Great Domestic became an independent value - it justifies everything that was before and after. Four years of war have made a weight that on a moral and ethical scale should outweigh the millions of biographies crippled by the Soviet Union.

And this Russian state could not help but privatize.

Any national holiday is a holiday of subjectivity of the people. Something that allows us to say - "we have achieved". The day of the capture of the Bastille is a story about how the French drove the King. Independence Day in the United States - about how Americans gained independence from the British. And on May 9, Russia aspires to the status of a national holiday in the same way - but there is one "but", writes journalist Pavel Kazarin for the Crimea. Realities.

Modern Russia is the country of the victorious state. Who does not recognize any carriers of subjectivity, except for himself. Vertical tries to claim all the good, independent or breakthrough that happened in the history of the country. And you either agree with the state ownership of history, or you are rejected.

Victory Day did not become an exception.

To his celebration there are two opposite approaches. One is the state power. With parades, banners, Stalin and big stars on epaulettes. In the framework of this approach, the state and the system, the vertical and commanders. Pathos of large numbers and majestic scales. This is an extremely convenient approach - because it allows continuity from the "old" Kremlin to the "new" one. And to declare the current leaders - heirs of the former. So, it allows the inhabitants of the Kremlin offices to speak on behalf of the winners.

And there is another approach to May 9. Individual-personal. Within his framework, victory was made possible by ordinary people. Thus, who endured all the "hardships and privations". Thus, who then the state stole the victory and appropriated - not to share subjectivity. On the flags of this concept there is neither Stalin, nor Zhukov. But there are somebody's grandparents.

This second approach was always looking for its own intimate personal language. In the literature - with the help of "lieutenant prose". In the cinema - with the help of the "Belarusian Railway Station". And even the "Immortal Regiment" was first born as an opposition alternative to the officialdom. Instead of banners and slogans, people carried portraits of people. The action appeared in 2012 in Tomsk - by the local television company "TV-2". Three years later, the TV company will be deprived of the license, and the state will take the "Immortal Regiment" under its wing.

However, all the other attempts to talk about the Victory Day without mentioning the vertical, the Russian state also suppressed. Yuri Bondarev softened the final of the story "Battalions ask for fire" and became a literary general. For each intimate-personal film about the war, a dozen pathos were photographed. And the "Immortal Regiment" from the family space became the territory of the official.

Modern Russia denies the individual. Private can be only a part of the state. Do you want to feel the power? Lean on the vertical. Swear allegiance to her. And then, perhaps, it will allow you to stand under the umbrella of state greatness.

The only problem is that on May 9 the fate of KVN. In the nineties this game was international - on the stage in Moscow teams from all the former Soviet republics came out. And today this game has turned into an internal Russian competition. The place of Ukrainian, Armenian, Azerbaijani teams was occupied by teams from Russian regions.

The same future awaits the Russian Victory Day. Moscow made him a test of loyalty to the system.

Therefore, neighboring countries are doomed to seek their own language to describe the main war of the twentieth century.

And it's not just that the "St. George's ribbon" is replaced by a red poppy. And it's not that the ninth of May is gradually giving way to the eighth. More importantly, that the light comes out a discussion about the price of victory. About what was before the war and what began after it.

And to the old disputes about who inherits from the victorious Soviet Union, a new. About the one who inherits from the loser Germany.