The French are amazing these days. A certain advanced lady, Sarah Legrain, wants to remove the norm on marital duty from the family code. The marriage, according to Mme Legrain, does not imply the consent of the parties to have sexual relations with each other. It is not entirely clear why such a marriage would… Читать далее »
Europe continues to be a bedlam. The subordinates are trying to prove to their former masters that they are capable of self-government… In this way, one can come to an even worse idiocy than the previous one. We in Russia used to be afraid of a direct military clash with America, but now we have… Читать далее »
Looking through my anime collection, I thought that in ‘high school anime’ (very numerous) the main thing is not the school, but the frozen moment of happiness associated with youth. The Japanese draw this moment quite consciously, knowing what they are doing. They are masters of contemplation in general, it is true, but in other… Читать далее »
When a government has exhausted all possible stores of lies, as, for example, the Soviet government did by 1937, it urgently needs ‘enemies’. Since things are not going at all as promised by propaganda, but rather against it, it is necessary to transfer the attention of the population to these enemies. As a rule, they… Читать далее »
В Русской Библіотекѣ пополнение: стихи П. А. Каратыгина против ломателей русской орфографии (1862). Views: 5
‘A person who has not experienced the pleasure of the first money received for literary work does not know what joy can reward the seductive metal of the most indifferent to money writer’, says the now forgotten A. V. Druzhinin. V. Druzhinin in his essay on Goldsmith. I read these words and remembered my first… Читать далее »
Present-day Russia is hostile to poetry — not just to rhymed lines (there is plenty of that), but to poetry in its essence. The poet, you see, must ‘honour himself’, as Pushkin expressed it; must listen to his soul; must protect his independence from the yoke of external circumstances. It is precisely self-respect, together with… Читать далее »
Not so long ago, one could see in the rulers of Europe people who have been crushed by the American boot. Now, however, it is clearly visible that these are people yearning for the American boot. It is also surprising that they see the Russians as a greater threat than the Muslims flooding European cities.… Читать далее »
Sergei Khudiev has drawn a fine line under American ‘gender socialism’, and especially its relationship with Christianity: «It turned out that all 666 genders were not at all the main path of humanity’s development, against which historically doomed retrogrades hiss in vain. It was just people sitting on a lot of money pushing their agenda.… Читать далее »
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