A fake holiday in the middle of a disturbing week
As you know, fake Christmas tree toys look real, but they're not happy. The holiday celebrated last week, the Day of National Unity and Consensus, therefore looks real. And in fact – growing international tensions (as they said on television during my childhood, although they didn't mean fights between locals and visitors at all), disagreements over covid (which is more expensive – life or economy?) And even classification to avoid inter-ethnic hatred of ours. common past.
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In the children's book, the crocodile Gena and Cheburashka built the House of Friendship. A small, five-step, five-story house. They built it on their own, and volunteers also helped. A correspondent arrived, looked, and wrote a note about ten crocodiles, ten giraffes, ten outstanding students, and so on, building a huge ten-story house that would be ready on time. This week, Putin and Lukashenko signed further documents on the creation of an EU state. There was little left – to let Lukashenko reach our telegram channels (it turned out that the signing had upset him) so that he could strangle them and invent symbols (which was also mentioned) – not even a coat. weapons, of course, but a certain general symbol. I consider it appropriate to have an endless field overgrown with hopeless weeds under the potato sun. And that's all – even the EU state is ready in time. Like in that correspondent's letter. Let's just remember how long roaming between Russia and Belarus has been canceled? Well, it's a small thing, not as a unification of tariffs, such as energy legislation or pricing. But in fact it is still valid.
Sobyanin and Vorobyov announced good news for the Moscow region on holiday – there will be no extension of the days off work. What could change for one week in such a densely populated region if public holidays are extended in much less populated areas and draconian measures are introduced, such as a ban on public transport without a QR code (Tatarstan)? Suppose that the decrease in the level of infection is not immediately visible – that's what they explain. However, the decline in revenue is immediately visible. And revolutions, as we remember from the world and our own practices, do not take place in the provinces, but in the capitals. It is clearly better to overload medicine than the Russian Guard.
Although law enforcement officers have a lot of work to do. Only a day later it began – either in Novye Vatutinki the Caucasians beat a peasant with a child, or in Domodedov there was a mass fight between locals and newcomers. It took our state machine about fifteen years to turn to us in front and back to the forest. I remember that in 2000, in order to suppress inter-ethnic conflicts, Russian nationalists were smashed (and very little – generally for the cause). And now their rhetoric and suggestions, such as genome registration, are on the lips of the same Bastrykin. After the attack in Vatutinki, the Ministry of the Interior organized a really tough raid, but not against the skinheads. And even business – more precisely its state part in the face of the capital's building complex – declares that it is necessary to give up the work of foreign migrants. Of course, MPs with a broom immediately appear to cover the problem under the Oriental rug – forbidding specifying the criminal's nationality. However, the main thing here is not to be confused: if the champion in battles without rules is a Dagestan, not a Russian, and if he is a participant in a street fight, then a Russian and not a representative of any nationality.
The FSB came up with the idea that now was not the time to declassify the protocols of the NKVD special trio in 1937-1938. As the Commission considered the declassification of documents, they contained information the dissemination of which could “provoke incitement to national, racial or religious hatred or hostility”. Two-thirds of the triples' sentences were carried out by an execution squad. Which people, purely statistically, could have been shot more than others? But if the same people are included in the troika, then what kind of national hatred is this? Strong unity and harmony. But if not? There is something to think about.
The unity of the party and the people was added by other statistics announced this week – real pensions (data from Rosstat) in Russia have been falling since February. However, retirees know this even without statistics – the trip to the store increasingly resembled an excursion: the exhibits on the shelves are beautiful and expensive, they look, but do not reach. What has “unity” got to do with it? Well, the retirement age in 2018 was raised by the party and the government in the interests of the people, and it was promised that pensions would rise. They have been promising three years. We were waiting here. But the total fortunes of Russian billionaires have risen by $ 65.63 billion since the beginning of the year.
So it turns out that what kind of unity and harmony is such a holiday. There seem to be flags on the houses and Putin is giving a speech on the screen – you don't understand why.