around the world to do business and make money.
What is it all the same different, this democracy is notorious! The basis is the same, and the add-ons are a million. With the light movement of a powerful hand, civilized democracy turns ... democracy turns into a formidable demonism! Or, as they say in Russia: what I want, I turn it over. And communism, no less notorious, is also now so different: there is Chinese, and there is Belarusian, and here is another North Korean. And they are all so far apart - as if at different poles. Multi-polar our planet now, multi-colored, multi-polar. Who knows - maybe it's for the best.
Here is the poetic evidence of democracy in Israeli, for example:
Of course, our land is not enough for us
And we don’t give up a stranger.
Or in Japanese:
Islands give us,
Crabs can be halved.
But in English:
Storm of London obscurely
Whirling snow twisting,
Lords howl wolves there,
Democracy dish.
PS By the way, in the village of Gadyukino, freedom and the market have long been, and in October only the salary on the farm was given out in May. Such is the gadzukinsky democracy. And in your village, what is democracy like?
PPS Caricature author skomunizdil or death (somehow!) On the site www.karikaturist.ru
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