The image of last week: Putin sniper shoots in the park "Patriot" from the new microwave (not to be confused with the stove) -308: from 600 meters, three of five hits. The most important thing for the well-to-do memes in social networks: "bang - and there is no old woman". Scary funny? Terrible and funny. Or an interview with shy Gruzhnikov from the club of travelers, fans of Gothic and "Solyashetskogo Cathedral, well, just" rzhunimagu "- if not only survivors of the death of Scrip. If it were not for the deceased "Novice", a British citizen Don Sturgess with her miraculously surviving friend who, as they say, again got into the hospital with complications, "writes Galina Sidorova in the column on" Radio Liberty ".
"Chef of Putin", with the help of his trolls prevented the experienced fighter of the Washington political front Hillary Clinton to occupy the presidential seat. You'll laugh! If it were not for the death of journalists in the Central African Republic, who hardly touched the affairs of the Wagnerian "Ignamette", this "cook", apparently financed. If it were not for the Ukrainians in the neighboring country, dying at the hands of Russian mercenaries, and about them, returning to their homeland in the form of cargo-200 from Syria. If it were not for the strange story of poisoning leading own investigation into the death of journalists Petr Verzilov.
The main guard of Putin, General Viktor Zolotov - with his "cutlet duel" with Navalny. Well, what's with the peas? If it were not for the brutal beatings of his guardsmen by fellow citizens, including children and the elderly, who are trying to realize their constitutional right to peaceful protest. Now they will shoot at people, and not with cutlets, of course, through the loopholes of the "Wall" complex: armored KamAZ, which in a few minutes deploys a shield about 7.5 meters long and about three meters high, the guards will receive until the end of the year. To protect "from aggressively minded groups of citizens".
The foolishness of officials entrenched in the labyrinths of Russian government was just as inexhaustible as the creativity and sharpness of the language of compatriots tired of their universal idiocy. But nothing changes. The conclusions suggest the exact opposite: either Putin controls everything and just trolls the country, conducting over it a protracted experiment for almost two decades; or no longer controls anything - sails on the waves of power. Both are more frightening than funny.
Body movements in the presidential administration and in the so-called narrow circle are becoming more chaotic and miserable. What's next? Twisting nuts, until the thread does not tear? Waiting for another "black swan"? How will the system change? Sechin? Medvedev? Chemezov? Rotenbergs? Zolotov? Who will make friends against whom tomorrow, to whom in the near future is the role of a "juicy chop" prepared? In senseless guessing, not only political scientists are lost, but also non-systemic oppositionists who, in the presidential elections, somehow revived, cheered up their own parties, and immediately fell asleep - apparently also in anticipation of the "black swans".
Or, like Alexey Navalny, they were sent to work off, and immediately after that for a new time, because Navalny is not one of those who calms down. Against the backdrop of all this dreadful and ridiculous, mossy and musty appearances of present and future pensioners, already influencing the electoral process in several regions, have become a revelation for the Kremlin celestials. And the youth movement that started under the slogan "Unlimited power - an indefinite protest" seems to have turned out to be an extremely unpleasant surprise. Mainly because these young men and girls themselves, without leaders, have thought and acted.
Last week I spent with Voronezh human rights activists and witnessed another interesting project, also called to encourage people to think. It began with the fact that the historian, translator, psychologist Marina Fadeeva in one of the second-hand bookshops of Istanbul came across a play by the authorship of a certain Cassius "The trial of Mussolini". Interested, translated. As a result, in the collaboration with the novice director and screenwriter Alena Obyezchikova, the play "Justice for the dictator" was born, in which activists of the International Youth Human Rights Movement, the "War of the Obsolete" initiative and other human rights organizations of Voronezh.
Cassius is the pseudonym of a British journalist, later one of the leaders of the Labor Party of Michael Fut. He wrote the play in the midst of World War II, according to his documents, publications in newspapers, interviews. The author tried to imagine what the trial of Mussolini might look like. Actually, the play published in 1943 is exactly this fictional court - with a judge, a prosecutor, a lawyer, witnesses of defense and accusation, including the ministers of the British Cabinet, with jurors. As defendant - Mussolini, from an ambitious young politician for more than twenty years turned into a ruthless dictator.
Cassius-Fut, and after him the authors of the Russian version, reflect on how people should judge the leader who cast his country into war in the name of ghostly greatness and thereby actually destroyed it, giving orders to kill and repress political opponents? What is the responsibility for what happened to the citizens of his country, foreign politicians, war and predatory plans, first indulging and then condemning them. It's about the vile invasion of Ethiopia, about the lies that covered ten thousand "secretly" fought on the side of Franco Italian volunteers, subsequently "explicitly" from Spain withdrawn. Analogies are quite obvious.
The play has an open end. By the time it was written, Mussolini had not yet been executed. The guerrillas shot the duce together with his faithful friend Clara Petachchi in April 1945, later their bodies were suspended by the feet of Milan in a crowd of enraged citizens.
In the Russian play, the jury - the audience. In the end, they are asked to vote "guilty - not guilty," and then raise a black or white card, for capital punishment or against. The overwhelming majority of those present - many of whom were themselves very severely persecuted by the authorities, having found the dictator guilty, spoke out against his death penalty. Their verdict is life imprisonment.
And I thought:
it's amazing how our "scary-ridiculous" power in the person of its main carrier and permanent president herself digs her own grave, stirring up hatred and hatred towards dissidents in society, setting some fellow citizens on others. She does her best to solve her own destiny, not these intelligent, young people who reflect on humanism and the world, but those same scumbags who today, with her full approval, furiously thunder the exhibitions and beat the whips of dissidents. They decided not by court, but by the law of the gateway.
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