Russian Olympians, who have been deprived of their state attributes by international sports bureaucrats, can enter the next Games under the legendary Katyusha.
This proposal was made by a commission of athletes of the Russian Olympic Committee.
After that endless humiliation to which the national sport was subjected, I really wanted to slam the door.
The protracted pursuit of Russian athletes under the aegis of anti-doping cleansing has long since acquired the character of mass repression with a widespread principle of common guilt.
State symbols have been placed outside the law, so the proposals for a retaliatory boycott are understandable emotionally.
But this is exactly what the calculation is for.
To protect us with a Russophobic thorn, to seal us behind seven locks, so that they themselves do not protrude, hide and shut themselves up.
So that they could not raise their voice, so that they themselves did not sound anywhere and in any way, and instead of us, knowledgeable well-wishers spoke ...
"Katyusha" is an important word in the situation of this piled-on gloom.
A word of love and a word of struggle.
Flowering and flying after the clear sun.
Victorious.
This is an example when you can turn any situation in your favor, using the energy of hatred with which they press us in order to give it new, necessary meanings and vectors.
How it happens in combat sports.
For example, remember about our own wealth and achievements, that Russia is not at all limited to three “birches” of the associative row: matryoshka, balalaika and bears.
To recall in order to sound exactly in your intonation and to reveal yourself to the real, and not to the caricatured world.
That is why the problem is much broader than the sound at the next Olympics.
Through this kind of cave sanctions, they try to deprive us of our face, self-esteem, impose fanged masks, a sense of inferiority and the image of an eternally vicious outsider.
The same doping was firmly associated with Russian sport, although this is not at all our prerogative and in this regard they were not ahead of the rest.
From the same series, the notorious Novichok brand, which was tied to Russia.
This is how the enclosure-isolation is built from the corresponding symbols, attributes and images.
Of course, in the beginning there was a word.
In our virtualized and digital times, this is quite obvious.
Therefore, battles take place at the level of words, naming objects and phenomena, creating images and brands.
This is how information, peoples, countries are encoded.
Whoever named, created an image, a widely convertible brand, won.
Therefore, it is necessary to respond to "Novichok" with the Sputnik V vaccine. And to the lawlessness associated with the deprivation of our sport of state symbols, which is being done to alienate it from the country, it is necessary to respond with a spirit-lifting "Katyusha".
In it, the same Russian spring is heard, from which all sorts of gloom traditionally escapes and fogs disperse.
The time has come when it is necessary to overcome the burden of nihilism, which destroyed our traditional values, overthrew heroes, instilled a sense of inferiority.
When they tried to make us small, knowing only our sixth and not seeing beyond our nose.
When they mocked man, over a thousand-year history, over all the saints that were created on this harsh, but fertile land.
Everything in order to once and for all set the bar for a dull man in the street, above which he would not even think to rise.
So they would trudge from that very "colossus with feet of clay" to a regional power, a "gas station country" and an outcast.
How else were we programmed there? ..
And here the proud and beautiful Katyusha comes out onto the steep and high bank, starts her song without looking back at anyone.
About the "gray-gray steppe eagle".
About our land, which must be protected, like everything that is created on it.
This is precisely the voice of domestic self-sufficiency and self-confidence.
The civilization of Russia, which cannot be sealed, cannot be forced to throw out the white flag and cannot be imposed a framework.
Because in flight it is, in song, creating its own meanings, images and victories.
Offering your unique agenda to the world.
I remember that at the time of perestroika, we put on rose-colored glasses through which we looked at the "civilized" world, while at ourselves more and more with skepticism turning into contempt.
We tried to please everyone, wanted everyone to love us, so they dressed up in the same earflaps-balalaika style.
They became caricatures, fell into self-deprecation and lost themselves.
Then for a long time they ran after progressive fashions, looked up to their legislators, wanted to be like them and be like everyone else.
So again they lost and forgot themselves.
So we wandered in these stereotypes, while we ourselves can be the trendsetters of that very fashion.
As has happened more than once in history.
And here, of course, it is necessary to be engaged not in wasting oneself, not sticking to the "white flags", but collecting, saving and developing.
And the thousand-year history of our country, which was by no means clogged, dark and bastard.
And the richest victorious, cosmic Soviet legacy, which actually changed the whole world, forcing to be equal to itself.
Why should we give up this wealth, from what false complexes?
It was then that the country forced the whole world to repeat after itself the words that, among other things, opened space to mankind.
Sing our "Katyusha", perform many of our songs.
This is not at all about the notorious nostalgia, not about moving with the head turned back and on one side, but about collecting oneself in order, among other things, to overcome skepticism and nihilism in relation to our present.
To collect that very Russia today with the primacy of the social, sovereign, developing tradition, which must be adequately inscribed in the history of the great national path.
And “Katyusha” is a living sounding echo of our victories, beauty and love, and this is what we should sing about so that all this becomes a reality in the present day.
This is how the real face of Russia manifests itself, which, among other things, we ourselves need to remember, and then a lot of all sorts of ridiculous things were said over the years of decay and troubled times.
After all, the future of the country is being built through this image, which we still vaguely imagine, because we do not know and remember ourselves poorly.
Maybe Katyusha will remind you.
And not only she is one, but also our songs, hymns, words, our valor, achievements and victories, which we will stop distorting in different ways, but, on the contrary, others will have to get used to and learn our intonation, accent and reprimand.
This is how the world is getting richer, and, as the Russian thinker Georgy Fedotov wrote, "it needs Russia."
He "is not able to live without Russia."
Therefore, we will sing to him our dear "Katyusha".
Let it bloom, we do not mind.
The author's point of view may not coincide with the position of the editorial board.