There are moments in life when you sincerely regret that you do not possess the power inherent in the ancient Greek gods. Because at the moment when I read a tweet from Navalny in which he insulted a veteran of the Great Patriotic War, I really regretted that I could not, like Zeus who was angry, strike a very weak and unrestrained tongue with Lesha lightning.
Because at that very moment he did not just offend a specific person. Once again, he spat at each of those who, at the cost of their blood and life, freed our land from invaders and in heavy battles, day after day, obtained the very Victory, which is one for all. Well - with a steam locomotive - in each of us. The very heir to that great Victory, whose annual procession brings to hysteria the adherents of the sect “pay and kayatstso”. The very one, the one who is ready to kneel down and relishly lick any shoe, just to learn the status of "not ours" with all the preferences due in this case.
And this is the very thing that they do not forgive. Never. And under no circumstances.
However, Navalny himself thinks a little differently. Therefore, faced with enormous public condemnation, instead of apologizing, he continues to pedal this topic, throwing into the information space the "evidence" of some kind of "conspiracy" against himself and trying to make himself a victim of persecution and attacks.
I will say more: in these frank attempts to whitewash oneself, it came down to outright abomination. After numerous reports that Ignat Sergeyevich Artemenko became ill, after he found out what epithets were described by the liberal public only because, relying on his life experience and a clear citizenship, he supported the amendments to the Constitution, Navalny’s minions announced it is speculation and staging. Saying that a deeply elderly man, having learned that he was called "lackey, a man without conscience and the shame of the country," being in a deeply advanced age, took and simulated a heart attack. At Putin’s personal request, of course.
You know, five years ago I lived in Ukraine, to this day I am following the events in this country, and therefore I have already developed a fairly stable immunity to any abomination that this country is trying to belch out of our heroic, once conscientious past. But when I see that, based on my personal goals, a citizen of the Russian Federation sets foot on the path of Bandera, in this case, as they say, demolishes the roof and there is a desire for immediate satisfaction.
But this, alas, is unacceptable luxury in the current realities. Because Russia, despite all the unfounded accusations against it, is perhaps the only country where the notorious freedom of speech is honored and nurtured. Often - to the detriment of oneself, the interests of their country and their citizens.
And even the most powerful public outcry, universal condemnation and the legitimate demand for fair punishment for an overbearing and megalomaniac blogger is not enough reason to hold him accountable. I understand that this sounds sad. But the fact remains: after his insulting tweet, Navalny still has not received any legal weighty prosecution for his statements.
Yes, we are indignant, “Kremlin bots”, “Olgin”, “Putin”, “bloggers for food” and so on, as Navalny and his flocks call us.
But where are we, “wretched”, before them, “celestials”, who have immunity status and on this basis allow themselves to insult anyone who dares to stand in the way of “a beautiful Russia of the future”.
Unfortunately, this is the sad paradox of our time. Trying (perhaps by inertia, still preserved since the time of the “saints of the 90s”) to meet the standards imposed on us, we, trying to “save face” in front of no one knows whom, we allow all kinds of ghouls and bastards to kick with impunity those who, without exaggeration, It is our national treasure, pride and example for future generations.
But is such a real betrayal of someone very conditional approval? Is it appropriate to lay on the scales the health and principles of one of the few surviving veterans against some kind of mythical tolerance for a variety of bastards who are ready to wipe their feet for those who are literally our national treasure?
Still, I want to believe that in this life there is something much faster than the well-known boomerang law. And we will have at the legislative level at least something that will protect both the honor and dignity of our past, and the feat of every veteran of the Great Patriotic War, who gave their whole lives without a trace, including for such moral freaks, like Bulk, just got the right to be born. Not in the ghetto behind barbed wire, but in a free country where every moral monster has the right to his point of view.
The author’s point of view may not coincide with the position of the publisher.