Цивилизационный облом номер такой-то

«Из архива ЦК ВКП(б): "Зоря Николай родился в 1907 г. в Киеве. Отца не помнит, мать умерла в 1921 г. Некоторое время беспризорничал, потом стал воспитанником детдома в Москве. В 16 лет поступил в Московский университет. В 1923-1927 гг.-студент юридического факультета". Дважды пытался начать заниматься научной работой (1929 и 1933), но каждый раз его отзывали по службе. Карьера: от следователя районных прокуратур в Пятигорске, Тамбове и Воронеже до заместителя главного прокурора железнодорожного транспорта. Наконец, назначение на должность заместителя прокурора СССР! Прокурором СССР был Андрей Вышинский.
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В раннем детстве его обучали французскому языку, живописи и игре на пианино, заложили хорошие манеры.»

Тектонические сдвиги внутри людских судеб. А ведь век человеческий зело краток.

Инфа или деза?

«U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said the fighting appeared to be "orchestrated, targeted and well-planned," and she urged authorities to act before it spread.
Pillay's spokesman, Rupert Colville, told reporters in Geneva on Tuesday there was evidence the violence began with five simultaneous attacks last week by men wearing ski masks.

Kyrgyzstan's deputy security chief, Kubat Baibolov, said people close to Bakiyev's family hired gunmen from neighboring Tajikistan, who drove around Osh in cars with tinted windows opening fire on both Uzbeks and Kyrgyz to inflame tensions. Some of the suspected gunmen have been detained and told authorities they were hired by Bakiyev supporters to start the deadly rampages, he said.

From self-imposed exile in Belarus, Bakiyev has denied any ties to the violence, but Otunbayeva insisted Tuesday his supporters had stoked the conflict.
"Many instigators have been detained and they are giving evidence on Bakiyev's involvement in the events. No one has doubts that he is involved," she said.

The region around Osh, a city of 250,000, is a top conduit for heroin flowing out of Afghanistan, and thus a hotbed for gangs and guns. Some observers said the violence could have been rooted in the fight for control over drug trafficking.»

Не знаю уж, можно ли доверять такой инфе, но ООН, похоже, доверяет. Остальной текст тоже интересный.

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ВИДЕО
Киргизские гопники жгут узбеков живьем, 21.06.2010

Орвелл о сталинизме и революции

Из той же дневниковой записи:

24.6.40
«If the invasion happens and fails, all is well, and we shall have a definitely leftwing government and a conscious movement against the governing class. I think, though, people are in error in imagining that Russia would be more friendly towards us if we had a revolutionary government. After Spain, I cannot help feeling that Russia, i.e. Stalin, must be hostile to any country that is genuinely undergoing revolution. They would be moving in opposite directions. A revolution starts off with wide diffusion of the ideas of liberty, equality, etc. Then comes the growth of an oligarchy which is as much interested in holding onto its privileges as any other governing class. Such an oligarchy must necessarily be hostile to revolutions elsewhere, which inevitably re-awaken the ideas of liberty and equality. This morning’s News-Chronicle announces that saluting of superior ranks has been re-instituted in the Red Army. A revolutionary army would start by abolishing saluting, and this tiny point is symptomatic of the whole situation. Not that saluting and such things are not probably necessary.»

Орвелл о падении Парижа

24.6.40
«The German armistice terms are much as expected. . . . What is interesting about the whole thing is the extent to which the traditional pattern of loyalties and honour is breaking down. Pétain, ironically enough, is the originator (at Verdun) of the phrase “ils ne passeront pas”, so long an anti-Fascist slogan. Twenty years ago any Frenchman who would have signed such an armistice would have had to be either an extreme leftwinger or an extreme pacifist, and even then there would have been misgivings. Now the people who are virtually changing sides in the middle of the war are the professional patriots. To Pétain, Laval, Flandin and Co. the whole war must have seemed like a lunatic internecine struggle at the moment when your real enemy is waiting to slosh you. . . .»

Профессиональные патриоты как наипервейшие предатели.
А в РФ сейчас профессиональные русские - примерно на тех же ролях.

Далее, размышляет Орвелл-социалист:

«It is therefore practically certain that high-up influences in England are preparing for a similar sell-out, and while e.g. NN is at *** there is no certainty that they won’t succeed even without the invasion of England. The one good thing about the whole business is that the bottom is being knocked out of Hitler’s pretence of being the poor man’s friend. The people actually willing to do a deal with him are bankers, generals, bishops, kings, big industrialists, etc., etc. . . . . Hitler is a leader of tremendous counterattack of the capitalist class, which is forming itself into a vast corporation, losing its privileges to some extent in doing so, but still retaining its power over the working class. When it comes to resisting such an attack as this, anyone who is of the capitalist class must be treacherous or half-treacherous, and will swallow the most fearful indignities rather than put up a real fight. . . . whichever way one looks, whether it is at the wider strategic aspects or the most petty details of local defence, one sees that any real struggle means revolution. Churchill evidently can’t see or won’t accept this, so he will have to go. But whether he goes in time to save England from conquest depends on how quickly the people at large can grasp the essentials. What I fear is that they will never move until it is too late.»

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Пару слов о западных коммунистах времен пакта Молотова:

22.06.40
«The Communists are apparently swinging back to an anti-Nazi position. This morning picked up a leaflet denouncing the “betrayal” of France by Petain and Co., although till a week or two ago these people were almost openly pro-German.»