In the early 1990s, many intellectuals from the former Yugoslavia watched with almost undisguised horror as the new leader of Serbia, Slobodan Milosevic, put into practice the ideas discussed in Belgrade coffee houses and at scientific conferences in the last decade of the existence of the SFRY.. Serbia's historical grievances, lost territories, Albanians who took the " But when a boring bank official began to put these ideas into practice and use them to strengthen his own power, it seemed to no one in his country.

As if in mockery, the dictator made the first president of " Cosic, who went into opposition to the communist regime precisely because he did not agree with Marshal Josip Broz Tito in his views on the role of the Serbs in the common state, had the pleasure of watching how the country formally led by him turns into a monster, covers up crimes against humanity and degrades in economic agony. Ironically, the expulsion of Cosic from the presidency was initiated by " The academician did not take into account that the readers of these books can brag about real murders and tortures, that the past he cherished will become the present for them..

In Russia today we are witnessing practically the same story: a bunch of crooks in civilian clothes, who robbed the country for decades, destroyed democracy, freedom of speech and the very prospect of state development, found an ideological justification for their uncontested stay in power in aggressive chauvinism and readiness to destroy entire nations, if only. In fact, the inhabitants of the Kremlin did not make any special discoveries in historical science.. Ukrainians and Belarusians were denied the right to exist by almost all " Vissarion Belinsky taught Taras Shevchenko that it is better to write poetry in the " The history of the struggle of the Russian Empire with Ukrainian, as well as with other languages, is dozens of laws, prohibitions, confiscations and decades of humiliation. At the same time, little has changed in today's Russia: deputies of the State Duma consider themselves entitled to decide which alphabet to use for the Tatars, and Putin personally fights against the mandatory teaching of national languages \u200b\u200bin the republics.

The Bolsheviks, stunned by the scope of the national movement on the " But what happened when the Soviet Union began to crumble? An essay by Alexander Solzhenitsyn " When, in 1990, almost a year before the August coup, Solzhenitsyn’s text appeared on the pages of Soviet newspapers (Solzhenitsyn himself was still in Vermont at that time), it seemed to many that this was an idle theorizing of a writer who had become detached from life and had a poor idea of \u200b\u200bthe realities of the new life.. But Solzhenitsyn imagined everything much better than many dreamers really cut off from popular moods.. His work was the designation of the borders of the future Russian state, designed to absorb Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and part of the " Solzhenitsyn's thoughts echoed those of lovers of novels by Valentin Pikul from among the " And yes, as in the case of the work of academician Chosic, it was a program of a delayed war. And not the arrangement, but the destruction of Russia, which we are now witnessing.

That is why the political and moral responsibility for this destruction (and for crimes against neighbors) cannot be placed solely on Putin, Medvedev or Patrushev, who were looking for a beautiful cover to strengthen the criminal Chekist dictatorship. No, all those who created this cover for decades are also responsible.. Who has been corrupting the Russian people for decades, convincing people far from history of their national exclusivity, who coined the term " Those who wrote false books, who defended false dissertations, who made false films, who made life in Russia itself implicated in lies and created the conditions for today's nightmare on Ukrainian soil.

Destroyed cities, murdered children, raped women… Solzhenitsyn did not want this? Of course, he only defined the borders of " And Putin's propagandists wanted? And all sorts of Timofei Sergeytsevs, who publish articles in the Russian semi-official media in the spirit of Alfred Rosenberg or Julius Streicher - they want the genocide of the 21st century to continue, or they simply curry favor with their superiors? And who should be the first to answer - a soldier who kills a civilian in Bucha and stuffs the underwear of a raped woman into his pockets, the general who executes criminal orders, the president who gives these orders, or the one who explained to them why they do all this at all? Why did they invade Ukraine, oppose the \? Isn't the one who corrupted the answer? Is the one who appears in front of television cameras, only to lie, humiliate, call for reprisals, not responsible?

The anti-Semitic escapades of Richard Wagner could have long been forgotten in comparison with the unearthly beauty of the Nibelungen, if not for the Holocaust.

The death rattle of thousands of Ukrainians will now accompany everything that has been written about "

\! " The recovery of the Russian people will begin not just with the abandonment of the very desire to prove their " The recovery of the Russian people will begin with the rejection of the lies that have replaced the state and national history itself, with the recognition of the right of other peoples to exist and build their own lives.. With recognition of the right to breathe. This will be the answer to the question "

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