During the agony of the Soviet system of Moscow imperialism, the most popular ballet was “Swan Lake”.
Those who survived these stagnant years know well the reason for such dubious popularity. White swans appeared on the television screen of the then only and infallible propaganda channel during the farewell to the next general secretary. The broadcast was watched with pleasure by all the working people, even children in kindergartens, and few suspected that a black swan would soon appear from behind the scenes, not a black ruffian, but a black swan, which would destroy the Bolshevik prison of the peoples.
An unexpected black swan was not an exceptional rarity for the Moscow swamps. The processes of empire formation, rewriting and falsification of history, wars of aggression and revolutions, repressions and crises periodically had a black swan character. However, a more typical phenomenon was the existence of a monster peculiar to the northern swamps – the red two-headed swan. The Red Swan is a creation of empires and tyrannies, where the laws of the civilized world do not apply, and, accordingly, there is its own coordinate system based on the enslavement of peoples and freedoms. For the Moscow Empire, he became a symbol for centuries.
Not everyone knows that the famous saying “Moscow does not believe in tears” is only part of the basic imperial ideology: “Moscow does not believe in tears, Moscow thirsts for blood.” This is how the full version of the expression sounds, the origin of which is sometimes attributed to the so-called Ivan the Terrible. The “blood” of the murdered native son of this tsar-khan (again two-headed) determined the color of the Moscow swan for ages. Blood color. The color of filicide, the color of fratricide, the color of inhuman cruelty, betrayal, meanness, cynicism and lies.
Lies and deception in the chevron-swan design of the Moscow region are almost everything, and therefore some may assume or joke that this swan turned red from shame. No, shame, conscience, morality and honor are not fundamentally a question. From the first days of its foundation until today, the essence of Moscow imperialism was and remains unchanged, only the forms have changed. In addition to lying, she has also skillfully used and continues to use theft and forgery. After all, it was not so difficult, on the remnants of the Golden Horde, to “collect land”, how to give this artificial formation the features of a state, and also “great”, and also with history and messianism. And here, not only thieving skills came in handy, but also some kind of prokopovichs – mankurts from enslaved peoples who helped to steal, rewrite and turn everything upside down. And where subterfuge, falsifications and “referendums” failed, proven methods of repression and terror were used. Doesn’t remind you of anything?
So, the red swan is a complete cynical lie of a big-power chauvinistic malignant entity that regularly breaks through to clean lakes from stinking swamps. His flight is always accompanied by arrows, balls, “katyusha” and “daggers”. How many swans have already flown by, and the world could not realize that they are not white, not black, but rather red – hybrid monsters that bring destruction and chaos. The Bolshevik revolution, the idea of a world proletarian revolution, “Pobedobesie”, “Russian Peace”, “Svo”… this is a far from complete list of red swans over the last hundred years. The recompense for their impunity flights is dozens, even hundreds of enslaved peoples, some of which have already been erased from the face of the earth forever, there are thousands of destroyed cities, villages and communities, there are millions of executed destinies, repressed freedom lovers and unborn geniuses.
But for every swan, especially a pest swan, there is always a hunter. It looks like a Ukrainian bird catcher is destined to hunt down and pluck this monster. And this time is steadily approaching. After all, it has been so long since the forgotten motifs of “Swan Lake” were heard on the screens of propaganda channels… It’s time!
Oleh Vitvitskyj
