Though one can even thank Eltsin for that he broke “the Protocol” with his drunken tricks, thus clearing a way to the new epoch. Well, let’s return to the “Puppets”.
I don’t know whether it’s true or not, but people in some circles check the political course of the country with this show.
And why did you decide that the show was devoted to visit to the ashram of Sai Baba?
It would be easier to watch the cassette; but it is impossible here, as you see. Moreover, it wasn’t left to me. So I can only retell briefly the subject. After it you, Mr. Holmes, will decide by yourself how does the “Puppets” refer to President’s visit to the ashram of Sai Baba.
The plot is that Putin gathers his official family: the Prime Minister Kasyanov, the head of President’s administration Voloshin, Minister of Defence Sergey Ivanov, who took up a post of the President of the Security Council in the last year during Putin’s visit to India, and another unfamiliar puppet. And he poses a problem: “I need to visit Shambala, everybody hut on national clothes!” Everybody is dressed in the same white clothes as we are; but Prime Minister Kasyanov in the national Russian clothes – Russian shirt and boots. When Putin asks what the problem is, he answers that he doesn’t wish to wear drawers. Indeed white shirt and trousers that everyone wears in the ashram looks similar to after bath’s clothes of Russian men. Thus firstly Kasyanov and then the head of administration Voloshin, who has come being drunken, become fired from Putin’s party. It means that there are two evident signs showing that it’s told not about preparations to visit a mythical Shambala but the real ashram of Sai Baba. Here all men wear white clothes and a strict prohibition to smoke and drink alcohol drinks.
I have felt it myself, – Holmes noticed. – But the strange thing, we’ve been here for two days but I don’t want to smoke. I even think about giving up this pernicious habit.
It’s all about the general atmosphere of striving to health, which appears to be a special cult here, – explained Grisha. – And if you spend here a month or two you’ll give up smoking without great efforts. Well, only three persons including Putin left in the group of the candidates for visiting the ashram. In other words a certain analogy with September visit of the three Russians, I’ve already told of, appeared. Then go the frames where Putin’s party meet the puppet of the main Russian jester and leader of the liberal-democratic party (LDPR) Zhirinovsky, who imitates a cobra charmer. The cobra tries to bit Putin, but Sergey Ivanov protects him with his body and dies. Here I should draw your attention, Mr. Holmes, to the associations referred to the already known Conception of Social Security, which Russian abbreviation is COBa. But as those Russians have told me, some figures from LDPR[84] wishing to limit the conception activity to the Russian borders added a letter “R” to the abbreviation COBa and get COBRa instead. They explained that “R” as “Russia”. It was made intentionally to associate the negative Zhirinovsky’s image with the conception. As I think, the authors of the show know the COBa and thus express their negative attitude to it. Moreover from that light humoristic episode one can understand that the President’s “tutors” are worried that Putin can connect with the COBa.
After it according to the plot Putin and the accompanying puppet meet Solzhenitsyn (I think you know what hopes were pin on him by the West in the past). The three of them take part in the ritual that you’ve seen today in the temple before Sai Baba’s appearance – they cry “Ho-o-u-um!” After it Putin disappears. Solzhenitsyn stays alone and says the significant phrase: “How could it be, I’ve been sitting for half a year and he’s got it at once!” After this phrase we here got an impression that somebody of the scenario writers knew about Putin’s visit to Sai Baba’s ashram. As you have assured, one can be invited from the first only if he meets certain conditions and rules, which are quite difficult to be followed. However even I got know of them only after two years in the ashram from the representatives of the Conception of Social Security. And those six women and two men whom Swami rejected to see the second time had lived here waiting for an audience for half a year as well.
And you, Grisha, do you consider Putin to know about the conception? – Holmes asked a question.
For me it’s difficult to suppose, since I haven’t been in Russia for a long time. But the Russians stayed here think that everybody in the senior government is acquainted to the materials of the conception. The question is in their attitude to it. Mr. Holmes, having visited different countries you could become assured that even in that places people knew about it; and the questions raised by it are serious enough. I’ve read the literature attendant to the conception, which consists of more than thirty titles; I looked to the site www.dotu.ru – Everything is very serious and sound but… it doesn’t fit in the existing stereotypes of apprehending the surrounding world, which have formed on the basis of the biblical conception. Putin’s “tutors” call “deadmen” those who have understood the new conception and tries to actualise it. They don’t like the literary-epic name of the Conception of Social Security – “Dead Water”. By on Russian there is a peculiarity. Deadman – is “мертвяк”, but the Water is “мёртвая”. These two words “мЕртвая” and “мЁртвая” are distinguished well by their pronunciation. However, they are written nearly similarly. The only difference is two dots above «Ё».
Grisha wrote letters «ё» and «e», and seeing Holmes’s misunderstanding explained.
Remove two dots above letter «i» and «j» in English hand-written text, and you’ll read them as «y»[85]. Here too the problem concerns two dots. As I know today in Russia the real war has unleashed: if to leave or remove the letter «ё» from the Russian alphabet. I hadn’t understood the causes of frantic zeal of both sides for long time, until I told with the guests from Petersburg. The matter is whether to save or to reduce the expressive meanings of the language. Agree that even in English earlier there were more letters and each of them was significant. But now, for example, the letters «þ» and «ð» both are written as «th». And hence there is no unambiguity in reading them. The same is in Russian: the alphabet before Peter the Great consisted of 46 letters and now – after the Revolution of 1917 – only of 33.
Well, let’s return to the “Puppets”. The extremely straightforward logic, which in my opinion expressed in showing the puppet of the President of the Security Council “bit” by cobra, in the notification system opposing to COBa means: Sergey Ivanov is ineligible for using within the biblical conception. And if to analyse materials of the Russian press and television it’s easily seen how much money is spent to any nonsense and rubbish for make a reader and watcher not to think about anything serious. It means that mass media, as it is, creates something like interference or “white noise” which prevents from distinguishing the “valuable signal”, i.e. the information, necessary for taking the only right decision. However, it isn’t because of good life, but because today in Russia it is very hard not to notice the conception alternative to the biblical one, because it isn’t a figment of imagination of some group of people, who realizes some public initiative. It is an objective need of the new informational state, in which has the whole society found itself after September 11, 2001. Nevertheless the COBa’s enemies can do nothing but pretend not to notice its existence. Though, it couldn’t last for long. Longer mass media cover it up higher rises the “water” and more it presses the “elite”. And those, whom the “elite” considers to be a crowd, will make sure more and more stronger of viciousness of the “elite” that constantly looses its authority. This will make plain people think by themselves. It’s the main condition of transformation a crowd into a nation.
You, Grisha, say about it so surely that a question arises unintentionally whether you join the very that “public initiative”, which calls itself the Internal Predictor of the USSR?