Where is Russia heading?

The sad statistics of Russian life is reflected in the poignant article by Andrei Konchalovsky. This article is by the famous film director Andrei Konchalovsky - scream and cry of the man who wants to awaken his homeland from years of heavy sleep until this dream does not become fatal. AdMe.ru believes that you can have different attitudes to the facts presented here, but they must be known.

I want to remind you some amazing facts and figures which clearly show that in many respects Russia is not in Europe or even in Asia in terms of corruption, life expectancy, the level of investment in science and the like - we are in Africa!

I have even more to say - it is not for us to be offended at such a comparison, but for Africans ! The Africans have an explanation for their backwardness: for four centuries they were mercilessly exploited and destroyed by the "newcomers" - racists and colonialists, and who colonized or tortured us, Russians, for the last four centuries except ourselves?

So, we often ignore statistics (statistics will be presented now) in dry figures it is hard to grasp the reality.

But the scale of the tragedy that is played out in Russia now is so critical, that I urge you to strain your attention.

Mortality in Russia

Over the past 20 years in Russia died more than 7 million Russians. For this indicator, we are ahead of Brazil and Turkey by 50 %, and of Europe - several times.

Russia annually loses a whole populous area equal to Pskov, or a major city, such as Krasnodar.

The number of suicides, poisonings, homicides and accidents in Russia is comparable to the death rate in Angola and Burundi.

According to male life expectancy, Russia is approximately at the 160th place in the world after Bangladesh.

Russia ranks 1st in the world in absolute magnitude of population decline.

According to UN estimates, the population of Russia from the current 143 million people will decrease to 121-136 million by 2025.

Family crisis

8 out of 10 elderly people living in nursing homes have relatives who could support them. Nnevertheless, they are sent to shelters! Relatives refused them.

We have 2 to 5 million homeless (after World War II, there were 700,000).

In China, of the 1 billion 400 000 000 of the population only 200 thousand are homeless - i.e. 100 times smaller than ours!

That's what the kids mean for the Chinese! But caring for the elderly and children is the key to a prosperous nation.

80 % of the 370,000 children in orphanages have living parents.

But they are contained by the state! I do believe that it is a criminal act.

We are # 1 in the world in the number of children abandoned by their parents.

All these figures show the erosion and disintegration of family values ​​in our country ...

Crimes against children

According to the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, in 2010, 100 000 minors were victims of crimes, including 1,700 children raped and murdered (by the figures we are ahead of even South Africa). This means that every day in Russia 4-5 children are killed.

In 2010, in Russia were committed 9,500 sexual crimes against minors, including 2,600 cases of rape, 3,600 cases of non-violent sexual intercourse (for 8 years sexual crime has increased almost 20-fold).

In these crimes we are behind only South Africa.

Addiction and Alcoholism

30,000 Russians die every year from drug overdose (the population of a small town).

In the year vodka killed 70,000 people.

In Afghanistan during the war 14,000 of our soldiers were killed!

According to the World Health Organization, a citizen of the Russian Federation in the year accounted for 15 liters of pure alcohol, despite the fact that if the consumption of pure alcohol per person is over 8 liters, there is a threat to the survival of the nation.

Corruption

The size of bribes in Russia increased tenfold, while the trials between our oligarchs in London have become a byword for the global business community.

Impunity in the legal field has reached the point that a criminal case has been filed against the lawyer Magnitsky who died in prison - that is, they decided to try a dead man, who, naturally, could not defend himself!

In Europe, a similar incident happened last time in the XVII century, when Cromwell was dug out of his grave and hanged on the gallows - so to say, justice in pursuit!

So in the light of these figures we can say about the decline of national morality - and, ultimately, the responsibility for this lies with our government.

And now - did you know that:

Over the past 10 years in Siberia disappeared 11,000 villages and 290 towns.

The average population density of Siberia and the Far East is 2 people per 1 sq. km.

The average population density of the central part of Russia is 46 pers. / sq. km.

The average population density of China is 140 pers. / sq. km.

The average population density of Japan is 338 pers. / sq. km.

For whom did we conquer and develop Siberia and the Kurils?

For the Chinese, or Japanese, so it turns out!

For a country with such a wealth of natural and water resources it is shameful to have 50 % of the population poor.

These figures frighten me.

I hope they also scare you. I'm sure that Putin knows all the facts - I wonder what he thinks about it.

Tragically, I think, obviously this is not the limit, not the worst thing we have not touched on the "bottom", and the people have not yet matured to the capacity of terrifying themselves and finally to gain the courage to ask, "where we live?".

We are accustomed to sniffing the stench in the hallways and toilets! We are accustomed to killing around us. We are accustomed to the fact that people in the Russian cities and villages are literally fighting for their lives.

A journalist born in Kuschevskaya, Anatoly Yermolin wrote: "If in Kuschevskaya they killed not 12 people at once, but committed five murders of two persons each, this would be noticed by no one, as it usually happens in our country."

Well, in Russia who does not know that "Kuschevka" happens not only in Krasnodar, but nationwide! Who does not know that those criminals and gangsters are the real power that they choose for deputies in local power bodies! Everyone in his village knows who is "cool", i.e. who communicates with the police and the prosecutor.

The Kremlin only pretends to fight corruption, dismissing dozens of generals at MIA, mid-level officials and governors.

The Kremlin generously replaces their deserved shooting punishment by "well-deserved rest" in Dubai and Cote d'Azur! Does the power really think this is a way to end corruption? But, on the other hand, throughout the country they elect for the local authority a candidate, whose forehead is inscribed the words, "I'm a thief" and then wonder that the government is corrupt!

And I wonder whether half of the nation should really die out and Russia should be limiterd to the Urals for the people to wake up (again, the entire nation, and not a tiny group of thoughtful people!) and demand that the authorities do not release just pleasant and soothing news and make regular promises, but speak the truth, and first of all recognize how bad we live now!

Remember, in 1941 came the catastrophe - and this was done by Stalin. In 1956 the Bolsheviks felt threatened with retribution for the decades of terror - and this was forcibly made by Khrushchev. Today, Russia is approaching demographic and moral disaster, which has never been experienced!

This fact is associated with many factors.

Chief among these is the irresponsible economic policies of the 90s, which struck the people with feudal consciousness, who had never known of private land ownership or capitalism, who over 70 years had lost this barely nascent spirit of enterprise forever.

What to do?

Well, the journalist Michael Berg wrote in his blog: "We live in one country, but we have two nations - a tiny handful of thinking people that need a lot of freedom and fair elections and the huge "sleepy" population of average Russians. And between them there is an abyss of fear, the most powerful and dangerous fear and social distrust... You can fight the "party of crooks and thieves". You can blame Russian bureaucratic seed that fucked up a whole of Russian history, but you cannot undo the fact that the majority of the Russian population certainly has not changed in its fundamental characteristics for many centuries! .. ".

Sadly, I was forced to agree with him. I could even add that our oppressors come out of our own ranks!

So I do not know what to do, but to try to shake you and make you terrify yourselves.

Well, Yulia Latynina thinks I'm not only a pessimist, but also "demotivator," but it seems to me that you can motivate a person when he is conscious and wants to escape. And what happens if he is unconscious or lethargic? Sometimes, in order to bring a person back to life, the doctor beats him on the cheeks.

I know what I will hear in response - I have already heard that many times, but I understand that if at least one-third of those who read and listen to me now agreed with me, RUSSIA WOULD BECOME A DIFFERENT COUNTRY.

I am convinced that Russia needs a leader who would have the courage of Peter the Great, to tell the people the words that they have not heard.

This is the bitter truth, for it is difficult to admit that Russia cannot move forward because they do not want to understand how far it has fallen behind the civilization of Europe in its development.

I understand that the national leader, a politician, bears a huge burden of political responsibility and , as a rule, can not speak freely.

But today, only a clear and inspiring, even ruthless, but lively and sincere word can be a cause for national awakening from the feudal hibernation.

Only by doing this, we can hope that the nation, through its wisdom will instinctively understand and accept that hard and maybe a ruthless way, which alone can pull our country out of the pit into which we have been plunged.

I do not know whether Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin is capable of such a self-destructive act. Can he take the "steel broom" and proclaim the equality of all before the law? All without exception. If he is capable of that, he will certainly deserve an honorable place in the Pantheon of Russian History. If not ... I do not know ...

I am a Russian and I miss my homeland, but I do not "see" it!

I do not see the country that I want to be proud of. I see crowds of disaffected disgruntled individuals and strangers who are afraid of each other!

I want to be proud of my homeland, but I am ashamed for it !

When was I proud of my motherland last? I do not remember! But I know that the TRUTH about the condition of our people, the TRUTH said loudly to the whole world would cause me, and not only me, to feel more pride than the victory of our hockey players at the Olympics.

ANN.Az