I have a friend…
Know this, Refine: noblewoman, portraits of ancestors in the Russian Museum, elite school of English, linguist, translator, decent friends, boys of good families — in short, “our circle”.
And it seemed to her from inside her little world, that people are beautiful and amazing, but the Russian people are deprived of the slightest hint of chauvinism.
Yet fell in love with Africans, or as the Russians say — nigger. And then she learned a lot. But as she was still surrounded by decent people, took trips to the synagogue, then, to hell with it-racism, but anti-Semitism she’s definitely not met!
In disputes with its pastoral illusion, with the desire to bring her back to Reality, I was surfing the Internet in search of colourful illustrations. And one day reading a paranoid psychopath opus-scribbler about the harm caused to mankind by the Jews, I suddenly imagine a life without Jews. Well, that’s all! Took the twig, kicked the Jew in Palestine and erased all traces of their stay on Russian soil.
And what did I see?
With horror I realized that I would lose collections of the movies of Gaidai and Mark Zakharov, or will be breaking the law, hiding them in the garage under a pile of rags.
Never again will I see the movie “Pokrovsky gates” with Ravikovich in the role of Leo E. and shiny Armor in the role of Velour. Instead of “Seventeen moments of spring”, we will see how rushing across the screen in search of partners Tikhonov, tobacco, and Lanovoi Kuravlev.
I don’t know how to live, knowing that I will never see Kalyagin in “Hello, I Your aunt!”, “Dog manger” Frida Jana and hear songs of “D’artagnan and three Musketeers” Maxim Dunaevsky; Gaft, ” Mironov, the noble Athos — Smehov, Etush and Abdulov, Vitsin and Vesnik, Kapelyan and Gerdt, Kvasha and Kostolevsky, Alenikov and Konstantin Raikin, Yarmolnik, Yakubovich, Bulls, Kramarov, Farad, Jurassic and Furman, Vasilyeva, Peltzer and Samoilova, Dunaevsky, Vitorgan, Ranevskaya, which is taken away on citations and Elina Bystritskaya, to which you have applied the Russian Cossacks with a request to change the name and forever be Aksinya don, an honorary Cossack.
It seems to me that it is the Cossack letter can be recorded in the annals of history as the recognition of the irreconcilable (it should be noted in fairness, are quite nationalist) Cossacks of the merit of the Jewish people to Russian culture. But did you know that Honorary Cossack Bystritskaya is Colonel of Cossack troops with the right to bear arms?
“There was a General Cherkashin… Cossacks gave me a scholarship, the title and the right to bear arms in full uniform — Male, of course,” says Bystritskaya.
Don’t know about you, and as those who thinks himself an anti-Semite, but I’m not ready to lose such a treasure and not ready so pointless castrate Russian culture.
Pasternak, Babel, Khodasevich, Svetlov, Don-Aminado, Eduard Bagritsky, Rybakov, I.
Brodsky, Volodin, !!Galich!…
I don’t know how to raise children without Marshak, Agnes Barto, Chukovsky and Zakhoder!
I want the ballet with Maya Plisetskaya, mints, Jacobson and Eifman, Nina Timofeyeva and IDA Rubinstein. And are you aware of sudamala Esambaev (read the article Mahmud Esambaev – My Aidishe mother)?
But the worst thing from my point of view, will happen to Russian music. Two generations Dunaevsky, I have a field post is not enough to present their creative heritage!
My friends, the anti-Semites want to deprive us of waltz “Danube waves” and “Amur waves”!
Renouncing Russian Jews, we lose “Russian field” Yan Frenkel and IDA Goff, “Polyushko-pole”, the song “what the hell” and “From where the Motherland begins” from the film “Shield and sword”, “nameless height” and “We had only three out of eighteen guys” Veniamin Basner, the more so as the words to his songs usually wrote Matusovskiy.
“In a city garden brass band plays…”, “Old waltz “Autumn dream” playing the accordion…”, “Flying birds…” music by Matvey Blanter on lyrics by Mikhail Isakovsky. “Today I am to dusk will rise, broad pass field..”, “near the village of Kryukovo killed platoon,” “from Afar longly there flows the river Volga…”, “the Night is light sleep clouds, and lays me in the palm of Your hand is an unfamiliar…”, “For factory gate, Where the sunsets in the smoke, Lived a fellow curly, seventeen Years old with him.” — Mark Fradkin.
“It seems to me sometimes that soldiers,
With bloody not come fields,
Not in this land perished once,
But turned into white cranes.
They had hitherto with those distant times
Fly and give us voice.
Not because so many and sad
We fall silent, looking into the sky?”
It’s a song by Jan Frenkel as well, and the music to the Soviet children’s Western “the Elusive Avengers” and popularly beloved “Russian field”.
“The favourite city can sleep easily”, “That harnessed you in the morning I napravlyayutsya from Sokolniki to Park on the subway…”, “Sleeping mounds of dark”, “Dark night, only bullets whistle in the steppe”, “Enemies have burnt a native hut…” — music N. Theology, words W. agate, mark Bernes sings “…spring is coming, spring road!”, the film “Children of captain Grant will be without music because the music for it was written by Isaak Dunayevsky. “Stop Moscow, steel blue, brighter than the Kremlin’s rubies Shine rays…” — a song dedicated to the 800 anniversary of Moscow Dunaevsky, words by V. Mass and M. Chervinsky, performed by Leonid and Edith Utesova.
“Lilies” Oscar Feltsman…
And, although it has no direct relationship to the Russian music, we will not be able to marry and to bury the dead by Mendelssohn.
We’ll have to throw to ban films and operettas of Strauss, Kalman and Offenbach, which are so loved in Russia.
And what will we have then?
We refuse Schnittke, Meyerbeer, Mahler, Schoenberg, Gershwin, Bernstein? From the whole layer of culture in which our children are educated and our musicians?
We so thoughtlessly in the twentieth century has lost much and many. Those whom our intolerance is forced to seek a better life in other countries has created jazz and Broadway musicals, Hollywood and Google.
I’ll say this: if we start “sharing a property” with the Jews abandoning the Jewish share in the Russian culture, we will lose much. Too much. Don’t know about you, but I prefer not to think that this music is Jewish, and considered to be a part of Russian musical culture, created by artists of Jewish origin. I am heartily grateful to its creators for what they didn’t blast hack our music, and gave her his talent, his inspiration and allowed us to put her in the annals of RUSSIAN, Russian, Soviet culture, and in fact could give it to any other nation. Who sings all these songs? The Israelis or the Russians?
Whose culture? They can not be separated, Russian Jews and Russian culture, as it is impossible to ignore the contribution of dozens of other national talents in Russia.
I don’t intend to lose Levitan, Serov, Chagall, Falk and Altman, Antokolsky, Brodsky, Braz, Anisfeld, Bakst, I. Brodsky is the legacy of my people, who have given the best of everything these great Jews.
I am glad to know that Chaim Soutine, Ossip Zadkine, Moses Kisling, mané Katz born in Russia. And unspeakably sad that Russia has brushed aside while France happily took them in my arms, making forever French artists.
But, thank God, and today in Russia they do painters and sculptors of Jewish origin who do RUSSIAN ART.
Even outside of Russia, the Jews are writing and publishing books in the Russian language, contribute to RUSSIAN literature, carefully preserve unchanged the literary RUSSIAN language, even the one who criticizes, complains, and is indignant at Russian- pays tribute to our culture.
Each site in the Russian language each letter of the Cyrillic alphabet among a sea of foreign characters, save and multiply our wealth, often by the hands of those long gone on Russian soil.
You know that France allocates money annually to promote French language, the promotion of German — budget Germany? Our language popularitybut for free, voluntarily and freely, forgetting about the grievances inflicted, for the love of Pushkin, Tolstoy and Dostoevsky.
At least, to be thankful for.
These, for example, people gave us your genius for the world became Great by Russian Scientists.
Nobel prize winners
physics: Ilya Mikhailovich Frank, Lev Davidovich Landau, Zhores Alferov, Alexei Abrikosov, Vitaly Ginzburg
in physiology or medicine Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov
for literature: Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
in Economics: Leonid Kantorovich
And here are examples of those we have lost, through the fault of your carelessness, negligence and anti-Semitism, and who glorified their names other countries:
physiology and medicine: Selman Waksman (USA, born in Russia)
Economics: Simon Kuznets (USA, born in Russia), Leonid Gurvich (USA, born in Russia)
chemistry: Ilya Prigogine (Belgium, born in Moscow)
literature: Isaac Bashevis singer (United States, born in the Russian Empire), Joseph Brodsky (USA, born in Russia)
peace prize: Sir Joseph Rotblat (Britain, born in the Russian Empire)
And who of us have not been taught physics and mathematics textbooks Yakov Perelman?
Today the whole world knows the Russians included in the list of “one Hundred living geniuses”, which in 2007 the British newspaper the Daily Telegraph: Perelman ranks in the top ten, in addition to Perelman this list includes only 2 of the Russians, Garry Kasparov and Mikhail Kalashnikov.
By the way, about Kasparov… “to Clear Jews from Russia” means to get rid of many sporting victories.
Do you know the names of Emanuel Lasker, Mikhail Botvinnik, David Bronstein, Mikhail tal, Boris Spassky, Boris Gelfand, Viktor Korchnoi, Peter Svidler, Alexander Khalifman, Kasparov…?
We’re proud of Olympic victories of Russian figure skating?
G. Karponosov, Aleksandrouli, Irinaslutsky Leaversuch, Nataliaazmanova great Irinakremin,Gaelscoileanna — a great basketball coach (Olympic GOLD 1988).
Why am I writing this?
Don’t know, can be then to suggest those who have not yet had a chance to think about it?
To those who lives in the idyllic la vie en rose, staying in the bucolic euphoria of idealism of the titular nation, wondered whether all so comfortable on the Russian land?
To have wondered what makes the other look for flaws, ignoring the dignity?
Why we have allocated almost being pushed out of its nation and individual representatives of the whole group?
Why are we doing this and who we are?
I think each of you as much as I love Carabas-Barabas, Muller and need in favorite songs. I think that we equally love, regardless of ethnic affiliation. I think, Scarecrow, waving anti-Semites, has a very artificial look, but the real Russian Jews — those who, hand on heart, we love and whom are proud of.
As we love and Chingiz Aitmatov, and Makhmud Esambaev, and Muslim Magomayev and Tamara of gverdtseteli, and Chulpan Khamatova, Bi-2 and many other not Russian figures of Russian culture.
Such an article could probably be written about other Nations, have enriched us.
But I can’t grasp it, maybe you’ll try?
It is difficult in Russia, a Jewish boy
Even Smoking, though not the drinker
Really want to hit the fingers
All fingers seem to be grasping
But not to understand it all “Bunting”
How much hope, work and patience
Need boys, torturing himself,
In order for life to go on the offensive
Here and now if anything in Orthodox
Pull me, as if anointed with honey
They seem like the most important thing
So for Christ we were all punished
I myself when something so here was a boy
All my kids desperately beaten
It was said COP chiefs
If I punched by accident
That would be to compare a drop of blood of the Russian
Well, Jewish drop from finger
Only barely break-something happens
In the face of broken Jewish boy…”
To the authorities:
Show effort
Immediately, as soon as possible
Return of Jews in Russia,
Bring Russian Jews!
Call, until later,
Whether in Russian or in Hebrew.
Give us *the Judeo-masons*
And all Zionists return.
Even if they are in Haiti
And make black leather.
*Cosmopolitan*return,
*Doctors-poisoners* too…
Return scientists, poets,
Artists, magicians of laughter.
And all at the same time explain –
From now on, they are not a hindrance.
On the contrary, we do not with anyone
Russia to drag out of the swamp.
What they, with the head of the Jewish,
All we have is enough work.
When Russia will rise
With their help, will be all-powerful,
Then we will be able, like a wound,
Rescuing Jews from Russia.
*Yevtushenko 2012 *
