Recently, Vladimir Putin’s press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, said: after the completion of the mobilization, “there is a certain inertia in the military registration and enlistment offices.”
He said so – the inertia of the military registration and enlistment offices!
I’ll translate from bureaucratic into Russian: the mobilization in Russia, which even the president stated, has officially ended, but for some reason the military registration and recruitment offices continue. And there is no way to influence them like the weather. Just open your arms! Here are the president’s press secretary and his creeps.
“The inertia of military registration and enlistment offices” sounds like “unfortunate inevitability”, “an unstoppable natural force”. And once again I thought of the bureaucracy in my hometown.
I have a deep belief: the bureaucracy here is not governed by Russian law, but by much older laws. And their nature is not human, but strictly mystical. And in general, the entire bureaucratic machine in Russia is nothing but an old evil spirit. Surviving both Christianity and the USSR, it will outlive us and possibly the apocalypse and cockroaches.
When every Russian says that you need a certificate in the form of “ABV123” in such an institution as the tax office – that’s it, the soul is angry. Now it’s revealed: To get this certificate, you have to walk seven miles in bast shoes for a convoy of fish and have lunch, break or quarantine where they issue it. Or out of paper, come back tomorrow. And when you come tomorrow there will be a typo in the certificate and another certificate is needed to verify it. Form “VGD456” issued in Antarctica on the first Thursday of the second quarter of each leap year, if there is a certificate of the form “ЕЁЖ789”.
As a rule, the average person without a strong amulet and hereditary witch inclinations ends this quest with a gray-haired nodding head and a number of nervous diseases. But more often – he prefers not to interfere at all with a great, ancient and all-conquering power.
I will say more: the wise Russian people feel the contradiction between humanistic, Christian values and the old, chtonic bureaucratic world. That’s why he says: “Do not covet your brother’s wife and a woman from the state apparatus.” When casting this spell, I believe one should be baptized repeatedly and in earnest.
For example, when I go to government institutions, I read the plot either “Our Father” or “Until the end of Kikimora”, just in case, depending on the situation. Admittedly, it helps a lot more than arguments and documentation.
When they say that the Russian people are invincible, I immediately agree.
My country cannot defeat itself first of all, this must be realized already. None of my acquaintances, not even the strongest in spirit, can withstand the mystical horrors of the Russian bureaucracy. Is it surprising that the president’s press secretary is, too?
So we live in a world of “inertia of the military registration and enlistment offices”, where miracles happen, the goblin roams, the mermaid sits on the branches, and Zinaida Stepanovna from the tax office turns gray and trembles if you spit. three times over your left shoulder and show him a silver cross.
And this is unlikely to change in the coming centuries.
The author expresses his personal opinion, which may not coincide with the editors’ position.
Source: Gazeta
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