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Let’s not fool ourselves and pretend that we do not understand what’s going on these days. In Russia, the concept of “norm” is vanishing again and again, and it’s happening in a rather frightening way, states Russian writer and social activist Victor Shenderovich in his LiveJournal blog after a six-month absence.
He notes that he has to return as the developments in Moscow (actions and clashes between nationalist Slavic Russians and “non-Russians”) make him “ring all the bells (few ones) that we have at our disposition.”
On this occasion Victor Shenderovich calls on everyone to take part in the event under the slogan “Moscow for Everyone” to take place in Pushkin Square on December 26.
The event will have two other slogans “Russia without Nazism” and “Liberty, Equality and Fraternity,” said Shenderovich on Echo Moscow radio yesterday. According to Shenderovich, they have already submitted the necessary documents on holding the rally to Moscow’s Mayor’s Office.
“Without me the people are incomplete,” writes Shenderovich in his blog, citing the words of the great Soviet writer Andrey Platonov, and mentions that today everyone should refer this statement to himself.
“They [nationalists] speak in the name of people, and while they are gathering thousands of people in the squares, and we sit isolated and terrorized in our Facebooks, they will speak more loudly in the name of people. And they will act with more confidence plunging the country into such a bloody mud from which it will never come out. There are many of us, but unlike them we stay far from the crowd. There are many of us, and sometimes we must show it. I call on everyone who does not want to live in this Russia to take part in the human rally Moscow for Everyone,” writes Shenderovich.