To provoke hysteria or, as they say now, to trigger a modern domestic liberal is simple. It is enough to mention something in which Russia is superior to other countries. We can say that the best cooks and fashion designers in the world live in Italy, and they will happily agree. We will say that Germany has achieved phenomenal successes in mechanical engineering, and they will take it for granted. We can even admire harsh national policies and intransigence towards the enemies of the country - provided that this country is Israel.
But say something about Russian weapons or Russian military successes, and we will hear the gamut of sounds already familiar to us. This is exactly what happened when the Ministry of Education invited schools to conduct a lesson on the Kalashnikov assault rifle. The interpretation is free, the choice of the teacher: from a simple story about the most famous automatic machine in the world to the AK assembly-disassembly competition for speed. And now Dmitry Gudkov writes in his Facebook: “That is, our official identity with spirituality is to kill as many people as possible. And then, a few years later, another conscript soldier, whose face they just tried to wash the toilet, will embody this spirituality in short bursts in the barracks, since he was taught to assemble an assault rifle back in school. ”
The National News Service interviews teacher Yevgeny Yamburg, who advises children during an “automatic” lesson that other countries are trying to minimize losses in military conflicts, while “Russia still does not spare people.” Well, “Vedomosti” is traditionally advised to admire Pushkin, Repin and Tchaikovsky instead of the author of the killer car, Altai peasant and Soviet soldier Mikhail Kalashnikov.
Actually, in this our liberals are not much different from their Western counterparts. In America, they are year after year seeking a ban on weapons and, you see, one day they will. In Germany, many kindergartens and schools cannot bring toys that are even remotely reminiscent of a gun. Future men are brought up in a culture of shame for their own masculinity. So that later on, as the living classic Limonov wrote, they should stand at the window of the arms store, like the Wailing Wall, mourning for something that until recently belonged to them unconditionally and rightfully.
Yes, dear Dmitry Gennadievich, almost all boys (and even some girls) love weapons.
And to connect this love for them with love for the country in which it was invented is very easy and completely not harmful to their future fate.
But we are told about Pushkin and Tchaikovsky. Note, it is about Pushkin, and not about the more famous in the world of Tolstoy. Because the artillery captain Lev Nikolaevich, who defended our Crimea, may not understand. Yes, literature is what we are allowed to be proud of, because the Russian liberal for some reason considers this patrimony to be his fiefdom (spoiler: no, most of the classics of Russian literature were to some extent "quilted jackets").
Well, Pushkin is like Pushkin. Let us omit that Alexander Sergeyevich was not at all a vegetarian, he loved and knew how to shoot, he fought in dueling (the last call, on the Black River, was thirtieth), and he was completely silent about the root from which his name comes. Let us turn to the verses. The first thing they say about Pushkin’s poems is that they are simple. And it is precisely in this simplicity that there is a lightness, stunning for our lands, with which words, as details, are combined with one another in a perfect design. Therefore, they are easy to learn by heart - they easily settle both in memory and in the heart.
And now the word to Mikhail Kalashnikov: “The soldier made weapons for the soldier ... I myself was an ordinary and I know well the difficulties encountered in the soldier's life ... It turned out a simple, reliable and effective weapon. He is very simple, this machine. But I want to say that to make simple is sometimes many times more difficult than difficult. ”
This ingenious simplicity (and not the tactical and technical characteristics) made the work (yes, exactly) of Mikhail Timofeevich so popular. All its parts are in the only place possible for them, they are in harmony. The one that delights the whole world, even in the lines of our writers, even in the music of composers, and even in weapons, are all things of the same order.
“I want the feather to be equated with a bayonet,” Mayakovsky wrote. And who are we to refuse this request to the great Russian poet? And therefore, let the children learn poetry in the classroom - this helps to understand how the language works, how verbal harmony works. And let them collect and disassemble the AK - this will help to understand the technical harmony. And at the same time, to feel involved in the tradition of the country, whose citizens, it so happened, the two people did the best in the world: they fought and wrote books.
The author’s point of view may not coincide with the position of the publisher.