National Unity Day: because it can't be otherwise
On November 4, the Day of National Unity, we remember how four centuries ago our compatriots managed to take a concerted ACTION to unite the divided, in order to preserve themselves as a community with common spiritual values and ideas about the future, regardless of class, national, religious and other contradictions. …
What do I care about you all?
Do you care about me?
(M. Sobol)
Day of National Unity … For many, this holiday has remained just another day off. Condescending skeptics do not believe in the possibility of rooting new public holidays in the minds of people deprived of the enthusiasm of the first five-year plans. Those who are nostalgic for the glorious Soviet past feel offended by the substitution of the usual “red days of the calendar” with new dates that “mean nothing” and say nothing to the heart of the modern man in the street.
Whether it's the case:
Day 7 November -
Red day of the calendar.
Look out your window:
Everything on the street is red.
All people - young and old -
Celebrate freedom.
And my red ball is flying
Straight to the sky!
It was easy to feel this holiday. Everything was red with flags and slogans, joyful music rushed from everywhere, the optimistic faces of people united by a single impulse looked demandingly from the posters. The implication was that joy should arise in a Soviet person endogenously. And it arose, fed by the numerous achievements of the Country. From morning to evening, propaganda worked year after year for collectivism, internationalism, and unity. All that remained was to assimilate the meanings proclaimed from the high tribunes.
New time has made its own adjustments. There is no government of wise elders and strict party control, there is no sixth part of the land, before which the enemies were shaking in impotent rage. There is a country that, for the first time in decades, declares its political sovereignty and a frenzied reaction to these attempts by our political "partners" who have managed to get used to the lack of will and omnivorousness of Russians. There is our inner monstrous discord - the result of the introduction of the skin values of the consumer society into the urethral-muscular mentality. And there is an attempt from above to remind of the vital necessity of overcoming the turmoil of mutual hostility in the only possible way - by rallying into a single people with the political will to achieve their goals.
On November 4, the Day of National Unity, we remember how four centuries ago our compatriots managed to take a concerted ACTION to unite the divided, in order to preserve themselves as a community with common spiritual values and ideas about the future, regardless of class, national, religious and other contradictions. … On this day, the people's militias led by Kuzma Minin and Dmitry Pozharsky took Kitay-Gorod and liberated Moscow from the Polish invaders. But let's start from the beginning …
How it was
The seventeenth century dealt with troubles over Russia. Boris Godunov, False Dmitry, Shuisky - "tsars" replace each other on the Russian throne, impostors appear here and there: Tsar! But there is no king either on the throne or in the heads. The eight thousandth Polish army occupies the capital. The country was plundered, Moscow was burned. Anarchy. The third False Dmitry is already aiming for the throne, there are three patriarchs, and the Boyar Duma has one name, in fact, it is a clamor of clans under the Polish protectorate. Everywhere betrayal, disbelief, death. It seemed that nothing would change the course of history. The days of Russia are numbered.
But it was not so. There was a man, Kuzma Minin, a meat merchant, who said: "Brothers, we will not spare ourselves for the Fatherland" and "I call the brave to go and liberate Moscow." And they believed him as they believed themselves. And they began to collect funds for the militia. Because the treasury is empty, and it makes no sense to wait until the government decides something there. Yes and no it, the government. And there are traitors and embezzlers.
With all the merits (meaning wise, clever, pagan) and status position (zemstvo headman) Kuzma Minin is a simple man, from the most low-class townspeople. He cannot lead the militia, a well-born leader is needed. Kuzma sends people to Prince Dmitry Pozharsky, asks to lead the militia against the Polish intervention. Prince Dmitry is surprised - who is this, this Minin? Rurikovich does not know in the twentieth generation, Prince Pozharsky, no Kuzma the butcher, therefore, refusal.
But something does not give the prince rest. A thought or a vague feeling. Because he acts contrary to common sense, performs an unthinkable action for those class times - he unites with the commoner Minin for a common goal. Historians still do not know why this is happening: Pozharsky, lame, shell-shocked, stricken with "black sickness" (epilepsy), who never adhered to anyone, having received news from someone unknown, agrees to lead his army and go to Moscow …
Is it strange or natural?
System-vector psychology of Yuri Burlan gives a clear explanation of the deed of Prince Dmitry, who at the level of the unconscious fulfilled the order of the natural leader. Outwardly, it looked like an unmotivated, unexpected agreement. We may not know what Minin and Pozharsky were like, but the structure of their psychic unconscious is beyond doubt, no matter how many years have passed. The true desires of these people, expressed in their actions, have left an indelible mark on history.
Brilliantly educated for his time, Prince Dmitry Pozharsky, according to the memoirs of his contemporaries, had a pronounced sense of duty, was a strong leader, but without arrogance. From the age of fifteen in the tsarist service, he began as a "giver of dresses", faithfully rose to the rank of governor, participated in the hostilities of the first militia, was seriously wounded and contused. "I showed a lot of service, I endured hunger and in all its poverty, but I did not encroach on thieves' charm and confusion."
Faithful to the military oath, Pozharsky did not join either Skopin-Shuisky or the impostor. Prince Dmitry felt these skin zealots of his own ambitions by the equality of properties in which he was developed incomparably higher - not for himself, but outward, into society. Pozharsky understood the benefit only as a benefit to the Fatherland, a duty to the people.
The brave warrior was internally ready to continue the resistance. All they needed was a signal to start the battle. And he sounded. The oral word of Kuzma Minin reached the patrimonial estate of Pozharsky Mugreevo (now the Ivanovo region), where the prince was treated for his wounds. The pain and weakness of the body receded before the strength of the spirit of this rare for those times anal-skin-muscular with sound and vision man. He goes to Nizhny to teach the militia military discipline.
"Metaphysics" of special properties
Urethral-muscular with orality, Minin was a natural leader of the pack, capable of leading people, possessed thet of persuasion and an irresistible charm of four-dimensional recoil. It is no coincidence that the Novgorodians elected him as a zemstvo head. This trust of people expressed their inner feeling from Minin - such a person can be responsible for the flock, he can be given your future.
Minin collected money for the militia, starting with himself. I gave my savings in full. Those who hoped to solve the matter with Kuzma in their own way, immediately learned what the anger of the leader of the pack meant. Fearing the shame of being “chained in iron”, or even “hands of beheading”, the stingy people in return for a sweet soul carried their savings into the general treasury.
It would seem that you organize a circular defense of the city and live in peace. But Minin understood that one cannot be happy separately from the country. Sooner or later, trouble will come to the most prosperous, well-fortified house, city. The powerful temperament of the head Minin covered areas much larger than the zemstvo. As befits a urethral leader, he, like a magnet, attracted people to him.
Business acumen is not enough to raise funds to pay for professional soldiers (only such were Minin taken to the militia). Required "metaphysics" of the special properties of the eight-dimensional matrix of the psychic within one person. The combination of the urethral and oral vectors explains the incredible intelligibility of Kuzma Minin's words. He spoke passionately and simply, and the meanings of unification for the sake of survival at all costs entered the minds of people like a knife in butter.
Pozharsky, on the other hand, is skimpy on words. His job is to discipline and train the militia. Under the leadership of Prince Dmitry, invited Swedish officers work with the soldiers. But inside the militia - no foreign legionnaires. Only those who live on Russian lands: Russians, Bashkirs, Tatars, Udmurts, Mari, and other peoples for whom the Polish invasion was incompatible with the urethral mentality common to all. It was this, and not only religious feelings, that united people, among whom were both Christians and “pagans”.
The quirks of the landscape and God's craft
The militia of Minin and Pozharsky moved along the main artery of the Russian landscape, the Volga River, covered with ice, as if along a road. They walked through the rich cities not ruined by the enemy. There were salt brews here, from here was Kuzma Minin, the son of Mina Ankundinov, a salt maker. Here you could take a break, gain strength, take new militias. And even though the gates of some cities were closed in front of Pozharsky, “a traitor to the Polish king Vladislav,” no one was able to change the general vector of movement of the resistance fighters. In April 1612, the five thousandth army of Minin and Pozharsky entered Yaroslavl.
The soldiers stayed here for four months. River floods and pestilence (smallpox) seemed to test the strength of these people, but there was something else. Pozharsky orders to close the city, to post guards, not to let anyone in or let out. All the bells are ringing. Pray for salvation. Whether it is a collective concentration on one thought, whether the air vibrates from the ringing of bells, or maybe both together, but the pestilence recedes. The attempt on the life of the envious on Pozharsky also failed, the loyal guard took the blow of a dagger aimed at the heart of the prince.
An elected government has been formed in the city. The militia grows with Tatar cavalry, Siberian fifty, receives cannons and gunpowder, and “soft currency” - furs - was brought from Siberia, which made it possible to pay considerable expenses. The militias of Minin and Pozharsky received 3-5 times the average payments to soldiers, they were well fed, well trained and equipped. The standing in Yaroslavl, outwardly caused by flooding of rivers and the sea, made it possible to accumulate a sufficient amount of forces and means to deliver a crushing blow to the enemy. In the summer of 1612, from Yaroslavl to Moscow, according to various sources, from 12 to 30 thousand militias moved forward.
freedom or death
"The rich came from Yaroslavl, and some can fight off the hetman," says Prince Trubetskoy, an ambitious military leader who leads the first militia near Moscow. Trubetskoy wants the "less noble" Pozharsky to surrender the command to him, and since Prince Dmitry does not do this, Trubetskoy takes a wait-and-see attitude: Let's see what these "Yaroslavl" men are capable of.
Militiamen of Minin and Pozharsky are taking the battle. Their adversary is the best commander in Europe, hetman Chodkevich, who did not know defeat. He brings food and weapons to the Poles. This cannot be allowed. Seeing the stubbornness with which the militias of Minin and Pozharsky are fighting, Trubetskoy's Cossack hundreds forcefully cross the river and join them.
Russians do not fight according to the rules, they are not afraid of the hetman and his "cruel custom". Instead of scattering under the tactically impeccable blows of Khodkevich, they sat down in the "wolf pits" and ruins, so that "from the pits and sprinklers they would go with a vice to the camps, with all their might to lean on the hetman's camp." Above, from the walls, aimed fire is being conducted at the Russians. Khodkevich's infantry knows no equals in Europe, and Russian warriors also have to dismount. It seemed we were defeated. But early Prince Pozharsky grieves.
For the night attack, Minin asked him for three selected hundreds of noblemen. And the prince gave one to perish. History has not preserved the words with which the son of the salt man raised the nobles to attack. And are specific words important when the unheard-of audacity and passionate love for the will, the impossibility of living in the position of enslaved and the freedom to choose the future for their people at once became the common feelings of those fighting, ready to easily give up their short medieval lives for the future centuries of Russian history?
Estates and other prejudices were put aside, the nobles followed the peasant, the Orthodox, Muslims, Catholics, pagans - all merged in a single impulse to survive here and now, by all means, or die free. Chodkiewicz did not expect such a blow and was defeated. But the invaders did not surrender, although they were literally already eating human flesh.
Grateful Russia to Citizen Minin and Prince Pozharsky
On November 4, the troops of Minin and Pozharsky went to storm Kitai-Gorod, and soon the "Kremlin prisoners" were already negotiating the terms of surrender. Trubetskoy's Cossacks cut them, regardless of the agreement. Minin and Pozharsky were merciful. Trubetskoy's ambitious desires for a kingdom were not destined to come true. Boyars need not too influential family. Not the first time, but they persuaded Mikhail Romanov to accept Monomakh's hat. Some kind of guarantor from anarchy was obtained.
Kuzma Minin and Dmitry Pozharsky fulfilled a fateful mission in the history of the Fatherland, and their paths diverged for the rest of their lives. Grateful Russia has captured them together forever: the sculptural group of Ivan Martos made of brass and copper "Citizen Minin and Prince Pozharsky" is known to any schoolchild. It is interesting that the casting of such a colossal monument "at one time" was performed for the first time in European history. It never occurred to anyone to smelt the heroes separately.
Let me
The modern skin age enhances our sense of oneness in this world. "There is no one but me." So we think, and are ready to defend our "exclusive" rights with foam at the mouth. Give me, Putin, a good life. When will I have satiety, stability, happiness? Where is the government looking? Why don't they ensure my wishes come true?
A natural continuation of the feeling of oneself as the crown of the universe is the rejection of other people, different in blood, nationality, place of residence, religious preferences, and way of thinking. Not knowing how to unite in the name of a common future, we very quickly unite against someone. "Moscow for …, We do not serve …, Suitcase-station …" - these anal slogans of "guardians of purity" have become familiar for a long time. We consider this to be normal. And it's scary. After all, as if blind, we are again in the darkness of medieval obscurantism. We burn books and people again, shoot unarmed people, kill women and children. This is not done somewhere out there "bad ukry", it is done by us - people, humanity.
And if so, then nature has to repeat over and over again a lesson that we stubbornly refuse to learn: humanity survives only together as a species. The balanced biochemistry of the brain of each depends only on how much this each works for the survival of all. Pushing new and new "pleasures" into oneself individually, one can get only an existential crisis - the loss of the meaning of life, depression, death.
Consciousness tells us about our own uniqueness. This is how we are made. But there is another side: what is hidden, but lives by us, our collective unconscious, additional desire for the species. Acquaintance with oneself, as the task of any human being, presupposes acquaintance with the species “Homo sapiens”, with the laws of the collective unconscious and the consequences of ignoring them. One can search for "spiritual bonds" everywhere. Find - only in the systemic knowledge of your mental structure.
