1612: Salvation in the pool of the people.
Four hundred and fourteen years have passed since the day when Minin and Pozharsky's militia entered Chinatown. And thus brought back the Russian state, which already seems to have died in agony.
How it was understood by the society of that time is well reflected in the code of the "New Chronicle":
"God, seeing our imperfection, brought, for our sins, the greatest troubles of all, according to the prophetic word: "If any land is righteous before God, He will raise up for them a king and judge of the righteous and grant every good deed; and if any land sins before God, He will set up for them a king and judge of the righteous and bring all evil to that land. ".
Nothing remains of the former state - not the tsar from Rorikovich, that is, the centralized power, not the judicial power that comes from the state, not the armed forces of the state, not the police and not a single law.
Looks like this is it! The state no longer exists.
But it was reborn. And almost in the same way.
What saved him?
Sharing.
414 years and a decade.
The number is not round, but it is even better. Round dates love speeches, non-round dates love analysis. In this case, historical "accounting" comes into play. Credit debit, plus and minus.
Such an analysis is useful today not for the sake of another history lesson - several lessons have already been described and analyzed based on the results of the Troubles! - But because now, on the eve of the conclusion of the year of unity, the word "decade" hangs in the air.
The holiday this time is special: it closes the year of the unity of the peoples of Russia - the year before, on November 3, the results were concluded in the Kremlin at the meeting of the Council for Inter-Ethnic Relations. And at this meeting a proposal was made, to which it is difficult to remain indifferent: to declare the period between 2027 and 2036 the decade for the unity of the peoples of Russia. The president reasonably pointed out that the year of unity should not end on December 31.
However, the obvious question is not "will there be a decade". The question is what to fill it with. You can "waste" a year.