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Brutal dishonor. There are no other words, all words have evaporated. They have been evaporating slowly but surely since 2014, no, since 2011, or rather, since 2006, when I went to the Social Forum at the Kirov stadium cordoned off by riot police, through the ranks of peaceably disposed police “cosmonauts” in their helmeted gear, with their hounds, and during the breaks between the presentations and the field kitchen, small groups in the bleachers, those who were not detained at the trains and buses, joked that this was the Chilean scenario, they would just keep us at the stadium behind the barbed wire, and indeed, the city administration offered to hold a soccer match with the team of activists, the G7 or G8 summit (I don’t remember) was held in St. Petersburg at that time, all the flags of the moneyed of the world were visiting the Kirov Stadium in those days.
The mind clings to historical analogies, but they are all lame. This is not the Sudetenland, not the Finnish winter campaign, not the partition of Poland, no and no. And there will be no Nuremberg (for the Nuremberg to happen, the Allies had to let Stalin bite off the Eastern Europe and not choke, everything has its price in this best of all worlds). The night will be long. The other day, I wanted to watch again the German Bunker (2004) to calm my conscience; it was filmed, among other places, on Shkapina Street near the Baltiysky Railway Terminal, I was going to the country house and was assaulted by the “street battles,” and then, at the screening at the Cinema House, it was strange to recognize familiar scenery. This is an unfinished text.
February 24, 2022, 8:52 pm Translated by EP