Russians never give up
About one of human heroism and the immortality of our people
Last week one the Russian officer had committed the deed. Under the Palmyra, in the Syrian special forces group, the leading abenavoli Alexander Prokhorenko, surrounded and wounded, called themselves the bomb‑assault shot and died, taking the light of several thugs. The group was getting too close to the ruins, was discovered and taken into the ring. And when near the last Syrian soldier, Russian officer passed on sighting and navigation complex strike aircraft its last designation.
The pilot and wouldn't have been who he dropped the bomb.
The feat was not even that the officer, causing a fire, expensive to sell his life, preferring death to captivity: the selection was small. Genuine choice and a great sacrifice, and the immortality of happened a little earlier — at a time when the officer has decided he or ruins. Stay safe and work from a distance, spit on the dead stones. Or, fatally risking themselves for the sake of the stones, creep a little closer, point the aircraft precisely on the enemy and save the ancient city. The officer chose.
This decision was a lot of debt: abenavoli was advanced, such is his specialty. But first there was a look of love. Saving love to something very important in life. Porticos, columns, capitals,... Sweet dreams baby...
The country did not recognize the name of asianvideo. And the long channels did not show his photographs in the news. But people, the day that happened in a distant desert, not particularly needed those photos. It was possible without photo do.
This was not seventy years ago, the feat was today — here's what's surprising. He collided with our time, our important concerns: the exchange rate, sanctions, the prices of potatoes, housing. While you stood at the cashier to pay another loan, the same, in General, a man speaking in Russian, three thousand miles away, leaned back in the hot sand, counting the last seconds, and casually made it clear to the whole world: Russians do not surrender.
The death of such not to take
A couple of days, one of the first, quick fried to news, about the case under the Palmyra wrote the British tabloid Daily Mirror. In the header editor has allocated kapslokom — that is in capital letters is crucial, in his opinion, the word "Russian "Rambo" surrounded by jihadists, wiped off the face of the earth gilowska rabble, calling an airstrike ON YOURSELF."
And the article was also repeated in the same kapslokom: "over". Felt: overwhelmed people. They needed it to digest: wait, how so? Why not burst, did not surrender? Why there, to the stones, he climbed? In article soldier named "Rambo" — read, Superman. Mythological character, to induce to life which required a Hollywood.
Remember Rambo in the film from the cliff on the tree jumped and killed them all then. But I also remember — from the age of seven, probably — a line from a poem by Konstantin Simonov "the Son of a gunner":
The third signal on the radio: the Germans around me,
Beat the "four-ten", it's worth the fire!
The major grew pale, hearing: "Four-ten" is just
The place where it should sit Lenka now.
But, not submitting the mind, forgetting that he was the father,
The major continued to command with a calm face:
"Fire!" — flying projectiles. "Fire!" — load quickly!
The square four-beat ten six batteries.
The radio hour was silent, then came the signal:
— Silent: deafened by the explosion. Beat, as I said.
I believe that their shells can't touch me.
The Germans flee, hit, give a sea of fire!
And at the command center, adopting the latest signal
Major in deaf radio, unable to stand, cried out:
— Can you hear me, I believe that the death of such not to take.
Hold on, my boy: in the world twice not to die.
None of us in life can not knock out of the saddle! —
So saying the major was...It 1941 year.
There was then in the Russian Newspapers no kapsloka. And now don't need one
In another British tabloid, "daily Mail", laudatory article about the liberation of Palmyra the most popular was this comment: "good job, Russia and the Syrian army! Finish off these bastards once and for all!" More than 1,200 readers of the comments said "Yes" and only 20 people voted against. The ratio of deadly Pro-Russian after this whole government should resign.
That means something, of course. Here you can talk about human relations in the West, the number of normal people there... And it's true: some of them are now wondering — what is this nation that does not surrender? What are these Russians that after all that they were and still are, they cause the fire?.. And it is not in the English language for the word "exploit" is an exact match.
Trampling down death by death
"It would be better for Ukraine, — says one. Why go to the distant stones? Why fight for others, and the Russian side can not help? Near Gorlovka, the gunners need you!"
This is a false dilemma, bro. Russian Gorlovka — not thrown. In Syria, our army destroys those who could be in the house to you or to me — in Volgograd, Buinaksk, Moscow. Now you can't.
But if to speak not about campaigns or fronts and about the specific case of the near ancient, the colour of the sun and desert, the colonnade, is the important thing here is not the arithmetic of war, and manifested the willingness of a Russian officer to sacrifice himself for the sake of beauty and human history. That is what distinguishes us from the savages that binds together the millennial Nations.
We live by the deeds of heroes. Not very loud, almost random — but without them would be nothing here.
How I was able to find that note the captain-Lieutenant Kolesnikov of the Kursk submarine: "to Despair is not necessary"? But found the same — and now a decade and a half in these simple words power draw thousands of people.
Were there many chances that the act Evgeny Rodionov will be known to the whole country? One, a prisoner, surrounded by enemies 19-year-old boy died — not "peace", without dramatic scenes. Just never took the cross, didn't give up — now he's a Saint.
The sixth company of the Pskov — unless they thought that they know, they will proplace, they will not forget Russia? Was not at any solemnity or pathos. People just leaned on the horn and began to retreat. So we won a decisive war in recent history.
The whole "Crimea is ours" and "Russian spring", perhaps because for a couple of months before at the other end of the country hundreds of people during the terrible floods suddenly came out of the house and his own hands kept swelling the Amur river and thus saved his native city. It was then that it became clear: we can do anything.
Feat one Russian on a perpetual Palmyra promises immortality to the whole nation.
