STAGNATION! Anguish ...

 What, after all, have come up with the right word for the Soviet period of life - stagnation! Really! Full stagnation! Swamp!You're 10 years old. Mom gave you one ruble and sent to the shop:- Buy, son, a loaf of black bread (12 cents), a loaf of white (a loaf, 13 cents) a liter of milk (28 cents) a pack of butter (100 grams, 36 cents) and the change - ice cream (ice lollies - 11 cents).Fuck, I kicked rusty jar on the road, crossed the street. I went to the store, approached the cashier. Dictated aunt in the box your list, put the ruble.The cashier shouts:- Citizens! Pass the child! Child missing. Yielded an oil, is poured into cans, fresh milk. In the next section the child takes the bread loaf, vanities all this stuff in a string bag and leaves on bright sun on the street. Again, crosses the street, goes to the corner, another aunt holds eleven cents, receives a silver ice-cream, it immediately reverses, bites, licks, eats for a second and lazy lagging home. The ruble has finally ended.It gives a string bag and runs to play football in the yard.And in the evening, making lessons, sits watching on TV, "Elusive" or "In the animal world."Tosca .... stagnation.After 5 years, when he was already 15 years old, he takes the ruble and goes into the store. All the same. Again, it does the same thing. To buy all the same. And once again takes the ice cream for 11 cents. And once again goes to play football. Or hockey. Or - the Palace of Pioneers, gluing model ships or aircraft. Or section of the box. Bored same! Stagnation!More after 5 years he was already 20 years old. He is a student. He received a scholarship. Went to the store, the cashier gave ruble. He struck a check for a loaf of bread (12 cents), processed cheese for 10 cents, a bottle of beer (37 cents), 100 grams of "doctorate" (23 kopecks). Got change, folded everything in the portfolio. I thought, scratched his ear, laughed, went across the street and bought ice cream "Eskimo" for ..... 11 cents. In the remaining 7 cents bought the newspaper "Komsomolskaya Pravda" and rode the subway to the hostel.Stagnation ... Tosca, what can I say? Horror!And even after 5 years of his 25 years. He graduated from the institute. She works in the Institute JR (junior researcher). Salary - 110 rubles per month. On the calendar - the 83rd year.He receives a salary and goes where? That's right, the store! All the same! Again the cashier gives ruble. Again, buying everything on the list above, minus the ice cream. It's a shame somehow.Instead of ice cream, he buys three newspapers for 9 cents. And Metro penny goes home.Next to the house, he stops at a stall and bought a pack of "White Sea" for 22 kopecks and a box of matches for a penny. That's before 15 years ago, the "White Sea" for 22 kopecks was unavailable. Do not sell! Though burst! on the contrary, will slap! Or his father will complain! Yet knew each other! And now - please! You have a large, very earn. I paid 22 kopecks, and you cigarettes!Well, how can you live like this, pray tell! Pancake! for decades, nothing has changed! Neither the price nor the people! Stagnation!!!!Again in the "Time" some plant was built, some kind of blast furnace blew, some the ship was lowered into the water. Again barked to the West, not to swagger.And again, "Elusive". Or "irony".Neither you blood on the screen, or you fire a dozen corpses, nor ass naked!"Ji" and "Shi" - only with an "and". Year after year! Speaker on screen - as an automaton of the Russian language. And again about the transfer of scientists about the builders about the astronauts. Tediousness! Years go by, and nothing changes!And so - everywhere! Stagnation! Although the shoot! Boredom death.So you sit used to look like somewhere in Africa negros friend of a friend shoot, and think:- Here! Even in Africa, life hits by key! And we have - oh, one of frustration! I gave the neighbor in the face - to 15 days. Stole - I sat.Neither - the jury, not those - the progressive press, nor those - human rights!And when someone is someone shot a gun case on drunk, so the whole city is a million a month to discuss.You hear on the bench at the front:- Oh, Mammas

what is going on !

 But where is the mirror to a live person from gun broad daylight to shoot? -So What next will happen? What a nightmare!Stagnation Tosca ..... .....Accursed power!No firing or cocaine, or chewing gum! One Tchaikovsky with Mozart, but Tolstoy and Pushkin.Is this life?How can this be, you just think about it! So scoff at people? Years go by tram for a penny, and the subway - 5 penny! For years, pay the rent 5 rubles a month! For decades, know that if you finish college - certainly popadёsh to work on a specialty! You of unemployment or you bribe! Neither you dad - a banker! Well, what kind of life? Those who survive this?Predictability just killed! Here I do not have time any Sinyavsky and Daniel some even open his mouth to protest against all this terrible life, and you already know: He would sit! And be sure to guess!The same stagnation! Swamp! Yet it is known in advance!You ask, happened at work:- Where's the Senka, who protested?- What is where? Sits already!You take your pencil, leans over and quietly rejoice drawing board for a comrade. Finally, though for him it was all over! No trams for a penny or two a penny newspaper, nor the "White Sea" for 22 kopecks! Survived! Now, I suppose, all day - fresh air, pine centenary, the snow crunches underfoot! And many blue hills in the distance! Romance! Lucky guy! Oh ....!You take up $ 100 with a profile of Lenin, you look at it on this bill and think:So what, that Moscow and back - 16 rubles? So what if the hotel 2.80 per day, so what that lunch in the restaurant - the Five?Well, you can not make a cult of it! Tired! Bored same!After all, year after year the same thing! Well as you can, in fact? When it's all over?

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