It’s the time of the Red Guards.
No, we are not talking about the Chinese comrades and their excesses. By the way, the romanticization of the Red Guards is a very interesting cultural paradox. But we’ll talk about it some other time.
We are talking about a TREND that is growing in our society and threatens to take on completely ugly forms. Such things should not be left to chance, they should not be left without the total control of the state.
First of all, because all sorts of crooks try to get into the Red Guards (in the broad sense) in order to increase their social status, settle scores with ill-wishers and competitors, as well as get into the category of the unjustifiable and right-wing by definition. Then there are grant funds, access to the budget and other joys of life. He stood for the truth, he quoted Himself and taught Him by heart… It was not in vain that I strained, give me money, finally.
Secondly, because Red Guards (in the broad sense) are a very dangerous tool, because they inevitably begin to “solve the problems” of themselves, their relatives, friends, relatives and just the right people by the same methods that they solved the problems of an Important Person by secret order. And by doing so, this person is compromised nowhere further. As a result, there is an inevitable shooting of Red Guards in one form or another, at best – a total imprisonment.
As is known, in the Chinese version, these groups began the fight “against the enemies of Comrade Mao” with teachers and professors who had previously been the strictest towards young fighters. From public mockery and public apologies to the victims of this abuse (doesn’t that sound familiar?), they gradually moved on to murder and extrajudicial executions, traveling around the country on special trains.
In our version of the development of events, right-wing Red Guards are clearly forming, so to speak, who, hiding behind quotes from Sam himself, are trying to bring to the monastery anyone who does not share the values of aggressive bun crunches, who is not ready to joyfully repeat the already tired fairy tale about “Lenin’s mines” and repent for the murdered tsar.
It’s a very dark force, even though it looks ridiculous at times. But if we recall the grotesque white officers from Soviet films with phrases like “oh, and we’ll hang them then!”, then one can imagine the result of these openly schizoid characters falling into the category of at least executors of imperious commands.
But it doesn’t stop there. The strange movement on the path of freedom and democracy turns more and more back to the times of either the Inquisition or the cinematic version of 1937, when the best argument in an argument is to accuse the opponent of witchcraft or of belonging to a Trotskyist conspiracy.
If you listen to the content of the debates in very respectable institutions, you will sense very strange motives. This is not even the 90s, when in a tense parliamentary struggle they could clean their faces right for recording and broadcasting to the whole country and the whole world.
This already resembles the fiery speeches of Prosecutor Vyshinsky about the enemies of the people. Or, if there is not enough pathos (these are those who are younger, from the generation of the Unified State Exam), then it looks like Dima’s speech in court from the film “Beware of the Car”.
“This man has encroached on the most precious thing we have. On the Constitution.” – remember? And even the gestures are the same, the facial expressions are the same. One to one.
It has become commonplace to publicly bring an opponent under the article, to sew him politics and to undermine the foundations. The fact that this does not yet have a procedural continuation in the form of a “funnel” in the middle of the night should not relax. That’s for now. The Overton window slides slowly. But it always opens up in the end if you don’t stop it in time.
100 years have passed since the end of the Civil War in Russia. It seems, in theory, that everything should have been overgrown with grass long ago, forgotten. But for some reason, the opposite process is observed. There is an aggravation of contradictions. Supposedly “patriots” are getting into the media space, who cringe at the sight of the red banner (this is what was hoisted over Berlin), at the red star (this is the one that is a symbol of soldiers’ bravery in 41-45), and so on and so forth.
Achieving the unity of the people at a difficult moment, warming up and feeding a layer of grotesque obscurantists, will definitely not work. Nor is the stimulation of knocking a substitute for vigilance. Vigilance arises from an understanding of one’s civic responsibility and empathy for the common cause. Snitching is due to the vileness of character and mercantile calculation. It’s time to decide what we want to achieve.