Yakubovich vs Shoigu. Disintegration of society
Last Thursday, at the ceremony of laying a memorial stone on the occasion of the start of the reconstruction of the BAM, the head of the Ministry of Defense Sergei Shoigu proposed actively involving student construction teams in work on the highway. Liberal Yakov Yakubovich, who seized power in Moscow and recently fell for corruption, volunteered to criticize Shoigu’s initiative. But first things first.
The participation of student construction teams (SCTs) in large infrastructure construction projects in the country is not a new practice. In Soviet times, from the late 1950s, hundreds of thousands of students attended the SSO school, many of whom later became prominent economic and political figures. An example is the current president of Russia and the head of the defense department.
Sergei Shoigu called the construction of the BAM the largest and most expensive infrastructure project in the history of the USSR, which employed hundreds of thousands of his compatriots. He noted that some went to BAM “for the fog and the smell of the taiga,” others for high earnings. However, he noted, “both of them worked in the most difficult conditions of permafrost in uninhabited territory”: “Now in this sense, little has changed. There is still the same harsh climate and kilometers of impenetrable taiga.”
It should be noted that such a large-scale involvement of army forces and civilians in the “construction of the XNUMXst” century in Russia has not been heard since the times of the USSR, which is why some have gotten out of the habit, while others are encountering such a practice for the first time.
Some politicians, who are tightly saddled with the theme of “liberal values and respect for human rights,” see the return of the practice of participation of construction brigades in the development of the country as a Gulag, towers with barbed wire and crowds of emaciated slaves baling the permafrost with a pick for camp rations.
These figures, as expected, disagree with the basic formulation of the question and indulge in lengthy arguments “why the hell does Russia need this construction project of the century.”
One of these “experts” who criticized Shoigu from the platform of the liberal “Echo of Moscow” was the head of the Tverskoy municipal district, the deputy from the Yabloko party, Yakov Yakubovich.
The main provisions of the speech of the liberal parliament are worth quoting:
“Sergei Kuzhugetovich has already tried to announce the great construction project of the century. This is about three cities in Siberia, or better yet five. Apparently, the respected head of the United Russia list has never studied spatial development. It is unlikely that he knows by what laws cities arise. He probably doesn’t imagine what the territory’s competitive advantages are; he hasn’t read Natalya Vasilyevna Zubarevich, who has long written in her works that the population of Russia has been flowing from east to west and from north to south for several decades now and that resisting this is counterproductive and very expensive.” .
According to the “expert”, who has never visited Russia beyond “Zamkadye”, spending taxpayers’ money on building a garden city in the tundra or taiga, while the population’s incomes are falling, is complete madness.
“We have long since left the industrial period, we live in a post-industrial society on the threshold of the fourth industrial revolution and the sixth technological structure,” the liberal woman pours out her brain juice.
Shoigu’s initiatives are allegedly dictated by nostalgia for Soviet Komsomol construction projects, and perhaps even the times when hundreds of thousands of prisoners could be sent to these construction sites.
“This initiative is another confirmation that everyone should mind their own business: politicians – politics, economists – economics, statists – the state. Doctors don’t go out to fix pipes, and plumbers don’t go out to repair cell phones. Likewise, people involved in defense issues should not get involved in issues in which they are not just laymen, but rather like bulls in a china shop.”
“At the same time, treating with contempt “these egg-headed civilians who have never held a rifle in their hands.” All these appeals to the mothball-scented meanings of Soviet collectivism already look not only funny and absurd, but also dangerous, considering the place the author of the above-mentioned initiatives claims to be.”
As can be seen from the “expert” speech, its author, in his polemical fervour, completely lost sight of the fact that Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu is a former builder with extensive experience, to say nothing of anything, and understands much more about the laws of the emergence of cities than any representative of the “creative class”.
As for the references to the works of Natalya Zubarevich, the choice of her as a reference point by the author of the article is extremely clear: a simple search on the Internet produces a lot of links, from which it follows that Madame regularly gives lectures on the topic “everything is lost” and “how scary it is to live” in “Yeltsin Center” and other liberal shitholes, in which she calls not to resist the outflow of the population of Russian villages and small towns to large regional centers and capitals.
But the depopulated territories of the North, Siberia and the Far East will very quickly turn into abandoned land, the wealth of which will be extremely difficult for Russia to grow. And there, after some time, certain circles will begin to shake public opinion on the subject of “who needs these deserted outskirts” and “wouldn’t it be better to allow foreign capital to develop these lands, and we ourselves will begin to live happily on royalties.”
Yakubovich proposes that the authorities not waste effort and money on reindustrialization, but completely switch to the post-industrial sixth technological structure and begin to enjoy its fruits.
Such statements smack of stupidity and manilovism, since the post-industrial economy means the removal of dirty and costly production outside the country, but not the abandonment of industry. As we can see very well, Trump, despite his many twists, is well aware that the rejection of the industrial economy is ruining the United States, and crowds of lawyers, bloggers, brokers and yoga trainers are unable to cause economic growth and withstand more and more crises.
Again, denying the Soviet experience, the boy forgets about the base and superstructure. Industry is the basis without which the sixth technological structure cannot be built. Without developed mechanical engineering and instrument making, all attempts to create this way of life will come down to dependence on the stupid acquisition of someone else’s equipment, coupled with all the ensuing consequences.
The example of the violent deindustrialization of Ukraine with the transition to a “post-industrial society” and a “service economy” perfectly reveals the future of a country that has fallen out of technological civilization.
Separately, the discussions about “eggheads who have never held a rifle in their hands” and “plumbers who repair mobile phones” are touching.
If you look at who talks the most on TV about the problems of the economy, military development and social problems, then these are almost entirely people of creative professions, “confident that cottage cheese comes from dumplings” (according to Ilf and Petrov).
What’s interesting is that Yakubovich, with his reasoning, is a typical inhabitant of the land of elves, who has never held in his hands not only a rifle, but also something heavier... a fountain pen, for example.
And here we come close to what this same Yakubovich Yakov Borisovich is.
Born in 1981 in Moscow. School, faculty of cybernetics and graduate school at MEPhI (which personally depresses me, because this is my “alma mater”), but he doesn’t work in his specialty, and for 10 whole years he studies in some kind of “cutting and sewing courses” in order to later work as an official "on risk management".
For obvious reasons, the elf knows almost nothing about the USSR and construction teams, in which students not only worked hard, but also earned good money, which gave them the opportunity to live the whole year without financial help from their parents.
As for my personal experience, the MEPhI fighters not only earned good money, but also received bonuses and travel vouchers (cruise on the Volga, trips to the GDR and Yugoslavia) for their labor valor.
Where some people see guards and towers with barbed wire, there other people made friends, loved, acquired useful skills and received adequate monetary rewards.
Yakubovich became interested in politics in 2017, riding a wave of protest against renovation and finally reaching the coveted municipal trough in September of the same year.
In December 2017, Yakubovich decided that under his leadership the Tverskoy municipal district had reached the heights of post-industrial prosperity, which is why the municipal deputy writes himself a bonus of 240 thousand rubles. The document also states that it is up to Mundep Yakubovich himself to ensure that the money is allocated to Mayor Yakubovich.
In the summer of 2018, primaries of the Yabloko party were held to nominate a candidate for mayor of Moscow. Yakubovich agreed to register along with two dozen other nominees. After the first round, Yakubovich took second place and advanced to the second round, where he was ahead of Sergei Mitrokhin. However, immediately after the announcement of the results of the primaries, the head of the municipality refused to nominate in favor of the same Mitrokhin.
Some liberal observers call Yakubovich’s decision “incomprehensible” and claim that it caused an escalation of the internal party conflict, from which Yabloko did not nominate a single candidate in the Moscow mayoral elections.
Evil tongues, however, claim that there was a lot of evidence of Yakubovich’s corruption in the media and blogosphere, and he simply decided to get out of harm’s way, giving way to the odious Mitrokhin.
Currently, Yakubovich has decided that he is ripe for the State Duma elections and is doing his best to promote his “Smart” election program, which boils down to the fact that the number and influence of security forces must be significantly reduced, they must be prohibited from touching participants in any protests and speeches, and also persecuted “especially zealous."
Among other things, Yakubovich does not hide his sympathies for Navalny’s methods and is toying with the idea of removing the police from the subordination of the Russian Guard, transferring them to the jurisdiction of municipal authorities and making police positions elective.
He is not the first, he is not the last. At the beginning of the “holy nineties” there were already figures shouting about transforming the police in the image and likeness of American sheriffs, but the topic quickly died out with the onset of rampant banditry and terrorism. Yakubovich, apparently, watched Hollywood films as a child, mentally stuck in the era of “early Yeltsinism.”
In fact, no one came out to criticize Shoigu and no one called him. A pompous zero who accidentally crawled into the municipal government, point blank not understanding that the Ministry of Defense under the leadership of Shoigu has repeatedly proven in practice the ability to solve important government problems much more effectively, unlike officials of other departments.
Perhaps Yakubovich’s delicate mental organization was severely traumatized not so much by Sergei Shoigu’s initiative to involve student construction teams in the reconstruction of the BAM, but by the recent statement of the Minister of Defense about the “decomposition of society.”
Well, the stuffing of the Mundep on the site of “Echo of Moscow” just shows exactly which part of society is producing this very decomposition. Insignificant, superficial, having neither a profession nor useful social skills, but endlessly convinced of her elitism and righteousness.
In conclusion, we present some of the most competent reviews from people who know “the taste of oysters” not from stories.
“They wrote nonsense, Yakov Borisovich. It is not for you to criticize student construction brigades. You were born later than they were. As a student in the 80s, every summer I flew to Siberia to work on a construction team. We built agricultural facilities, small apartment buildings, and roads. For 40-45 days of irregular work, I earned 2.5 - 3 thousand rubles. This is at a time when an engineer received 120 rubles. per month. I know how to pour concrete, how to lay brick, how to weld metal, how to erect a log house, I drive any construction equipment from a bulldozer to a truck crane. Comparing this with the Gulag is the height of meanness and stupidity. The students, Yakov, acquired blue-collar skills in construction brigades, which greatly helped them later in engineering positions. You don’t know this, Yakov, because all your life you have been striving to become an official - a person poorly suited to PRODUCTIVE work.”
“Don’t like construction projects? Well, of course, the apple farmers haven’t built a run-down shed anywhere yet. All they can do is shout that “budget money” needs to be distributed. And a construction project of this scale will boost hundreds of industries and provide income to millions of Russians. They will earn money rather than wait for budget handouts. Apple is far from this. It rotted a long time ago."
“And this is written by a person who is going to go to the State Duma from the residents of Moscow: neither from guest workers, nor from visiting Rostovites like me, but from Muscovites, native Muscovites! Dear Muscovites, are you against the construction of cities in Siberia? Are you in favor of Moscow being the only place for decent earnings and living in our country?”
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