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How and why a xenophobic survey appeared on the Ekho Moskvy website and why it is still hanging there

On the website of the radio station “Echo of Moscow” there is a “polls” section. The results of voting, which are carried out both on the Echo website itself and by telephone, are posted there. At the moment when I am writing this column, the website shows the results of three surveys: “Does Russia need foreign tourists?”, “Are you able to save money with energy-saving lamps?” And between them there are the results of the Echo of Moscow audience’s answers to the question: “Meet a representative of what nationality in dark time are you afraid of the day? The first two questions each have three possible answers: “yes”, “no” and “difficult to answer”. The third one also has clues: “Ukrainian”, “Chechen” and “difficult to answer”. The latter, apparently, is just in case. If the listener of “Echo” has not yet decided for himself who is scarier: a Ukrainian or a Chechen.

These are the everyday questions that are relevant to Russians that are offered to them by the most popular and pluralistic Russian radio station. Based on the voting results, the Echo audience can look in the mirror and find out that the majority in this audience, 54%, believes that Russia does not need foreign tourists, and also that only 39% manage to save on light bulbs. And in the meantime, find out that 57% of those who took part in the survey - there were more than 9 thousand of them at the time of writing - are afraid of Ukrainians, 31% are afraid of Chechens, and 12% have not yet decided which of the representatives of these two peoples they fear more .

It is clear that media polls have about the same relationship to real public opinion as canned food has to the conservatory. It is clear that the study of public opinion in a country crawling from authoritarian regime to totalitarianism, a very unusual task, and in today’s Russia it is poorly implemented. It is clear that this survey about “terrible Ukrainians” and “terrible Chechens” was constructed in such a way that among its participants there were only a minority of those who took this disgrace seriously and actually made a choice in a situation where it is clear to a more or less sane person that such a question does not exist . With the same success, you can invite the Echo audience to answer the question: “Who would you like to abuse this evening: your mother or your father?” Well, it’s cool, isn’t it “Echo people”?

From the comments in social networks It became clear that the “leadership” of Ukrainians in this “survey” was ensured by the citizens of Ukraine, who, having learned about yet another disgrace on “Echo”, decided to have fun and vote for themselves, the “terrible ones.” Troll the organizers of a stupid survey, bringing it to the point of complete absurdity. However, a certain number of Echo fans took part in this event seriously...

The idea to conduct a stupid survey arose during the “Personally Yours” program with Vasily Oblomov, who, in fact, made this proposal. This is where “it” grew from. The conversation turned to Chechnya, about Kadyrov.

V. Oblomov: “You can conduct a survey among the listeners of Echo of Moscow: “Do you think that Russia... who actually won this Chechen war, in the first, and in the second - who really won? Moreover, if you conduct a survey among viewers of Channel One, who is more feared during an ordinary meeting on the street - an American, a Ukrainian with Western Ukraine, exactly like this Western Banderaite, a Russian native, a Chinese or a Chechen - and ask him a question: who poses the greatest threat to you personally - it seems that all three of us sitting here can guess which answer will occupy a leading position. Conduct a survey, submit a question right now!”

A. Naryshkin: “We have two possible answers...”

V. Oblomov: “Let there be Ukrainians or Chechens.”

I cannot help but note the amazing ease with which Vasily Oblomov pronounces the ethnofolism “Khokhol”. Let me remind you that we are not talking about some kind of cave xenophobe. In the Echo studio sits a young, talented poet of quite clearly democratic convictions, the author of wonderful texts of the no less wonderful project “Good Mister”, who spoke at the 2011 rally. He has many bright and precise words about the Putin regime. Here, for example: “the symbol of Russia may not become St. George's ribbon, but insulating." Well said, isn't it? And here is such a wonderful young man sitting in live, when many thousands of people listen to him and see him, and he utters a word for which it’s time to hit him in the face in an amicable way. As in a normal company, people have long been punched in the face for the ethnofolism that denotes a Jew. By the way, I don’t think a derogatory nickname for Jews could have come out of anyone’s mouth on Echo. Because there is a consensus on the “Holocaust” in the liberal community and 6 million victims are already automatically turning into a scoundrel everyone who utters the word with which Jews were sent to the gas chambers. Apparently, for the Russian liberal crowd, 10 thousand Ukrainian citizens are not enough for the same taboo to be used to humiliate Ukrainians. By the way, if the leaders of Roskomnadzor had brains, instead of four completely harmless swear words, with which the Russian language has long ago dealt with it, and Russian culture has long given them their place of honor in a dark but well-ventilated cultural basement, all words of “hate speech”, to which ethno-folisms relate in the first place, would be prohibited.

Let's return to the “survey”. If we ignore the trolling on the part of Ukrainian citizens who decided to laugh at the “echo” fools, then the remainder will be what is called a “formative survey.” This is often done by dirty political strategists before elections. They ask, for example, the question: “Will you vote for Ivanov, who wants to make pensions 5 thousand euros, or for Petrov, who wants to abolish them altogether?” Then the survey data is published and citizens inclined to conformism add their voice to the formed majority.

The results of the xenophobic survey are posted on the Echo website and, at the time of writing, tens of thousands of people viewed them. What's the result? The initiator of the xenophobic survey, poet Vasily Oblomov, undoubtedly acted stupidly and disgustingly. He is not a media executive. Not editor-in-chief. He is a poet who easily and quickly writes sharp and biting poetry. This special device heads. “The ease of thought is extraordinary.” This is, for example, Dmitry Bykov. Sometimes it seems that words don’t go through their heads. They just don’t have time to process it in the brain. The main thing is that they manage to write good poetry on the topic of the day, and may God grant them both health and inspiration, both Bykov and Oblomov. But, have mercy, this does not mean that everything that comes out of their mouth should immediately be turned into metal. Bykov, for example, admires the Soviet project, so what do you order: revive the USSR?

There are no questions to Oblomov’s interlocutors, to the two Alexei, Solomin and Naryshkin, who “filmed down” a completely Nazi question on “Echo”. These are two chicks of Venediktov’s nest, from among those that AAV breeds with the help of special selection. Here appeals to reason and conscience are meaningless, since there are no addressees. It’s the same story with the editor-in-chief of the “echo” website, Vitaly Ruvinsky. This is the one who filmed an interview with Viktor Shenderovich about Putin and his criminal and sports circle from the Echo website. Ruvinsky then lied a lot online, endlessly repeating: “I removed it (Shenderovich’s interview) from the site, there were personal insults throughout the entire broadcast.” The text of this interview is still hanging on the Radio Liberty website, it is called: “Shenderovich stopped joking.” There you can see how Ruvinsky is lying and why this interview was actually removed.

You could, of course, ask Alexey Venediktov if he likes what he has on his website (just don’t pretend that the website is a separate media outlet!) There has been Nazi crap hanging for two days now. But for some reason I don’t want to ask. Let it hang and be an identification mark for everyone who has not yet understood what “Echo of Moscow” is and who Alexey Venediktov is.

M. Weller. Our prince and khan: Historical detective story. – M.: AST, 2015. – 288 p. – 20,000 copies.

Two preliminary remarks as a warning. Officially, Weller is called a Russian writer, but this is not entirely true. He is a Russian-speaking foreigner, a citizen of Estonia. It happens that a Russian writer lives and works abroad while remaining Russian, but this is not the case. Weller, to put it mildly, cannot stand Russia, or, more simply, he hates it; this feeling splashes from every page of his book. And one more thing. They present Mikhail Iosifovich as a “non-commercial” writer, marveling at the huge circulation of his books. This doesn't fit into any corners. He is the most commercial of all, and in no case should one be surprised at his publishing successes.

The annotation calls the book “a novel from the time of the Battle of Kulikovo.” It says: “Russian history was falsified by the PR people of the Middle Ages. The battle with Mamai and the punitive raid of Tokhtamysh did not look at all like what we had been told for centuries. And we ourselves are not who we thought we were..."

According to Weller, all historians lied, they lied to please the authorities, and now he appeared to show us the truth. Moreover, he does not have a single reference, not a single name of any historian. Not a single quote. They lie - that's all. Along the way - arrogant statements that the people do not need the truth, and only a select few are interested in it, as follows from the context, including Mikhail Iosifovich. According to Weller, Dmitry Donskoy was a complete scoundrel and a mediocre commander; on the Kulikovo field he carried out the order of the Mongol Khan Tokhtamysh to punish the military leader Mamai, who rebelled against him, and nothing more. No struggle for the liberation of Rus' from the Horde yoke, no emergence of an all-Russian national unity there was no battle, and there was no battle itself. And Saint Sergius of Radonezh did not bless Dmitry for the battle - he hated the prince. And after the battle, almost all the Russian principalities allegedly intended to surrender to Lithuania, but Khan Tokhtamysh did not allow this. And a similar interpretation of literally all the events of that tragic era.

No, I wouldn't say that Weller understands historical facts like a pig in oranges. The pig just eats, she doesn’t call oranges apples or grapefruits, much less hates them. And Weller, speaking about any fact, declares it either non-existent, or having the opposite meaning, or incorrectly interpreted. For example: “The results of the Battle of Kulikovo were completely sad and meaningless for Muscovite Rus'. Human losses weakened the strength of the state... territorial losses reduced economic potential. The invasion of Tokhtamysh, who burned and slaughtered Moscow and the surrounding area (1382), aggravated Muscovy’s dependence on the Horde. When the Horde collapses in a hundred years, it will in no way depend on Moscow resistance.”

True, in some areas he seems to be really poorly informed - this especially applies to church issues. For example, he shed a tear over the fact that “the revered Sergius of Radonezh was left without metropolitanship,” that Dmitry Donskoy opposed Sergius receiving the highest ecclesiastical rank. This means that the “Russian writer” knows nothing at all about our great righteous man, about his life and his principles. Weller also mentioned the candidate for metropolitan Mityai - in order to kick him and call him a “helpful confessor.” Meanwhile, this Mityai (Mikhail) was very educated outstanding figure state mind. But Weller is not interested in such figures. He is looking in Rus' only for slaves and serfs, serfs and slaves.

And, of course, bandits. “The methods used to unify Rus' were gang warfare. Each bandit accumulated strength, gained supporters and enlisted the support of a senior authority. Each bandit wanted to bend and oblige the other. Become a foreman, and then a helmsman,” writes Weller about the history of the country he hates. He insistently repeats that Rus' and the Horde were the same - both politically and ethnically (the Horde, however, in his opinion, is better). And this is not just a quirk of an ignoramus. This is a deliberate distancing of our country from Europe, from Christian civilization in general. Equating Rus' and the Horde, Mikhail Iosifovich brackets the irrefutable fact that the Russians acted on their own land, and the Mongols came from very distant lands, from the banks of Kerulen and Onon, that they were invaders. The “historical detective” stubbornly insists that Russia is, in essence, the same Mongol Empire. And even the cover of the book is disgustingly hooligan: a Genghis Khan mask is superimposed on the portrait of Brezhnev (or some other Soviet leader).

Weller makes jokes in many places, ridiculing the fact that Russian historians allegedly embellish the actions (including military achievements) of their own and denigrate the “Tatars.” I put the word in quotation marks because Mongols and Tatars are far from the same thing. The ancestors of today's Tatars, residents of Volga Bulgaria (which suffered the first blow of the Mongols), lived and worked on their land, like all the surrounding peoples. And the Battle of Kulikovo, which is formally the theme of Weller’s opus, was not a battle between the Russians and the Tatars. As the famous and authoritative (not like Weller) writer-historian Yuri Loschits writes: “The battle of September 8, 1380 was not a battle of nations. This was a battle between the sons of the Russian people and that cosmopolitan forced or hired rabble who did not have the right to speak on behalf of any of the peoples – the neighbors of Rus'.” Weller, among his other, to put it mildly, frivolous statements, expresses doubt that the Genoese fought in the army of Mamai - who, they say, saw them? But Russian historians wrote them in for some unknown reason. The detective does not say that the Genoese and Venetians had good reasons for participating in the battle. They made huge profits from the slave trade. Usually they bought Russian (as well as Polish, Moldavian and Circassian) slaves from the Horde and resold them many times more expensive in Italy. Naturally, the cost of prisoners captured by themselves turned out to be much less. But Mikhail Iosifovich is silent about this.

And here it must be emphasized that the author repeatedly points out the similarity of both the USSR and the current Russian Federation to that medieval Rus'. His analogies are simple: they lie about the Battle of Kulikovo - they also lie about the Great Patriotic War. "In all Soviet literature about the war,” he writes, “there were more Germans in 1941, and they had machine guns. And there were a lot of tanks - but it turned out later that there were more of ours, and there was much more of our equipment, and they beat us with fewer numbers.” Weller lies shamelessly. A long time ago, everything was calculated and measured, and above all, what Hitler had was one and a half times more people and the industrial potential was more than ours - steel, for example, they produced three times more than the USSR. But why would Weller remind the reader of this? His NATO bosses may not like this. And the Russophobe tries - he showers the reader with the slop of his slander: from accusations of anti-Semitism to the Maidan interpretation of current events in Ukraine.

At the beginning of the review, the words from the annotation were already quoted: “And we ourselves are not who we thought we were.” Without any hesitation, the “historical writer” cuts: “Our state is from the Horde, and the people are increasingly from Lithuania.” In his opinion, we were first colonized by the Norman Varangians, giving us the beginnings of statehood, then the Mongols polished the structure. That's it. Explained just as simply national character Russians are slaves, groveling before their superiors.

Naturally, the listed shortcomings of the book “Our Prince and Khan” do not seem like shortcomings to everyone. The public like the Shenderovichs and Akhedzhakovs, the Latyns and Makareviches, fans of “Silver Rain” and Weller’s cooking will certainly like it. And why - he craps on Russia and Russians, he doesn’t bother the readers’ brains with various references to sources and scientific reasoning. Moreover, he sprinkles his speech with thieves and half-thieves words. Weller's pen, it must be admitted, is quick; as Gogol used to say, “extraordinary lightness of thought.” The allies of the above-mentioned gentlemen rule the modern Russian publishing business - why be surprised at a circulation of 20 thousand copies, inaccessible to good Russian writers. And the fact that the author is a foreigner is even more pleasant for these gentlemen; this makes him a “source” historical information"even more authoritative.

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From the comedy “The Inspector General” (1836) by N.V. Gogol (1809-1852), where (act. 3, scene 6) Khlestakov, boasting of his literary abilities, says: “However, there are many of mine: “The Marriage of Figaro” ", "Robert the Devil", "Norma". I don’t even remember the names. And it all happened: I didn’t want to write, but the theater management said: “Please, brother, write something.” I think to myself, if you please, brother! And then in one evening, it seems, he wrote everything, astonishing everyone. I have an extraordinary lightness in my thoughts.”
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Extraordinary ease of thought

Book Iron. About a frivolous and talkative person, prone to complete irresponsibility in decisions complex issues. /i> Expression from N. V. Gogol’s comedy “The Inspector General” (1836). BMS. 334; BTS, 490. ...

Is it easy to be young?

Name of popular documentary film(1986) by Soviet Latvian director Juris Borisovich Podnieks (1950-1992). The film was not only widely known in the USSR, but was also purchased by television companies in more than 50 countries. The phrase is a symbol of the period of a person’s growing up and the problems that accompany this time. ...

It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.

From the Bible. (Gospel of Matthew, ch. 19, v. 24; Gospel of Luke, ch. 18, v. 25). There are two versions of the origin of this expression. Some Bible interpreters believe that the reason for the appearance of such a phrase was an error in the translation of the original biblical text: instead of “camel” one should read “thick rope” or “ship rope”, which indeed cannot be passed through the eye of a needle...

Extraordinary ease of thought
From the comedy “The Inspector General” (1836) by N.V. Gogol (1809-1852), where (act. 3, scene 6) Khlestakov, boasting of his literary abilities, says: “However, there are many of mine: “The Marriage of Figaro” ", "Robert the Devil", "Norma". I don’t even remember the names. And it all happened: I didn’t want to write, but the theater management said: “Please, brother, write something.” I think to myself, if you please, brother! And then in one evening, it seems, he wrote everything, astonishing everyone. I have an extraordinary lightness in my thoughts.”
Playfully and ironically: about a frivolous, eccentric person; about playful, frivolous behavior and mood.

Encyclopedic Dictionary winged words and expressions. - M.: “Locked-Press”. Vadim Serov. 2003.

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How and why a xenophobic survey appeared on the Ekho Moskvy website and why it is still hanging there

On the website of the radio station “Echo of Moscow” there is a “polls” section. The results of voting, which are carried out both on the Echo website itself and by telephone, are posted there. At the moment when I am writing this column, the website shows the results of three surveys: “Does Russia need foreign tourists?”, “Are you able to save money with energy-saving lamps?” And between them there are the results of the Echo of Moscow audience’s answers to the question: “Are you afraid of meeting a representative of what nationality in the dark?” The first two questions each have three possible answers: “yes”, “no” and “difficult to answer”. The third one also has clues: “Ukrainian”, “Chechen” and “difficult to answer”. The latter, apparently, is just in case. If the listener of “Echo” has not yet decided for himself who is scarier: a Ukrainian or a Chechen.

It is clear that media polls have about the same relationship to real public opinion as canned food has to the conservatory. It is clear that studying public opinion in a country creeping from an authoritarian regime to a totalitarian one is a very unusual task, and in today’s Russia it is poorly implemented. It is clear that this survey about “terrible Ukrainians” and “terrible Chechens” was designed in such a way that among its participants there were only a minority of those who took this disgrace seriously and actually made a choice in a situation where it is clear to a more or less sane person that and there is no such question. With the same success, you can invite the Echo audience to answer the question: “Who would you like to abuse this evening: your mother or your father?” Well, it’s cool, isn’t it “Echo people”?

From the comments on social networks, it became clear that the “leadership” of Ukrainians in this “survey” was ensured by the citizens of Ukraine, who, having learned about another disgrace on “Echo”, decided to have fun and vote for themselves, the “terrible ones.” Troll the organizers of a stupid survey, bringing it to the point of complete absurdity. However, a certain number of Echo fans took part in this event seriously...

V. Oblomov: “You can conduct a survey among the listeners of Echo of Moscow: “Do you think that Russia... who actually won this Chechen war, in the first, and in the second - who actually won?” Moreover, if you conduct a survey among viewers of Channel One, who is more feared during an ordinary meeting on the street - an American, a Ukrainian from Western Ukraine, a Western Bandera member, a native Russian, a Chinese or a Chechen - and ask him the question: who is for you personally poses a great threat - it seems that all three of us sitting here can guess which answer will take the leading position. Conduct a survey, submit a question right now!”

A. Naryshkin: “We have two possible answers...”

V. Oblomov: “Let there be Ukrainians or Chechens.”

I cannot help but note the amazing ease with which Vasily Oblomov pronounces the ethnofolism “Khokhol”. Let me remind you that we are not talking about some kind of cave xenophobe. In the Echo studio sits a young, talented poet of quite clearly democratic convictions, the author of wonderful texts of the no less wonderful project “Good Mister”, who spoke at the 2011 rally. He has many bright and precise words about the Putin regime. Here, for example: “the symbol of Russia can become not the St. George’s ribbon, but an insulating one.” Well said, isn't it? And such a wonderful young man sits on the air, when many thousands of people listen to him and see him, and he utters a word for which it’s time to hit him in the face. As in a normal company, people have long been punched in the face for the ethnofolism that denotes a Jew. By the way, I don’t think a derogatory nickname for Jews could have come out of anyone’s mouth on Echo. Because there is a consensus on the “Holocaust” in the liberal community and 6 million victims are already automatically turning into a scoundrel everyone who utters the word with which Jews were sent to the gas chambers. Apparently, for the Russian liberal crowd, 10 thousand Ukrainian citizens are not enough for the same taboo to be used to humiliate Ukrainians. By the way, if the leaders of Roskomnadzor had brains, instead of four completely harmless swear words, which the Russian language has long ago figured out, and Russian culture has long given them their place of honor in a dark but well-ventilated cultural basement, they would have banned all words of the “language enmity,” to which ethnofolisms primarily relate.

The results of the xenophobic survey are posted on the Echo website and, at the time of writing, tens of thousands of people viewed them. What's the result? The initiator of the xenophobic survey, poet Vasily Oblomov, undoubtedly acted stupidly and disgustingly. He is not a media executive. Not the editor-in-chief. He is a poet who easily and quickly writes sharp and biting poetry. This is a special head device. “The ease of thought is extraordinary.” This is, for example, Dmitry Bykov. Sometimes it seems that words don’t go through their heads. They just don’t have time to process it in the brain. The main thing is that they manage to write good poetry on the topic of the day, and may God grant them both health and inspiration, both Bykov and Oblomov. But, have mercy, this does not mean that everything that comes out of their mouth should immediately be turned into metal. Bykov, for example, admires the Soviet project, so what do you order: revive the USSR?