World under clowns. Almaz Braev

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      And only a politician who can challenge all the freaks and all the buffoons mumbling about some kind of democracy is a real imperial politician. This is a greeting from the XVI and XVIII centuries to Russia. But how and why he became like this, even though he was chosen to be an empty place and not interfere with the enrichment of the court, is another question, another topic that requires disclosure. The last strong politicians were in Europe in the XX century. The last strong ideologues were in the world, too, in the XX century.

      Chapter 11

      Shorties

      “People are like people. They love money, but it’s always been that humanity loves money, no matter what it’s made of, whether it’s leather, paper, bronze, or gold. Well, they are frivolous… well, well… and mercy sometimes knocks on their hearts … ordinary people… in general, they resemble the former… the housing issue only spoiled them…

      Until about 460 BC, the Athenians did not like money. Money did not play a major role. After its victory over the Persians, Athens consolidated other Greeks around it during the conflict and headed the Delos Maritime Union of Greek cities. Over time, the union’s treasury was also moved to Athens under the pretext of better preservation of money. From that moment on, the aristocracy of Ancient Greece began to suffer damage, not in terms of loss of authority and influence; however, the aristocrats themselves became bourgeois in thirty years. Rootless oligarchs who supported the strategist Pericles appeared in Athens. To finally finish off the aristocracy, the oligarchs used the so-called “shard court” – ostracism. In just two generations, Athens got rid of outstanding citizens: Aristides, Phimistocles, Cimon, Thucydides, etc. They drove all ambitious people out of the city. Only Pericles remained.

      However, the sword of the crowd hung over him in the form of ostracism. It may seem strange to refer to some Ancient Greece: where is Ancient Greece, and where is the modern world? Ancient events and modern facts are separated by 2500 years. (What are you, they say, a blockhead, carrying a blizzard. However, each material is not a fairy tale or a saying. I cannot tell white patriots and fascists that there are instructive examples and analogies. Here is the fate of the Greek Atlantis, as Ancient Greece and its democracy disappeared in the time of history). But it is precisely Greek democracy that creates a vivid example of a short – term rise and a long fall and degradation, and then complete disappearance – the oblivion of the famous ethnic group. (The Greek landing in Smyrna in May 1919 and the Second Greco-Turkish War cannot be regarded as a Greek revival. The Greeks were expelled by the Kemalists and left Asia Minor forever. However, these were completely different Greeks already. But what’s the difference? These were also considered Greeks).