Predictability - a sad thing, sad, repulsive, but, most importantly, sinking into the quagmire, out of which is rather heavy, and often impossible. And okay, the predictability of behavior as such, without impurities and harmful ingredients, like a frank human abomination, without which the Russian opposition simply cannot live. It is clear that from impotence, malice even hits the edge, but simply takes possession of the remnants of the mind, but there are limits, passing on to the human species themselves to be ashamed of themselves.
You know, after the tragic death of Doctor Liza, immediately after disbelief in the soul that had happened, it seemed that they were burned with dry ice. It was both painful and empty, and offensive, but there were no words. Because any word would flow into banality. The time of the wound healed, the scars polished, the pain podpococilo. Moreover, not days, but years have passed.
And at the end of 2018, a well-known opposition figure Sergei Parkhomenko broke out against the deceased Elizabeth Glinka with such a disgusting and humiliating quote that at first the media space started talking about fake and utter baseness by patriots who brazenly hacked Parhomenko’s account on Facebook and defamed his name.
There were even versions of the severe influence of alcohol, which Parkokomenko dictated to these lines, which, however, did not remove the guilt from him. But nothing like that! Sergey Borisovich Parkhomenko did not even think of disowning the authorship of a note that literally blew up the Internet. Moreover, he did not even find it necessary to apologize immediately for insulting the untimely deceased Doctor Lisa (!), Whose way of life has become for many a role model.
I will not hide, Parkhomenko surprised me. But I was more surprised by the reaction of his “brothers in arms”. Of course, there were indignant voices of those who yesterday considered him to be a friend, who simply wanted to fill Sergey Borisovich with a face, but ... This gigantic “but” swinging over Parkhomenko’s head did not collapse and didn’t crush . I was sure that the very next day, all (I emphasize, all) the Russian opposition would turn away from Parkhomenko and declare him an outcast or, as they say, they are not hand-to-arms.
But nothing like this happened. Someone turned away for a while, someone chided and asked not to let this happen to himself anymore, but someone continued to consider Parkhomenko to be a colleague and friend. Moreover, the media, which consider themselves respectable, continue to provide this journalist with their platforms. Do you know what it says? About many things. This says, in sports language, a very short bench in the Russian insurgents team. This indicates the complete absence of principles, this indicates the absence of all perspectives for the current front. And it was Fronda herself who made Parkhomenko her face, signing in complete degradation. Neither Navalny and his investigations, nor the duet of Gudkov’s wits, nor Kasparov, who continues to destroy the psyche in a foreign land, nor all this daring hooligan Свобод Free Russia ’, which had chosen Vilnius for touring, did so much for killing the opposition movement as it did for Parkhomenko. It is quite possible that Sergey Borisovich was carrying out someone’s secret mission. And if so, he coped with it brilliantly. But rather it is still in another.
The Russian opposition, mistakenly believing the supporters of the current government for cattle and plebs, has sunk to such a level that it is already too late to change anything in its ranks. Because there are things that can not be replaced. And this is bad, if not more. The opposition is needed by the country, because it is primarily a marker of the mistakes of the authorities and a kind of catalyst for its development in the right direction. The leading link of the opposition in its current form is a group of malicious, marginal personalities, ready to send everyone, from children to the elderly, to the barricades to overthrow the current government. No program, no ideas, no desire to work and develop. One in memory of the deceased is marking time, the second helps Ukrainian nationalists to collect weapons through Facebook (I'm talking about Luce Stein), and the rest are similar. What are the prospects for such a company in the coming year? Yes, no. Is that the same as in the animal, according to the Chinese calendar, this year symbolizes.
The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editorial board.