"Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. The march of the hypocrites " - читать интересную книгу автора

hypocritical double standard. Here is but one more. In the Euro
- American expanse, all sorts of integration and partnership are
cultivated and nurtured, stretching over lands on the periphery of
this space, like Ukraine, willing, even to incorporate faraway Central
Asia. At the same time, all sorts of political interference and
economic pressure are vigilantly applied in order to derail the very
plan of a rapprochement between Belarus and Russia.
And what of Nato expansion? Which, by the way, adds allies who
surely will remain apathetic and useless vis-a-vis the Alliance's
global, non-European aims. It is either the traditional Cold War
hypnosis, impairing one's ability to see the powerlessness of Russia,
beset by internal troubles. Or, on the contrary, it is extreme far
- sightedness on the part of Nato's leaders. Should the high-tariff
strangling of Russian exports (except for coercivelycheap natural
resource exports) prove insufficient: should the implacable diktat of
Russian internal policy (bundled with loans that only enfeeble) prove
insufficient as well; there will now be, in reserve; the
"neutralisation" of Russia into a comatose state.
I have not the means to guess whether Russia's current leaders
understand this: Most likely they do not: witness their own clumsy
participation in that elegant new phenomenon of the "peacekeeping
forces" in Bosnia or Tajikistan; or their confused, lost policies
regarding the CIS countries, or their doomed attempts to hold on to
Chechnya, with reckless disregard for the human cost; witness,
finally, their blind inability to find a reasonable and just solution
to the controversy over the Kuril Islands.
They see themselves at the helm of the ship of Russian history,
but they are not. They do not direct the course of events.
As for those who do, their plans to establish a "final worldwide
security" are ephemeral as well. Given human nature we ought never to
attain such security. It would be futile, at the very least, to march
towards this goal armed with hypocrisy and scheming short-term
calculations, as practised by a revolving door of, officials and by
the powerful financial circles that back them, Nor can security be
bought with any new technical "superinvention" - for no secret lasts.
Only if the creative and active forces of mankind dedicate
themselves to finding gradual and effective restraints against the
evil facets of human nature to an elevation of our moral
consciousness - only then will a faint, distant hope exist. To embark
upon this path, and to walk it, requires a penitent, pure heart and
the wisdom and willingiress to place constraints on one's own side,
to limit oneself even before limiting others. But today that path only
elicits an ironic chuckle, if not open ridicule.
If so, don't bother calling for "world security".