Publication in Russian on the Zen blog
https://dzen.ru/a/acucV0FZTHXQLTiV
The history of amputee veterans is not a special case, but a symptom: the system reproduces itself through the cult of suffering, and people who have once embarked on this path can no longer get off it. They are proud of their "daring slavery" — and this is a tragedy disguised as a feat.
For centuries, a cult of sacrifice for the sake of the state has been forming in Russia (from epic heroes to heroes of the Great Patriotic War). Propaganda presents war not as a tragedy, but as "purification through suffering." Criticism of this by the authorities is often equated to "betrayal," which is why people in Russia are learning to justify even obvious injustices.
People who have survived the tragedy become its main defenders. Submission is romanticized as valor, sacrifice is valued above life. As a result, a person's life is placed below any abstract goals. People who have the right to care and respect are content to play the role of "suffering heroes." Their injury is used as an argument in favor of continuing the same policy that crippled them.
The late Dorenko had this phrase: "The limit of my people's dreams is daring, heroic slavery."
The publication of the newspaper "Layout" about a hospital near Moscow, populated by amputee veterans, tells about this very thing. About this dream. They sit there on their chairs, talking quietly about the lack of prosthetics, officials (they treat them coldly), and young people (they don't give up space on public transport). They lament the heavy losses ("70 of us left, three remained, including me").
And at the same time, virtually no one regrets going to war. First of all, "loans have been closed." And secondly, they are sitting without arms or legs, like samovars, but they are still hissing about the "cordon on the right bank of the Dnieper", about the seizure of the Kiev and Zhytomyr regions. The militancy of many of them has not gone away...
Dashing, heroic slavery. With stumps without prosthetics, but with closed loans.
Exclusive. "Layout" talked to the veterans of "SVO" who have been waiting for prosthetics for months. Here are their stories. YOUTUBE VIDEOS
A hospital with barbed wire and waiting for prosthetics for months. ("What kind of heroes are we? Nobody cares." A report from the center where prosthetics are installed for military personnel who have returned from the front without arms and legs). THE ARTICLE "LAYOUT" ABOUT THE MILITARY HOSPITAL
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