Constant foreboding of shame. Minkin's letter to Medvedev and Putin
Mr. President, sometimes something thickens in the air and people start to feel the disaster. This beginning of the next letter was dictated on Wednesday, in 14.27 (the editorial computer recorded the time), and in an hour and a half the plane with hockey players crashed.Premonitions exist. “Clouds have risen above the city / The air smells like a thunderstorm” - this is not a weatherman sings, this is not about the weather, but about the war. Sometimes they anticipate a catastrophe, a crisis, a default — anything. And now there is always a sense of shame.
What will this all-Russian shame look like? Will the election turn into it or some other grand event? But the air smells of shame. Feel it? Or in your residences (in Sochi, in the Kremlin, on the ruble) does it smell of success?
Your first term is coming to an end. Do not count your chickens before they are hatched. It is autumn in the yard. What is done? (It is not said, but it is done specifically.)
You replaced Luzhkov with Sobyanin, it was a concrete important matter. Sobyanin replaced asphalt with tiles, this is also an important matter. But tell me, has it become better for people to live?
You wrote the article “Russia, forward!”, But has life become better? After all, over the years of your power, only corruption has forged ahead.
Either we, blinded by criticism, do not see great accomplishments, or they simply do not exist.
Skolkovo? - while it only dreams. Investments? Where are they? All these projects (even embodied) have not improved people's lives.
To make it easier for you to accept such a question, remember the accomplishments of your boss Putin. He put the Minister of Defense Ivanov. Then he replaced Ivanov with Serdyukov. These were certainly important matters. But tell me: has the army become better? do they steal less there? soldiers hang less? Does the mace fly into the target or explode at the start?
Words about love for the army, words of concern for it by your tandem for 12 years said more than Brezhnev did for 18 (this is understandable, the old man spoke with great difficulty, and you have excellent diction). But the army is now weaker than it was then. Armed worse. And for the most part - old weapons Brezhnev times. Maybe in the field of law has become better? Sorry, let me remind you of your election promises: fighting legal nihilism, building a rule of law, etc., etc. You appointed someone, fired someone, sent the Constitutional Court to St. Petersburg (it cost you terribly expensive) ... But has life become better? ? Magnitsky was killed in prison not by convicts, but by investigators, judges and doctors. Are they punished? We know that investigators are rewarded.
And those who delayed ... missed Dubrovka (Nord-Ost), those who, together with the terrorists, soaked one and a half hundred hostages, were also awarded. And that is especially bad - rewarded secretly. And those who missed the attack of terrorists on Beslan, and then together with the terrorists soaked three and a half hundred women and children, were awarded ... Not yours storynot your responsibility? At that time you were either the head of the presidential administration, or the first deputy prime minister of the government. And in your own words, you are only responsible for what happened during your presidency. Is not it?
When you want - everything is yours: both Chekhov, who has 150, and Victory, which is 65. All this is yours, although you are not even fifty. And when you do not want, then everything that happened before May 2008 - I do not know whose.
(Explosions in the subway, in Domodedovo will not remember).
Maybe morality has improved? Do you know Strauss-Kahn, the former president of the International Monetary Fund? Have you heard about his adventure? For half a year all our newspapers, radio and TV have been telling this story. He flew to the USA, settled in a hotel, did something quickly with the maid, and she complained to the police, he was arrested (when he was already on the plane, flew home), kept in prison, then under house arrest, he he lost millions, reputation and chances to become the president of France, and then it turned out that the maid was a lying woman, and he was released. Day after day, all the details (including biological ones) fell on us, and the people learned by heart the last name, Strauss-Kahn, and ... But no one ever asked a simple question: what would happen if the IMF president flew to Moscow and did something quick with the maid? Would he have been taken off the plane? arrested? would you go to jail? Mr. President, if our maid was such a fool that, wiping her lips, she ran to the police to complain about the distinguished guest - what would she say to her? Most likely: “Shut up, bitch! Are you tired of living? ”And most likely, she (to be released) would have to quickly serve the entire rapid response team. This, Mr. President, is not about maids, but about a state of law. In America, it is, and we have something completely different. Remember, your boss, President Putin, took the Israeli prime minister here at that historic moment when the Israeli president was accused of sexual harassment. PUTIN. Hello, tell your president! It turned out to be a very powerful man! Ten women raped! He surprised us all. We all envy him!
It was in the Kremlin, in October 2006. It hit the newspapers. It seems to you that something has changed? We will not delay. Is education better? I hope you understand that no. Is health care better? Is it safer on the streets?
Has the mockery of officials over people ceased? Well, at least diminished?
Has child abuse decreased? Has the fear of the police diminished in people when it was renamed the police? And what has increased? And added to the presidential term. It was four, it became six. Are you yourself? Then it is in the full sense of your success. But the writers of your speeches may burst in hopeless attempts to prove to people that an increase in the presidential term has improved their lives.
You are probably very bitter. Probably life seems unfair to you. Why are you and Putin so good, and people are such fools ?! For years, 12 you - higher authority, and people fools continue to leave. Those who left the communist regime (before 1991) are smart. And those who have gone from the dashing 90's are smart. Because then it was bad for you. But now with you so well.
Why, then, your call for “Forward, Russia!” Is perceived by wealthy and educated people as a team of “Running for the West!”.
And the outside world is stupid. Where are the collective requests (like the Russian Railways to the Putin front) of the type: “We, the Russian inhabitants of Australia, when we hear about your successes and prospects, ask for home!”, “We, the Russian residents of Canada ...” You are so smart, so you care about science, about Russian culture, and illiterate Asians go here to dig and sweep. ... Some great shame is coming. Something bursts: sewage? patience? .. And you appear on the screen with messages that everything is good, and it will be even better.
Losers-bully continuously lying to parents that everything is fine, in physics “5”, in Russian “5”, they chose a class leader ... And then - bang! - Parents are called to the pedsovet: “deuces”, absenteeism, drives, registered, left for the second year.
And he again goes to "learn" - and again he does not do a damn thing.
You are going for a second term, and what did you do for the first?
... Pope John Paul II, a saintly person respected by the entire planet, was never allowed into free Russia, and he, very old and very sick, was ready to go on foot and bow to everyone and bless everyone. Catholic? And Muslim dictators accept with joy. And let the Korean dictator drive around Russia on an armored train and open his arms and lock his citizens - so that the streets are empty, because this one - before which 23 million tremble in fear (or how many of them are left) - is trembling with fear. And rightly so. A person who has caused so much evil to people should be afraid of people.
And you? And your tandem? Until October-1993, it was possible to go up to the White House (then the parliament), climb the stairs, enter (at the pass office). Now it is the government house, it is surrounded by a fence, which the tank will not break. Now it is a fortress. And now you will not enter the Duma, where the elected representatives of the people sit. Quietly, without crying in print, the quarter turned into a fortress.
Mr. President, we all know that in 2012, America will elect a president. Whom? it the American people will decide in November 2012.
And in Russia, the people are waiting for who they choose, who they will appoint. Because the choice (to decide the question) will be you with Putin, more precisely, Putin with you. Here is the main difference between our countries! (I do not admire America. It's just a Soviet habit: to compare your country only with a superpower.) And you know everything about our elections, right? You can't fool yourself. Do you really think that you are successfully deceiving us, and we believe when you say that the main thing is the opinion of the people (whether you go for a second term or not).
Russia is friends with other nations for gas, for oil, and more simply for money. And quarrels with other nations for money. Already 20 years - from 1991 year - the new Russia is looking for a national idea. And she has long been there, just do not want to admit. The national idea is money. Do not believe - turn on the radio. Every 30 minutes, around the clock, on weekdays and on weekends, all the radio stations (nearly told the Soviet Union) report the dollar and the euro. What for? Do people change currency every day?
We are 140 million. Tell me, how many people a day runs in the exchanger? And the one who runs, do you think, is oriented towards the radio? Like, he heard that the ruble went up for a penny, and ran to buy dollars. I heard that I had fallen in price - I ran to sell.
Mr. President, only the weather forecast is transmitted with the same frequency. But this is understandable - we all go to work, to school, we dress the kids for a walk ... And why the exchange rate? And then, that this is a national idea. It should be driven into everyone in the head. Education, health care has already been sacrificed to this idea, and people are simpler.
Your tandem 12 for years has been engaged in demographics, cares about the population. Over the years, the ungrateful population has decreased either by 2 million, or by 4. Reducing slowly. (Despite the maternity capital, that is, despite the attempts of the authorities to force women to give birth for money.) You can count in another way. You never wondered for how many people your power was lifelong. Power, when profitable, when it wants prestige, speaks of millennial Russia. When he shies away from responsibility, he speaks of a young democracy. We are only 20 years old! Young Russia! “I am a young liberal president!” You said recently. And we appointed this young liberal middle-aged KGB officer. And the KGB officer was appointed to us by an elderly member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, whom ... How many people died during the reign of the three presidents? How many will die? We are told all the time how much the population has declined. This is arithmetic: the dead - a minus, born and arrived - plus. But we are about something else. About the little men who did not live to see human life, to human power.
Here is the Russian death statistics:
1991 year - 1 690 600
1992 year - 1 807 400
1993 year - 2 129 300
1994 year - 2 301 300
1995 year - 2 203 800
1996 year - 2 082 200
1997 year - 2 015 700
1998 year - 1 988 700
1999 year - 2 144 300
2000 year - 2 225 300
2001 year - 2 254 900
2002 year - 2 332 300
2003 year - 2 365 800
2004 year - 2 295 400
2005 year - 2 303 900
2006 year - 2 166 700
2007 year - 2 080 400
2008 year - 2 075 900
2009 year - 2 010 500
2010 year - 2 028 500
Total 1991 to 2010 year 42 502 900. For them, the power of Yeltsin — Putin — Medvedev was lifelong. For what? No way. Got under the wheel of history.
For everyone (almost), who in 1991 — in the year of incredible enthusiasm — was about fifty: for life. It does not mean that with other rulers they would have lived much longer. People die everywhere. But the question is: did they feel happy or cheated at the end of their lives? Gone, believing in the happy life of children and grandchildren, or in bitter anxiety for them?
A few more millions left. And here's the question: at the end of their life, they felt that they did the right thing or regretted it.
2010 died by 340 thousand more than 1991. Look: all these years die more, and in fact we are getting smaller. Hence, the deaths should be less. But alas.
If in 2012, the current government will extend itself by another 12 years, during this time at that speed, another 22 million will die. Total: 64 million.
This power not only destroyed the industry, destroyed education, not only stole money. She stole hope from those who got her for life; they were dying, feeling betrayed. And the children who were born during the years of this power and are born now - have stolen the soul. These new robbed do not even feel that they were deceived. Nothing to feel.
Somewhere someday be a history lesson. The teacher will say: - Children! Over the years there have been three presidents in Russia: Yeltsin, Putin, Medvedev. True, children, they are very different?
Go to the zoo. Old wolf, young raccoon, chanterelle - from the point of view of a learned zoologist, they are so different! ... From the point of view of a bunny (which is eaten alive), it is not so important: a young wolf or an old one and what gender is a feeder, and even if it is a wolf or a chanterelle-sister.
Here and the fairy tale is over. Well, bunny at the same time.
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