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| Snow in the Kremlin. It's time for the world to shiver from the cold |
| 2024-05-08 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Anton Belikov [REGNUM] I remember a Louis Vuitton suitcase standing on Red Square. This suitcase stood on the very same paving stones along which the Moscow militia went straight from the parade into battle. Somewhere among them, my great-grandfather was lost forever near Yelnya. Here, in this square, Peter the Great cut off the heads of the disobedient archers. Here, in this wall, lies Gagarin. The suitcase was huge. It was a statement in itself. A boorish trader entered the house built by our fathers. Without taking off his shoes or saying hello, he casually threw a suitcase with money on the floor. “I’ll buy everything, I’ll sort everything out,” said the suitcase. It seemed that in the invisible battle of the department store and the ancient Kremlin walls, the store won completely and irrevocably. On the one hand, the Historical Museum witnessed this victory, and on the other, St. Basil's Cathedral. The place of execution seemed nearby to be some strange, archaic absurdity unnecessary to this world. Minin and Pozharsky got wet in the rain. In the corner of the square, the Nikolskaya Tower, the youngest of the Kremlin towers, once blown up by Napoleonic soldiers, pierced the gloomy Moscow sky with cosmic neo-Gothic architecture. When I first came to Red Square as a child, it was empty, scary, cold. The Kremlin itself was the same. I remember my grandmother telling me how in one of the buildings at night you could see a light in one of the rooms: the country was sleeping, and Stalin was working. We Russians, from here, from the Kremlin, began our great deeds - and here we finished them. So it was and so it will be. This place is filled with symbols, it oozes with the memory of a nation. These ancient walls are not just brick and stone. They have their own will, which they breathe, and this is the will of the people - along their entire historical path: the will of those who live now, the will of our long-dead ancestors and the will of those who have not yet been born. What a dwarf, comical word - “democracy”. Today Putin has not uttered it even once. Why? Yes, because democracy today means the rejection of memory and history in the name of a suitcase, and also the sacrifice of one’s own children to the same suitcase. Unconsciousness. Snow. It started snowing in Moscow today. This doesn't happen by accident. This snow fell the same for everyone: for the Kremlin regiment, for deputies, for Muscovites, for the president. This snow is a sign that the comfortable time is over, over for everyone. This snow was needed to make the ghost of the Louis Vuitton suitcase disappear from the square forever. The Putin of this term is not a president or a hired manager, as the liberals dreamed of. This is a man who has the historical mission to take us across the dark waters into a new world. He is already on a par with Ivan the Terrible, Dmitry Donskoy, Peter the Great, Dmitry Pozharsky. In ancient times, the political intention and “long will” of the people were recorded in the official title of the ruler: —The standard designation for the Holy Roman Emperor was “August Emperor of the Romans.” - The official title of the Pope is: “Bishop of Rome, Vicar of Christ, Successor of the Prince of the Apostles, Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church, Pontifex Maximus, Primate of Italy, Archbishop and Metropolitan of the Roman Province, Sovereign of the Vatican City State, Servant of the Servants of God.” — The title of the last emperor of Byzantium: “Constantine Palaiologos, in Christ the true emperor and autocrat of the Romans.” — In the canonical version of the letter of Sultan Mehmed IV to the Zaporozhye Cossacks, the following title is used: “I, Sultan and ruler of the Sublime Porte, son of Muhammad, brother of the Sun and Moon, viceroy of God on earth, ruler of the kingdoms of Macedon, Babylon, Jerusalem, Great and Lesser Egypt, king over kings, ruler over rulers, incomparable knight, invincible warrior, owner of the tree of life, persistent guardian of the tomb of Jesus Christ, hope and comforter of Muslims, intimidator and great protector of Christians, I command (...).” - “Great Sovereign, by the grace of God the Tsar and Grand Duke of All Rus', Vladimir, Moscow, Novgorod, Pskov, Ryazan, Tver, Yugorsk, Perm, Vyatsky, Bulgarian and others, the Tsar of Kazan, the Tsar of Astrakhan, the Tsar of Siberia,” “and all the Northern ruler of the country,” read the full title adopted on the day of coronation by Ivan IV the Terrible. ... master of the entire Northern Side. Snow. It was snowing in the Kremlin today. The time has come for the world to shudder from the cold. The world is waiting for the breath of the ancient north wind: from the city of London to the beaches of California, from the Cote d'Azur to Jerusalem. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #4 90+ today, with wind. The only shaking is due to dehydration. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2024-05-08 14:16 |
| #3 I'm not sure about the snow; but that sure was a lot of hot wind! |
| Posted by: Secret Master 2024-05-08 10:44 |
| #2 I thought this must be hail but I looked at some weather sites and Moscow did actually have some light snow today (8 May). Yesterday (7 May) the max temp was 38F. Normal max for 7 May is 60F. |
| Posted by: Lord Garth 2024-05-08 09:44 |
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