Sad news of the week and a few miracles
Somewhere in the middle of Perestroika, in 1988, BG sang: “This land was ours until we got bogged down in the struggle. It will die if it is a draw, it’s time to return this land to yourself.” Three years later, the factories were taken away from the workers, the land from the peasants, and the power from the people. This deep feeling of one’s own uselessness that has arisen determines everything that happens to the Motherland and to us. If you want specifics, please. Here, for example, is the past week.
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If you take the full text of the speech of Comrade Xi, which he delivered during the week for the 100th anniversary of the Communist Party of China, and start reading it out loud to our liberals and other light-faced people, they will start to twist and twist. They will be covered with scabs, their eyes will pop out of their sockets and start spinning wildly, they will smell of sulfur, and their hands will spill coffee with soy milk from a homophrenic coffee shop.
Because Comrade Xi, having once mentioned the multinational nature of the Chinese people, then turned to the “great Chinese nation” (try to say something like that publicly about Russians-you will instantly be declared a fascist). Because Comrade Xi insisted that the country is the people, and the people are the country. And here, as we know from the words of State Duma Speaker Volodin, who is Russia? Because the Chinese managed to underthe leadership of the CCP will defeat poverty, become the second economy in the world, and the number of millionaires and billionaires is also going through the roof. It turns out that this is possible — when billionaires do not rob their country, but work for it. And all this, according to Comrade Xi — is “in the name of the great revival of the Chinese nation.” Comrade Xi, as the leader of the leading party, addressing the members of the CPC and the people, is engaged in constructing meanings.
During the week, Mr. Putin, communicating with the people, dealt with the problems of a roof that leaked in a kindergarten, a flooded road to a remote village, inflated prices for a” communal apartment ” in one particular house, garbage collection and other things that are no less important for the head of a nuclear power. Because local officials do not do this: why create comfort in someone else’s house, in a foreign country? There’s no point. Money is paid — and that’s fine.
Metropolitan Mitrofan of Murmansk and Monchegorsk said on Friday that there should be confessors in our football team. “There is a lack of spiritual practice here: they are some kind of non-combat, spiritually, it seems to me, weak, unmotivated,” he noted. In Ukraine, there is now a problem with the beauty contest “Miss Ukraine” — they can’t find 25applicants without botox and, most importantly, that they were not whores, now it is called-would not work as an escort. We have a problem finding men who not only know how to play football, but want to play for their country. But no. Spiritually weak, unmotivated. Why? Maybe because they don’t feel Russia is their own? There’s no point. Money is paid in clubs — and that’s fine.
Why was the vaccination story stalled until the threats began? Because we are on our own here, and the owners are on their own. There is no sense that the common good depends on a personal act. What is it common, if they don’t see anything from above, there is a different reality there at all? For example, the restaurant business lost up to 90% of revenue during the first week of the new coronavirus restrictions, dozens of restaurants decided to close, news agencies report. And even without their messages, you can see everything with your own eyes. But the authorities “see a different picture,” and some say that the idea of restrictions was proposed by the restaurateurs themselves.
The authorities last week approved a living wage for next year — 11,950 rubles. In which Russia can you live for a month on this money? In ours with you, or rather, in the one that does not belong to us, it will not work.
But, of course, the country is big. Miracles also happen somewhere. Here in Tuva, an unimaginable miracle happened — for the first time, electricity tariffs for the population were reduced. As it is customary to say in such cases: why, was it possible? The most amazing thing is that it is possible even in the current conditions. It’s just that someone who has privatized the bowels of the country will not get another hundred-meter yacht. And if we return to the people what rightfully belongs to them, belonged, more precisely, once…
The Kaliningrad governor also decided to break the system — he banned migrants from working as taxi drivers, bus drivers, bakers, teachers and kindergarten teachers. The ban comes into force in 3 months and will be valid for a year. What will happen? At first, all these industries will stand up (if they do not rebuild anything in the next three months) — simply because the locals will not work like slaves for food. And then the owners of enterprises will only have to moderate their own appetites and start paying people a decent salary. Not verya “market” solution, but… The Chinese even succeeded in ” the historical transition from a highly centralized system of a planned economy to a viable system of a socialist market economy.” And here, in general, everything is according to plan — from wild capitalism to developed. Although it would have been better in Chinese, but what’s the point of crying now.
Well, and a little symbolism in the end. BG sang a prophetic song 33 years ago. Ilya Muromets, before destroying the enemies of the Russian land, lay on the stove for 33 years. Maybe it’s really time to reclaim this land for yourself? There is a chance for autumn. Minimal. But a chance.