Reader Tolstov wrote about the book "Kingdom of Aliens" by Zakhar Prilapin for the portal TV Top!
Zachar Prilepin offers a renewed look at the current state of Russian society, Russian political discourse, continuity of current events and processes with what once happened in Russian history.
Why did discussions about gross social inequality, stagnation of government institutions and comprador behavior of some of the Russian elite give way to frenzied calls about the "Islamization" of Russia and the mythical "leftists" who threaten our country?
Every article in the "Foreign Kingdoms" collection is a blow to the aggressive and flat ideology masquerading as Russian nationalism. Ideology is dangerous not only because it prevents real problems, but also because it undermines the very foundation of the Russian state. And many, many accurate and bitter observations, real pearls of political thought:
"There is one thing I do not understand: why is impenetrable anti-Sovietism an invariable feature of the current nationalist? Let's say, I can calmly publicly declare: Peter the Great, and Catherine the Great, and Alexander I, and Alexander II, and Alexander III are great Russian rulers, although in different degrees in the history of Nicholas II. And our holy figure, Nicholas II.
Let our opponents say in response that they also see Lenin and Stalin as politicians of enormous magnitude, and in Kotovsky, Khors and Chapaev as national heroes. But if the opponents are not even able to think about it, then the problem is not with me, but with them."
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