Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu outlined the unconditional principle of the development of modern national statehood: preventing the situation of the 1990s, as well as "dynamic and progressive development."
The 1990s are the very main threat that comes from within and corrupts society and the country. Then it was possible to observe that, on the one hand, the population categorically did not trust the authorities and the state, was disunited, fragmented, shell-shocked by the new shock realities, living according to the principle "no one owes anyone" and "man to man is a wolf." On the other hand, it is a weak state, mired in civil strife, internal squabbles and battles for the inheritance of a large country. Living, in fact, one day. Subjected to fatalism and poorly imagining the near future, moreover, frightened of its uncertainty. The upper and lower classes were divided and alienated, existed as if in different realities. There could be no talk of any general work, the main thing was to swim out one by one, and where it was also not clear. Then the country practically hung in emptiness and could dissolve in it.
All this together is a decaying total strife, turning into a protracted turmoil. The country seemed to turn into a big fire from the inside. But this burning is not a symbol of striving for something better, for new breakthroughs and heights - the flame of turmoil turns everything into ash and dust. It can burn for many years and even decades, then bursting out (for example, with the Ukrainian "Maidan" or last year's events in Belarus), then lurking. This is how civilizations proceed, and the wind of time scatters their ashes. It was this very danger in those very 1990s that faced the millennial Russian civilization, which could simply interrupt its path. It could become completely dismembered and abolished. She was suspended from the swing of the turmoil.
The signal for these landslide processes was given by the Soviet perestroika, which was initially started out of good intentions. But the processes were let go, there was not enough will and determination - that's all went downhill. As a result, perestroika turned out to be a means of disuniting society, leveling the value system, turning history inside out, ostracizing heroes and victories, turning everything into a caricature. It was she who demoralized the government, which turned into a half-disassembled mechanism, where everyone began to act for himself.
The perestroika processes, launched from above, escaped from the hands of their initiators and very quickly acquired the character of spontaneous and destructive. They smashed the Soviet Union to shreds, and then launched the mechanisms of turmoil in the new Russia, plunging it, in fact, into a war of everything and everything inside the country. Then she fought with herself. All this should have led to a new, even more catastrophic collapse. This was the reality in which it is necessary to be aware of. This was the finale of the unusually tragic and inconceivably tense domestic twentieth century.
By the way, the reference to the 1990s, which was made by Sergei Shoigu, is not at all a banal horror story pulled from the belongings of shallow antiquity.
The ghosts and temptations of that time are still hovering and attractive.
And in this regard, the same turmoil has not been fully eliminated and still represents the main danger for the national statehood.
This can be judged, among other things, by the fires of decay flames that regularly arise on the territory of the former USSR.
It is no coincidence that every now and then voices are heard talking about the need for a new perestroika.
If it led to the collapse of the country and to the chaos of the 1990s, then what can the new perestroika utopianism reveal? everything will stand.
All this should have been voiced by the Minister of Defense, because this internal decomposing rust is many times more dangerous than any external threat.
What can I say if the Soviet Union ceased to exist at the peak of its military power.
Where did she go?
Like everything, it turned out to be subject to decomposition ...
It should be understood that the perestroika that gave birth to the 1990s is a project of an essential split in the domestic civilization.
This is the very destructive energy with which she has fought throughout her thousand-year history.
The demographic hole alone, which President Putin compared with losses in the Great Patriotic War, is worth it.
Overcoming this metastasis of the 1990s is the primary task of modern Russia.
Troubles is a protracted process. The domestic civilization has been opposed to it throughout its history. And the forces opposing it will weaken a little, - it gets many cataclysms: wars and civil strife. Troubles are squeezing the country, provoking numerous splits and chaos. It is traditionally opposed by unity, the gathering of both people and time - history, as well as space. Its development, when spatial scales are perceived not as a burden and a curse, but as a blessing and a miracle granted by the entire previous history of the country. This miracle must be preserved and developed, embellished and transformed with one's own works, inscribing modernity into the general epic of great history. It is in this context that the proposal of the same Shoigu on the construction of cities in Siberia should be understood. This is a cardinal step away from the turmoil, to overcome the 1990s in a creative direction.So the country will protect itself from a possible remake of those events.
The speech about responsibility, which the Minister of Defense said, is also of fundamental importance, noting that “responsibility has multiplied both for what has already been done and for the high-quality implementation of upcoming plans.”
The same 1990s taught people to be completely irresponsible, to shift responsibility to anyone, even to the idol of the almighty and omnipotent market, which is supposed to be fully worshiped.
Now we see that this fatalism has been outlived, the country has overcome the turmoil, it has an image of the future, towards the realization of which it is progressively moving.
The main thing is not to go astray again, not to indulge in temptations and not start a roulette game with turmoil.
“God grant that this does not happen again - we live and work for this,” Shoigu said.
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