Liberal fuss around the Immortal Regiment rally
The energy is so powerful, the charge of patriotism and real pride for the country is so great that it caused a real emotional bump on the so-called “non-living mass”. Emotionality was naturally negative. They say that it is impossible to give society a single chance to feel one, you need to do everything so that Russia feels its "backwardness", "inferiority" and "indecency." In general, it seems that so far the overwhelming majority of Russian citizens celebrated the 70 anniversary of the great for all stories the countries of the event, “some people” spent all the holidays with one sole purpose - to find at least something that could cast a shadow on both the May 9 date itself and on all the festive events. And if you don’t find it, then practice in fake-throwing and concoction of specimens of unacceptability and “Colorado-rash rashism”. That kind of tinkering in the name of narcissism, or something ...
So here. One of the directions of such tinkering is the action “Immortal Regiment”, born at the time in Tomsk, and now extrapolated to the scale of the whole of Russia and not only, by the way, Russia. While tens of millions of people carried portraits of participants in the Great Patriotic War in their hands, representatives of the “dissenters” decided to defame this action - an action of bright memory and respect for people who contributed to the common victory over Nazism.
On the website of the radio station Echo of Moscow The material “After the Immortal Regiment’ action ”appeared, which refers to noisy social networks, published photos of heaped-in portraits of veterans of the Great Patriotic War, and that the Бес Immortal Regiment’ action itself allegedly took place not for free will, but forcibly. In the material, the radio station refers to such a lady as Veronika Dolina, a “non-collateral” poetess, who, having walked around Moscow 9 in May, you see, found buses in the lanes, from which she concluded that people “crowded” to the action, and “ staging. Not only that “staging”, it is stated that the numerous portraits of the “Immortal Regiment” were not veterans, and so ... who knows ...
V.Dolina writes:
Well, of course, the statement, what else. For example, the author of this material on the Military Review himself could not take the portrait of his grandfather in his hands and walk with this portrait a few hundred meters along the main street of the city ... Of course, they drove him there, after intimidating the Lubyanka dungeons, as well as another three or four tens of millions of Russians ... Of course, black funnels took away all the participants of the action, then people were loaded into PAZs (by all means piles) and along with portraits of “false veterans”, they took them from the houses and apartments For "PR". Here is a staged video shoot in a side street of Paris Hollande, Merkel, Poroshenko and other “Grybauskaite” against the background of hundreds of personal guards about “I am Charly” - this, you know, is not PR, and in Russia on Victory Day a procession with portraits of veterans is certainly PR , by all means for Putin’s sake, by all means for money or by the fear of "execution by hanging" ...
In addition to Mrs. poetess V. Dolina, such a citizen as Andrei Malgin took part in the action “Immortal Regiment” in his LJ. “Echo of Moscow”, publishing photos about “discarded” portraits of veterans, refers to him, although the author of the photo is a man named Denis Bezgachin.
Malgin asks the question: “Listen, if people carried portraits of their dead relatives, would they have thrown them out at the end?” A few more dozen comments to his ARTICLES They are dedicated to the fact that the action, they say, is a production and nothing else, for "for many posters, even the dimensions are the same." Apparently, Mr. Malgin, Ms. Dolina and their like-minded people, talking about the action "Immortal Regiment", heard the ringing, but do not know where he is. In this regard, the question is: from which, actually, the lips of these ladies and gentlemen learned about the essence of the action, and who told them in general that all its participants came out without fail with portraits of their ancestors? If these people are still capable of perceiving information, and not chasing a cheap "sensation", building themselves as supporters for the fate of Russia, then I will allow myself to explain something for such.
The idea of the action "Immortal Regiment" is not necessarily to go to the center of the city with a portrait of its ancestor, the Great Patriotic. The essence of the action is that as many people as possible see the faces of the winners in order to pay tribute to the memory of a great feat. At the same time, it’s not important in the action "Immortal Regiment" whether you went outside with a portrait of your own ancestor, or you are holding a portrait of a heroic countryman. It doesn’t matter whether it’s a portrait of a Red Army man who carried out your father (grandfather), who was not five in 1943, from a house that was burning after an artillery strike, or a portrait of a front commander whose fighters liberated your hometown.
In the end, not all Russians have portraits of great-grandfathers and great-great-great-grandfathers who participated in the Great Patriotic War, but this doesn’t stop people from feeling the call of the heart and feeling a desire to become participants in a bright holiday. Did they make a photo plate with their own hands, or took up the plates, which were centrally created by printing houses, school and university workshops, art studios - do you really need to poke around and look for some dirt? If in your soul 9 of May is emptiness, and Victory Day is not associated with the feat of the Soviet people, then, as they say, reflect on this matter alone or in a group of similarly devastated ones. If you want to reflect publicly, and even on a grand scale, then at least clarify the information “in your office” in order not to suffer from psaking. Well, or be ready for the reaction from those who see the “Immortal Regiment” campaign as a symbol of the bond of generations, and not what you see in it.
Perhaps, the comparison is not quite correct, but when fans come to the match, then among them, as you know, there are those who came by themselves (with family or friends), and who happened to be at the match, as they say, centrally. Centrally - it does not mean bad. Or this is not the place in the stadium? ..
The fact that the portraits were on the pavement ... I do not intend to argue about the fact that this could not be. It could and could have been (even without taking into account staged shots against the background of empty beer bottles and cigarette butts). But it could be only because the same devastated as the above-mentioned fellow citizens went out to the streets with portraits, without particularly concealing the emptiness in their hearts. Holding photos of veterans in their hands (they say, look: I'm also a patriot), they didn’t think at all about the people who gave their lives on the fronts or in the occupation zone, but about when the standby glass would appear in these hands under the guise of 100 g. And this is, unfortunately ...
It’s another thing when some devastated ones are trying to pass off other social trends devastated as carriers. Picking social networks about this is one example. I have no right to give advice to anyone, but nevertheless, I will allow one advice: in this case, you should not experience euphoria from the gaping with your own spiritual emptiness, and, if possible, try to fill them with something that will not turn a person into a blank or a soap bubble.
- Alexei Volodin
- Vyacheslav Afanasyev, Denis Bezgachin
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