Do Russians go or do Russians leave? What is worse?
“Fear your desires! They come true! ”(F. Nietzsche)
I was encouraged to speak on this topic with conversations with one of our readers from Germany, the most perfect German, with whom I had such friendly and rather mutually beneficial communication. I learned a lot in this sense.
In our last conversation, we walked very well over the mentality of Germans and Russians, and then somehow all of a sudden everything turned into this eternal “Russians are coming!”
“Russians are coming!” - how many years did these people scare them? Lot. From the heart scared, so I say. Yes, we gave this so many reasons that it was impossible not to be afraid. But the lion's share still falls on the works of that side.
And where, in fact, are the Russians going? For what purpose? And approximately what composition?
Already, I repeatedly exaggerated the idea that if the Battle Regulations of the ground forces were applied to any life situation, everything would fall into place, then any life situation would be resolved.
Including the Russians, who are going somewhere.
But even without the use of the charter, it became clear long ago that there was nothing terrible about a cry. Not that the Russians are not going anywhere, no, this is a completely different matter.
Russian do not go. More precisely, they go, but not in the way that some screamers would like.
Russians are leaving.
Yes, everything does not go as it did before. But what to do, times change, strategy and tactics too. Previously, the Russians left Germany, Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Afghanistan and left behind them roads, airfields, hospitals and houses.
It was? It was. That is how the “Russian invaders” left, leaving the formerly occupied infrastructure, some of which are used today.
Now everything is different. Russians leave, leaving behind themselves ruin and collapse.
It is clear that not immediately. It is clear that no one explodes or destroys anything. But what is happening can in no way be called creation.
Russians left the Baltics.
Ports are dying, entire industries, instrument-making, automotive industry have died, and Russian-built railways are beginning to bend down.
We watched, choking with laughter, as the proud and independent Lithuanians decided to leave the occupying energy system, which included the Baltic republics, Belarus and Russia. The so-called EK BRELL. Power supply stabilization system.
Send out So what?
And nothing.
We came across an increase in electricity imports from wherever possible, laid a cable from Sweden, which can cover as much as 6% of total Lithuanian consumption, Estonians quickly launched a smoke lamp on slate (oh yes, there is so much respect for the environment!) In Auvere, and everyone pays full weight dollars and euros to Comrade Lukashenko for the energy produced by the Belarusian NPP.
Nobody in the proud Baltic countries is embarrassed that the Russians built it, the Russians serve and charge it. Especially not embarrassing the Latvians, they are generally sad with electricity.
But the Russian spirit does not smell. It smells like burnt shale and big payouts, because Tseevrop, in the sense of the EU, friendly made carbon dioxide emissions to its new members three times more expensive.
The Russians left Kazakhstan. Yes, here it is worth noting such a thing: perhaps the Kazakhs turned out to be the wisest people, having understood what it all smells like. And they rushed to develop laws that, if they did not solve the situation, then at least smooth it out.
And therefore in Kazakhstan everything is more or less tolerated, although, of course, Russian specialists have lost a lot, and it’s not necessary to say that “the detachment did not notice the loss of a fighter”. I will not believe. There were losses. It is enough to look at Baikonur, not the Russian part, but the Kazakh part. Well, much more.
Although, I repeat, the losses in the specialists in Kazakhstan were perhaps the most meager. If you do not talk about Belarus. But Belarus is still a somewhat different alignment.
Five years ago, Russians rushed from Ukraine. Impressed by the innovations. And Russia as a state is also somehow sideways and rolled aside. And then all the sadness began.
Declaring Russia an enemy, in Ukraine they relied too much on handouts from the West. What is there today about payments? Yes, full order. On the verge of collapse.
Gas transit, Russian gas in itself, gasoline, diesel fuel ... No, transit, of course, is the one still a pinch below the belt, to the crack of independence, because millions of dollars are millions of dollars. And from them, from millions, usually billions are added.
But the rest is not chic. Gas is Russian, albeit ostensibly “by reverse” from Europe. Gasoline is Russian, albeit from Belorussia. Although stop, with gasoline is also now not easy. Gasoline for Belarus has been reduced, and those crumbs that remain after the saturation of the Belarusian market go to Ukraine. Well, that makes sense. They sell surplus, and if they are not, then there is no court.
In general, of course, the figure is 15%, that is, the level of own production from Ukraine’s own production ... well, let's not talk about sad things.
Speaking of the fact that it is very difficult to communicate with us, I understand this and do not deceive myself. This is what at the state level, and what is personal. Very difficult, I agree. Such a mentality and everything else.
However, the complexity of communication is the complexity of communication. What about the result?
The fashion trend "give a kick to this Russian" has passed. It turned out that the Russians may well not wait for this colorful moment.
And then it begins. Again the heart-rending cry "Russians are leaving!" And vague gestures.
Why vague? And simply because no one thought of what to do when the Russians seem to be going somewhere, so now they don’t adequately perceive the opposite situation when the Russians go somewhere.
The PACE was not invented, by the way, how to react. And now the European Assembly is a kind of a courtyard with the Maidan, where in a day someone yells that he will leave. Well, crowds to and fro staggering ...
And what, Russians - the cornerstone of this?
Yes, why not? Well, not the pillar of the pillars of world order, but the stone at the bottom is exactly
Here are examples of the departure of Russians from a whole series of countries. Romania, Moldova, GDR, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Armenia, Georgia. And where, forgive, prosperity and prosperity?
Say, former GDR, everything is fine there? In united Germany? Well, the fact that Germany was united is undoubtedly good. However, so much has already been written about the difference between Wessi and Aussie, which I don’t want to repeat.
But the fact that for “that” the union is grateful mainly for the “weight” is, as it were, a fact of those who do not dispute.
So - very conditional. With a bunch of nuances.
But if you take all the former ensemble - perhaps, few people stand in the way of prosperity, brilliance and beauty. Yes, Azerbaijan is more or less all good, and all right. The rest of the “free” ones — well, forgive me, but I don’t see any welfare there. Crowds of Russians do not break there on the principle of fish, looking for where it is deeper and more satisfying.
So it is clear that the Russians are again to blame for everything. First because they came, then because they left. But after all, basically everyone wanted freedom from Russians. What is the problem?
The problem is that, as one of the greatest philosophers in the world said stories, Friedrich Nietzsche, "Fear your desires, they come true."
Nietzsche was very unlucky with fans, fans and followers. But he said, albeit meaning completely different, great.
So it happened. Wishes came true. The Russians are gone, but for some reason the golden age did not come.
Apparently, not in the Russian business?
A good anecdote was about hell and paradise, the meaning of which was reduced to the triumph of agitation over common sense. Ukrainians really confused tourism and emigration, and with them Moldovans. And now, for a couple, both countries with enormous potential (well, Moldova is not with huge) are territories torn by civil war, dreaming of becoming the backyard of Europe.
Are we guilty again? Well, naturally.
This is not to say that we are not losing anything. Losing, how much more losing. Especially in terms of Ukraine. Cheeks are falling more and more as the program of the so-called “import substitution” is blown away, even though they are still trying to fool us. But this does not solve problems.
It is easier for us. We can afford to leave.
Yes, lock yourself behind the next “iron curtain”. Do not see the triumph of Euromobilia, tolerance and other homotheminisms.
This TAM is not understood yet. Can not understand.
Russians will never come. We just don't need it. All these horror stories about the hordes of Russians in Paris (yes, how many people can walk there, once a century, and so on), how long can this Berlin be taken ...
This is a fairy tale. In which many believe. How many people in Germany remember very badly for some reason, for example, in 1955, the Russians performed a miracle: ten years after the war they not only returned 1240 paintings to the defeated enemies, including Titian, Rubens, Rembrandt, Raphael, Durer, Vermeer, but restored their. Themselves. And more 3000 jewelry. Rubies, emeralds, diamonds, pearls, sapphires, kilos of gold and silver.
And the former fraulein, not burdened by good manners in his youth, argues in front of cameras that the Russians have not grown to European values, and they must be punished with sanctions. Yes, I am about Mrs. Merkel.
Of course, we are barbarians. Just because we can forgive. Therefore, Klinger's works are in the Leipzig gallery that we restored, which, if anything, turned the dust into allies. Like Dresden.
You know, with such layouts, sometimes you sometimes think that turning around and slamming the door is not a bad option.
And let them shake from the cry "The Russians are leaving!" It is possible that this would be better. First of all for Russians. How the Russians will survive the world ... well, it would be worth trying to see it.
Necessary afterword. Building an empire - alas, let's be honest with ourselves, we can't do it. And is it necessary? Wouldn't it be easier to stop integrating this active in the developing democratic world in the last 25 years and watch ... its agony?
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