New sound of National Unity Day
If initially Russians were skeptical about a new holiday and, according to sociological polls, perceived it rather as an alternative offered by the state to celebrating the revolutionary November 7, much has changed over the years of the National Unity Day in Russia. Of course, not everyone is ready to agree that this holiday should be celebrated on November 4, given the fact that in March of this year, unity with the Crimea took place thanks to the results of the March referendum on the peninsula and public opinion in Russia on this issue. However, while the Day of National Unity is associated with the liberation from the Polish invasion and is celebrated precisely today (November 4).
Sociological monitoring service VCIOM decided to conduct an analysis of the public opinion of Russians on the assessment of citizenship of unity in the Russian Federation. About 44% of respondents answered that there is popular unity in Russia. This figure is almost twice as high as two years ago. In the 2012 year, it was believed that national unity in Russia as such is, no more than 23% of respondents. The majority of Russians polled by VTsIOM believe that they observe popular unity in Russia for the reason that in difficult times for the country, citizens always united.
At the same time, VTsIOM asked those who are sure that there is no national unity in the Russian Federation, why do they think so? About 31% of respondents stated that everyone in Russia is for himself and is ready to defend only his own interests. By the way, in the 2012 year (the year when VTsIOM conducted the previous similar survey), the number of people who believe that in Russia only defends their personal interests was almost 40%.
The opinion that the people of our country are ready to rally in difficult times for the Fatherland is probably the decisive factor here. And this fact shatters the theory that the Russians (in the broad sense of the word) are a people who are not ready for unity and cohesion. If there are people in our country who think that way, then such people are simply not familiar with history. One of those examples of civic unity, which allowed the state to defend, is associated with those events that served as an impetus for defining 4 November 1612 of the year as the “progenitor” of the Day of National Unity.
To defend the state, torn by vague events, attempts to divide power and foreign henchmen, literally people of the people stood up, having formed the strike fist of the Zemsky militia led by citizen Kozma Minin and Prince Dmitry Pozharsky.
From the draft letter sent to Ryazan, Galich, Kostroma, Kazan, Vladimir and Vologda (the style and spelling are preserved):
Today, the relevance of this unity is higher than ever in recent years. The Zemstvo militia of Minin and Pozharsky, the model of the beginning of the struggle against the Polish-Lithuanian occupation, is a kind of historical prototype of the militia of Novorossia. The call for the Russian people to stand up for Moscow in times of great Troubles, to sweep foreign hunters from the land of the Russian to the Russian throne - isn't the same unity happening today in connection with the unrest in Ukraine, in connection with the bloody pro-Western intervention in New Russia. The selfish interests of the Ukrainian moneybags and other overseas henchmen who came to power, turned the once flourishing region into hellish ruins, the series of the most heinous crimes against humanity from Odessa and Mariupol to Lugansk and Donetsk, a whole placer of “false idols” that broke on the shoulders of the radicals into the Ukrainian parliament, the government, the presidential administration is, in fact, a direct repetition (except with a modern color) of the events of more than four hundred years ago on Russian soil. Just as the ruling elite of Western civilization tried to take advantage of the Time of Troubles in Russia in order to deprive the state and its people of self-identity that had developed over the centuries, the same elite is making regular attempts to succeed.
We say today that the world has gone mad, that distemper has swept the most different states. Yes it is. But, by and large, this is another round of the historical spiral. We know how the invasion of the invaders in our country ended in 1612, and we know exactly how this invasion will end today.
New “false Dmitrys” and their sponsors can say anything about the fact that they bring “freedom and prosperity”, walking on the bloodstains of women and children of Donbass, but this intervention will end. Why? Yes, because people who are trying to dissociate themselves from the history and cut off the historical threads for the people they supposedly represent, by definition, cannot win. Their destiny is lies, narcissism, intrigue, and reliance on foreign aid. Popular unity annoys them, because the people one day will ask them for all their deeds.
Let our multinational people have not yet decided on a civilian level with the very date of the celebration of the Day of National Unity, but, by and large, the day is not as important as the fact of unity is important. And the events of recent months have shown that the disunity of the population of Russia is another myth that those who openly want a repetition of the coming of the masters in Russian power, who are called to meet every hour, are not domestic interests, are trying to impose.
Happy holiday, Russia! In our unity - strength and prosperity!
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