How the history of the collapse of the USSR repeats itself, even in detail

Another event took place last week, to which the general Russian public did not react in any way. Partly because it no longer pays attention to the similarity of the current events and what happened at the end of the 3rd wave of the development of the history of the Russian state from 1905 to 1991, and part of the society does not pay attention to such events because they simply did not live at the end of the 3rd wave, in the last years of the life of the USSR, and does not know that everything is repeated one to one. But for those who lived then and were interested in the history of the country in which they live, what is happening is painfully reminiscent of the last years of the Soviet Union. I’m talking about another letter from another Western student to the leader of the state, which calls itself the heir to the USSR. 10-year-old Austrian Matthias Brandstätter wrote a letter to the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, which he conveyed through the Russian Ambassador to Austria. Just like that, I took it and passed it on. “The countries of Europe and Russia are close neighbors that are economically connected with each other. I think that Russia and Europe should interact much stronger. " “There are many people in Europe who are kindly disposed towards Russia and would like a closer partnership with it,” the boy writes. At the request of Matthias, the Russian embassy sent him a photo of the President of Russia with a personal autograph. And also several books about Russia and Moscow, which, among other things, will help him expand his knowledge about our country and improve the Russian language. Yes. True, the letter was in German, but what's the difference? The humor of what is happening is that people over 40 have already seen all this. In the history of the USSR, there was already such a schoolboy who wrote to the Soviet secretaries general. Surely there were a lot of them, generally speaking, but Soviet propaganda, as now Russian, rarely uses such letters, but aptly. In November 1982, an American schoolgirl, also ten years old, Samantha Smith wrote a letter to the then KGBist in the post of the Soviet Tsar, Yuri Andropov, to find out why relations between the USA and the USSR are so tense. Well, something like the current tense relations between the West and Putin's Russia. At the invitation of Andropov in a response letter, Samantha visited the Soviet Union in July 1983: Moscow, Leningrad and the pioneer camp "Artek", her journey was covered by the world media and especially actively by the Soviet media. After returning from the USSR, Samantha wrote a book about the trip, and even starred in serials. Why did this happen? When Andropov replaced Brezhnev, his image in the West was mostly negative. And even inside the country, Andropov's time cannot be called peaceful. Andropov understood that everything was going to hell, and he tried to stop it. But since, except for grabbing and not letting go, he did not know how to do anything, this resulted in the grabbing of people during working hours in shops and cinemas and accusations of those arrested for parasitism. Nothing else for the Soviet people to remember this yet another Soviet old man who had gone. In the West, Andropov had an extremely negative image, both as a native of the KGB and as a person who, after stagnation, began an active struggle against dissidents within the country. After coming to power, Andropov strengthened the power of the KGB. He declared that "the struggle for human rights is part of a wider imperialist conspiracy to undermine the foundations of the Soviet state." Suddenly bggg. We hear the same thing now. Ronald Reagan, in turn, at the first press conference as President of the United States called the USSR a regime ready for any crimes, for lies and deceit for the sake of building a communist society. Ahahaha, just recently, is Putin the killer? Projects for the deployment of missile defense systems in space also caused great concern on both sides of the Iron Curtain. There was an arms race in which the USSR was hopelessly losing. The USSR was interested in the development of this type of weapons, but was forced to abandon these projects due to the inefficiency of the planned economy and the banal lack of money. Considering all this, the figures of Soviet propaganda, designed for a Western audience, decided to seize on this letter from an American schoolgirl in order to somehow change the perception of the USSR in the West, primarily among ordinary people. Present the country as peaceful and willing to compromise. About the same as it is happening now. Samantha Smith's letter was sent to the USSR in November 1982, and already in April 1983, part of the letter was published in the Pravda newspaper: “Why do you want to conquer the whole world, or at least our country?” Asks Samantha Smith from Manchester, Maine. It seems that Samantha can be forgiven for her delusion - the girl is only ten years old. " The timing of this publication is no coincidence - on March 23, 1983, Reagan announced SDI, a Strategic Defense Initiative. The one that will eventually break the back of the evil empire. The Pravda article included letters from other Americans who wrote to Andropov about their concerns about nuclear weapons. Samantha's letter and Andropov's reply were in the spotlight of the international community: at this time, Samantha received hundreds of letters. News stories about the girl's correspondence with the secretary general appeared on both American and Soviet television. Samantha was invited to participate in American television programs, she received calls from reporters from France, England, Australia, Bulgaria, Germany and Japan. She received a commendation from the Maine Legislature: the State House of Representatives and the Senate dedicated a joint resolution to her. The girl was invited to the USSR. Samantha accepted the invitation and in July 1983 arrived in the USSR with her parents. During the two weeks of her stay in this country, she visited Moscow, Leningrad and visited "Artek". Her visit was widely covered in the Soviet press. The Western press also wrote something. In the capital, she was organized a tour of the Kremlin. She laid flowers at the burial place of Yuri Gagarin and the grave of the Unknown Soldier, visited Lenin's mausoleum, attended a performance at the Bolshoi Theater and a performance at the Moscow Circus. The seriously ill Andropov could not meet with Samantha, but they spoke on the phone. The head of the USSR presented her with a photo album about her trip around the country. It was after Smith's visit that the term child diplomacy emerged. After returning to the United States, Samantha was often invited to various shows, on the way from one of which she and her father crashed on August 25, 1985 in the crash of a light plane on which they were flying. In 1987, the Samantha Smith Children's Diplomacy Center was opened in the USSR, where her bronze bust is kept. Four years later, under the auspices of this center, the Samantha School of Foreign Languages was established. In October 1985, Samantha's mother, Jane Smith, founded a fund in honor of her daughter, which organized trips for schoolchildren from the USSR and, subsequently, Russia to the United States. It was closed in 1995. Now, 40 years later, everything is repeated to the point of confusion. Again a 10-year-old Western schoolboy, again writing a letter to the king of the country where Russia is located, a former KGBist. On the same topic practically. And consider the words the same. This happens because the people who were sitting at the Valsti at the beginning of the collapse of the USSR then and who are sitting there today, they are one and the same. They studied according to the same textbooks, in the same places. And the very people under whom this collapse of the USSR took place were their teachers. It is natural to assume that they will act in the same way as the diplomats of the end of the USSR. Someone in the Austrian embassy of Russia, who knows the story of Samantha Smith, decided to make a remake and set in motion a letter from another Western schoolboy. It is unlikely that the story will continue, because in 1983 the third wave worked, and now we have the fifth. In the third wave, everything was serious, fly like that, shoot like that, shoot, as they say. And during the fifth wave, everything is already frivolous, as if for fun. And although all events will occur the same, they will not look so significant. Well, some Austrian wrote, everyone will make some noise for a week, and that's all. Putin may answer him, but the schoolboy will not go to any Artek, like Samantha, of course. And where is this Artek? Your Artek is covered. But how interesting is it to experience the same things as during the collapse of the USSR? After all, the duck test has been known for a long time. If something looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck. If a country wants to be like the USSR, repeats everything that the USSR did, and is ruled by the same people who ruled and studied in the USSR, then this country will repeat the history of the USSR. Is not it so? And the fact that such events are taking place, to the point of confusion reminding the events of the collapse of the USSR, is not an accident. This is a pattern. It could not be otherwise. Only this time the USSR will disintegrate completely. The reincarnation of the scoop is extremely unstable. She is funny, while the USSR was scary.