Beautiful Glories of Russia

Well, one more good reason — or, formally, three beautiful reasons! — to be a proud Russian!

Here is what I call a perfect (well, as close to as possible) free skating:

A Sacral Question

Russia has become a sanctionized, castaway country, and the whole 'civilized world' hates Russia to this or that extent.

Does it mean that God has reelected His beloved people, and since now on the Russians are those chosen by God?

One More Tall Widescreen Tale

Coming soon to movie theaters, based on the best-selling novel...

Look, Avatar is undoubtedly a great film. It is evidently, apparently fictional, characters being placed into some invented reality. They do not even look as humans (well, at least some of them). So in this case "any coincidence with any real person or event is entirely unintentional" in the purest possible way.

Not the case with the "Child 44". And for me this trailer shows it perfectly.

And the Fascists Remained

Children and grandchildren of executioners want to make the children and grandchildren of their victims repent of their crimes. This is the very reason of the fight with today's Russia. To make people that came many times through the hell repent to Satan of being able to survive and save themselves.

Hypothetical exclamations — "Oh, were our army not win, you maybe wouldn't be alive" — do not make any effect on those who use Auschwitz today as a political small coin. For they know perfectly well whose army won. Personally for them the danger has passed by. They have dozens airbags.

Exactly so they understand that there is no GULAG. No SMERSH, no NKVD. Do you really think these people consider Putin to be kind of light-style-Stalin indeed? Leave it, this stuff is for hamsters.

They are fascists, yet this definition is to be redefined today. They don't keep "Mein Kampf" under their pillows. This is not the fascism of Mussolini. This is not the national socialism of Hitler, but a new type ideology based on the old leaven.

These misters can calmly cry "Stop the fascist" chasing after stupid youth subcultures, which they feed up themselves. Young boneheads make tattoos of the swastika, rise their right hands in Nazi salutation and celebrate the "granddad's" birthdays. A rag-doll. A scarecrow.

No. The modern fascists are clean and cultured... And now they are quite international. And use little nationalist yells to their benefit. They do not persecute gays, but foster them. Many things have changed.

Yet the theory of superiority is still the same. They like talking about benignant genes and inferior peoples. About evolution and biology. The Russians are inferior, on this account our liberals have talked enough for a separate tribunal.

Just Published: Who Opened Gate of Auschwitz

Today, on January 27, 2015, the the Central Archive of the Russian Ministry of Defence has disclosed the report of January 7, 1945 on the numerical strength by demography of the 60th Army that as a part of the 1st Ukrainian Front 70 years ago deliberated the Auschwitz concentration camp.

Here it is.

It is well worth studying in general, including demography by education and years of birth on the front side, but what is of the biggest interest for me is the reverse side of the document. Here we see the Army's strength by ethnicities. And the matter of ethnicity and nationality has quite a special meaning in Russia and former USSR, as I wrote previously.

Meanwhile in Russia: A Proud Father...

I am!

On Sunday authorities presented the name of Stanislav Zhuk, the legendary Soviet figure skating (well, I promised I would touch this theme as well) coach, to the Figure Skating Specialized Children and Youth School of the Olympic Reserve at CSKA in Moscow.

My younger son Alexander has been attending this school for about 10 years (and practising figure skating since 4 in general) with a certain success — anyhow, he has been in the Wikipedia for years already, and I am not :-), — so the news is kind of special for me as well.

Here is my photo from the official ceremony.

From left to right: Alexander Zaytsev, unknown woman, Irina Rodnina, unknown girl, Nina Zhuk, unknown woman (behind), Elena Vodorezova; all supervised from the banner behind by my son Alexander (name signed in Cyrillic).
Photo © Vladimir Samarin

Discovering the Soviet Past

A short preface.

The Soviet Government made huge efforts trying to elevate cultural level of people. Though, surely, workers and peasants were seldom guests in theaters (and the very number of theaters was not big enough to cover all population satisfactory), cinema was much wider accessible and popular.

Many remember that Lenin supposedly said "Cinema is the most important art for us". In the times when there were no TV and Internet it was definitely so.

Here is one of so called 'Cine-Concerts' created by the Lenfilm, that is Leningrad (now and before, St. Petersburg) Cinema Studio, to "bring good art to masses".

Poroshenko: the President or a Bullshitter?

Well, in my opinion he is definitely a bullshitter, albeit at the same time a puppet of some powerful (and evidently foreign) master.

Here is his tweet from his offcial Twitter account.

As Seen by a Forensic Psychiatrist

I'd like to tell everybody who speaks about "deceived, zombified Ukrainian military and inhabitants of Ukraine"; who believes they "need time to get it", "to be able to sort through the political situation" and so on; I'd like to tell you that all you are indirectly guilty of the bloodshed in Donbass. You excuse the Ukrainian murderers and their accomplices referring to their mental disability they have not. You say the boy (being 20 or 40 years of age) was under a misapprehension and killed a woman with a baby in hands in their own home. And the mother of this boy was also under a misapprehension blessing him to kill... So was the military comissar... So was the driver who got him to the scene of crime...

You give a pardon to all these people, and doing so you prepare other Donbass mothers with babies in arms to be victims.

As a psychiatrist with 40 years of experience who have conducted tens thousands labour, military and forensic examinations I state that the references of the Ukrainian examinees to "being zombified, deceived" are apparent lie, malingering. It is believed that only people with heavy mental disorders, those who are found insane and incapable in court, are unable to sort through the political situation in their country. (Though some of these people are sorting through Ukrainian and world politics perfectly.) All the rest are not only able, but obliged to sort good from evil. This is their duty. Especially when there are rivers of blood in the country. A delusion, whether true or imaginary, does not grant a discharge.

Circus of Idiots

There are two useful words in the Ukrainian language: peremoha (перемога, victory) and zrada (зрада, betrayal). When a peremoha becomes a zrada, there happens the third essence: han'ba (ганьба) — shame. Such is the vicious circle of the Ukrainian daily life since the peremoha of Maidan over unbearably cruel tyrant and greedy thief Yanukovich.

After this brief preface, just two ridiculously connected news of the last day to illustrate.

1. PRESS SERVICE OF THE DNIPRO-1 REGIMENT* INFORMS

This night a guerrilla part coordinated by the Dnipro-1 regiment blew up a freight train used by terrorists to transport coal to the Russian federation.
Two cars and a part of the railway are totally destroyed at Krasnaya Mogila station close to the town of Sverdlovsk, Luhansk region.
Thus, the railway connection between the southern part of the Luhansk region and the Russian Federation is disrupted.
Dnipro-1 regiment expresses support to guerrillas and thanks them for the fruitful cooperation in favour of the Ukrainian state.
Glory to Ukraine!


However, next day Gennady (Hennadiy) Moskal**, Lugansk region governor (for the Kiev/Kyiv regime) made the following statement: