Totemic people and their priests

I am reading a message from the news feed: “In Russia people will be put in prison for 'desecration' of St. George ribbon.” In principle, there is nothing surprising: our neighbors send people to prison and not for such trifles. Nevertheless, I am amazed how in the Russian Federation they make yesterday's "black" today's "white", and how they shamelessly pass off someone else's as their own.

Yes, of course, skeptics will object to me, the Russians mark their mental territory with their own totems, form a "national identity" and develop the theme of "victory obsession" under conditions when there are no other grounds for victorious relations. But such "identity" is not worth anything, if it is built on old dubious myths.

Everyone knows where the "St. George ribbon" came from, and how this symbol was banned by the bloodline predecessors of the modern rulers of Russia. Well, because the "ribbon" was on the symbol of the White Guards. But for some time it was needed to "raise the fighting spirit" of the "God-bearer" people, who, forgive me for the tautology, did not accept either the "fascists" or God. And no one is worried about cognitive dissonance, even more so, now any public mention of the "glorious past" can lead to 5 years in prison.

“The "ribbon" was on the symbol of the White Guards. But for some time it was needed to "raise the fighting spirit" of the "God-bearer" people, who, forgive me for the tautology, did not accept either the "fascists" or God.”

In the history of the use of the striped military symbol, there seems to have been only one victorious war - the Russo-Turkish war. All the rest - Crimean, Japanese, World War I - ended in defeat, and the last - even the collapse of the imperial-monarchical structure of Russia itself. If Putin's propagandists are attracted by this side of the "coin", and the State Duma deliberately emphasizes the fatal aspects of history, then the issue is not in the tape.

You know, such things remind me of the cargo cults of the Polynesian peoples, which arose, for the most part, after World War II. Allies from the anti-Hitler coalition set up a number of airfields in Papua New Guinea from which air attacks on Japanese bases were carried out. Along with the war, civilization came to the natives, the Americans usually supplied the natives with canned goods and other hitherto unknown goods. And when the war ended, the islanders had no choice but to build wooden airplanes and pray to them as if to a deity.

“The Bolshevik stars still shine on the towers of the Kremlin, and the mausoleum of yet another idol rises on Red Square - indeed, of another, "red Russia". Russia has returned to the people the cult of another tyrant, apparently debunked by Khrushchev, but, however, "ever-living"”

This, of course, is difficult to accept in reality, but the Russians, under the influence of propaganda and because of the infantility of the always unfree crowd, accepted similar things. In principle, nothing has changed, because the Bolshevik stars are still shining on the towers of the Kremlin, and the mausoleum of another idol rises on Red Square - indeed, of another, "red Russia". Russia has returned to the people the cult of another tyrant, apparently debunked by Khrushchev, but, however, "ever-living". A macabre cocktail of monarchism, Orthodoxy, communism and archaic "scraps" - this is what happens in the enslaved brains of the average citizen of "holy Russia", seasoned with a significant dose of alcohol.

The neophyte elector Ivan Okhlobystin, whether an actor, a monk, or a banal swindler and drunkard, vividly illustrates such a type, apparently written off by himself: “And something gurgled in genetics, at the very bottom. It reached the surface with a bubble and clicked with a bright star upon contact with the soul. And in this something the wild hordes of Attila, flying hussars of Denis Davydov, Budyonny's cavalry rushed. A wave swept over the soul.”

Curtain…

“Therefore, when someone believes in the "rebirth" of these zombified plebs, his hopes are in vain. “We are moving directly to the resurrection of the dead,” wrote another priest of the cargo cult, Aleksandr Dugin.”

For a complete picture of the totemic people, there are two figures from the results of a sociological study of Ukrainian specialists, among whom are recognized professionals, in particular, Professor Oleksandr Shulga. So, 58% of Russians support the decision to announce general mobilization in the Russian Federation. Half of them are in favor of a "special military operation" not having a limited time frame and lasting as long as necessary.  And at the same time: 74% positively (!) assessed the retreat of Russian troops from Kherson. What can be said from such a vinaigrette of moods and conclusions?

Therefore, when someone believes in the "rebirth" of these zombified plebs, his hopes are in vain. “We are moving directly to the resurrection of the dead,” wrote another priest of the cargo cult, Aleksandr Dugin.

Well, let them follow the "Russian warship", good luck…

About the author. Ihor Hulyk, journalist, Editor-in-Chief of the Espreso.West website. 

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