The further into the forest, the closer. The further into the forest, the more firewood (the further into the dispute, the more words)

28.06.2019


Strange headlines have recently appeared in Nasha Niva.

I can't believe my eyes!

After all, Nasha Niva has not been ours for a long time. But to wrap it up is incomprehensible to the mind!

However, if we take into account who orders the music, and add the events of recent months to it, everything is drawn.

The West finally changed tactics. He no longer needed the destroyers of the last outpost of the Soviet era. Their mission is over.

Due to the inertia of the working strata of the population, the electoral resource of the new plan, of course, remained the same. These are the intelligentsia, students and high school students.

The opposition also invented the main culprit of "our troubles and our evils" - this is Putin's Russia. On it, which is under sanctions, you can hang all the dogs, starting from Ivan the Terrible. Endure.

Now - at the suggestion of Dubovets - strangely enough, an ardent Russophobe of the perestroika and post-Soviet times, Zenon Poznyak, was added to her company.

What is the novelty of the approaches of the West and its henchmen to the dismantling of calm in our society?

A new task now is the earthing up of the same intelligentsia and youth on the sly. But already without the cultivation of radical nationalist sentiments, but by creating intellectual platforms where fraternization with Russian liberals would become the norm.

After all, Cicerons have died out in our country, and Navalny and others are in plain sight in Russia.

I think that for this reason the opposition was gradually converted to Russian.

It is precisely this goal that explains the strange appearance and replication of quotes from the newly minted literary diva Svetlana Aleksievich, who spoke quite definitely:

“It was impossible to do what I did in the Belarusian language.”

And finally, the point. Finally, the main thing is that the puppeteers have a passionate desire to create, on the basis of the TUT.by portal, which has drastically changed its rhetoric, an intellectual platform for those who like to scratch their tongues with the involvement of the promoted liberalism abroad (read - Russian renegades).

They are, like no one else, close to us in mentality.

I won't be surprised if Shenderovich or the taciturn Savik Shuster show up as the hosts of these gatherings.

After all, he never said anything impartial to Lukashenka. Others spoke, and he, without visible emotions on his face, listened and did not assent.

But let's get back to Poznyak.

I can honestly say that I, like many others, have sympathy for this very bright propagandist, who managed to become the central figure of the Belarusian Popular Front in the late 80s, and then with small forces to saddle the Belarusian parliament and solve the priority tasks of gaining independence by the country.

The main thing: he is an ideological opponent of everything Soviet, but not a traitor. He does not count “Jewish pieces of silver” in his pocket, but bends his line, because he believes, because he is convinced that he is right and defends his point of view.

The West did not like the straightforwardness and independence of Poznyak's judgments, and he was relegated to the backyard of Russophobic politics.

He is not their man. They don't want people with their own opinions. They need performers.

So what is Poznyak accused of on the pages of Nasha Niva and Svaboda by the revolutionary Sergey Dubovets, widely known in narrow circles?

Neither more nor less - in the most important: "History of the Muggle would be classed in the past, kali b People's Front of the 90s will start again".

You see, then "nathnyaў priklad" Popular Front microscopic and quiet Estonia.

It was there, and not in Lithuania and Latvia with a huge number of Russians living, in his opinion, that the most successful pies were baked.

Maybe it was so, because in Estonia people did not die in skirmishes with special forces, and there was no particular need to torment the Russians. But Dubovets's claim that he allegedly mastered the situation in the post-Soviet space at that time and could determine priorities is highly doubtful.

Dubovets, who was then in euphoria “It was assumed that Belarus would be the earliest ever - fallow and so non-Belarusian, like the BSSR”.

But in Belarus, at first, she reigned on the throne "the highest dzyarzhau asoba"- Shushkevich. Poznyak and his comrades raged in parliament, then Lukashenka.

What line Dubovets was pursuing at that time is not very clear, because he was not in sight and only now emerged - with arguments about Poznyak's mistakes.

Further, he asks why everything didn’t go the way it did in Estonia, why we are not where Estonia is, and not the same as Estonia with its higher standard of living than in the post-Soviet space.

Let's not argue with Dubovets. He either does not understand, or deliberately does not want to understand the difference in mentalities, the incompatibility of production capacities and the scale of production relationships that characterize the economies of our countries.

He does not think about the current information, how many people left for the West from the Baltic republics in comparison with Belarus.

He is not interested in the state of the real sector of the economy and what are the prospects for the economic development of Estonia, etc.

For him, Estonia is a paradise, because “Didn’t the people attack the common and non-familiar Estonians there? And then, what did the People's Front recognize the Democrats? I tamu, that the yans adrazu took a course for independence - NATO - Europe?

The question is, was it different with us in the early 90s?

Is it possible that the Belarusian Popular Front was headed by the Party Genosse? Didn't US President Clinton come to us and give us a bench in Kurapaty?

After all, can a sane politician really believe that the path to "independence" lies through NATO membership?

In his rantings, Dubovets, of course, could not pass by "monaga torture."

80 percent of the communists, Soviet generals, even Yankovsky from the Russian Theater voted for the MOV, but it’s to blame for the fact that not everyone spoke it "Theatrical Radicalism" - “He is a mind-blower of that tiny adzinstva of Belarus, which was the first time of the language. The parallel with Estonia was evil.”

It's hard to even call it stupidity. After all, the impulse of the Belarusians for change at that time was not due to an irrepressible thirst to use the Belarusian language, but to the mistrust sown among the people in the authorities, Chernobyl fears and the infantilism of those who stood at the helm of the young republic.


Further, Dubovets claims that the split into the connected and the unconnected did not happen immediately after the formation of the Belarusian Popular Front, but after the election of the Supreme Council of the XII convocation. And the reason for this is Poznyak.

He's writing: “Adnachasov paўstala “elita” - menavita pavodle getai prykmety - syadomyh, geta znachytsy, lepshih for іnshіh, matsyorіh, lychy tho “Estonians”, yakiya “towered above the astatnіmi Belarusians”.

We've arrived.

After all, everyone remembers that this so-called "elite" began to emerge when it ran from one room to another under the name "Talaka".

She, the "elite", gained a breath when the sons of party workers realized that in the changed conditions, the chance to rise to the level of power of their fathers is presented only on the wave of national radicalism, and not obedience.

After all, even then life put the question point-blank: either - or. Tacking was not welcomed, since everyone was tired of it in perestroika times.

Further, Dubovets confirms the inertia of his own thinking:

“I spat 25 bastards, and maybe more, if we know how to be adventurous Belarusians - different, but that’s because all the trees in the oak forest are different.”

It turns out that the situation is not the same as it was before. There was a click: livability reigned in society and "Pamyarkounasts". (“Facebook” doesn’t count).

But this semblance of reconciliation is given for a reason. This is a run to kick Poznyak and his entourage again:

“And the tsyaper say - like the people pagodzitsa on the getki padzel, that we are Belarusians, but are there more Belarusian Belarusians? It is clear that the “big Belarusian” side of the “simple Belarusian” will meet with an abstraction.”

D left and Lukashenka. He, it turns out, “Take the language out of the hramadskaga Uzhytka,” because she “became the sign of the saints”, and suckers are Belarusians “Adchuval satysfaktsyyu hell tago, cab show “great Belarusians” Kuzkina mother.

Sami schools pravodzіlі debelarusіzatsyyu.

Well, just like Emelyushka: "The sledges go, they go by themselves, they go by themselves without a horse."

And this nationwide revolt, born of the radicalization of the saints, led to the fall of the Belarusian Popular Front as a powerful mass movement and contributed to “The establishment of the autaritar madela lady, because the people are “uncommon” and avtamatychny are subject to the palette, and the “elite” is the subject of the subject, closing in on the saba.”

What does the subjectivity of the people in politics mean and who prevented the "elite" from losing it, Dubovets did not chew, each time remembering the Estonia he loved.

In rare moments of enlightenment, he speaks the absolute truth:

“... a skinny Estonian will tell you who Lukashenka is, but only adzinki in Belarus guessing who the president of Estonia is there.”

And then nostalgic:

“... some people think so myself - eight of us, the host of all Belarusians, are open and all Belarusians, we call them yes to ourselves, the host of the race and the Armenians, the whole people are themselves.”

Let's digress for a moment and imagine what the result would be if Lenin and his entourage "maryli" or "clicked yes to yourself" in 1917?

The Bolsheviks were not infantile intellectuals. They were armed with modern theory, strategy and tactics of thoughtful action. They persistently, competently and purposefully carried out everyday work among the working people and soldiers and were successful.

On some spells and humiliation of the current government, revolutions in the minds of people are not made. And the aggravation of national issues in multinational republics is always fraught with slaughter. You don't have to look far for examples.

Thank God, Zenon Poznyak and the revolutionaries of the first wave, willy-nilly, but were brought up in a decent society. At that time, their hands did not itch to unleash fratricidal conflicts on very unstable national and linguistic grounds.

There was a controversy, ballpoint pens broke, but not spears.


And here Dubovets is frankly disingenuous, stating that “Atrad musiў bazavatstsa on democratic padstavs. Never again on canservative and radical - ty, as a substitute for pashyrennya patrabavali, naadvarot, the sound of an elite atrada and nyaspynnaya pure joy. Why is it safe and hello.

After all, we remember very well: the entire opposition was not at all engaged in a detailed study of the strategy for returning the country's economy to a stable position, but hit in search of the future in the past on the basis of nationalistic sentiments alien to people.

Surely the same Dubovets tore his shirt for "moving and relaxing the hell of balshevism" instead of agitation for a national consensus and the translation of public controversy into the mainstream of economic problems and ways to solve them.

The excuse for our national humanitarians, who did not understand anything in the economy, was "the way to Europe". As if they were waiting for us with impatience and without us they would not have a life.

At the end of his story, Dubovets sincerely admits his thoughtlessness:

“On that, as the geta understands, a bunch of nasty things and pastupovy exodus of “fellow Belarussians” were spat - in others, they have light in the other country, and in the other grooves.”

However, even today his reasoning has not received at least some kind of replenishment with new ideas and does not go further than “monoga torment”.

He states that "Znikla self-proclaimed"elite of large belarusian belarusians", svyadomyh ”, - but, like a woodpecker, remains true to the former standard, with which he associates timid hopes: “... can we know ourselves to be with the Estonians, why is this magic waste unstoppable?”

And Dubovets's confession, without admitting his own miscalculations, naturally caused a resonance in the opposition community.

It should be noted that many of the arguments of the participants in the discussion look quite sound.

For example, someone under the nickname "Svyatoma", talking about Poznyak, declares:

“I could not, in 1994, have a perekanaўchuyu podtrymka in the community ... I would have been the forest of Gamsakhurdy near Georgia ... I could have managed to do this, if I were able to farm a well-organized vertical and garyzantal, near the hell of Shushkevich.”

“... a bunch of people who acted Ruhaўtsаў have grown up “everything, it’s broken on the right, the political system of the pabudavan - you need and ab syabe think”, dzelavyya rushed to the work of the business, svyadomyya - the celebration of siberia from the wide fractional gaps parliamentarian (there were only members of the Belarusian Popular Front) , began to labiravatsya piles of ulasny іntaresy: some pasada, some kavalak lands near the adpachynka zone, some issued their creators for dzarzhaўny kosht, some uvogulle zehaў near Lithuania, kabzhytsi near the old Belarusian capital.

“Mae ratsiyu” and someone “Benedzikt”:

“Such for the abmerkavan and vymushany zaўvazhyts - not abmyarkoўvaetstsa adna overestimate an important problem (it looks like the menavita yana “incited” Dubaўets (and not only yago) to write the getaga aburalnaga article).

Prychana Palyagae ў offensive - Agulnaviadoma, scandal to the Avanturai - the facts of the abyabrans, fanned by subpoSa “govravoda” і ildami “limearami” plow -a -nye dzeachoi at the Vachas of Sheragova Apazy.

The fact that the Kazakh Z. Paznyak ab dzeynasts of pseudo-apocalytic structures was justified”.

What can you say? Everything is correct. The way it is.

We must pay tribute to Poznyak. Despite all his recent miscalculations, he is the only significant figure who does not compromise principles and does not wag his tail in front of those who call the music.

If his nervous system had not entered into resonance with the Ukrainian events, which in no way correspond to his own ideas of good and evil, he could have become not a hardened leader of alternative thinking, but a real Belarusian politician who has no need to fight the windmills of communism - they already in past.

In conclusion, I wanted to write something smart, but one expression of Dubovets caused a smile and threw off the desire to crush water in a mortar:

“... all tree trees and oak dachshunds are different, only the needles of the yana hell getaga are not shy. The first sign of such a sign is an oak, dubeishy for other oaks is not the main thing for a primordial”.

It seems that Dubovets told the truth. But, as you know, in every process there are exceptions.

Today "Oakest for other oaks" is still there.

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A selection of scary comics in the setting of rural America.

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Fans of the horror genre are familiar with the oppressive atmosphere of American forests firsthand. You don't have to look far for examples: you can think of both classics like Sam Raimi's Evil Dead and Drew Goddard's experimental Cabin in the Woods.

However, not only filmmakers turned to this setting, but also many comic book authors, whose key works will be introduced to you in this selection. You will find more material about comics in my telegram channel.

hillbilly

Eric Powell is the creator of the legendary comic strip The Goon. Having completed the epic saga, the author changed course to more local stories in his new fantasy universe. A stern-looking protagonist with a mysterious origin who travels the world and encounters evil spirits from myths and legends. Doesn't it remind you of anything? Analogies with Hellboy suggest themselves, but already in the first issue it becomes obvious that the comics are different both in spirit and in execution.

During the creation of The Goon, Powell practiced writing and drawing, reaching a high level at Hillbilly. Drawing inspiration from the folklore of the Appalachians, the author uses a characteristic mountainous accent in the dialogues to give the work authenticity.

In this comic, he moved away from the format of a long story novel with many characters and swirling lines, focusing on short but compelling plots. The main character loves to listen, tell and discuss stories. At the same time, as in life, stories change from narrator to narrator, offering the reader to decide for himself: what is true and what is fiction.

To convey the mood, Powell actively works with colors: the main part of the world is done in muted yellow-brown hues, sharp pencil lines, like a rough sketch in a notebook. At the same time, the author has an impressive range of visual styles, without turning the comic into a dull yellow mess. Powell likes to work with a mythological bestiary: here you have many-faced wolves, and insidious witches, familiar trolls and Appalachian creatures that you hardly heard of before.

All in all, a great story that combines a unique fantasy universe with horror elements and great dialogues about repentance, love spells and stupid people.

Harrow County

A teenage and sometimes rather naive comic that tells, among other things, about the problems of growing up. The story of Harrow County is dedicated to the conflict between a girl and the villagers, who are sure that she is the next incarnation of a once-killed powerful witch. In an attempt to prove her innocence, the main character finds out that she really has a connection with supernatural beings.

After that, the plot of the work begins to develop rapidly, and many secondary characters enter the stage. Cullen Bunn, far from being the most talented screenwriter, does surprisingly well in Harrow County. He is especially good at inflating horror, which he creates with the help of a simple formula: several pages are spent on an eyeliner to a spread, where the next monster appears in all its disgusting ugliness. A kind of analogue of screamers from the cinema.

But the main star of the comic is artist Tyler Crook, who is best known for his work on B.P.R.D. The ability and love to draw monsters and "body horror" is what sets Harrow County authors apart from the rest. Aside from the horde of vermin that ranges from skinless little boys to giant demons, the comic is littered with nauseating moments, like people with mutilated faces, rotten food with larvae swarming in it, and, of course, lots of blood.

Freaks In The Heartland

A slow, moving story about the importance and, at the same time, the depravity of family ties, about the deeply wounded and miserable - all this through the prism of a closed community.

Greg Root, a comic book artist known among other things for his illustrations based on Twin Peaks, masterfully coped with the transfer of the viscous atmosphere of the work. Autumnal, muddy tones are perfect for depicting the countryside: dilapidated barns, boundless fields and withered trees. With each frame you plunge into the abyss of hopelessness, saturated with hatred and fear.

Although the general outline of the universe is understated and many elements are left behind the scenes, ignoring the questions of the reader, the comic focuses on the two-faced nature of family ties. It is more interesting for the authors to talk about the ambiguous moral essence of deformity, where the absence of physical defects does not make you a good person.

Moonshine

Another work of the famous duo responsible for the crime comic 100 Bullets. Without parting with gangsters, the authors add a pinch of horror and supernatural monsters to their new creation.

Moonshine will tell you a lot with its ambiguous name: coveting excellent moonshine, polished gentlemen in jackets and with Thompson machine guns send their man to West Virginia in order to make a deal and establish a supply of alcohol. As a result, the hero is faced with a family clan of proud werewolves who do not need partners.

By setting the story in forests and swamps, Azarello gives complete carte blanche to Risso, emphasizing his irresistible love of contrast. Having got rid of the contours, the artist enthusiastically depicts shadows that replace objects, buildings and even entire backgrounds. Whether it's a lurking werewolf in the thicket, a languid gaze of a character or a half-empty room, the artist invariably draws the frame in twilight.

In addition to the amazing drawing and monsters with bloody mouths, the comic contains reflections on the theme of loss - one of the main leitmotifs of Brian Azarrello. The protagonist, who has lost a loved one, with every step deep into the wild lands risks losing himself, forever lost in the madness of moonlight.

Hellboy The Crooked Man

While traveling through 1950s Virginia, the cult demon witnesses the intervention of otherworldly forces, teams up with a local redneck, and both of them try to find out what is even going on here.

It is not Mike Mignola himself who is responsible for the drawing, but the legendary horror author and artist Richard Corben, known for his distinctive style, expressed in the grotesque masculinity of the characters. This time, instead of muscular monsters, Korben surrounds readers with endless tracts of coniferous forests. The stunning beauty of the original landscape in Richard's rough, sloppy drawing captivates and points to the sinister secrets hidden in the depths of untouched nature.

While the drawing most effectively conveys the aesthetics of one-story America, with all its dilapidated chapels in the wilderness and wooden shacks inhabited by witches, the story focuses on the motives of return: returning home, to the roots, family reunion. Hellboy here serves as a silent observer, often remaining in the shadows or at the edge of the frame, giving way to damned little people who want to find peace in this dead earth.

In general, comics are a very difficult medium for horror: the specificity of the image of frames and the absence of sounds pushes Mignola and Corben not to use standard “boo” moments and regular images of defiant elements on the pages of a comic, but to consistently build a pressure atmosphere.

Gradually, page after page, the heroes plunge into the abyss of witches' machinations, lose their comrades-in-arms and all hope of redemption. When it's all over, the reader will remember for a long time the silent expanses of mountains, dense forests and the devil's crooked grin.

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Russian proverb, meaning: The deeper you dive into a problem, business, etc., the more subtleties and features that were hidden earlier, you discover.

Examples

(1860 - 1904)

"Vaudeville" (1884): "My wife is hysterical. The daughter declares that she is not able to live with such violent parents, and dresses to leave home. husband's head with lead lotions, and a private bailiff who draws up a protocol on the violation of public peace and tranquility.

"Sakhalin island"- "Cattle, as it is, is borrowed from the treasury and fed at the expense of the state. The further into the forest, the more firewood: all Arkovtsy owe, their debt grows with each new crop, with each extra head of cattle, and for some it already stretches to an unpaid figure - two or even three hundred rubles per capita.

(1809 - 1852)

(1831-1832), I - about Ivan Fedorovich Shponka:

“He was already almost fifteen years old when he moved to the second grade, where, instead of an abbreviated catechism and four rules of arithmetic, he set to work on a lengthy one, on a book on the positions of a person and on fractions. But, seeing that the further into the forest, the more firewood, and having received the news that the father ordered to live long, stayed for another two years and, with the consent of the mother, then joined the P *** infantry regiment.



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