Since the beginning of September, news about the holding of a referendum on the separation of the Catalan region from the main state.

And, it would seem that these events have a purely local and insignificant to the world character, which is only rarely seen in the running news line.

Such news "hot" events as the "game of muscles" between Kim Jong-no and Donald Trump, amid the strengthening of the "nuclear ambitions" of the North Korean leader, the intensification of military operations in Syria by armies of coalitions against the "Islamic state", the 72nd UN General Assembly with its " pompous "statements of the heads of different countries, and of course the dilemma about the introduction of a peacekeeping mission in eastern Ukraine.

There was no extra seat in this car, five news bulletins for Catalonia were not available, or rather this topic is of secondary public lighting.

However, even today it is difficult to imagine what "headaches" can bring a successful implementation of the referendum for both Spain and the whole of Western Europe with its EU mechanism.

Nationalistic and separatist sentiments from time to time are manifested in Scotland, Flanders, South Tyrol, Bavaria, Brittany and in Corsica, Hungary and Slovakia. Sometimes in the United States there are separatist sentiments in Texas or California.

Sometimes this separatism is artificially created, as, for example, in the eastern regions of Ukraine.

This also applies to the Asian continent - Uighurs, Ceylonese, Sinti, Kurds, etc..

This phenomenon has long been enshrined in international legal acts, such as the right of the people to self-determination, including separation and the creation of a national state.

This is not a new phenomenon for Iberia, since already for dozens of years, or rather, several hundred centuries, the state manages to restrain regional separatism through various levers of both influence and pressure.

In order to understand the whole process in Spain, it is necessary to consider several basic areas of human functioning and activities in the complex. This is a historical foundation, political, economic, social spheres, as well as culture. But first things first.

The historical line tells us that Spain was one of the first states in Europe to actively develop the "new light" in the era of the Great Geographical Discoveries. As a result, the country bathed, literally, in gold and silver. However, such a mercantile approach to the use of capital very quickly experienced its time in the 16th century. And the huge country, as at that time, for the European continent, did not manage to move from the stage of "accumulation" of capital to the stage of "investing or investing".

A significant influence at this stage in Spain was made by such factors as the existence of a strong institution of the Catholic Church that prevented the Spaniards from perceiving the Weberian "spirit of Protestant ethics" that would accelerate the dynamics of the processes of capitalism. And also, the defeat of the Reformation movement in the country, and the emergence of a reactionary Jesuit religious institution. The last sigh the country experienced after the defeat of the Netherlands, which nevertheless achieved independence.

All these events stopped the political and economic development of Spain, which since then and until now is in the second echelon among the economically developed countries of Europe. This also led to the fact that Spain very late experienced the process of industrialization.

For example, France and Great Britain already by the middle of the 19th century could become fully and fully industrialized countries.

In turn, industrialization led to the standardization of culture, the emergence of social elevators, the emergence of Protestantism, as well as to the massive urbanization of the population that destroyed any language dialects.

For France, it became profitable for the population to be a "Frenchman", so it gave substantial privileges. Therefore, such linguistic dialects as Provencal, Aquitanian, Breton have very quickly disappeared.

For England, almost the same situation: being a "Briton" and speaking English means getting good posts, and being protected by law, having the right to receive education, etc.. Because such languages ??as Walloon, Scottish "preserved", but did not disappear and exist, and even used on an official level and to this day.

It was with the help of urbanization that the two countries managed to destroy their regional separatism.

In addition, the revolutionary path of the establishment of the central administration proved over time its effectiveness.

As for Spain, almost until 1714, and Catalonia until 1711, this country was in fact a confederation, where there was a cultural and linguistic one.

Considering the examples of England and France it becomes clear that in Spain all these transformations did not take place. Neither the revival of the strong medieval Castilian center, nor the social elevators (except perhaps that of the army), no revolutions in the country occurred.

Catalonian to be "Spaniard" and to study Castilian language was economically disadvantageous, it did not give any additional preferences.

Catalonia continued to talk in its dialect, besides, the population of the region has a mnemological pluralism (local historical memory). Therefore, in the minds of the Catalans, their history is weakly associated with the general Spanish.

All these features relate to the Basques, Galicians and other regions of Spain with their regional characteristics.

The short liberal regime in the country from the 1930's to 1936 gave too strong a push to strengthen separatist sentiments, and even the reforms of the then Madrid government could not solve the problem in just a few years.

The period from 1939 to 1975 under the authoritarian rule of Francisco Franco is the time of the total process of Madrid's assimilation. Only Spain, only Spanish, the name of the streets in Spanish, documentation, courts, municipalities, etc..

The activation of Catalan separatism falls at the beginning of the 2000s.

As early as 2014, the previous head of the Generalitat (Catalan Parliament) Arthur Mas held a referendum on independence, but the Supreme Court of Spain found the results illegal and this year deprived Mas of the right to engage in political activities.

Approximately years earlier in Baskonia, the government tried to gain autonomy by force, but all failed.

According to the Spanish Constitution, all areas of the country have full right to cultural autonomy, their parliaments, municipal police, political forces and representation in Madrid, etc.. The question of obtaining sovereignty must be resolved jointly with the central authorities, that is, Madrid on special "general states".

Catalan nationalism passed to the last stage. He survived the formation of academicism, the cultural stage, and the final stage of any nationalism is the acquisition of a political body.

During the crisis, a successful foundation for separatism is always formed.

The process of Britain's withdrawal from the EU, and a similar referendum in Scotland, and loud words during the 72nd UN GA, and the refugee problem, the slowness of the work of the EU, UN, NATO institutions in terms of impact and influence on such states as the DPRK , Russia, Iran, Syria, Libya, and the approaching wave of economic recession for 2019-2020.

All this creates a fertile ground for holding a referendum precisely during this period.

Catalonia faces an even more difficult task than the struggle against the government of Marianno Rakhoi and the withdrawal of ballots for voting.

Even if Catalonia wins, it will face a dilemma - it's international recognition by the world community.

The principle of the "right of a nation and people to self-determination", as history shows, is confronted with another principle of "inviolability of the borders of a certain state". The principle itself works very selectively, basically much is decided by the "world minority" of the hegemonic powers or economically developed countries.

Since the 2000s, democratic Europe has paid for the irreparable error committed in Yugoslavia at the end of the "zero", when Kosovo was formally recognized as independent.

The next 17 years is the appearance of a huge number of enclaves, both autochthonous (such as Kurds) and artificially created (Islamic state, Ash Shabab, ARSA in the Philippines, Boko Haram, etc.). ), and with the complicity of other states (Transnistria, Abkhazia, Ossetia).

And with all this "Olivier" approved after the Second World War, the UN mechanisms for resolving intra-state and inter-state conflicts proved to be ineffective. Applying the dialectics of cause-effect relationships it is not difficult to conclude that the Europeans themselves pay for it - refugees who do not get along in such pseudo-states.

And from this, and the increase in crime, a fall in the standard of living of the population of their states and exacerbation of internal social contradictions. Hence the unspoken rule: either one who is very full or one who is very hungry.

It becomes obvious that the first option is defined more clearly. No one should interfere in the internal affairs of a sovereign state and a sovereign people.

However, still it is not worth it for our Spanish friends to think again - is the game worth the candle? !!.