Many of current or former State Duma deputies can boast that they in Soviet times managed to work in the field of international trade and international tourism, to join the Communist party and then the Communist party, noisy to leave it, to stand in deputies of the Russian state Duma first on the list of “United Russia” and “Patriots of Russia”, to become a successful businessman and even acting in several popular films?
And it’s all about him, about Vladimir V. Semago, who modestly asks to call him “Vladimir Vladimirovich”, interviewing journalists who can’t tell jokes from serious or responsible.
“And then you won’t cause fermentation in the minds of”
Born Vladimir Semago English in the Chinese city of Harbin. It happened in an American military hospital. So American citizenship from birth, he has not received a ridiculous coincidence. Soon the family of a military pilot moved to Moscow and life went on as usual. After Missy for some time he worked in highly technical positions, until he was accidentally in the hospitality business. Joining the ranks of the Communist party, coupled with knowledge of foreign languages helped to make his career right up to business management of goskominturist.
Once in the country there was a change in the political and economic course, Semago went into business. Joint-stock company “ECOIN” and the related joint venture “the Moscow commercial club” earned him the right connections within just the emerging new economic and political elites.
“At heart, I’m here with Karl Marx and never part”
As a member already of the Communist party Vladimir Semago as a witness by the party participated in sessions of the constitutional court, which had examined the possibility and necessity of prohibition of activity of the CPSU And the Communist party in Russia. Result of his performances, including, was the fact that the country has not condemned their “achievements” for 70 years.
In return, the party gave Semago opportunity to be elected on the list to the State Duma of the first and second convocations.
Besserebrennikov he never was. Developing the concept of peaceful coming to power of the Communist party he saw himself as the head of the KGB, believing that “the apparatus of coercion is the backbone of any state”. However, revival camps and punitive buildings he planned.
Then a long-term romance with the Communist idea over. The Communists of those years (not like modern) painful treated the haughty manners of his friend: elegant Cadillac, participation in the Board of Directors of Rosbiznesbank, polumogina life (for a few years, he starred in small roles in the films “the Voroshilovsky marksman” “In August 44-go”, “Oligarch”) has led to the fact that the primary organization of the Communist party Semago has excluded from its ranks.
“The country railway”
In the next convocation of the Supreme legislative body of the country Vladimir Semago got on the list of “United Russia” and not in the forefront, but only after the termination of the powers of Pavel Pozhigailo. In 2007 Semago again to go into the power failed: the party “Patriots of Russia” on which it was delivered, elections lost. In order not to fall out of sight of the media, he initiated the process to cancel the state registration of the Communist party on the grounds that it bases its work on the basics to overthrow the government, declared in the Communist Manifesto that fall under article of the criminal code on extremism.
As usual the former deputies, Vladimir Semago for some time devoted himself entirely to the education of the masses through participation in numerous news and current Affairs programmes in the “Russian news service” and “Finam FM”.
Stumbled love Semago to the authorities and state media on his position on the annexation of Crimea. After air in late March 2014, he was fired COP: “Because you don’t want to be in the ranks with the peoples of Russia and Crimea, trying to diminish the role and efforts of the President of the Russian Federation, then You have no place on our station!”.
“In this election was not a forgery and the conspiracy to keep power”
Now Vladimir Semago, though, and calls himself “a man lastebassein” takes an active part in the work of radio “Echo of Moscow” (maintains a blog, shares his opinion in the program “Without fools” and “dissenting opinion”).
His remarks, full of subtle sarcasm teetering on the rejection of the existing government and nostalgia for the Soviet past. At the same time, he was no stranger to universal values and understanding that no matter how good was not Russia itself without close cooperation with the civilized world she cannot survive.
So, commenting on the incompetence of the Ministry of emergency situations in saving freezing on the track of people during the new year holidays in the Orenburg region, he described the situation as “energy poverty in terms of civilization”.
Acutely he sneers at the Vertical of power, which, ultimately, concentrated on one person and to fix a boiler room in a godforsaken village called Chegdomyn, should appeal to the President of a huge country.
He is fully confident that this is the way the country creates an ideology of the West the meaning of which boils down to “the President for us, we for the sake of the President”, “no pants and no shirts in winter weather to build a narrow-gauge railway”. Vladimir Semago encourages all who missed in school right now to learn by heart a passage from “How the steel was tempered” Nikolai Ostrovsky the life “we must live so that was not painfully hurt for aimlessly lived years”. And all this without any sarcasm!
“There is a separate, specially trained in Cyril…”
When this is taken into service not only heroic examples from Soviet and more distant Russian past, but also religious dogmas. In schools more and more are canceled hours allotted for physics, chemistry, Russian language and literature, but there are courses of Christian ethics and morality. In this direction, says Semago, the authorities must go all the way: instead of mathematics to enter Islam, and instead of science – Buddhism. And that unfairly turns out: the country is multi-religious. But seriously, the study of this rich heritage needs to devote his life to “specially trained in Cyril”, but for all others it is quite usual history lessons that during the presentation of affect and religious issues.
In General, listen to Vladimir Semago very interesting. His distinctive view of modern Russia is not like any other whose.
