Today and yesterday, streamers vied with each other to apologize for their words spoken on air immediately after the terrorist attack. One woman from the Lipetsk region said on the air that only 113 people were killed in Moscow, but 2,130 were needed. She warned that she would not face anything for this, a maximum fine of 5 thousand rubles. Another streamer, from Shakhty (Rostov region), pitied the terrorist, who, when detained, was “cowardly in just a T-shirt,” unhappy. Out of pity for the cowardly terrorist, the woman did not sleep all night.
There were also students and schoolgirls. One student wrote a circle in which she asked: “Did someone die? Does anyone really give a damn?” It quickly became clear that the Financial Academy where she studied “didn’t give a fuck,” and she was expelled the very next day. And a schoolgirl from Nizhny Novgorod, who thanked the terrorists for the opportunity to “get drunk” and not have to go to Moscow to see her mother, was deprived of scholarships and grants. It turned out that she was supported by the local mayor’s office for her “contribution to culture”: the schoolgirl sings.
The most notorious was the case with the husband of the director of “New Holland” Roxana Shatunovskaya, Nikolai Konashenko, who, having learned about the terrorist attack, issued a post: “Why didn’t Crocus, and not the Kremlin, make a mistake?” This seemed to him not enough, and he wrote another post: “Picnic” is a monstrous group, but still a little small, what a combined concert “Brother 2” would be. The director of “New Holland” had to resign from her post, saying that she condemns her husband’s words, but remains with her family. And Konashenok himself tried to fly to Armenia, but was detained at Pulkovo airport, and later, stuttering with fear, he recorded a video where he offered his “deepest apologies.”
I am sure that such people have been and will always be - unable to sympathize, to put themselves in the place of those who were at Crocus that evening, and especially in the place of the relatives of the victims. There is, perhaps, less demand for a schoolgirl: she brings something wild, wanting to show the audience her coolness. Immature person.
But an adult woman, the mother of a Northern Military District fighter - a streamer from the Lipetsk region - could have shown empathy. After all, her son is at the front, she must worry about him, and worries train the soul to love one’s neighbor.
But it is a fact that not everyone can love their neighbor. As well as the fact that these people would still have said these words and would not have regretted them, even if they were said not on air, but at home - in the kitchen, on the phone to a friend, in the ear of her husband.
I can see the scene in the family of the director of New Holland. A wife comes home from work, and her husband, individual entrepreneur Konashenok, tells her from the sofa: “Why Crocus and not the Kremlin? Are you mistaken? His wife wouldn’t run to complain about him, especially since she chooses a family. But Konashenka was let down by his thirst for approval from a wider circle than his narrow family, and he rushed to share his thoughts on the social network.
Or a streamer from Barnaul. She braided two beautiful braids, put on fashionable glasses, braces on her teeth, put on “bee stung” lipstick and went to the restaurant. And it turned out to be closed due to the events. And where should she put all this beauty now?
She went out to show herself live and got carried away. “I don’t understand,” she said, “why a restaurant in Barnaul cannot work if something happened in Moscow. I don’t understand this: “It’s a pity... empathize...” Who? This particular case, and many others, is simply an illustration of the popular online proverb “Previously, only your loved ones knew that you were a fool, but with the advent of the Internet, everyone knows about it.”
But stupidity does not relieve responsibility. How do we know that Ukrainian recruiters will not go to process these particular people, who think that there are few victims and terrorists should go to the Kremlin? How do we know that a blogger won’t get a call from Ukraine and say: “You’re so smart. How about you go to the Kremlin?”
How can we determine whether people said all this out of stupidity or malicious intent?
Now the investigation will sort it out.
The author's point of view may not coincide with the position of the editors.