The annexation of the Crimea in 2014 became for many people both in Russia and outside it, like a litmus test, which helps us to distinguish a decent person from dishonorable. It's not a secret that the Crimean issue has recently become the real Rubicon, that is, the very "point of no return", not only in international relations between Russia and the rest of the civilized world, but also revealed how Russians themselves are objectively ready to assess the annexation of the Crimea And the subsequent Russian aggression in the southeast of Ukraine, which laid down for many years the algorithm of the future relations of the two once fraternal peoples of Russia and Ukraine.

Unfortunately, over the years we witnessed how many respected people in Russia also became hostages of this psychosis called "krymnasch", which engulfed most ordinary Russians who, instead of remembering the true vocation and the basic principle of an intelligent person, stood in One series with those for whom these principles are unacceptable a priori. One can talk a lot about the way in which Russia once again became a hostage in the hands of admirers of Stalin and all those who are nostalgic for the times of the Soviet Union and even argue this trend for both objective and subjective reasons.

But as a person who has lived for many years in the conditions of the Soviet system and knows quite well the history of the country of the Soviets, I will not do this within the framework of this article, but only I will note that even in the USSR, despite its powerful ideological machine for processing the brains of the population, Its times, including the years of the most terrible repression, have always been representatives of the intelligentsia, for whom intellectual freedom was the highest moral category of individual freedom.

Therefore, taking into account the fact that the opportunities of the current authorities in Russia in the age of the Internet are much inferior to the capabilities of the Soviet Union, I want to hope that in modern Russia such people will be more and more and sooner or later the Russians themselves realize the pernicious nature of the way they lead The country entrenched in the Kremlin, these latter-day "collectors of the Russian land". In this regard, I recall the remarkable phrase of the writer Fazil Iskander, who once said: "Decency does not imply heroism, it involves non-participation in meanness".

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