AS SACRED MONSTER put me out
As the protest Russian writer Eduard Limonov, is a legend - as a political activist, he is ignorant and unpleasant.
This writer is Perpetuum mobile of the Russian protest. In its 67 years of Eduard Limonov looks on his career - he has been translated into many languages, the writer, a tireless fighter and a fanatical and prone to divisive political leader. He was even going to candidate in the presidential election next year. However, the Ministry of Justice refused to register his new party "Another Russia ".
This son of Intelligence officer initially rose against the Soviet system - and so in 1974 he emigrated - and then against America, which was written his remarkable novel «Fuck off, Amerika» («It's me - Eddie") and then against the French establishment. For this reason, in 1991 he returned to the democratic Russia, founded the National Bolshevik Party and participated in the civil wars in Yugoslavia, Georgia and Transdniestria. Limonov is not afraid of the police, or prison. During Putin's tenure, he often found himself behind bars, and it was in the chamber, he wrote his most belligerent of the book, including the collection of articles "Sacred Monsters", as well as prison memoirs titled "The Triumph of metaphysics." All of his books were printed without any interference and they sold in major bookstores. Perhaps that is why the Moscow writer, who was forced to spend the first two weeks of the new year in prison careless movement of his hand brushes off their works.
important for him is just a political battle, he tells me in his extremely sparingly furnished apartment on Leninsky Prospekt, where I was invited to enter lean-looking young man. Invented their action "Strategy 1931" fills Now a special pride Limonov, dressed today in a strict monastic free black suit. The essence of this project lies in the fact that the dissidents, human rights defenders Ludmila Alekseeva of the environment, liberal politicians like Boris Nemtsov and Igor Yashin, as well as Limonov and his anarchic series 31 of the corresponding Months went together into the street to express their support for the 31st article of the Russian Constitution, which guarantees freedom of assembly. With Elder revolutionary movements of other participants of the demonstration, in addition to their hostile attitude toward Putin, united only by courage. Limonov, however, write Today on their banners the slogans in support of free regional elections, easing the tax burden for small businesses, as well as agriculture, uses the capabilities of its partners, and they, in turn, its energy and its attractiveness to young people.
Supporters of the publicist with a shock of unruly gray hair are trained to become a faithful and active members of the party. They are bombarded with politicians cakes and eggs, and protest against the abolition of social care capture room in the building of the Ministry of Health. They were constantly being arrested during the demonstrations. In Russia, his love and understanding, "says Lemons insinuating voice. Unlike in Western Europe - up there with the text more difficult, although it According to him, the most interesting writer.
He fights for a bloodless change of government following the example of the Tulip Revolution, said Lemons, who in his blog laments the fact that Amnesty International and the Strasbourg Court of Human Rights are not doing enough to help the imprisoned his supporters. My
question about why he switched from Bolshevism to the democratic slogan, he believes the philistine. Times to change something, he teaches me. "During the Yeltsin era lacked decisiveness, "- says he is more emotional. Today, in his opinion, the government should cut back. Comparing his task with the function of the signal bulbs it is not clear. Lemons annoyed. Two hundred of his supporters went through the prison, he says to me with due fervor. In addition, Yeltsin for his offenses for the shooting of the Parliament in October 1993 and was not prosecuted, he adds, as if it were about something or says something worthwhile.
In what he sees as a political responsibility, I ask in turn. This undesirable word for Russian politics and, apparently, for the most Limonov. Responsibility? Suddenly, the poet-agitator announces the interview completed, and calls me stupid and dogmatic. I object, I can assure him that contrary, I just want to understand his position. However, the guru had already disappeared into the lounge. His pupil silently escorted me to the door.
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