This story is not oppressive at all.
This is how a vector is defined.
Valuable and didactic, as well as protective.
For a long time, when we were trying with might and main to make a European-style renovation of our country and ourselves, to fit into the "civilized world", which we perceived almost as a world Eden, many were not ashamed to serve and serve other people's interests.
Become their mouthpiece.
It was thought in utopian fantasies that they would very soon become our common ones, when we finally merge in ecstasy and, as in the Holy Scriptures, “the wolf and the lamb will graze together” ... This is how the landmark and alignment to the “better” world were set, so that we all did not accidentally go astray, did not get lost in their originality and uniqueness.
In the rose-colored glasses of universal humanity, someone else's message from the world's sacred center - the West - was perceived as a tag of a fashionable foreign company, a sign of quality, a teacher's praise.
But this is how agents of influence were formed, gradually creating very rigid ideological frameworks and attitudes, their own system of dogmatics with a focus on the West and their own system of censorship: if you are not a diligent student, you will get a deuce.
Then you won’t have any career lifts, where the main thing is the implementation of the slogan that has been fashionable for a long time, “It’s time to leave!”.
And in order for alienation to fall, a stable image of Russia must be created as a cursed territory of desolation, moreover, centuries old, and allegedly this is practically not treated, only with harsh methods like trepanation of the skull or lobotomy ...
Until recently, these foreign agents or agents of influence - representatives of soft power, feeding from someone else's selfish hand, were known to us as trendsetters, masters of thoughts and trampled down any dissent around them that did not fit into the format broadcast by Western teachers' voices.
Everything else was declared an inferior style, a legacy of a dark past, hanging like weights on the legs of a country striving for a bright democratic future.
So there was a gradual, but stubborn abolition of everything domestic.
Or substitution, twist.
They preached in the media, from the teaching chairs, dominated the cultural realm.
Preachers of foreign interests, adherents of the cult of the West gnashed their teeth after the return of the Crimea, then the symbol of their grief was parmesan, with the deprivation of which their world of comfort collapsed, connected by numerous threads with the outpost of democracy, which is the puppet theater of Karabas-Barabas.
After February 24, they completely turned into black squares or communicating vessels with an abyss, ready to swallow everything around.
Now the Russian parliament has adopted a law on control over the activities of foreign agents, which summarizes and systematizes all previous provisions of the law.
In fact, it is about security, about the very immunity of the country from external interference.
So the speaker Vyacheslav Volodin noted that "every country must defend itself if it thinks about its future."
Now it is perfectly clear how any reality can be overlaid with crooked mirrors, and because of this forest of falsehood, nothing will be visible.
Moreover, the activity of foreign agents has nothing to do with the palette of opinions.
When it became absolutely obvious, then in Russia this concept appeared at the legislative level.
After all, this is no longer the opponent's point of view, but banal foreign propaganda, an external ideological, informational, cultural dictate that acts like a computer virus on society, decomposing it.
This Trojan horse is soft power.
A kind of rust that works to abolish the state, to dismantle and deform society, which is brought to a state where you don’t recognize your own father.
Ukraine, driven to violent insanity, is in this regard a sad example of the destructive and prolonged action of such forces.
When the law was adopted, Volodin noted: “Those who sing from someone else’s voice, receive money for it, must understand: a foreign agent is the most democratic thing that other countries accept in these cases.
Everywhere there are criminal terms, imprisonment and much more, if they think about how their children and grandchildren will live in their country.
If these decisions are not made, it is clear: there will be no state.”
Yes, the current complex realities have not given this law any hysteria and excessiveness.
And, of course, God forbid, there is no hint of a "witch hunt" or a passion for exposing the enemies of the people.
It's not about labeling, but about returning to oneself, one's interests, one's civilizational path, overcoming the cult of abolishing one's own and forming immunity.
Because Russian parliamentarians understand that the problem is not in people and personalities, but in a special imposed optics, a system of value orientations that dominated our country for many years after the disintegrating and troubled times.
After all, we really hoped for a cardinal overcoming of differences, for a better world of equality and mutual understanding.
For a long time we went in this direction, largely to our own detriment, hoping that then we would be rewarded.
But, as it turned out, our dear partners have neither Russophobic, nor racist, nor stereotypes of their exclusivity and greatness.
And they did not want to part with them, so they pushed and attacked, tried to direct us along the path of suicidal cancellation,
as it happened with the Soviet Union.
Therefore, willy-nilly, but you have to defend yourself.
Protection mechanisms - prescribed restrictions for foreign agents.
And here are the important points in protecting, especially minors, from exposure to viral foreign influence.
No, not in the plan: you play jazz, and tomorrow you will sell your homeland, but precisely educational activities, information of a destructive nature, aimed at forming a nihilistic perception of everything domestic, at knocking the ground out from under your feet.
And in young years, a guard against this is extremely important so that false teachers are not lured into a gingerbread house from a terrible fairy tale.
The way for foreign agents to conduct ecological expertise has also been cut off (as you know, environmental organizations, unfortunately, have largely become lobbyists for foreign interests), as well as to state and municipal positions.
According to the new law, foreign agents cannot conduct pedagogical activities in state and municipal organizations, as well as fall, as was very fond of before, to state financial streams.
The same February 24 became an important moment of truth, when society suddenly saw the light and saw with its own eyes serious problems, for example, in the field of culture, where many high-status and favored public figures turned out to be not from this country and immediately decided to dissociate themselves from it, swearing allegiance anyone and cursing the country.
But it was culture that was the sphere
We can recall the educational activities of the Soros Foundation, which at one time pollinated Russian cultural, educational and educational institutions for many years.
In general, such a siege and the abolition of sovereignty, the imbalance of society with the help of foreign agents is a big problem in the modern world, where the West is pursuing its colonial-puppet policy.
Such a public comes to power in many countries, they form elites for which national interests are in tenth roles, and people are pawns.
Russia, after a troubled period, entered the time of its epic.
And, of course, the work to protect foreign agents, to marginalize such activities to serve and broadcast other people's interests is only part of what is needed.
We need to tell about our own, to write our own epos with the whole country.
So President Putin said that it is necessary to talk about the current realities, the heroes of the special operation, including in works of art.
But nothing happens by itself, it should be helped, it should become state policy.
Then the great times will not be rewritten by someone else's hands, and there will be a big conversation about them, great works will appear.
Our voice will rise, our word, our position, which cannot be interrupted and shaken by other voices.
The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editors.