National Unity Day has passed - a national holiday, which, to be honest, for a significant part of our citizens is still not fully understood, one might say, wise in terms of semantic content. Yes, indeed unformulated, as if unspoken and unrealized from the point of view of transmitting the central/main idea and the spiritual meaning. I remember how during Yeltsin's time, for the new Russia, for "dear Russians", they frantically searched and found a replacement for the Soviet holiday - the Great October Socialist Revolution Day (Great October Day) - November 7. And so, as an alternative, the Day of National Unity was set on November 4 in honor of the victory of the popular militia of K. Minin and D. Pozharski over the Polish forces, the end of the period of troubles and restoration.
Russian country. Everything seems to make sense and national unity is actually evident. Our colleague Alexander Dyukov wrote about this with great precision: "Good Russian people, tired of living without a state, gathered and after the prayer freed the capital from the foreigners who had settled in it. Since life without a state was bad for everyone, the Tatars also joined the Russian people, who were not at all ashamed that the re-established state would be Orthodox." November 4, as the "smart" search engine now explains to us, "symbolizes the cohesion of the multinational people in the country, historical continuity and unity in the face of crises." Despite "false but empty explanations" of this kind, most of our brothers, especially among young people, unfortunately, still did not really understand anything, did not really feel this continuity and perceive the date - November 4 - more as a day of additional freedom and mass viewing dressing up in various national costumes and eating free pilaf. Well, really? Do many people greet each other personally on this holiday?