I have a friend - a musician from New York. He sometimes gives charity concerts in nursing homes: sings, plays, reads poems to Soviet pensioners, brought by fate or brought by children to America.

In one nursing home, he was warned before the concert not to talk about retirees about politics and in no way affect the Russian-Ukrainian conflict..

"I, in general, and was not going to," - said the surprised friend.

“Come with me,” he was invited by the director of a nursing home and showed two large rooms with identical rows of chairs and identical television screens on the same walls..

One room with Russian television for rising Stalinists-Putinists rising from their knees (some cannot get up from their knees because of arthritis, therefore they support Russia sitting in wheelchairs), another room with Ukrainian television and with American and Canadian channels in Ukrainian - for "Bandera".

“Groups do not communicate with each other,” explained the director, “Rare contacts always end in conflicts, and recently two old men have fought. Really fought! They were separated by orderlies. One other chair smashed his head ".

It seemed to me that this is the best example of the Soviet apocalypse:

in the American nursing home, built and maintained for American taxpayer money, with doctors, nurses, social workers, cleaners paid by the same taxpayer, former lecturer of the Riga Knowledge Society, Russian patriot Semyon Izrailevich Gutenmakher, standing up for the honor of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, with a chair (also bought with American taxpayer money) broke the skull of the former deputy chief engineer of the research institute "Ukrs" Petsbumprom ", Ukrainian nationalist Isaac Davidovich Tsiperovich.

“Funny Old Men,” said Dr. Faisal, an Iraqi native born in Iran, to Ilkhar, a nurse born in Iran.. Said in English, which the funny old people did not understand.

Slava Shifrin.