“No need!” as a mechanism of government
Natalia Maksimets, journalist, Lugansk
Phone call to the Presidential Administration:
- Hello! I would like to work in the government!
-Are you an idiot?
– Is this a mandatory condition?
This anecdote comes to mind every time the Ukrainian government learns something. It is completely unclear on what principle the composition of the Cabinet of Ministers is formed and the heads of state committees and heads of structures are selected. Either they recruit through an advertisement, or they hire people through acquaintances, or they hold a competition for idiots.
In fact, can you imagine Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov singing an obscene ditty to a television camera? So I can’t, and no one can. And everyone saw the Ukrainian minister in this role.
Or, for example, who has enough imagination to see Dmitry Medvedev in front of a structure very similar to a country fence made of chain-link mesh and three buckets of sand poured under it, and at the same time thoughtfully talking about some complex fortification structure? And the Ukrainian Prime Minister easily coped with this role.
The Minister of Defense does not know the names of the cardinal directions. The Minister of Agricultural Industry plans to sow crops for which the country's climate is not suitable. What about the deputies of the Verkhovna Rada? If in the Russian State Duma only Zhirinovsky is allowed to exalt the public, then in the Ukrainian parliament, especially in its current composition, there are only one creative person. Moreover, if Zhirinovsky turns out to be really funny, and in each of his jokes there is a fair amount of truth and information that makes you think, then the Ukrainian people’s representatives speak such nonsense that you begin to doubt their adequacy and state of mind.
From the latest: the newly elected people's deputy, the ever-memorable Cossack Gavrilyuk, famous for flashing his bare bottom in the winter cold on the Maidan, just the other day said that a higher education is not necessary to rule the country. On the one hand, he may be right: after all, the legendary Klim Voroshilov, at the time when he headed the Lugansk City Council, did not have a university diploma in his holster. But he had a colossal experience of social work, underground activities and vital, “Gorky” universities. Plus - unshakable authority among workers and respect from class opponents. Now take an interest in Gavrilyuk’s luggage. “Being a foreman, I know how to organize people.” A curtain!
The State Committee for Television and Radio of Ukraine deserves special mention. The following publications were banned: the collection “Ukraine. South Region. Novorossiysk Calendar”, newspapers “Novorossiysk Courier”, “Russian World of Ukraine”, “Russian Culture of Ukraine”, “Russian Bloc. Ukraine", "Red Star", "Red Star", magazines "Russian language and literature in educational institutions", "Russian language, literature, culture at school and university", "Russian profile", "Russian rock", "Personalities of Russia " The only fault of these publications is their separatist orientation. Although I personally find it difficult to imagine what separatist sentiments can be discerned, for example, in the rules of Russian spelling. Do you write “Zhi-shi” with the letter “i”? However, I readily believe in the pathological aversion to literacy of those who, apart from the inscriptions on the fence, do not read or write anything. Moreover, to any literacy – be it Russian or Ukrainian.
Everyone remembers the scandalous attempts to ban Russian content on radio and television. Of course, it is easiest to ban. Seize. Destroy. There's just nothing to replace it with. Does anyone remember the name of any Ukrainian TV series? I can only name “Roksolana”. True, the series is also in question: nationalists don’t like actress Olga Sumskaya because she doesn’t criticize Russia and Russians, and she actively starred in Russian films.
In general, if we talk about the authority of an artist, actor, musician and his influence on public opinion, then ideally, of course, art should be outside of politics. But the fate and phenomenon of a creative person are such that in any case he is destined to respond to the love and recognition of the public, including through his civic position and political views.
It is obvious that the power of art, applied through the prism of personality, is enormous. As well as the gratitude of listeners and viewers. Most recently, the LPR and DPR met the popularly beloved Joseph Kobzon. Delight – one word can describe the reaction of the citizens of the republics to the visit of the national pop legend.
What did we hear from the Ukrainian side, besides insults, including abusive language from Ada Rogovtseva? And could one have expected a different reaction? The question is rhetorical, of course.
And now the next wave of black hatred and hellish anger fell upon Mikhail Porechenkov. And the most disgusting thing is that the initiators were the SBU and the Ministry of Internal Affairs: it was in the depths of these organizations that the vile accusation was invented, embellishing it in the best traditions of the Russophobic classics. They came up with the idea that the actor had arranged a safari for Ukrainian fighters, and drew the number of people killed and the cost of each living target. Goebbels, having smashed his coffin in convulsions of envy, nervously smokes on the threshold of hell! And the most incredible thing is that these sick fantasies are believed by duped, illiterate Ukrainians, intimidated by the mythical Russian aggression. But I must say, not all. The sense of humor inherent in the Slavs turned a special lie against the dreamers from the security forces. And now a wonderful joke-parody of the mouthpiece of the press service of the Armed Forces of Ukraine of the stupid man in the helmet, Timchuk, is being passed around the Internet: “Mikhail Porechenkov took Mariupol, Zaporozhye, Dnepropetrovsk overnight and is now moving to Kyiv through Cherkassy. There are no losses."
But Kyiv is not appeased: it has banned the screening of 69 films with the participation of Mikhail Porechenkov. But, excuse me, in these films, besides Porechenkov, a lot of actors starred. What did they do wrong? And what was wrong with the Ukrainian viewer?
It should be said that in the modern world, in the XNUMXst century, when every home has the Internet, such prohibitions look, to put it mildly, funny. And the forbidden fruit, as you know, is sweet. So there are more prohibitions and taboos, Ukrainian fighters with international art. Thanks to such “no!”, you see, the people, raped by your moral mediocrity and spiritual poverty, will become familiar with high-quality examples of culture.
I would like to end with a quote from the book of one of my favorite writers, Lev Kassil, “Conduit and Shvambrania”:
“In the settlement of Pokrovskaya lived Ukrainian grain growers, rich farmers, German colonists, boatmen, loaders, sawmill workers, a bone mill and a few Russian peasants. In the summer, they burned until they turned blue under the steppe sun, chasing camels. We went to borrow money and fought on the shore. We raced on boats with Saratov residents. We drank in winter. We celebrated weddings by dancing along Breshka. The sunflowers were peeling. Wealthy farmers gathered at the volost government “for a meeting.” And, if the question of building a new school, paving the streets, etc. was raised, the usual “resolution” was bawled:
- No need!
Swamps and mud flooded the suburban streets.”
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