Grandfather tickles Marfusha with his beard: “Come on, you little rascal, ask your Clever Girl how many bricks are still missing from the Wall.” Marfusha asks. The Clever Girl answers in an obedient voice: “To complete the Great Russian Wall, 62,876,543 more bricks must be laid.” Grandfather winks didactically: “You see, granddaughter, if every schoolchild molded just one brick out of native clay, then the Sovereign would finish the wall in no time, and a happy life would begin in Russia.” Marfusha knows this. She knows they cannot finish building the Great Wall, because enemies from without and within stand in the way. That many more little bricks must still be molded before universal happiness arrives. The Great Wall grows and grows, shielding Russia from external enemies. And as for the internal ones, the Sovereign’s oprichniki (Ivan the Terrible-style enforcers) tear them to pieces. For beyond the Great Wall are the accursed cyberpunks who illegally suck away our gas, the hypocritical Catholics, the shameless Protestants, the mad Buddhists, the vicious Muslims, and simply depraved godless people, Satanists who shake themselves in the squares to cursed music, frozen-out drug fiends, insatiable sodomites who drill each other’s asses in the dark, sinister werewolves who change the image God gave them, greedy plutocrats, malicious virtuals, merciless technotrons, sadists, fascists, and mega-masturbators. Marfusha’s girlfriends told her about these mega-masturbators: they are shameless Europeans who lock themselves in basements, swallow fiery pills, and jerk themselves off with special jerking machines. The mega-masturbators have already appeared in Marfusha’s dreams twice, catching her in dark basements, reaching into her little crotch with electric iron hooks. Terrifying… Imagine Sorokin wrote this back in 2008. Writers really are some kind of special people, aren’t they? And it’s hard to tell whether they foresee the future, or whether the “authorities” take advice from their books. It’s obvious that amid the noise over Crimea and Ukraine, our chief crook Putin decided to solve a whole lot of his own problems. The campaign against “malicious virtuals and merciless technotrons” was carried out at lightning speed. This blog has been blocked throughout the entire territory of the Russian Federation. If you try to access it, you will see the face of a “government representative” informing you that this blog’s contents are forbidden:
The media outlets that republished it (first and foremost “Echo of Moscow”) have also been forced to remove it. Well, all right, I’m taking this calmly. Quite a lot of people came here; here are the stats for the past year.
I know that people came here not because it was allowed, but because they want to know the truth. A website can be blocked, but you cannot ban people. We need a little time to set up a new blog (or a system of blogs). For now, let me remind you that you can read me on VKontakte here (http://vk.com/navalny) on Facebook here (https://www.facebook.com/navalny) on Twitter here (https://twitter.com/navalny) Here (http://apps.plushev.com/2014/03/14/2004/) you can read about how to get around all these blocks. There is one important thing I want to say, and I ask everyone who can read this text to spread it further. Saturday’s rally and march in Moscow have been reformatted in light of current events. It is no longer simply an “Anti-War Rally.” It is now a march and rally against the lawlessness being carried out by this government of crooks and thieves. Political prisoners, the destruction of TV Rain, the destruction of Lenta.ru — the most popular Russian-language internet news site, the blocking of websites, the blocking of blogs, including mine. This is outright lawlessness committed by a gang of thieves emboldened by their own impunity. I call on everyone to come out into the streets on March 15 (tomorrow) and show that there are people who do not want to put up with this. The march and rally have been officially approved: at 2:00 p.m. the march will begin on Strastnoy Boulevard (participants will gather from 1:00 p.m. behind the Rossiya cinema, Pushkinskaya/Tverskaya/Chekhovskaya metro stations) and proceed to Akademik Sakharov Avenue, where the rally will begin at 3:00 p.m.
If we stay silent and sit at home, things will get much worse. They definitely will — because could we really have imagined a year ago what is happening now? Do everything you can to come yourself and bring as many people you know as possible. Usually I write, “See you at the rally.” This time we won’t see each other — I am under house arrest. But you are not. So go out there, for yourselves and for me. During Alexei Navalny’s house arrest, his blog is being run by Yulia Navalnaya and ACF staff.