The mirror of Russian destiny: to strike or not to strike this time I'll start from afar. Let me remind you of the persistent calls of the wisest Russian people in the 19th century (the golden age of Russian culture, just a minute!) to overcome ignorance or half-knowledge of Russia. They wrote about it, Karamzin, Pushkin, Gogol, Tyutchev called it. They saw this state of Russian society as intolerable and dangerous. They foresaw the terrifying impending trials that snowballed. Our national geniuses were right. Ignorance of Russia established Russian nihilism, radicalism of all kinds, and the shameful Russian deserter grew up and now about the paradox. The fact that our demiurges from home, who dissipated the energy of denial and disengagement, on the contrary, differed in a rare national insight. Because they knew well all the weaknesses and temptations of the Russian world. The most deafening example is Leo Tolstoy. Grand Elder Yasenia Polyana, "the mirror of the Russian revolution", a mighty fighter against the Orthodox Church, the authorities and the state; The author of a new religion, a new scripture, is willing to "fix" even Messiah, what now? What is the result of all imaginable demiurgic experiments? Did the nation see "the face of Russia" in the fire of the unprecedented Russian troubles of the twentieth century? Has she finally found her national purpose? Let's be honest, few people are really concerned about the national issue today. A lazy post-Soviet society with an artificially preserved late Soviet consciousness lives carelessly and lazily watches online quarrels. Or he does not foresee where the Solzhenitsyn monument will stand in Vladivostok, who is Solzhenitsyn himself, what did he write about does it matter? And I don't mind changing the name of Voikovskaya station in Moscow. Well, so what, we're used to the murderer and the villain, and in general, in Teliya's house we don't talk about the rope. Isn't it, isn't it? First, this is not a Russian proverb. And secondly, the house with the Wykovska station is the hangman's house. Whereas historical Russia, for all its flaws, was a completely different home.

The mirror of Russian destiny: to strike or not to strike this time I'll start from afar. Let me remind you of the persistent calls of the wisest Russian people in the 19th century (the golden age of Russian culture, just a minute!) to overcome ignorance or half-knowledge of Russia. They wrote about it, Karamzin, Pushkin, Gogol, Tyutchev called it. They saw this state of Russian society as intolerable and dangerous. They foresaw the terrifying impending trials that snowballed. Our national geniuses were right. Ignorance of Russia established Russian nihilism, radicalism of all kinds, and the shameful Russian deserter grew up and now about the paradox. The fact that our demiurges from home, who dissipated the energy of denial and disengagement, on the contrary, differed in a rare national insight. Because they knew well all the weaknesses and temptations of the Russian world. The most deafening example is Leo Tolstoy. Grand Elder Yasenia Polyana, "the mirror of the Russian revolution", a mighty fighter against the Orthodox Church, the authorities and the state; The author of a new religion, a new scripture, is willing to "fix" even Messiah, what now? What is the result of all imaginable demiurgic experiments? Did the nation see "the face of Russia" in the fire of the unprecedented Russian troubles of the twentieth century? Has she finally found her national purpose? Let's be honest, few people are really concerned about the national issue today. A lazy post-Soviet society with an artificially preserved late Soviet consciousness lives carelessly and lazily watches online quarrels. Or he does not foresee where the Solzhenitsyn monument will stand in Vladivostok, who is Solzhenitsyn himself, what did he write about does it matter? And I don't mind changing the name of Voikovskaya station in Moscow. Well, so what, we're used to the murderer and the villain, and in general, in Teliya's house we don't talk about the rope. Isn't it, isn't it? First, this is not a Russian proverb. And secondly, the house with the Wykovska station is the hangman's house. Whereas historical Russia, for all its flaws, was a completely different home.