The twentieth century [Theme] Page 1

The monarchy has fallen not because he was too strong for her enemies, but because too weak were its defenders.

31 Dec, day, not, as usual, at midnight, suddenly the whole country Boris Yeltsin appeared on screens [new year greetings]. Thus ended the twentieth century. Century, which gave us favorite holiday - New year. The age in which we were born and grew up, raised children and they themselves were children. Stood in line and loved. Took out the deficit, listening to the fresh speech of the elderly General secretaries and waited for change. We are funny and sad to remember the past epoch, the Soviet epoch. It seems that the sausage was delicious, the people are nice, the songs are better, but television is more interesting. But believe me that exactly the same will someday be talking about the current century. But that's another story...

- I think if anyone of us was able to write honestly one thousandth of what we have seen in our lifetime, it would be a great book.
- You're lying. You about Zinochka think...
- Yes, about it too, of course. It's all together.

New twentieth century began actually not the first of January 1901, and the first of August 1914, the year the first day of the imperialist war. I saw the birth of this century. First in Italy, in Venice, from where he escaped tourists and empty standing hotels, gondolas and shops. And the beach on the Lido, and the endless tables of coffee shops by the sea, too, was empty. Age started for me with this emptiness. Russian family, interrupting the carefree resort existence, not even replacing their white summer clothes, helplessly crowded on the decks of ships, hurrying to his native shores. Went frightened insidious rumors about German submarines and airplanes with bombs. The sea was huge and menacing. Yes, the new century began with a feeling of emptiness and danger...

The Communists waged an unending war against civilization to destroy all the institutions of government, all governments, all countries in the world. They strive to create the international Union of beggars, criminals, mediocrities, the rebels, the sick, morons and fools, which should cover the whole world.

Was Russia was great, Laden with all the belongings of the house inhabited by a powerful family, created blessed the labors of many generations, consecrated by worship, the memory of the past and all that is called cult and culture. What they did to him? Paid for the overthrow of the head of the complete defeat of the entire house and literally unheard of fratricide, all those dreadful and bloody farce, the terrible consequences of which are incalculable.... the Planetary villain, shaded the banner with a mocking call for freedom, brotherhood, equality, high sitting on the neck of the Russian "savage" and called in the dirt to trample on conscience, shame, love, mercy... Degenerate, moral idiot from birth, Lenin showed the world just in the midst of their activities, something monstrous, tremendous, he ruined the greatest country in the world and killed millions of people, in broad daylight bet: it is the benefactor of mankind, or not?

Told how the Bolsheviks still amazed that they managed to seize power and that they still hold:
- Lunacharsky after the coup two weeks running around with bulging eyes: no, you just think, because we only demonstration I wanted to make and suddenly such an unexpected success!

That's what we have from the twentieth century: advances in science and technology. Still, the minibus "Toyota" is not a stagecoach.

Someday our descendants will say that I gave birth to the twentieth century.

For centuries we waiting
Whether the prophet's faith,
Whether the end of the world
We do not care, just to catch it first.

If all the people together meant a certain amount of happiness and distress, then it will be worse than your soul is, the freer it be someone else's joy, simply for the reason that pain and happiness will only occur relative to each other.
The entire twentieth century we, Russian fools, have been a generator, producing happiness for the Western world. We have produced it from her grief. We were the galley slaves, who, sitting in a crowded hold, moved the world in a Sunny morning, dying in the darkness and stench. To make the other half of the planet pole of happiness, we have turned into a pole suffering

Besides, now, at the end of the twentieth century, commenting all became such a force that is often the subject of discussion is lost sight of. This mind-numbing drone is what we call a word that has lost all meaning: information...

You need great upheavals, we need a great Russia.

If you don't laugh at the twentieth century, it is necessary to shoot. But a long laugh over it impossible. Rather howling grief.