The disease is incurable
Foreign agents have literally flooded Russia. It multiplies with terrible speed. They're much more infectious than that damn covid.
Photo: Alexey Merinov
The worst thing is that:
a) the disease is incurable; when you pick it up, you will lie in the coffin like a foreign agent;
b) there are no obvious signs – no money is added, no fame; you can be a foreign agent for years without knowing it, and then (as Winnie the Pooh says) it will be too late – you will not be justified.
Ordinary foreign agents – the TV channel “Rain”, “Important Stories” and other media, as well as people, received this title, or more precisely this stigma, just for getting some money, even if it they did not know from abroad.
In the case of “Golos” (election observers, reported as foreign agents. – Ed. ), some alleged “Armenians” sent them a few rubles, but did not notice.
In the case of Dozhda, it turned out that they received poisonous money from our own polytechnic museum. It can be? In the end, everything seems to be fine. But then it turned out that a Swede or a Norwegian had donated some money to the Polytechnic Museum even earlier. The inspection authorities reasonably concluded that there was a Swedish krona in the money Dozhd received from the museum.
This is how the virus works. You touch, say, with all due respect to the Pushkin monument, and then you choose your nose – here you have a covid and artificial ventilation awaits you, all because an infectious stranger touched Pushkin's monument in front of you.
Previously, these foreign agents were even thought to have been useful in some way (and not just because they critically point out some shortcomings). The above-mentioned foreign agents receive money from abroad and spend it here – for food, clothing, theater tickets, housing and communal services, they pay taxes, which means that they invest in our economy, increase effective demand and turnover.
You agree: much worse are those scoundrels who do not receive money from foreigners, organizations, states, but on the contrary draw money obtained in Russia abroad. This is what I want to admit voluntarily (because voluntary confession mitigates punishment; although unfortunately this is not always the case, there are traps all around).
I draw money to the West (Europe and the USA) and the East – to China, India, Korea and even New Zealand.
I carelessly buy medicines that the doctor has prescribed for them, even no matter where they are made: in Hungary, in India … I buy a phone and a computer, because I know for sure that they are not made here. I buy fountain pens, pencils, coffee, tea, batteries – I send money to foreign companies. I buy shoes, trousers, trousers, paper clips, a tap, a shower, a hose, a Scotch tape, knives, scissors, paper … When I buy Russian bread, I don't even want to think that foreign yeast has been mixed into it.
In short, I'm just a repeat offender – for years I've been committing what the Criminal Code calls an “ongoing crime.” The worst thing is that when I realize the crime of my actions, I understand that I cannot stop my harmful activities. I can live without tea, also without shoes and pants, but I can't live without batteries. This means that I have been constantly investing in someone else's economy for years and I can't stop.
My crime is, of course, a drop in the sea, or rather in the sea of money drawn from Russia. Billions of dollars are flowing away from us and turning into yachts, villas, planes. But everyone should be responsible for themselves, and not make excuses that others steal more and can't stop.
Like Raskolnikov, I wanted to go out to Red Square, bring me to my knees, confess everything, and repent, but he realized that nothing good would come of it. There are many civilian specialists who decide that I want to nail some part of my body to the paving stones to become famous, and immediately drag me where they should.
That's why I make my confession publicly – through the newspaper. And in order not to disappoint the editors, please consider it a confession.