The enemy is outside, and we are perfectly suited to his role
“- What a difficult year!
Everyone fell silent. And Zinochka said, as always, out of place:
– Do you know why? Because it’s a leap year. The next one will be happy, you’ll see!
The next one was nineteen forty-one.” (B.Vasiliev. “There was a war tomorrow”).
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This ending year is not a leap year at all, but what a hard year. Will the next one be happy? Is there a feeling that a kind, cheerful, ruddy Santa Claus is standing on the threshold, smiling slyly in his beard, promising happiness and peace?
No. From the window cut through to Europe, it pulls fear, gunpowder, the exhaust of tank engines. On the top of the Christmas tree, a star is filled with blood, and under the lower branches you can see the worn butt of a kalash and a green box with cartridges …
An alcoholic who has not drunk for a long time has a spring inside him, he knows that he can die if he drinks. But the strength to live this life is no longer there, and he drinks, risking death, just to let go. The world on both sides of the red lines is dead tired. And there are no more forces left to look for a way out, maneuver between interests, negotiate. I want to switch to black and white mode and kill, just to let go.
About what is happening there, on the other side, Putin said: “The existing model of capitalism, and today it is the basis of the social structure in the vast majority of countries, has exhausted itself. Within its framework, there is no longer a way out of the tangle of increasingly complicated contradictions.” This means that the enemy is outside, and we are perfectly suited to his role. They say Russia wants war.
What we have, from this side, we see. We have enemies everywhere. From the outside they approach our borders, from the inside they want to destroy.
In a year, the “fifth column” was demolished at the root, there was not even a memorial left. We deal with those who sing the wrong songs or joke the wrong way. Movies and games are declared harmful to our values. In our country, “paid hires of the West” are revealed in batches, immediately receiving the designation of a foreign agent. Is Russia concentrating? Rather, it is brought to a common denominator, cemented to make a monolith that cannot be broken from the inside.
For some reason, right now they accept GOST for mass graves — where to dig a hole outside the village, how, at what distance from each other horizontally and vertically to stack bodies, to shift them with brushwood or soil, how many corpse bags, coffins and lime to stock.
Right now, the Judicial Department of the Supreme Court of Russia is preparing regulations on how the mobilization work of judges will take place — how and where to go to military field trials.
Why does a quote from the book of the head of the Constitutional Court Zorkin appear again now, in which he admits the possibility of lifting the moratorium on the death penalty in force in Russia?
We also have a tangle of “increasingly complicated contradictions.” The good news is that we have reached the bottom, which means that it will not be worse – in rising prices, in negative income growth, in demography, in the stratification of society into billionaires and beggars. But, then, society can ask a question — well, let’slet’s push off and finally begin to implement the promises of the party and the government. Before that, something prevented improvement all the time — defaults, global economic crises, sanctions. But how can they be carried out if they have raking paws up there? And the war will write everything off…
Zinochka made a mistake in the bad side. I really want to make a mistake in a good one.