The impoverishing inheritance.
The impoverishing inheritance.
UNDER THE THREAT OF closing there was a museum and the public centre "the World,
Progress, human rights "name Saharova. Its treasury is empty.
Financial receipts the next months it is not expected. To employ
Private security - there is nothing. To pay the municipal
Services - there is nothing. That also look it is necessary to curtail many
Programs, and even all activity.
When the museum of Kalinin or Sverdlova is liquidated, say, -
With it today you will surprise nobody. All like would know, from what
Inheritances and why we refuse. But whether it is possible, that in ours
Days from a proscenium in a historical shade left scientifically-cultural
The establishment consecrated with a name of a symbol of democratic changes?
The sensation becomes ripe, say. Meanwhile still the big sensation
Has already occurred. It has passed not noticed though lasted long.
Four and a half a year the Saharovsky centre, one of the basic
Points of the Russian democracy, existed exclusively on
Means of the American donators. Only thanks to that
Transatlantic funds sponsored its activity, it was possible to create
Unique in Moscow constantly operating exposition, where
All is presented from what we so would like to leave - from
The totalitarian past.
Already one that the centre, so to say, is fed on money
"The western money-bags", is capable to call predicted reaction at
The separate compatriots who have firmly acquired: who pays, that and
Reserves music... But if not "Yankee", to the Russian successors
Free-thinking not to collect on particles that truth about yesterday,
Which our society is obliged to know to prevent it
Returning. Not to organise that multiplane job, the purpose
Which - education of free citizens of free Russia,
Liberation of souls from fear fetters before the power and a life. Not
To present so it is full - for us - a civil feat
Andrey Saharova, the great scientist and the educator. But here, not
Having received in time the next grant, the centre sends "to an aether" a signal
"SOS".
So occurs? Why - for us it is necessary for them, and us for
- is not present? Whether we devours "velvet revolution" even
Memory of children? Or all because we - poor, and they -
The rich?
- The basis - both a museum, and archive - is put in pawn by me, - tells
Elena Bonner. - And I would like, that it remains private business.
We live in the unstable state where there are many tragedies,
Including tragedy of the Chechen Republic. In this situation a status
Independence of the state it is very important. And we address not to
To the government, and to a society. To political and spiritual elite. In
To America now there is an active job on creation of a monument to victims
Communism. Not the government is occupied by it, and public
The organisations. They are excited with preservation of memory of that horror, which
Was in our communistic camp. And whom at us it excites?
Nobody doubts that the centre carries out in a society
The necessary and noble mission. And the support rendered to it from the party
Progressively conceiving Russian bankers and industrialists
Would look quite natural. So where they,
Sponsors-adherents? Perhaps do not know about the arisen problems?
To them did not address?
There were references - "dot", address.
Once letters have sent to two hundreds Russian banks. But
Lineal heirs Saharova were heard only by units. And real, but
Single assistance was rendered only by one - has got for a museum
Some pictures of the subjected to repression artists.
It is necessary to ascertain with grief, that our potential
Morozovy and Mamontovy generally suffer a special sort relative deafness
- Hear the only especially selected voices of sufferers. Recollect, how
The hearing at rich well-wishers, when events around has become aggravated
"Kursk" have given them chance to become famous for the disinterestedness.
Alas, for many of them sponsorship makes sense only as the form
Self-advertisements.
But personally I am inclined to think, that unavailability of benefactors to take
Under guardianship establishment activity, under which arches
The most consecutive critics operate, perhaps,
The Soviet totalitarianism, it was called and more by one circumstance,
Behind which feature of the worried is distinctly looked through
The country of the historical moment. The matter is that to become the sponsor
The Saharovsky centre is an accurate political position. But big
Number of persons prospering nowadays and the organisations, not so distinctly
Representing as events in the country further can develop,
Prefer to operate more cautiously. And in questions
Charities to show unless apolitical kindness.
And argument about that we - poor, it, excuse for
Tautology, in favour of the poor... Incontestable it in any way
You will name. At least because on our century never, apparently, so
Were not thrown by money, as now.
Once, explaining why at us only one party, joked:
The second to us not to support. We feed. And the second, and third... And like
- it is quite good. Judging by never-ending congresses and plenums - with
The overflowed halls of delegates and the visitors arriving, as
It is spoken, from all ends of immense Russia. On level
Life-support of leaders and their confidants, at all
Depending and from where the party - at the power or stays in
Oppositions, and from the percent typed on elections. And in what
These manage to the people "free elections" - with "elevating",
Given out to candidates for presidents and governors, with staffs,
Technologists, propagandists, gifts and payoff? On these purposes
Such money leaves, that we any more do not pay attention that
Before it seemed to us squandering top "at the highest levels". Nobody
Has given any value to that in days of the recent foreign
Voyage of our president, officials accompanying it have placed
In the most expensive Parisian hotel, where the cheapest single
Number costs 400-450 dollars. And assumed, it is necessary to think,
Not cheap restoration of a palace near Petersburg, where adresno
One more presidential residence, too somehow not will take places
Has too caused anxiety even the narrow public. Has got used, it is visible,
To that is integrally peculiar to the newest governors
Aspiration to luxury. During democratic times, when
Mass hunger-strikes of doctors and teachers because of delays have begun
Beggarly salaries, and in villages the generation of people only has grown up on
To stories of eyewitnesses knowing about how a ready cash looks,
The main residence of the head of the state Russian - Moscow
The Kremlin - has begun to shine again first-born gold beauty,
Restored by a principle - currencies not to regret. And for
Lost health chernobyltsev was regretted even by our "wooden".
Exempts, say, in the country has divorced already hundred millions. It is necessary
To be drawn in... And the majority of "cheapskates-freeloaders" meanwhile
With all state surcharges not always hold out and to
Living wage...
Money and public priorities - here about what you reflect,
Having heard disturbing call signs from the Saharovsky centre. Similar, and
Indeed our power, and after it and many of us cannot in any way
To solve, we all the same refuse what inheritance, and from
What - is not present. The Communist Party of the Russian Federation - the successor of the CPSU. FSB - KGB. Russia - the USSR. At
Us and today everywhere in a street province are called, as well as
Were called - Lenin's name, Communistic, Soviet. In Moscow
The memorial board on the house where there lived Brezhnev is liquidated. And on
The house where there lived Suslov, - it is saved. Similar incompleteness
The begun means as though a stop halfway. Like
Have braked and have reflected - whether to turn back, whether nevertheless
To follow further. Obviously, anyway, that demarcation
Borders between the former USSR and new Russia still it is not finished.
Whether not too much of the past is inherited? Whether it is excessive
Universal there is an idea of continuity? But to borrow
Many traditions - means to reproduce the past.
Yes, Sugars became a banner of transformations. Whether but all are ready
To rise under this banner? Similar, and among those who today much
Defines in the state and a society, adherents at it hardly
Whether it is not less, than, say, at Iron Felix. And after all to recognise
Saharova the national hero - means to dare at last
To put end under the totalitarian past. But - do not dare. Not in
Whether to this big problem and a root "small", but very painful
Problems of the centre of his name?
ALBERT PLUTNIK.
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