Sunday evening with Vladimir Solovyov (№ 399177)

I must say that the parade, and, in General, the militarist education of the youth, and life in the context of: "if tomorrow war, if tomorrow a campaign" - this is normal, it is the norm that people who go to study the art of war is the new aristocracy of Russia. It is necessary to speak. But somehow we do all the time shy need to apologize. Your humble servant constantly asking the question: "do You kill people?" I'm on three military campaigns had been held there for three years. <...> I read recently Yevgeny Dolmatovsky poems are beautiful, he is a member of the Finnish campaign, the annexation of Western Belarus and Western Ukraine, participant of the great Patriotic war -- He said, "don't ask how many we killed, you'll have to ask - how much we saved!" <...> These people who are in Russia in the minority, this whole quasi-liberal, quasi-democratic public, they impose infinitely this some complex - all the time I in front of them now... "well, excuse me, we have a parade..." "so sorry - our children went to study military science...", "here they are marching at us...", "excuse me...". We have the rhetoric and practice do not always coincide. <...> We bring ourselves to the point that some banal things saying, we already feel like extremists!