Is it necessary to understand incomprehensible Russia?

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Reading the articles of some overseas journalists, I constantly catch myself thinking - they don’t get it. It seems to be writing about everyday things, but not there. Do not understand. They do not understand that Russia will not fight with Israel (it all started with such a material), it will not shower America with “Poplars” and “Yars”. Will not go tank columns to Kiev and Brussels (although, perhaps, it would be worth it). We do not need it. And this is not clear.

Yes, overseas love to talk about the syndrome of incomprehensible Russian soul. And, if without well-worn words about the fact that “the mind does not understand Russia,” everything is simpler. She (that is, the soul) is. And on this you can stop.

Having lived long enough in the USSR, after going through the "cold war" and all the subsequent nightmares of "dermokratizatsiya", I, like many who live here, has changed. And they are there, over the ocean - no. That's because, reading what they quite sincerely write, I shrug. Well, stupid? Yes, not that stupid, just do not understand. So they write outright nonsense (from the Russian point of view).

In order to understand how and what to write about us, we must try to become us. Not in terms of life, there is nothing like that. In terms of internal content. It is a pity that it is impossible to collect the entire American writing fraternity and drive us for an internship for a week. With compulsory fishing and drinking. Such a booze, ours. In order not to have two whiskey fingers, and then ice and tonic with ice, but in Russian. And not glasses, hell, and glasses! Under hot ears from just caught sudachka.

And the most important thing in the morning. Gray, hungover morning. When everything is gray - the river, the sky, the earth, you are all gray. And the first cold sotochka (lay in the river all night) falls into the stomach, and then begins to include the colors of life. And after the second (or a beer from the same natural refrigerator) you can already live. And even very necessary.

I do not know, it would help ... I set up such experiments on the Germans. It helped. Germans, in a sense.

It's not just about drinking (although it too). The thing is in contact with the world around you. Well, where are their grief picnics on stadiums and other reservations? Yes, nowhere. No contact with the world. Glass, concrete, asphalt - and as a result, complete isolation of the brain. The brain is not breathing. Accordingly, since it is already used to it, it gives out what it is capable of.

Someone will say that they live in Moscow too. Like in New York. Well, yes, they live. But is this life? As for me, and not life at all. Cockroach Races Is that matblag more, and they are brighter. And so - that is still boring. And eternal employment.

And then, Moscow is not Russia. Russia begins in Zamkade. That same wild and barbarous (from the point of view of that man in the street) Russia, on which everything stands. And will stand. And that, the real Russia, is harder to understand. And it would be necessary.

Then, probably, understanding would have come. And it would be calmer to look at many things. WITH historical points of view. Would not be so worried about Syria and everything else. Napoleon was calmed down, Hitler was brought to a kondrashka, and this, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, is also calibrated. Normally. We will do all the dirty work for everyone, rejoice and hang yourself awards and honors.

We have everything, and the Russian person does not need this hypothetical power over the world at all. No matter how hard they tried to convince the whole world. We have, and so, thank God, from the tundra to the subtropics all in bulk. Well, and to whom this is not enough, Turkey and Egypt have long been speaking Russian in Russian. There is no longer understand who is the guest, and who is the master. Tourist provinces ... like Abkhazia.

It is difficult for the western man to understand what is impossible to understand in principle. He looks out of his tiny world, personally inviolable, for democracy, but so limited that he takes pity. They are there like fish in an aquarium. Habitat, but the world is much more. And we are accustomed to our vast world. And we look at many things so broadly. Why the impression is that the Russians are concerned about everything.

Yes, there is really nothing to do with the whole world, isn't it? Well, our rulers decided to help the Syrians. So Americans also help someone forever. Are we worse? We are no worse. Yes, we don’t have a lot of things in America, but Americans don’t have much of what we have.

They say they have the freedom of everything there. And we do not. In fact, in the modern world, freedom is a fiction. Too many restrictions on all these freedoms are imposed. And they have even more there than ours.

Another term is applicable to the Russian person - will. We are free. Rummaged in the definitions, and that's what happened.

Will is not physical, not emotional, and not always conscious (here, truly about us!) Human activity; but an activity that always reflects the principles of morality and the norms of the individual and indicates the value characteristics of the goal of the chosen action.

That is, freedom is rather a physical lot. And the will-you see. To the soul closer. Very close. So we are free.

And this is the state of the free soul and turns the Russian person on. And throws on exploits. And in the world we can, and in the war. For we are free, and we are free to choose our own way-path. Let sometimes not always consciously. This, I think, confuses everyone there.

And therefore it is unlikely that an American completely blinkered with his freedoms will understand what is pushing the Russian into action. I do not want to say that they live there badly and sadly, no. Just everything else. The air is different, the sky is different, life is different. Free

How to understand that American those features that we have in the genotype of protection? Yes, nothing.


What will say? Yes, the river. We, in America ... Yes, what have you in America, alone, and you can't speak without that without tears. And this is the Don Father, and not something like Mississippi. Understand need.





















In vain, I guess I ran into Americans. To understand, one must be born and live here. And so ... what is a blind man talking about sunset, then tell an American about a free Russian soul.

Do not understand. It's a pity.

So apparently, we will have to continue to live misunderstood. Just a few thousand years. Well, never mind, we will live.
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  1. +54
    12 November 2015 11: 11
    We ourselves sometimes do not understand her mother! And "THEY" will never understand! Because this is not given to them, because Russia has been holding on for so many years!
    You cannot understand Russia with your mind, you can’t measure it with arshin ... it’s special to become ......
    You can only BELIEVE IN RUSSIA!
    1. +85
      12 November 2015 11: 23
      I read it with pleasure, the photos are beautiful. Romana can safely be called Prishvin military review. And the description of the morning fishing is something! As if I had spied, the Germans really weren't there. And they don’t have to be there. Let schnapps take a bite of sausages in Germany.
      1. +24
        12 November 2015 12: 11
        As for Prishvin, you spoke out quite correctly. And respect to the author. hi
        1. +20
          12 November 2015 12: 35
          Yes, what kind of concept can the Americans talk about the Russian soul, if it, darling, is not even understood inside the Moscow Ring Road? .. And the author is a big plus!
          1. +15
            12 November 2015 13: 32
            Quote: Alexey Bukin
            Yes, what kind of concept can the Americans talk about the Russian soul, if it, darling, is not even understood inside the Moscow Ring Road? .. And the author is a big plus!

            I, Alexei, sometimes have the idea that inside the Moscow Ring Road there live those anthropoids that Roman writes about as incapable ....

            I do not want to offend a true Muscovite, but the general picture is drawn by those who come to us in Kubar with their fingers spread out. hi
            1. +20
              12 November 2015 18: 54
              laughing laughing laughing Kutuzov also said: "To save Russia, you need to burn Moscow ...!"
              1. -3
                13 November 2015 14: 52
                along with the contents of the Kremlin in full force .. and also gos.d..ru put there
                1. +1
                  13 November 2015 16: 03
                  Monument to Minin and Pozharsky at the Pokrovsky Cathedral.
                  Minin tells Pozharsky, pointing with his hand to the Kremlin:
                  "Look, prince, what scum has started up in the Moscow Kremlin!"
                  1. 0
                    19 November 2015 05: 56
                    it seems they are here minus ...
            2. +20
              12 November 2015 19: 01
              Napoleon was calmed down, Hitler was brought to a kondrashka, and this, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, is also calibrated. Normally. We will do all the dirty work for everyone, rejoice and hang yourself awards and honors.

              by analogy, I remembered an old joke ..:
              A man sits in the morning at home, is sick from a hangover, chases on a plate
              last pickled fungus.
              A neighbor comes to him, looks at him and asks:
              - What are you doing, entil Vasilich?
              - Shaw you do not see, I want to catch a fungus.
              “Look as it should,” says the neighbor, takes the plug and if so
              pricked a mushroom.
              A man tells him:
              - Well, yes, you would have caught him if I had not driven him before !!!

              direct us and Russia in Syria ...
          2. +29
            12 November 2015 14: 13
            Quote: alexey bukin
            Yes, what kind of concept can the Americans say about the Russian soul if it, darling, is not even understood within the Moscow Ring Road? ..

            So our Russia, not only to understand, but also not to measure .. hi
            1. +10
              13 November 2015 01: 21
              It would be good to erect exactly the same monuments in the Kaliningrad region, one on the Polish border, the other on the Lithuanian.
              1. +2
                14 November 2015 22: 30
                Do not. There's no point. Everything goes to the point that these pedestals will have to be moved later ... deep into the Polish and Lithuanian territory
          3. +5
            12 November 2015 15: 16
            Quote: Alexey Bukin
            Yes, what kind of concept can the Americans talk about the Russian soul, if it, darling, is not even understood inside the Moscow Ring Road? .. And the author is a big plus!


            Once in the nineties, I had the opportunity to talk with the Americans for a couple of months, as part of the agreements on SALT-2, therefore I quote the author’s phrase

            In vain, I guess I ran into Americans. To understand, one must be born and live here. And so ... what is a blind man talking about sunset, then tell an American about a free Russian soul.


            So it is in life. hi
        2. +12
          12 November 2015 13: 28
          Quote: Vadya718
          As for Prishvin, you spoke out quite correctly. And respect to the author.


          Dear Vadim, the word "respect" is somewhat discordant with Prishvin. You are either about Prishvin, or about the very same thing, because Prishvin, being a Russian writer, would never have used such a term. hi
      2. +8
        12 November 2015 13: 47
        Quote: Proxima
        With pleasure I read, Romana can be safely called Prishvin military review.


        I often go near Prishvin’s house ... nature, a one-on-one river in the photo. Thanks to the author, I would like to write that he speaks Russian seeing such a nature, but it’s impossible ... wink
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      4. +84
        12 November 2015 14: 06
        Quote: Proxima
        Let schnapps take a bite of sausages in Germany.

        To take them (Germans and Penguins) on a fishing trip - you need to gather all the willpower into a fist, and be prepared for the fact that the Russian perception of "fishing and gray morning" will be fouled to death.
        I drove a German and a Penguin.
        At first, they are disciplined, without a vest, they won’t board a boat; there’s a lot of questions right away - whose reservoir? The answer is federal, it did not fit in their heads. They hate each other, but consider themselves people from the world rank higher than ours
        Contrary to all myths, they drink. They drink like horses ... God forgive me, and innocent animals.
        On the shore, they drag themselves like wild ones ... they look at flocks of fry among water lilies, they are surprised at the transparency of the water, gathering a dry land for a fire is beyond their understanding. No way! To prepare the grub on the shore, on the fire, and spend the night is space ...so you know, comrade Roman, they have such a national American entertainment - bushcraft. Collect food in plastic boxes, sleeping bags, a tent, gas burners and spend the night in the forest. Just spend the night. And - a hero.
        In short - I give them fishing rods. Do not take ... no license. They don’t believe in free. I convinced ... caught perch and roach, tsuko, thrown into the water.
        In short - we with a friend (he was the host) ourselves set up a tent, cut canes, put sleeping bags on. By prior arrangement, friends of fishermen in a motorboat came from the field, unloaded several bream, pike perch. Cooked the ear - the spoon is standing. Do not eat ... Like - can you eat this fish? She was not checked by anyone ... Hyuk with you, eat dry food. They poured themselves a fiery fish soup into mugs, a chunk of the black softest bread, a rib from a fatty 3 kg bream on a plate, front-line 100 ... and with pleasure drank and ate a bite. They broke like first-born girls, but not for long, and asked too.
        The trouble is that they don’t understand Russian - to drink AND BIT. Even in the movies you can see - they drink, but do not eat. But they drink a lot. Very soon, horns crawled into the ground, crawling along the shore like crayfish.
        The morning was gray, and very sad ... they washed sleeping bags and a tent in the river, collected their cameras and video cameras scattered and trampled into the sand, frightened the bushes with joint Amero-German beeeee.
        We poured 100 ice medicine in Russian, raked the ears of frozen ears in jelly ... they looked at us with superstitious horror. We drank the whole marinade with 3l cans, had a sip and asked for more coffee. I ask - are you ready, American, to fight with me now? Grit - Nooo, you Russians, barbarians, but you are invincible laughing
        With wild labor they persuaded them to undergo treatment under a cucumber, grunted at a write, felt better, and became happier.
        Fried kebab, slightly under the meat continued. Caught dead, miserable. In the evening they were taken ashore - smoked, wrinkled, not marketable, swollen faces from mosquitoes and our hospitality, back to civilization wassat
        In the photo - Pskov Lake. On the horizon visible islands of the Talab archipelago.
        1. +25
          12 November 2015 14: 49
          Quote: CONNECTING ROD VDVshny
          To take them (Germans and Penguins) on a fishing trip - you need to gather all the willpower into a fist, and be prepared for the fact that the Russian perception of "fishing and gray morning" will be fouled to death.

          Vladimirovich, your comment is not amenable to discussion; I came across a similar one. good drinks hi soldier
          1. +5
            13 November 2015 11: 45
            I’m re-reading it for the third time and laughing to tears from understanding! Tomorrow the wife will come again revered together! 3 +++ drinks
            He was also with foreigners fishing, just on a river (in nature!) - a rzhunimaga from their villageism!
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        3. +10
          12 November 2015 17: 39
          Thanks for the comment, I laughed heartily! laughing Masterfully stated good
        4. +10
          12 November 2015 19: 06
          At the expense of erysipelas, swollen from hospitality is a masterpiece bully It was easier with tourmalai, but it’s kind of like .... Lord! Che for the people! Neither you drink nor have a bite ... And these people forbid us to pick our nose .... laughing laughing In general, he smiled tightly))) Respect and respect!
        5. +6
          13 November 2015 10: 15
          Quote: CONNECTING ROD VDVshny
          With wild work persuaded them to undergo treatment under a cucumber, grunted at the write, feel better, have fun

          On board the steamboat, where besides the wardroom, the sauna and the galley, the engine still knocks somewhere, one of the received Germans had a stomach. Well, it happens that they spilled a spoonful of salt in a half-glass of vodka, offered to drink. Like, everything will pass, convincingly so, after a liter of drunk. How they defended a comrade, how he fought back, how they all squealed! Well, we, animals of the galleries. I do not agree - cross out. Sit in the corner, watch how your compatriots drink and eat with us with sad eyes.
        6. +7
          13 November 2015 14: 59
          Yesterday I drank with a Russian, I almost died. Today I hanged with a Russian - I wish I died yesterday !!!
        7. +4
          13 November 2015 16: 11
          Quote: PANEL VDVshny

          In the photo - Pskov Lake. On the horizon visible islands of the Talab archipelago.
          How I want to visit Pleskove. In 1986 there was a year, beauty !!!!!!!
          Yes, I am a native of the Capital, but I have great respect for people who write so "tasty" about the Native Land.
          Do not hight Muscovites, these are your countrymen.
        8. 0
          14 November 2015 20: 59
          Oh, we Russians, Russians .... The torturers ...
      5. +8
        13 November 2015 10: 03
        Quote: Proxima
        Let schnapps take a bite of sausages in Germany.

        A natural German is up to his throat in Don water, at a table in the form of a basin inserted into a lifebuoy, he reacts to the surrounding reality quite in Russian. Even words that are forbidden in VO also pronounce themselves in Russian quite well. Drink, however, maybe more. Because natural German is usually longer than a natural Cossack, and water pressure does not prevent him from pushing Don products into the German body. But in Germany I did not succeed in such a unity with nature. The body protested, wanted to go home. The article is magnificent, the author put the plus sign with pleasure.
    2. +42
      12 November 2015 11: 26
      They live for money, comfort and sex! And we are for the soul, love and friendship!
      And they don’t understand our soul even if we take fishing and hunting them for a month! All the same, they won’t like it, they won’t catch it, all the more without comfort, just on the shore, and on canvas!
      Article +! I agree about Prishvin VO! Poured balm on the heart! And about fishing and about a hundred in the gray morning ... drinks
      1. +48
        12 November 2015 11: 36
        He was in Germany for the first time in 93.
        A lot of impressions. Everything around is different.
        The first three days was a complete delight ...
        Ten days later he returned to his homeland.
        And I realized that everything is native and everything is mine:
        forests, steppes, rivers and most importantly people !!!
        Although it was 93 years old. Devastation.
        But even this devastation is a hundred times better !!!
        This is beyond words.
        1. +11
          12 November 2015 13: 47
          Quote: Temples
          He was in Germany for the first time in 93.
          A lot of impressions. Everything around is different.
          The first three days was a complete delight ...
          Ten days later he returned to his homeland.
          And I realized that everything is native and everything is mine:
          forests, steppes, rivers and most importantly people !!!
          Although it was 93 years old. Devastation.
          But even this devastation is a hundred times better !!!
          This is beyond words.

          I, the namesake, had a residence permit in one of the Eastern European countries, in 1992 I returned to the Kuban, I criticize everything now, sometimes I get angry all the way, but I still understand that I couldn’t live there. hi
        2. +4
          12 November 2015 19: 13
          And the identity))))) So the Russian soul is arranged! And no longer redo. Yes, and let them try))))
      2. +1
        12 November 2015 18: 53
        Baikonur

        I appeal to you to start a discussion.

        Dear author. You raised a very important topic. This topic brings the reader’s consciousness in the Russian environment about the significant difference between the representatives of the two civilizations.

        We see the question of the difference on the surface and cannot be discussed since there is no disagreement on this.

        But it causes a sharp outrage as you explain this difference. Your literary article is excellent. And at the same time it carries a time bomb in the minds of people.

        The Russian Soul is not an explanation of the difference between the perception systems of Western and Russian people.
        1. +1
          12 November 2015 20: 21
          Unfortunately, I could not lay out my point of view. Did not work. Too many examples and logical chains.

          Information is lost. Not sure what will happen yet.

          I am absolutely aware that I am going to confront
          1. +1
            13 November 2015 07: 59
            for all minus for the last phrase +
          2. +2
            13 November 2015 10: 29
            Quote: gladcu2
            I am absolutely aware that I am going to confront

            Ethnic Ukrainian? Can't imagine that you can communicate without confrontation? In 1994, our steamer detained a Canadian frigate in the Adriatic. I found out why we were walking along the Yugoslav coast. The chief negotiated, and the master tried to take away his talker and explain it as intelligibly as possible that we were LATE in Porto Nagaro for unloading, and there Saturday and so on. He calmed down when they said that Ukrainians are there in any way, your explanations will be understood literally, and we will get to Brindisi, and not to Porto Nagaro. The mention of the Ukrainians returned the master to the meridian. He looked sadly at the minute hand of the clock, while the Canadians stared at us from the helicopter and ran in shorts along the vacant helipad.
        2. +2
          12 November 2015 23: 30
          Russia is comprehensible with LOVE. At a lower level of perception of the world, you pass by, "not understanding". The difference is not in the "mentality", as the Western school tries to explain, but in the attitude. Western man has a kind mind; the Russian has an intelligent soul. The essence of today's "problem" is that Russia, as a civilization of the North, does not give definitions of the meanings and goals of life. But, I think, very soon we will receive very clear definitions with which it will already be possible to discuss. For example, the reinforced concrete GENERAL HUMAN ideology of any man in the street: "live, live and make good money."
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      1. +9
        12 November 2015 11: 46
        crying What the hell .... a tear broke ... laughing
    4. +33
      12 November 2015 11: 37
      Here, to me personally, if you close your eyes before going to bed and ask the body about the Motherland, then it immediately gives out pictures of nature, relatives, friends and some of your childhood memories. Not cottages, cars, hypermarkets and other brand names. This is probably the origins of the Russian man, therefore Westerners cannot understand us, they see other pictures in the subconscious, and God is with them and their misunderstanding! hi
      1. +15
        12 November 2015 11: 45
        And I was killed by the phrase of a German who was steamed in a hefty Russian village peasant:
        Only having been in a Russian bath did I understand where the Russian passion for self-torture came from ...
        1. +3
          12 November 2015 21: 53
          Well tady him to the Finns, let him sit in a Finnish bathhouse with them! Then we listen to what will sing when the voice comes back. laughing
    5. +20
      12 November 2015 11: 48
      Thanks to the author for the precise definition of our character! Exactly "WILL", contains both freedom and soul, and hardness. Language does not turn to call it a word, because the concept "WILL" boundless and immense, like Russia.
      1. +8
        12 November 2015 13: 58
        I completely agree, WILL and spiritual freedom, what is so unclear and hateful to the West!
    6. +28
      12 November 2015 11: 48
      in the west, in case of stress, what do they do? -that's right ... they run to a psychoanalyst and for Prozac! and we have ? - on a fishing trip, or on a kraynyak in the garage! There the men will carry out such "therapy" as if they can relieve stress by hand! Yes
    7. -7
      12 November 2015 13: 04
      [And then, Moscow is not Russia. Russia in Zamkadye begins.]

      But Roma Skomorokhov breathed rottenness: "Ukraine is not Russia ..." © "We will never be brothers ..." ©

      Moscow is a concentrated Russia. People from all over the country and from abroad live in Moscow: near and far. People live different, no matter how trite it may sound. Bad, lazy, selfish, kazly again - also live in Moscow. But. But they are also Russia, Russia gave birth to them. Some of them came from near or far castle.

      Roma Skomorokhov - look in the mirror - and you will see part of Moscow.
      1. +11
        12 November 2015 14: 09
        For Vadim the Skeptic. It is Roman who is right - Russia begins in the castle! And those who are inside the Moscow Ring Road are no longer completely Russian, I say this because my relatives are already there, inside the Moscow Ring Road and they are OTHER! For three years of their life they already have different concepts, values, desires, etc.
        Coming here to the Don, already on a visit, they don’t understand us, well, or they pretend they don’t understand! In general, Muscovites, including and the comers spoil the housing issue, and indeed Moscow spoils people, and sometimes very much! I speak again from personal observations and my relatives are not the only example before my eyes!

        P.S. And there are friends who moved to the USA for permanent residence, here there is generally a complete w *** and a clinic! So they are not Russian, not we!
        1. +2
          12 November 2015 14: 43
          These changes of people are not external causes - internal. What a man is will manifest itself. They say that in war a person quickly manifests itself. Moscow is not a war, it’s different, I don’t know what, but the result of the impact is the same. It’s not Moscow that spoils people - they themselves are.
          For example.
          Do you have local "opposition liberals"? In theory, there is ... With your foolishness. But are they from Moscow? Did Moscow spoil them too?
          1. +13
            12 November 2015 15: 17
            The West is degrading for one simple reason, to improve is hard work and overcoming, to go down is to slide downhill is easy and simple. And the ideology of the West implies consuming benefits (mainly on credit), and this ideology has already been launched in our society the roots. A lot of enough people have one common core - PAM.
            1. 0
              12 November 2015 21: 21
              But Russia should finally be understood with the mind. And measure the total arshin.
          2. +5
            12 November 2015 23: 29
            Beautiful words from a Soviet children's song: "We have just begun our destiny, just girls, just boys - and already Muscovites!" I don't know how anyone, it always hurt me. Look, straight nobles by birth! Muscovites are Russians plus a lot of pride. Like Syabitova! "I, my daughter, tried so much to become a Muscovite, and you were born here right away, you were lucky!"
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    11. 0
      14 November 2015 22: 41
      "We ourselves sometimes do not understand her mother!" Yes, we do not always understand ourselves))) It was not for nothing that Bismarck said: “Never fight the Russians. They will respond to every military trick of yours with unpredictable stupidity. "
      and I also found a quote))) "Never believe the Russians, for the Russians do not even believe themselves."
  2. gjv
    +15
    12 November 2015 11: 12
    To understand, one must be born and live here.

    ...Arshin common not to measure: She has a special place - You can go to Russia only believe. /F.I. Tyutchev/
    we will have to continue to live

    You must Fedya, you must...
    While free burn
    While hearts for honor are alive,
    My friend, dedicate to the fatherland
    Souls are wonderful impulses!
    A.S. Pushkin - our everything. Is our!
  3. +8
    12 November 2015 11: 13
    Mind does not understand Russia,
    You can not measure the general with a general.
    She has a special place,
    You can only believe in Russia.
    1. +7
      12 November 2015 11: 49
      Quote: roskot
      Mind does not understand Russia,
      You can not measure the general with a general.
      She has a special place,
      You can only believe in Russia.

      Forgot to sign: Fedor Tyutchev.
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      2. +6
        12 November 2015 14: 02
        Quote: roskot
        Mind does not understand Russia

        Really do not understand.
        They even poke from a zombie man that Russia is a colonial country.
        And we are lying on the stove, picking our nose, quoting Tyutchev, knocking down the pros. Lyapota!
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  4. KEX
    +13
    12 November 2015 11: 14
    BEAUTY !!! always a bastard from our nature ... a sense of something of his own ....
  5. +34
    12 November 2015 11: 16
    Another term is applied to Russian people - will. We are free.- very accurately noticed! And in addition, "rummaged" in runet and horrified from what I did not know SUCH (!) poems about US ... However, it is a shame ..., hmm. Where can they - the Angosaxians understand us, and even more so try to win ...

    Mysterious Russian soul...
    She, the subject of raptures and curses,
    There is a male clenched fist
    Concrete obstacles crash.
    And then suddenly it becomes thinner than a petal,
    More transparent than the autumn web.
    And then it flies like the first day of Putin
    Desperate mountain river.

    Mysterious Russian soul...
    Treatises are written about her overseas,
    Movie cameras are rampant
    Hurry to grab the tail of the comet.
    Vain work! It’s time to know for a long time:
    One Ivanushka by the tail of the firebird
    Managed to grasp in a folk tale.
    And you do not compete with him anyway.

    Mysterious Russian soul...
    Difficult as a change of colors at dawn.
    The efforts of institutes and intelligence
    To understand it - not worth a dime.
    Where the West and the East are brought together
    And where is their division and merger?
    Where the northern lights converge
    And is solar energy the source?

    Mysterious Russian soul...
    If you are friends, I’ll tell you a secret:
    The whole secret is that there are no secrets at all,
    She is good in openness.

    The one who built insincerity and a lie
    In the rank of virtues, understanding is powerless,
    That directness is always wiser than convolutions.
    Where there are no locks - you will not pick up keys.
    And for those wandering in the darkness of sunset,
    Fallen leaves with gold rustling,
    May it remain a mystery forever
    Dawn in April -
    Russian soul!


    Evgeny Dolmatovsky.
    1. +10
      12 November 2015 11: 34
      Thanks for the poem. I love Dolmatovsky, but I see this work for the first time.
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  6. +11
    12 November 2015 11: 16
    Thank you for the opportunity to escape from the office: the photos are gorgeous !!! Text is good =)
    I’ll leave my office (I’ve got a corn on the priest), I’ll leave for the village to plow and sow ... seriously ... in 2-3 years, I’ll repay the current wassat
    1. +6
      12 November 2015 13: 53
      Quote: ermak.sidorov
      Thank you for the opportunity to escape from the office: the photos are gorgeous !!! Text is good =)
      I’ll leave my office (I’ve got a corn on the priest), I’ll leave for the village to plow and sow ... seriously ... in 2-3 years, I’ll repay the current

      You and I are very similar, I mean about childhood, but I'm afraid you won't return to the Trans-Urals. God have mercy, I don't mean anything bad. It's just that in 2-3 years you will already have a "Moscow" psychology, again I don't mean anything negative. hi
      And the Trans-Urals will remain nagging nostalgia deep down, again if it remains ....
      I was not going to offend you, colleague, believe me. soldier
      1. +13
        12 November 2015 15: 24
        Not at all offended winked
        On the contrary, they supported it.
        Here we live 2-3 years ... then it will be seen =)
        But, God had mercy on me: although I sit in the office, 200 physical kilometers separate me from the Prestolnaya. Although not a matter of km. You rightly said "Moscow psychology" is something that eats away people's brains and souls ... and I don't even know which is worse. We have a peer of mine in our organization, who happened to work in Moscow for several years, so now he doesn't just look at his colleagues here from a high point, it's good that he doesn't spit ... sh and z a. And such I have seen more than one: "Career and money! Money and career!" Excited, twitchy and sparkle in the eyes as from taking stimulants - ZOMBIES! "Managers" are the victims of the god "Mamon".

        About 1,5 years ago, I shuddered: I’ll leave everything, go to the village, work with my hands, rent an apartment in the city, raise the children ourselves (we wrote theses with my wife and we’ll deal with the children ... you know about school now). This is a dream, but it still gives me the strength not to go into a tailspin due to "office worthlessness" and fight off loans (evil) in the coming years.

        And at the expense of the Trans-Urals ... You walked as if in my thoughts. Four days ago, half asleep in the evening, he recalled his grandfather's house. I remembered everything: what, where, rooms, stoves, things, sounds, smell, temperature, light through the windows, coolness in the canopy, what flowers were and where, it smells like a river in a garden (the house stands on the shore, but now relatives live there people)...

        Thanks you!
    2. +1
      13 November 2015 10: 39
      Quote: ermak.sidorov
      I’ll leave the office (on the pope already a corn) I’ll leave for the village to plow and sow ... seriously ... in 2-3 years,

      And report back in 4 years, how it is there. And we will discuss and clever. I hope it will come true.
      1. +1
        14 November 2015 10: 43
        Thank you!
        I will try not to forget to attach the Internet to the hut wassat
  7. +4
    12 November 2015 11: 17
    What is the opinion of the Americans to us? Nothing. Our opinion of them does not interest the macaques either. But "kukushata" and insects like yekha matzah, the same mudrin, lozhinina, oral, daddy and son of the Dudkins and others, they would be shown to publicly read the article aloud. angry
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  9. +9
    12 November 2015 11: 20
    The fact is that even if the West had a desire to understand Russia as a country, as a mentality, they would not be able to do this. But they do not even try to understand what Russia offers them for their own safety. In this matter, in the west a complete clinic.
  10. +13
    12 November 2015 11: 20
    A thousand pluses to you Roman! I propose to open the heading "Photo report with comments" from VO users about their region. At least dilute the military a little and calm the eyes and mind.
    1. +2
      12 November 2015 11: 51
      Quote: McLooka-MacLeod
      ! I propose to open the heading "Photo report with comments" from VO users about their region.

      welcome to the "forum", everything has already been invented before you.
  11. +8
    12 November 2015 11: 23
    I love the untouched nature in RUSSIA.
    In Kamchatka in Altai there are beautiful places of wildlife and in other parts of RUSSIA there are places where breathtaking from the imagination of mother nature ....
    And this is our wealth .... I really wanted it to not put his paws cunning dealers and adventurers living one day.
    Roman posted wonderful photos ... well, as for the Western world ... the safety of the world that we own depends on us and only on us ... you can not give it to all the swindlers deciding the fate of RUSSIA behind us.
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    2. gjv
      +21
      12 November 2015 11: 32
      Quote: The same LYOKHA
      in Altai



      Bathing in Katun - !!! good
      1. +1
        12 November 2015 11: 56
        Bathing in Katun is some kind of guard! There is ice water! laughing
      2. +8
        12 November 2015 12: 16
        Krasnoyarsk air defense.
        1. +7
          12 November 2015 16: 20
          The mouth of the Velikaya River .... a thunderstorm sets in from the lake
      3. +9
        12 November 2015 12: 19
        Sayans, taiga.
        1. +12
          12 November 2015 19: 26
          Kazakhsan. Big Alma-Ata Lake. Altitude 2380 Num
      4. +6
        12 November 2015 16: 17
        Eh ... eh, infuriated ... my favorite sea, Pskov good
      5. 0
        13 November 2015 05: 31
        Beautiful places
        Geyser lake
  12. +6
    12 November 2015 11: 30
    Yes - the huge difference between WILL and FREEDOM! The author is right, well done !!!
    1. +5
      12 November 2015 12: 09
      Freedom is a legal concept. And the will is the will. Yes, we ourselves cannot really explain what it is. The main thing we ourselves understand in the soul and everything else is secondary
  13. or
    +8
    12 November 2015 11: 33
    Great article, and very understandable to us Russians!
  14. +5
    12 November 2015 11: 35
    If you knock lightly, you will probably cry out ...
    One hit, two hit - and then you get used to it! ...

    ... He set up such experiments over the Germans. It helped. The Germans, in the sense.
  15. +10
    12 November 2015 11: 37
    [quote = Baikonur] They live for money, comfort and sex! And we are for the soul, love and friendship!

    Do not understand them to us ever! Because we really live in Soul! And they have a stomach and benefit!
    As the boxer recently said that now our winked - as long as you have everything, and even you are famous, you have everything- friends / colleagues, family, etc. and when your career is over, nobody even wants to know you ...
    Here she is, their whole nature is rotten. negative And we are just OTHER! There are people, this is Russia. And there is a person (from the word HAPiens) - these are the rest.
  16. -23
    12 November 2015 11: 37
    Formally, "Russia" is the government of the Russian Federation.
    1. +1
      12 November 2015 12: 44
      Well, why are you this, my friend?
    2. +1
      12 November 2015 14: 00
      Quote: iouris
      Formally, "Russia" is the government of the Russian Federation.

      If you follow your logic, it turns out that in Russia there are no normal people either. There is no colleague, DAMA sitting in a pile of de-ma, this is far from Russia!
    3. 0
      13 November 2015 11: 17
      formally normal, but essentially mockery
  17. +28
    12 November 2015 11: 37
    Thanks, Roman.
    1. +2
      12 November 2015 14: 03
      Quote: B.T.W.
      Thanks, Roman.


      Tanya, a very beautiful poem. hi
    2. +1
      13 November 2015 11: 11
      Tanya is just perfectly said!
      Recently I read at Klyuchevsky "In the West there is a church without God, but we have a God without a church
  18. +8
    12 November 2015 11: 44
    Will is not physical, not emotional, and not always conscious (here, truly about us!) Human activity; but an activity that always reflects the principles of morality and the norms of the individual and indicates the value characteristics of the goal of the chosen action.

    +++++ From the parasite!, From hooked !!!
  19. +10
    12 November 2015 11: 44
    Gorny Altai, p. Katun. This is something completely unbelievable ...
    I also like the phrase from "The Barber of Siberia" (although I don't like Mikhalkov, he has epic things)
    "He is Russian, it explains a lot" (c)
    1. +1
      12 November 2015 15: 03
      Quote: Bosha
      I also like the phrase from "The Barber of Siberia" (although I don't like Mikhalkov, he has epic things)
      "He is Russian, it explains a lot" (c)

      Cleverly said and interesting. hi
  20. +14
    12 November 2015 11: 48
    In the morning, beer after vodka - the day is lost! negative
    And I agree with the rest, they don’t understand us! Our homeless people argue about geopolitics, and it’s quite argued that large businessmen drink vodka from plastic cups with cream cheese on a bench in the park, and this is normal for us! We perceive the world as integral, therefore we have to do everything, and they build their own individual world from which you can only peep, but not look and understand the surrounding big World. smile
    IMHO
    Thanks for the positive! good
    1. +6
      12 November 2015 14: 24
      Let me fix it.
      "Beer in the morning is a step into the unknown," but I agree with the vostal.
  21. +12
    12 November 2015 11: 50
    Peter the Great Bay.
  22. +3
    12 November 2015 11: 52
    The average Amer is deprived of his soul. And as M. Zadornov says, DULL THEY, DULL. The converse is more likely an exception.
  23. +5
    12 November 2015 11: 56
    It is difficult for the western man to understand what is impossible to understand in principle. He looks out of his tiny world, personally inviolable, for democracy, but so limited that he takes pity. They are there like fish in an aquarium. Habitat, but the world is much more. And we are accustomed to our vast world. And we look at many things so broadly. Why the impression is that the Russians are concerned about everything.
    Here are probably the most correct words. It is not for nothing that they say a wide Russian soul.
    1. +1
      12 November 2015 23: 59
      "The man is wide! I would narrow it down!" ("The Brothers Karamazov") fellow
  24. -1
    12 November 2015 11: 57
    beautiful of course, but if you are increasingly being bred for sentiment, this is old age, so it's time to rest ...
    1. +8
      12 November 2015 12: 50
      Quote: Volka
      if you are increasingly being bred for sentiment, this is old age, so it's time to rest.

      No - this is not old age, but maturity. A person can become mature at 20 and 30, 40, 50 and at the end of life. And you can not even become mature carried away by consumerism and sleep on the go without noticing that life is passing, and nothing really has been done.
      Those who at least sometimes think about the meaning of life in general, they begin to think maturely and live according to their conscience, acquiring the wisdom of life and recovering from the epidemic of the "Consumption" virus. After the virus is healed, a healthy Soul and a strong Spirit are acquired - "Russian Soul and Russian Spirit". And where there are many healthy Souls, there already smells of Russia - this is such a state of the Soul and it can be everywhere and not only in Russia. That is why in the West everything Russian and Spiritual is trying to exclude and destroy (soulless slaves are raised). As Zadornov says, if there is no one in the room, they say: "There are no bodies", but here: "Not a Soul." You can feel the difference between Soul and soullessness.


      https://fotki.yandex.ru/next/users/psv-vrn-ru/album/443786/view/930906
      1. +7
        12 November 2015 13: 07
        A.O. Here is a picture.
      2. 0
        13 November 2015 00: 12
        Most of what is written here, in particular discussions about the soul, Americans will not understand, even if they are carefully translated. There is an American friend, there are ours, who left in '91. So I practically know that. Their primitivism is not only innate, but also acquired with a long stay there. Moreover, the American is married to Russian, lived here for more than 10 years, but not only did not understand anything, but did not even learn to speak Russian, although he understands almost all of the speech. laughing
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    2. 0
      12 November 2015 14: 05
      Quote: Volka
      beautiful of course, but if you are increasingly being bred for sentiment, this is old age, so it's time to rest ...

      However, you are angry and nasty ..... tongue
    3. +1
      13 November 2015 11: 23
      Quote: Volka
      beautiful of course, but if you are increasingly being bred for sentiment, this is old age, so it's time to rest.

      Old me, almost ancient ...
      And when he was young -
      On ... all over the village
      He carried a bucket of water!
      And now no longer in power
      Not at all from laziness -
      Old age, has come
      And my knees hurt ...
      (not mine)
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  26. +2
    12 November 2015 12: 02
    Thank you Roman! The material is cool. Believe the writer.
  27. +6
    12 November 2015 12: 05
    And in Irkutsk at the terminal in mn. You leave the trolleybus on the anniversary and all that is, hello forest turning into the taiga to Mongolia itself, royal mushrooms, berry, and to the left you will move also small rivers with crystal water and tasty fish. Oh beauty.
    1. +1
      12 November 2015 15: 07
      Quote: wild
      And in Irkutsk at the terminal in mn. You leave the trolleybus on the anniversary and all that is, hello forest turning into the taiga to Mongolia itself, royal mushrooms, berry, and to the left you will move also small rivers with crystal water and tasty fish. Oh beauty.

      Snake tempter You, however, my friend. laughing
      1. 0
        13 November 2015 12: 29
        Quote: Vladimir 1964
        Quote: wild
        And in Irkutsk at the terminal in mn. You leave the trolleybus on the anniversary and all that is, hello forest turning into the taiga to Mongolia itself, royal mushrooms, berry, and to the left you will move also small rivers with crystal water and tasty fish. Oh beauty.

        Snake tempter You, however, my friend. laughing

        ... it is rather a variant of sadism! especially for "those who have to live in the city ..."
  28. +10
    12 November 2015 12: 05
    To the author of the article, a huge RUSSIAN THANKS! You read and want to go fishing ... You look at the pictures and see all our native. Simple authorial lines about our Motherland penetrate to the depths of our souls. But how can you give it to someone for reproach ?! How can you let foreign enemies into your SHOWER ?! NO! Russia stood, it will stand and will stand! Will is our Russian, above life, if it has to be put for it on the Altar of the Fatherland!
    1. +3
      13 November 2015 00: 23
      I watched a photo of nature and smiled involuntarily. Everything is native, even places where I have not been. Our Country is our Home! love
  29. +3
    12 November 2015 12: 07
    I do not respect those people who have exchanged the Native Spaces of Russia for overseas beaches. I call them "extremals". As these trips often end tragically.
    I myself constantly spent my vacation in hiking trips around my native country. I love lakes, mountains. I was on Lake Baikal, Issyk-Kul, Lake Ritsa. Our nature is better !!!. As the song says: We don’t need a Turkish coast, and Africa we need not!.
  30. +12
    12 November 2015 12: 08
    I came back because of birches. It seems like the house was and the work is good. I looked at the horizon and a tear rolled ... Now when I hear that they say everything is tired, it's time to dump the hill - I look at them with a smile and sympathy.
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    2. +14
      12 November 2015 12: 35
      I came back because of birches. It seems like the house was and the work is good. I looked at the horizon and a tear rolled ... Now when I hear that they say everything is tired, it's time to dump the hill - I look at them with a smile and sympathy.


      Therefore, look at them with a smile, because:

  31. +1
    12 November 2015 12: 09
    I haven’t rested in my soul for a long time. +++++
  32. +4
    12 November 2015 12: 10
    From all that has been said, the conclusion is: they all must understand one thing: that they will not understand. And live quietly in your own hut, without even trying to strain so much ..
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  34. +20
    12 November 2015 12: 16
    We know how to protect such beauty! If the saint shouts: "Throw you Rus! Live in Paradise." I will say: "No need for Paradise. Give my Motherland!" (S. Yesenin)
  35. +10
    12 November 2015 12: 19
    Russia, you don’t understand, gentlemen!


    This is clear?!!
    1. +5
      12 November 2015 14: 28
      Quote: tyras85
      This is clear?!!

      Of course!
    2. 0
      14 November 2015 10: 57
      Residual clip laughing
      I downloaded it on my phone, please my friends. soldier
  36. +9
    12 November 2015 12: 26
    Respect to the author, but there is one caveat. I think it was more correct to write not "Russian", but "Russian". After all, Russia is a multinational country with about 180 nationalities. I myself am a Bashkir and I fully share the opinion of the author, among us all are like that, in fact we live in Russia.
    1. +15
      12 November 2015 12: 29
      I am sure that "Russian" in the article is not a nationality. There are too many of us)
      1. +2
        12 November 2015 12: 31
        Got your idea, basically agree
        1. +23
          12 November 2015 13: 37
          I am a Tatar, but I think in Russian. I am personally not satisfied with the faceless "Russian". At home, among my relatives, I have been and remain a Tatar. But on the Internet, in society, I am part of my society, i.e. Russian. Sorry for the involuntary pathos.
          1. +9
            12 November 2015 17: 03
            And for what "excuse me", we do. I am a "purebred" Don Cossack, and in my blood there are so many impurities, and not quite Slavic ones (come and see, read "Quiet Don"), and I perceive the concept of "Russian" as something that unites everyone living in Russia.
          2. +1
            13 November 2015 01: 13
            Ross is a Greek pronunciation of Russia, probably the term has taken root through the Orthodox Church.
          3. +2
            13 November 2015 16: 43
            And there is. You are a Russian Tatar.
            Russian Mordvin, Russian Yakut, Russian Bashkir. Yes, and the Russian Slav.
            It is the "Russianness" that unites us.

            Ukraine clearly demonstrated this when the Slavs, but not the Russians.
            To some extent, thanks to her for that ...
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    2. +10
      12 November 2015 12: 45
      Yes, for staff and the EU, we are all Russian. This is us at home (maybe) Bashkirs, Udmurts, Chuvashs. And then we never think about it. Because we are all RUSSIAN!
      1. 0
        12 November 2015 12: 54
        drinks efficient answer. Thoughts from my hangover are a bit shabby feel
        1. -2
          12 November 2015 14: 23
          Quote: Vadya718
          efficient answer. Thoughts from my hangover are a bit shabby

          So do not write from Budun, you look ridiculous, with your gateway "Respect". hi
        2. -3
          12 November 2015 15: 09
          Quote: Vadya718
          efficient answer. Thoughts from my hangover are a bit shabby

          However, if you are better off with a hangover, leave the site, alkonaft is illiterate. fool
    3. -6
      12 November 2015 14: 20
      Quote: Vadya718
      Respect to the author, but there is one caveat. I think it was more correct to write not "Russian", but "Russian". After all, Russia is a multinational country with about 180 nationalities. I myself am a Bashkir and I fully share the opinion of the author, among us all are like that, in fact we live in Russia.

      Literate and good comment. hi
      But in the Bashkir language, as well as in Russian, there is no word "UVAZHUKHA", if you don't believe, consult Ozhegov or Dal. Yes
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      2. +1
        12 November 2015 15: 09
        Quote: Vladimir 1964
        But in the Bashkir language, as well as in Russian, there is no word "UVAZHUKHA", if you don't believe, consult Ozhegov or Dal.


        Clever said nothing, but didn’t guess.
        1. +1
          12 November 2015 21: 21
          good,Phoenix! Thanks for the comment!
      3. +1
        12 November 2015 21: 10
        The word "respect" is purely common and colloquial. And I myself sometimes turn to Dahl. thanks for the comment good
    4. +4
      12 November 2015 16: 57
      And beyond the Bugr, all immigrants from the USSR (read Russia) are called Russians - Kazakhs, Uzbeks, other Nenets with Nanai, not to mention the Slavs, Bashkirs and other representatives of the peoples of Russia. Therefore, "Russian" is not a nationality, but a state of mind. hi
    5. 0
      13 November 2015 11: 38
      Quote: Vadya718
      I think it was more correct to write not "Russian", but "Russian"

      Lazy to search, and it doesn't matter. The idea of ​​the famous "Russian", I think Nicholas I. Here he is an Armenian, that is a Bashkir, this is a German, and together we are Russians. The set of nationalities in the quasi-quotation is random. How should I name myself? The place is designated in the "Tale" as a white-eyed chud (or a zavolochskaya?). The grandmother said that they were "princes" (from the village of Knyazhevo). The wife in the mother-in-law sees komyak features and traces them in my (and hers too) children. The grandmother of his wife from a class alien family in Yaroslavl was taken away by a gypsy. An Israeli citizen pestered with the question "are you a Jew?" Tell me how to spell it correctly? That's right - RUSSIAN. And there is no need to remember EBN here (do not be remembered by night).
    6. +2
      13 November 2015 22: 55
      Quote: Vadya718
      Respect to the author, but there is one caveat. I think it was more correct to write not "Russian", but "Russian". After all, Russia is a multinational country with about 180 nationalities. I myself am a Bashkir and I fully share the opinion of the author, among us all are like that, in fact we live in Russia.


      Russian is a supranational concept. It fully belongs to ALL the peoples of Russia :) It is rather a term that defines membership in a certain general group. What kind of band? And xs. When trouble came to our family of peoples, nationality did not ask. Well, maybe this complex and multifaceted understanding of WE was born on this winding path. Who are we? - and we are Russian fellow The word Russian is both a cause and a consequence. Both a riddle and an answer.
  37. +20
    12 November 2015 12: 32
    Yes, overseas love to talk about the syndrome of incomprehensible Russian soul. And, if without well-worn words about the fact that “the mind does not understand Russia,” everything is simpler. She (that is, the soul) is. And on this you can stop.
  38. +2
    12 November 2015 12: 32
    If for 1000 years they did not understand, then it was not given ...
  39. +4
    12 November 2015 12: 40
    I agree with Roman.
    It seems to be writing about everyday things, but not there. Do not understand.

    And they seem to start for their health: facts lead, lead discussions, and as soon as it comes to conclusions - well, nonsense. Ravings of a madman. It seems that the facts are separate, the conclusions are separate. This is fine for flies and cutlets, but not for what they call analysis. Stupidity? Incompetence? Blindness? Superficiality? This is enough, of course, but not all over the place! They live and think exclusively according to their own patterns. It is understandable - exceptional. And anxiously digitized. And after all, everything is really simple - they do not understand. And it is useless to waste vodka on them with fish soup. You can offer it, but they will only understand "Sukhoi ?!", which means half a march: "The Russians are coming! They promise to inflict air strikes!" It means war, aggression, the whole world to dust. And it would seem that they wanted the best).
  40. +2
    12 November 2015 12: 43
    The article is excellent. And my three kopecks - my friend in the nineties flew to work in Germany. Says - "they wash the streets there with shampoo, everything is clean, imagine! And when I flew back, I realized that at home, when I left the airport and fell into a hefty pit of mud up to my knees. But I was still happy - at home!": )
    1. +5
      12 November 2015 14: 34
      Quote: Mikhail Krapivin
      And when he flew back, he realized that he was at home when he got out of the airport and fell knee-deep in a hefty hole with mud. But still he was happy - at home!

      Sometimes, Mikhail, I think that our rulers proceed from this point of view. They’ll repair roads for hell, they’ll do it at home, but they don’t have enough for a shack in Florida. wassat
    2. 0
      13 November 2015 11: 45
      Quote: Mikhail Krapivin
      And when he flew back, he realized that he was at home when he got out of the airport and fell knee-deep in a hefty hole with mud.

      Recently they brought to me information that a wound on clean skin does not heal. To enable the healing mechanism, you need dirt on the skin. Experience confirms. There we rot.
  41. +12
    12 November 2015 12: 43
    Quote: fregina1
    We ourselves sometimes don’t understand her mother! A & yaot; THEY & yauot; they will never understand! Because they have not been given it, because Russia has been holding on for so many years!
    You cannot understand Russia with your mind, you can’t measure it with arshin ... it’s special to become ......
    You can only BELIEVE IN RUSSIA!

    Those who need to be caught and pondered 4th RUSSIA does not hand over their own, 4th RUSSIA LU4SHE
    has in Druziah, 4th RUSSIA ETO is the only and HUGE 4to not give forces
    Tima will be thrown into the abyss of Ada Mir.Smeu notice (UTB to pesimists), 4th in RUSSIA much
    more friends and good-zealots 4em you think. And zakon4it would like a phrase ,.
    Above Head Comrade!
    Faithful Dear Following!

    P.S. With the best 4s and greetings to RUSSIA !!!!
  42. +4
    12 November 2015 12: 48
    In my opinion, Vasily Shukshin came closest to solving the "mysterious Russian soul" in his stories. The Americans do not understand exactly. And we laugh with understanding.
    1. -3
      12 November 2015 13: 00
      Prishvin, Bianchi, Paustovsky, Shukshin - in my opinion, they are more and more equal
      1. +2
        12 November 2015 13: 28
        Ah no! Let me disagree! Each has its own place in the clip! And the bullets, respectively, fly for different purposes.
        1. 0
          12 November 2015 21: 29
          And how are they all fundamentally different? In my opinion, when we passed them at school, all were "the same person." If not right, correct (sorry for the pun).
          1. +1
            13 November 2015 03: 01
            Quote: Vadya718
            And how are they all fundamentally different? In my opinion, when we passed them at school, all were "the same person." If not right, correct (sorry for the pun).


            Prishvin, Bianchi, Paustovsky wrote mainly about nature. Shukshin is a master of the description of the Russian character.
  43. +1
    12 November 2015 12: 50
    Good article. Written with love. Thanks. And about understanding - a smart one will understand, a "democrat" - never. And in general, do we need it?
  44. +1
    12 November 2015 12: 54
    Quote: gjv
    Souls are wonderful impulses!

    - This is forever with us.
    And if "without a bulldozer," then we do not impose our own on anyone, but we perceive the alien only to the extent of our licentiousness.
  45. +3
    12 November 2015 13: 02
    But even when on the whole planet,
    The enmity of the tribes will pass, the lies and sadness will disappear, I will chant with the whole being in the poet, the sixth part of the earth with the name short - Russia.

    Yesenin forgot. I apologize for possible errors, I wrote from memory.
  46. bad
    +4
    12 November 2015 13: 04
    A good article is very emotional! And the photos are chosen with love .. but especially hooked-
    And the most important thing in the morning. Gray, hungover morning. When everything is gray - the river, the sky, the earth, you are all gray. And the first cold sotochka (lay in the river all night) falls into the stomach, and then begins to include the colors of life. And after the second (or a beer from the same natural refrigerator) you can already live. And even very necessary.
    ... vital and close crying The main thing for me as a native RUSSIAN is that my fellow citizens-fellow tribesmen will understand me in life .. but will the foreigners understand me because of the "hillock"? - to be honest .. I AM PURPLE! .. I am sure many are in solidarity with me ..
  47. +5
    12 November 2015 13: 13
    There are norms for foreigners: they built a plant in the Novgorod region. The technical supervision was an old German (GDR), and he had to retire. And somehow they said to me in front of me: "Well, Hans, you will retire, buy a house in Bavaria and enjoy a quiet burgher life." Answer: "Yes, you e.a. went? What did I not see there? I already bought a house for myself. Near Novgorod!"
  48. +3
    12 November 2015 13: 33
    Great article! Very accurate comments by the author, no doubt a plus. Taking off my hat hi If the author allows, share in a glass ...
    Quote: author
    They say they have the freedom of everything there. And we do not. In fact, in the modern world, freedom is a fiction. Too many restrictions on all these freedoms are imposed. And they have even more there than ours.

    Another term is applicable to the Russian person - will. We are free. Rummaged in the definitions, and that's what happened.

    Will is not physical, not emotional, and not always conscious (here, truly about us!) Human activity; but an activity that always reflects the principles of morality and the norms of the individual and indicates the value characteristics of the goal of the chosen action.

    That is, freedom is rather a physical lot. And the will-you see. To the soul closer. Very close. So we are free.

    Will is an internal code of unspoken human-loving signs and freedom of choice in self-restraint or action, peculiar only to rational and truly free people. And in the west, the rules prescribing, restrict, prohibiting laws, like in prison, to control people with wild habits, predators by nature, so as not to cut each other, while the law of the governing minority for the subservient majority.

    Quote: author
    We have everything, and this hypothetical power over the world does not need Russian people at all. No matter how hard they try to convince the whole world of this. Thank you, we have everything in bulk from the tundra to the subtropics.

    This is what they are afraid of, or rather their bosses, our right and not mediocre way of life, not us, but they are afraid of themselves! that they or their people will not stand before our worldview and will themselves come to us to live, for truth and protection, and themselves will donate their lands ...
  49. dmb
    +1
    12 November 2015 13: 46
    You know, Roman, despite your recent improvisations, I still treat you with respect. This is what I need. Praise your homeland and your people can and should be. And you just write an article about Russia with these great photos, the first one would give you a plus for patriotism. But for some reason you have inserted absolutely absurd assessments about Americans in a good article. And it turned a good text into hurray-patriotism. Judging Americans by the writings of some of their journalists, not by Mark Twain, Paul Robson or London, is the same as judging us not by Tolstoy, Sholokhov or Yesenin but by Leontiev, Daria Drantzova and Phil Kirkorov.
    1. +4
      12 November 2015 18: 21
      Generally speaking, it is primarily necessary to judge by deeds. So the author is absolutely right. Yes, and there is nothing in this article of "hurray-patriotism" just a statement that "we are different." And I, like the author, like "we" more ... it's strange if it were the other way around wink
      1. dmb
        +1
        12 November 2015 21: 32
        I will not urge you to read the text in order to understand that after all, Roman, whom I respect, not only stated. We are not that different. By the way, who is this "we"? I personally do not observe the slightest difference between McCain and Zhirinovsky, as I do not see him between their thieves and our Serdyukov, or between Twain and perhaps Saltykov-Shedrin. Comparing the latter, I first of all speak about their love for their own Motherland and their position in life.
      2. dmb
        0
        12 November 2015 21: 32
        I will not urge you to read the text in order to understand that after all, Roman, whom I respect, not only stated. We are not that different. By the way, who is this "we"? I personally do not observe the slightest difference between McCain and Zhirinovsky, as I do not see him between their thieves and our Serdyukov, or between Twain and perhaps Saltykov-Shedrin. Comparing the latter, I first of all speak about their love for their own Motherland and their position in life.
        1. 0
          13 November 2015 11: 53
          Dmitry, you are directly Plutarch.
        2. 0
          13 November 2015 23: 53
          Mark Twain and Saltykov-Shchedrin? Yes, they are very different and different.
          Quote: dmb
          We are not so different.

          If you mean that we are here and here about two arms and two legs, then, indeed, there is no difference between us.
          Quote: dmb
          I don’t personally observe the slightest difference between McCain and Zhirinovsky,

          You are not observant. McCain has no imagination, Zhirinovsky has more than enough of him!
    2. 0
      13 November 2015 01: 03
      It is wrong to compare Dontsova with Tolstoy - candy with a patty. And judging even by all the examples cited is silly.
      1. dmb
        0
        13 November 2015 09: 09
        And I am from the same distinguished Irina.
    3. 0
      14 November 2015 00: 02
      And yet Zadornov is right: they are stupid, that is, Americans. They are smart when you need to earn money, they understand this better than us. In addition, they themselves consider us also stupid, barbarians, drunks, etc. And this picture was formed over decades, and the Americans themselves did not immediately become so, everything happened gradually and for a long time. Now the vast majority of Americans will not be able to multiply 15 by 6 in their minds, and who will not tell Titian. We, fortunately, have a better picture and would not want to catch up with the Americans in this.
  50. +1
    12 November 2015 14: 13
    I don't know if foreigners need to understand the Russian soul. From my experience of communicating with them, using the example of the Germans, I recall that an ordinary German's desire to know the Russian soul is ALWAYS associated with a joint drinking with the Russian. Then they usually asked to sing "Kalinka", "Coach" or something else purely Russian. And as for freedom THERE, do not make my sneakers laugh. As soon as a foreigner grows up, he immediately collects a bunch of loans. Then at work he becomes dependent on his superiors: this spoils the psyche. Many drink alcohol to be cured, but not in nature, but at home or in a birchtube. They also go to a psychotherapist, but rather women.
  51. cap
    +6
    12 November 2015 14: 24
    There are still people who can beautifully put in a good word for their Motherland.
    Thanks to the author. The novel is about you.
  52. +3
    12 November 2015 14: 27
    Everything is accurate. I will sign every word. Bravo, well done Roman.
  53. 0
    12 November 2015 15: 32
    We don’t need people to understand us - we need every young idiot, like the Ameripeds, to sit and breathe evenly, and be afraid to look in our direction.
    Then let them live for themselves.
  54. +4
    12 November 2015 15: 53
    We have everything, and Russian people do not need this hypothetical power over the world at all.

    If only we had some conscientious management, we would live like in paradise.
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  56. +6
    12 November 2015 16: 25
    I have nothing to add..
  57. +2
    12 November 2015 17: 01
    Quote: eugen75
    I have nothing to add..

    And I quoted Lavrov in the same form and received a WARNING! And I have them like a bitch has fleas!
    But not about that.... Still, the perestroika DURMAN left imprints in the brains of more than one generation. Our magazine published the whining of school and university graduates, and simply young people about a boring life in the provinces, the lack of decent (?) work.... I had to answer, Why don’t our university, school, and simply unsettled youth not look at the websites of the EXTREME labor market NORTH, NORTHEAST, SIBERIA AND FAR EAST!
    Give many people Moscow, St. Petersburg, nightclubs and glitter with tinsel advertising... A LOT (salary) and AT ONCE (entertainment)! And then the losers enter the market as loaders or bandits, and the girls work at the counters or on the panel! Believe me, there are hundreds of times fewer successful managers and “lawyers-economists” than unsuccessful ones!
    And to work hard for 10 years or longer in the NORTH with up to HALF A YEAR vacation and decent vacation pay, the opportunity to SAVE for an apartment or a normal car, not to depend on relatives, and not everyone dares to HELP them! Flvg in your hands...... And I already received the answer - “WHY NOT IMMEDIATELY ABROAD?”
  58. -5
    12 November 2015 17: 18
    With obligatory fishing and drinking. Such drunkenness, ours.

    Well, here we go!
    We should be ashamed of “our” drinking of our citizens, and not look for a reason for pride in this!
    Moreover, fortunately, we are not the first in this.
    1. +1
      12 November 2015 21: 32
      No, Dawn! You are not Russian. We are talking about the soul and the will. And about drinking, it’s so casual. But this is also ours! What's fishing without fish soup and vodka?! You're not sinning. And if your liver doesn’t allow it, then don’t spit on the Russian soul...
      1. +1
        12 November 2015 23: 49
        Now, you Russians (“And me! And me! And I’ll hurt you!”) remember about your relatives (“You are evil, I’ll leave you.”). This is, if you like, the second head of a double-headed eagle, without which, whatever one may say, the “Reich” is obtained. If we talk about semi-fairy-tale ancient classes, then Rus' is more warriors and rulers, and the Chud are magicians and craftsmen. I don’t mind at all being RUSSIAN over the hill, but between ourselves AT HOME - I want clarity;) It’s a shame when in internal disputes Russians attribute miracles, in fact, half the people are indifference, or even call them “vegetables”. Well, Russians love the spirit of war and the romance of change - and that’s great! And we, miracle, love the world and a calm, cozy home.
        1. +1
          13 November 2015 01: 14
          Don't wonder, wonder! Why are you offended? If anyone loves peace and a calm, cozy home - a Chud, then I am a Chud too! love
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  60. +2
    12 November 2015 17: 26

    They don't need to understand us. They would sort themselves out.



    One warrior in the field, Feat of 1941. One RUSSIAN soldier with a cannon stopped a tank column
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  62. +2
    12 November 2015 18: 13
    Thank you. It was very sincere, I looked at the photos and immediately wanted to see my native expanses.
  63. +6
    12 November 2015 18: 20
    sunset on the middle Volga
  64. +2
    12 November 2015 18: 34
    +++ definitely. I'm glad that I'm Russian and proud of it! I love my homeland! Nature, fishing, SOUL....AH!!!!
  65. 0
    12 November 2015 18: 34
    They say they have the freedom of everything there. And we do not. In fact, in the modern world, freedom is a fiction. Too many restrictions on all these freedoms are imposed. And they have even more there than ours.

    We put different meanings into this concept. For us, “Freedom” is the opportunity and ability to act and think in the categories of Justice, Good and Evil, and then the Law, which is “what the drawbar is.” For them, this is the framework of the law, establishing the Dictatorship of Tolerant Liberal Democracy. The dictatorship of vague concepts.
  66. +3
    12 November 2015 19: 22
    I also thought that they were pretending not to understand us, and then it became obvious. It's not about our pictures of nature or our ability to drink more vodka. They are more material than us, less “with their heads in the clouds,” that is, more down to earth. But we are more detached from earthly things than they are, and it’s not without reason that in companies we like to talk about lofty things. In extreme cases, a Russian person is capable of rising to spiritual heights, and since this is inherent in the people as a whole, there is such a thing as mass heroism. I even suspect that if we were as neat and scrupulous as Western people and had the same successes in everyday life, we would not have these above-mentioned qualities. We have an advantage over them - we understand them as peeling, but they do not understand us. This means that here we stand above them and we must use this for our and, ultimately, their good...
    1. 0
      12 November 2015 21: 55
      Straight

      You started off right but then you got carried away into spirituality.

      There is an explanation. Westerners do not have the degree of freedom that Russians HAD. There is much more pragmatism than spirituality here.
  67. +1
    12 November 2015 19: 42
    In September I had a chance to talk to an American. We went out to the river (Sukhona), everything was as it should be lol , so after a barbecue and a nth dose he said that Obama is a terrorist good and then, with a glass of vodka in one hand and a mug of local draft beer, he shouted at the Milky Way “oh... wow”!!! laughing
  68. +1
    12 November 2015 20: 21
    In their words, soul, spirit, literally, spirit. They understand it as a ghost, ghost. But here we have a completely different concept. If in the West they say the spirit of the forest, the spirit of victory, then here it should be understood as the ghost of the forest, the ghost of victory. They once they don’t identify it with themselves. Then we say: you have no soul, small soul, wide soul, here it is in us. We are with them, people from different planets.
    1. 0
      13 November 2015 01: 19
      The fact is that soul and spirit are different concepts. And we have both soul and spirit in the sense of spirituality, God's spirit. And for them all this is from the realm of fairy tales.
    2. +1
      13 November 2015 03: 26
      Soul and not Spirit.
  69. +2
    12 November 2015 20: 32
    I can’t insert a composition, but it’s called “Beyond the Quiet River” by S. Trofimov Touches the soul.
    1. +4
      12 November 2015 23: 21
      Quote: Dimy4
      I can’t insert a composition, but it’s called “Beyond the Quiet River” by S. Trofimov Touches the soul.

      so here she is.
    2. +1
      13 November 2015 14: 08
      I always took it to heart...
  70. 0
    12 November 2015 21: 01
    It’s beautiful, but everything is too lumped together - boots, bricks, and so on... The Russian mentality is a complex and boundless thing. But the beauty of nature is everywhere. In Europe, the diversity of nature is much more concentrated.
  71. -3
    12 November 2015 21: 10
    Yes, overseas they like to talk about syndrome incomprehensible Russian soul
    The person who claims this has probably lived in different Western countries for 50 years.

    But in fact, this hypothetically existing substance, the presence of which science denies, is of no use to anyone in the West - neither it itself, nor discussions about it.

    But about the syndrome in general it delivered lol
    Syndrome (from the Greek syndrome - accumulation) is a natural combination of symptoms due to a single pathogenesis; is considered as an independent disease (for example, Meniere's syndrome) or as a stage (form) of any diseases (for example, nephrotic syndrome, uremia in chronic nephritis).

    In short, writings from the series “I invented it myself, I refuted it myself,” and “if you don’t praise yourself, no one will praise you.”
    1. +1
      12 November 2015 23: 38
      Quote: Uncle Joe
      Yes, overseas they like to talk about the syndrome of the incomprehensible Russian soul
      The person who claims this has probably lived in different Western countries for 50 years.

      But in fact, this hypothetically existing substance, the presence of which science denies, is of no use to anyone in the West - neither it itself, nor discussions about it.

      So, on two pages of discussions, everyone agrees with you - the soul in the West “is of no use to anyone - neither it itself, nor discussions about it.”
      And what do we care about the West - the stars are waiting for us...
      1. +1
        13 November 2015 03: 31
        As if not Blackholes... It would be interesting to ask for a link to the “proof”.
      2. 0
        13 November 2015 10: 45
        Quote: region58
        So on two pages of discussions everyone agrees with you
        The three with hypersensitivity syndrome clearly disagree.

        And what do we care about the West - the stars are waiting for us...
        I hope so.
  72. +6
    12 November 2015 21: 26
    Eh, guys, it’s definitely not for us to live without seeing or hearing anything. Even if there is a heart made of nylon, we will teach it to worry! - This is our RUSSIAN SOUL!
  73. 0
    12 November 2015 21: 50
    At the beginning of the article discussion chat tree, I raised a conflicting point.

    I argue that the concept of “Russian soul” does not explain the difference between the two civilizations that is indicated by the author.

    Moreover, by raising this question, I accused the author of unconsciously planting time bombs in the readers’ subconscious, to their detriment.

    Since the line of discussion is almost over, I do not consider it necessary to continue. Most likely, and unfortunately, my point of view will not be heard.

    But in order to leave this question open, I will create intrigue. And if anyone wants to hear an explanation, I will give it.

    So.

    Tell me, who knows? Why does the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations, when inspecting the area of ​​a plane crash in Egypt, wear a uniform with a helmet fastened to its chest? It is this ridiculous helmet, in the heat and in the middle of the desert, that has an indirect explanation for the mystery of the Russian soul.

    And the differences between civilizations. This is not nonsense or a joke. If you listen to my reasoning.

    And one last thing. I should note that the difference between civilizations with the development of infrastructure and involvement in the global system is becoming a thing of the past.

    Russians are losing their individuality. And this helmet...
    1. +3
      13 November 2015 00: 54
      - Why are you so excited, comrade?! Talking about the Mysterious Russian Soul is our traditional folk pastime! Well, you know - bears, vodka... You calm down for now, and I’ll give you a balayka... Eh! smile
  74. +3
    12 November 2015 22: 00
    Is it necessary to understand incomprehensible Russia?


    "It is high time, ***** ****,
    Understand Russia with the mind!"

    I. Huberman
  75. +4
    12 November 2015 22: 31
    Good article! Once again I was glad that I am RUSSIAN. And what is Freedom - it’s just the length of the leash on which they let you go. What is a leash? It’s just a yoke on a harness and why do we need such freedom? Will - YES! But she also demands Big Responsibility, because for her NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE.
    1. +2
      12 November 2015 23: 09
      Old warrior

      I am glad that you still have a child’s perception of the world. Apparently not all is lost in the Russian Federation.

      In fact, your freedom becomes increasingly limited. With the dominance of insurance companies and law firms.
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  78. +2
    12 November 2015 23: 29
    To understand or not to understand Russia is the internal “weakness” of America. For her, another “postulate” is more important: an attempt to clash with Russia will end in non-existence for America.
  79. +3
    13 November 2015 01: 11
    -Baltic coast...
    1. 0
      13 November 2015 01: 12
      - Fields near Koenigsberg...
      1. +1
        13 November 2015 13: 36
        Was this photo taken before 1946?
        1. 0
          13 November 2015 19: 38
          - I got the hint... This is an eternal topic for us: Koenigsberg or Kaliningrad... BUT!
          1. 0
            13 November 2015 20: 56
            And the capture of Koenigsberg, like the Battle of Stalingrad, took place in what year?
            1. 0
              13 November 2015 21: 56
              - Koenigsberg in April 45, Stalingrad 42-43... Vika knows about this too smile But here’s the catch: There was no assault on Kaliningrad... And which city is 760 years old? The people in the region have not yet come to a consensus...
              1. 0
                16 November 2015 07: 22
                And now there is no such city of Königberg! In addition to the wiki, you can also look at the map...
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    2. +3
      13 November 2015 01: 15
      - Sunset on the Baltic...
  80. +2
    13 November 2015 01: 47
    THANKS to the author. Simply, there is the MOTHERLAND, and there is the rest of democracy...
  81. +3
    13 November 2015 05: 34
    “...I probably shouldn’t have run into the Americans...”
    No, not in vain, and to hell with them, with the Americans. The photos are so beautiful, there is no land more beautiful than the Russian expanses.
  82. +5
    13 November 2015 05: 36
    Our places are beautiful, pendoam just can’t understand.
    Altai Mountains, geyser lake
    1. +2
      13 November 2015 13: 58
      A little further north, the Kiya River, Kemerovo region.
  83. +2
    13 November 2015 06: 30
    To understand means to find the key! And who needs this? We definitely don’t..
  84. +5
    13 November 2015 06: 42
    Edgar Cayce.
    Spirit of America

    What did Casey say on this day, June 22, 1944?

    “What is the spirit of America? Most people will proudly say: in freedom. Freedom from what? When you restrict people's hearts and minds in various ways and ways, does that give them freedom of speech? Freedom of religion? Freedom from want?

    “From Russia will come hope for the world; but not from communism or Bolshevism, no, but from free Russia. Each person will then live for his fellow..."

    Cayce said: “The mission of the Slavic peoples is to change the essence of human relationships, free them from selfishness and gross material passions, and restore them on a new basis - on love, trust and wisdom.”

    Shortly before this (reading 452-6, November 29, 1932) Cayce said: “Changes are coming, you can be sure there will be an evolution or revolution in the ideas of religious thought. The basis for this for the whole world will ultimately come from Russia; it will not be communism, but what Christ taught - his kind of communism.”
  85. +1
    13 November 2015 10: 22
    >It’s not just about drinking (although it’s about that too). It's about being in touch with the world around you.

    here you/you now (and the main idea of ​​the entire article) retold(s) in your own words theory of passionarity L. Gumileva :-)

    hi


    But the problem is that in the West such контакт prohibited at the deepest doctrinal level for the culture - контакт between two systems prohibited at the level they use theories of knowledge. So the problem is even worse than stated in the article

    Argumentation based on concepts such as soul, spirit, explaining the difference between Russian and American in their culture today it is no longer possible to understand.

    And that's not a question science vs religion, because the same L. Gumilyov found an option for using religious concepts in science, this is a choice at the level of the deepest foundations of culture.
  86. +2
    13 November 2015 11: 50
    He said it as he sang it. Well done.
  87. +1
    13 November 2015 12: 52
    Quote: CONNECTING ROD VDVshny
    To take them (Germans and Penguins) on a fishing trip - you need to gather all the willpower into a fist, and be prepared for the fact that the Russian perception of "fishing and gray morning" will be fouled to death.


    What is good for a Russian is death for a German! (c) film "Brother"
  88. +1
    13 November 2015 13: 43
    Mind does not understand Russia
    Until 0.5 drunk
    When did you drink 0.5
    the whole thing seems simple
    An attempt to better understand
    Already smells like a liter

    in my opinion this is the creation of Trachtenberg
  89. +1
    13 November 2015 13: 54
    Only if you finally understand, you can sing like this:
  90. -1
    13 November 2015 14: 58
    so what can I say?
    Tomorrow I'll go and get drunk until I hiccup, in nature, beauty...
    Well, the day after tomorrow I’ll go out to the parade ground on an early bright morning in a military town and shout: Brothers! And it all went there! We're not going to send poplars anywhere, are we? Isn't that right? And we won’t go anywhere to Brussels, right? We're all joking!
    So, damn it, why ruin yourself every day - run around, work out standards, roll tanks, guns, and planes here and there!
    Eh! What a beauty all around!
    Then I’ll find some American spy from the Ministry of Finance nearby and, gently hugging his tender shoulders, I’ll tell him about the oddities of my mysterious Slavic soul.
    Well, what is it really? We are brothers all around. The babble is coming! Not today, tomorrow...
    Let's go, spy, let's get drunk again!
    Who's sitting there in the bushes? The mug is scary, tense... the poor fellow is pushing. Constipation, apparently. Who are you - ISIS? Come on, Yagil, come to us... we are walking... widely in Russian! And what is there!
    Use a leaf, use a leaf, brother ISIS, there is no toilet paper. No problem!
    We're human, aren't we?
  91. 0
    13 November 2015 18: 14
    Hello to you, my native land,
    With your dark forests,
    With your great river,
    And endless fields!

    Hello to you, dear people,
    Tireless hero of labor,
    In the middle of winter and in the summer heat!
    Hello to you, my native land!
    (S. Drozhzhin)
    ==============================
    What is this song of weeping birches about?
    A melody full of light and tears?
    About the Motherland, only about the Motherland.
    What's behind the cold granite borders?
    The melancholy of birds flying away for the winter?
    About the Motherland, only about the Motherland.

    In moments of sadness, in times of adversity
    Who will take care of us and who will save us?
    Motherland, only Motherland.
    Who do we need to warm in the bitter cold?
    And in difficult days should we feel sorry?
    Motherland, dear Motherland.

    When we go on interstellar flight,
    What is our earthly heart singing about?
    About the Motherland, only about the Motherland.
    We live in the name of goodness and love,
    And the best songs are yours and mine -
    About the Motherland, only about the Motherland...

    Under the scorching sun and snow dust
    And my thoughts and my prayers -
    About the Motherland, only about the Motherland.
    (R. Gamzatov)
  92. 0
    13 November 2015 18: 14
    Touching the three great oceans,
    She lies, stretching the city,
    Covered with a grid of meridians,
    Invincible, broad, proud.

    But at the hour when the last grenade
    Already in your hand
    And in a brief moment, I must remember at once
    All we have left is in the distance

    You do not remember a big country,
    What did you travel and find out,
    Do you remember the homeland - such
    How you saw her as a child.

    A piece of land, leaning against three birch trees,
    The long road behind the forest,
    A small river with a creaky carriage.
    Sandy shore with low willow trees.

    That's where we were fortunate enough to be born,
    Where for life, to death, we found
    That handful of earth that is suitable.
    To see in it the signs of the whole earth.

    Yes. You can survive in the heat, in thunderstorms, in frosts,
    Yes, you can starve and chill,
    Go to death... But these three birches
    In life, no one can give.
    (K. Simonov, 1941)
  93. 0
    13 November 2015 18: 15
    The spring wind sways the birch tree,
    The sound of a cheerful drop can be heard...
    It’s as if Yesenin is reading a poem
    About the land he was in love with.

    About white groves and slanting showers,
    About yellow fields and the flight of cranes.
    Love Russia, love Russia,
    For the Russian heart there is no land that is miles away.

    They sang Russian songs to us from birth.
    The wind of Russia embraced us along the way.
    When all of Russia put on their greatcoats,
    It often happened that a soldier recalled:

    And white groves and slanting showers.
    And mentally he bequeathed to his children:
    Love Russia, love Russia -
    Russia, which I defended.

    Who was born in Russia, in love with Russia,
    He gave her his heart and soul.
    Before her, the majestic, I bow in bow,
    I sing a song about her, about Russia.

    About white groves and slanting showers,
    About yellow fields and the joy of spring.
    Love Russia, love Russia!
    And be forever faithful to Russia!
    (O. Milyavsky)
  94. 0
    13 November 2015 18: 27
    Under the big tent
    Blue skies -
    I see the distance of the steppes
    Turns green.

    And on their edges,
    Above the dark clouds
    The chains of mountains stand
    Giants.

    Across the steppes to the seas
    The rivers are rolling
    And there are paths
    In all directions.

    I'll look south -
    Mature fields,
    That the reeds are thick,
    They move quietly;

    Ant of meadows
    It spreads like a carpet,
    Grapes in the gardens
    It's pouring.

    I'll look north -
    There, in the wilderness of the desert,
    Snow is like white fluff,
    Spins quickly;

    Raises the chest
    The sea is blue,
    And mountains of ice
    Walks on the sea;

    And the sky is on fire
    Bright glow
    Lights up the darkness
    Impenetrable...

    It's you, my
    Sovereign Rus',
    My motherland
    Orthodox!...
    I. Nikitin

    You still can’t say better than the classics
  95. 0
    13 November 2015 19: 02
    “Oh, bright and beautifully decorated Russian land! You are famous for many beauties: you are famous for many lakes, locally revered rivers and springs, mountains, steep hills, high oak groves, clean fields, wondrous animals, various birds, countless great cities, glorious decrees, monastery gardens, temples of God and formidable princes, boyars honest, many nobles. You are filled with everything, Russian land, oh true Christian faith!

    These lines, imbued with deep love for their land, can be considered an epigraph to this text. They form the beginning of the ancient literary monument “The Tale of the Destruction of the Russian Land.” Unfortunately, only a fragment has survived, which was discovered as part of another work - “The Tale of the Life of Alexander Nevsky”. The time when the Lay was written was 1237 - early 1246.

    Are there foreign analogues to these texts?
  96. 0
    13 November 2015 20: 19
    Thank you Roman!!!! article Heartfelt......I immediately remembered my native Vetluga river.........and the taiga on the border with Mari - EL.
  97. +1
    13 November 2015 20: 42
    Thank you, Roman, for the article! I even reread it out loud to my wife))
  98. 0
    13 November 2015 22: 55
    The author very correctly noted the exclusively inherent property of a Russian person - will. This is not the will of the Western model - persistent achievement of a set goal, imposing one’s opinion on others. Our Russian will is freedom, not bound by restrictions; lack of dependence on anyone or anything, the ability to dispose of oneself at one’s own discretion, without reporting to anyone; freedom from internal connection with someone or something. And also a heightened sense of justice. And it was rightly noted here that the Western concept of freedom is a legal concept. Liberalism presupposes individualism. I don’t care what’s going on outside the window and that people are being slaughtered in what then the country. That’s when they come to slaughter me, a free European. That’s when I’ll worry. Something like this. But in principle, the German, Englishman, Frenchman and his attitude to life, power, and the law were brought up by the most severe repressions, executions for trifles, mass burning of people , massacre due to religious differences. So this fear sits in their genes. But otherwise, the same people, especially when they have the opportunity to drink for free. Both the Germans and the British drink to their dear souls, until they completely scream. I took part. I know.
  99. 0
    13 November 2015 23: 45
    I really thought it was a sin that the author was Zadornov... But to be more precise, the difference between us Russians, and not only the Americans, but everyone in Geyrop, is much deeper. But over the course of thousands of years, we built completely different types of civilizations: he was there in the West and behind a big puddle, they built a material civilization, and we, when consciously, and mostly unconsciously, built a spiritual one. Material civilizations are limited in their development potential and, apparently, the limit has already come for them. And without development, civilization dies. That’s why they want to drag along as much of everything as possible. We do not yet fully recognize ourselves as a spiritual civilization; we do not see in this all our possibilities for uncontrollable improvement in many areas. But even the little that we have been given makes us so different from Westerners.
  100. 0
    14 November 2015 02: 52
    Well done, Roman. Nice essay. Indeed, they are free there, and we are free here. But freedom is limited by laws (that is, by different environments), and the will is limited only by yourself.