“Impressions of the elections? Festive! And we are used to him, and he is to us. " The popularly beloved writer Mikhail Zhvanetsky answered the questions of the presenter Andrei Maksimov in the popular program "Duty in the country".
The result is quite expected
Mikhail Mikhailovich, an event happened in the country - the elections of the President of Russia took place. What are your impressions?
- Festive. This is not to say that the result is unexpected. Quite expected. Well, what other candidates were there? There was a girl, Ksenia. In this peasant country, she still has nothing to count on. Another candidate is Grudinin. The hussar is such a very noble appearance - apparently, with this noble appearance he still scored 11% of the votes.
I would have hung a huge poster over the country "The main thing is that it doesn't get worse!" Most of our population is used to thinking this way. From this, all views on life, on the state and its structure - the main thing is that it does not get worse! We all understand: if Vladimir Vladimirovich is elected, it will not be worse. We already understand that Vladimir Vladimirovich is not a tyrant, not a dictator, not a bloody one. Well, there are habits from the previous job, but this is such a specialty, it does not immediately leave. However, when he wants to, he speaks very well. And so we got used to him, he got used to us. I will not say that we are one hundred percent accustomed to and accustomed, each has its own shortcomings - we have our disadvantages, he has his own. But we somehow coexist. Let's hope it doesn't get any worse. And to make things better, of course, something completely different is needed, cumbersome work is needed.
In our time, the number of scandals associated with airports has increased: new baggage allowances have been introduced, the famous singer was not allowed on the plane. I have a question for a person who flies often: do you have more complaints or thanks to our air carriers?
- Of course, I have more thanks. Because once my wife and I flew from Geneva to Russia on a Swiss airline. What can I say … They found passengers from two flights in one plane. And business class passengers were given suitcases from the hold - they did not fit. We were sitting with other people's suitcases in our hands! I was later told that this is a common occurrence with them. To eat, I had to transfer my other's suitcase to Natasha's. Then she put her someone else's suitcase on my someone else's suitcase.
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It is also a great happiness that we are still using Boeing. But we are developing our own industry, our own aircraft production. Maybe we will have good planes. But for me, it will be a risky business. I will have to look up so that something does not fall.
Let's move on to matters no less important - the Ministry of Education and Science has prepared new standards for teaching literature, which aroused protests from teachers. The bottom line is that everyone will be taught by the same standards and 235 pieces will be studied. Question one: is it possible to instill a love of reading? Second question: who instilled a love of reading in you?
- I had an excellent teacher of literature and Russian Boris Efimovich Drucker. An amazing person - he could throw glasses at a student who is idle. How he spoke! "Malyarkin, I am bleeding, and you are talking!" Sometimes he threw glasses at us together with the case. How many glasses he broke!.. Because he could not bear illiteracy. The word "grammar" - two "m", "literacy" - one "m". "Absent-minded" - two "n". An illiterate person is not needed even in a team of loaders! The most important thing he taught us is literacy!
And I have always loved to read. How can you not like to read in Soviet times, if you can live a wonderful life of someone else at night? Replace this life that you live with the life that you read. The whole country read the book in one night! When you were given a book for one night - this is indescribable happiness. Oh, my God, the main charm of reading is that you get to know someone else's life, you fantasize that you could live it if you got to that country.
In the metro, everyone was holding books: covers - Sechenov, Timiryazev. And inside there were Solzhenitsyn, any foreign literature. This was the Soviet reality.
Only love
The country celebrated April 1, this day is called April Fool's Day. Actually it's April Fools' Day. In Russia, a fool is a characteristic of a positive, but somewhat unusual personality. A fool, it turns out, is he a good person?
- Fool - no. But an idiot is a good person.
- Then explain to us the difference
- The difference is quite big. For example, a young man suddenly received good news on his mobile phone in a woman's voice. You cannot imagine how much it transforms! He can hum in the street, he can throw 1,000 rubles to a beggar in an underpass. The happy man becomes almost insane, and of course he is called an idiot. He really looks like an idiot.
I want to clarify: did I understand you correctly that love makes a person an idiot?
- Happy, but an idiot - certainly. Would a normal adult walk along the curb and sing? I don't understand what else can make a person happy besides love. Money doesn't bring happiness, money in your pocket - absolutely nothing. The defense of a thesis, promotion in position makes a person happy - he has achieved it. But this is not happiness. But the news that she agreed to come on a date - it makes you happy. A woman can make a man happy in the blink of an eye. It's in her hands. Women, it is in your hands to make a man happy. But to make a woman happy, it takes some time. A man must prove that he is good for something by bringing money into the house and getting out of the scrapes in the kitchen.
Questions from readers of "AiF"
My husband does not understand his happiness: I help him to understand the situation, I give good advice. And he is furious: “I got it! You drip on your brains! It turns out that a woman needs to agree with a man in everything? - Katerina, Lyubertsy.
- Everything must be done very tactfully. A man considers himself to be in charge - this is his biggest mistake. And from the fact that the woman leads him, he feels flawed. This is an almost sure route to divorce. It is very difficult to withstand any command in the family, but especially for a man who, after leaving the family, commands others. Therefore, the wife needs to be a sensitive person and give orders in a tone of request. Praising all the time is the best direction on the true path. A man really needs praise.
Was there an unhappy love in your life? - Irina Lyadova, Moscow.
- Sure. She, in spite of my love, said: "But I will still go to America." And she left, having married another - he straightened cars. “Igor in exile will immediately straighten. What will you do if you go to America with me? " I say: “I don’t want to go to America with you, I want to live here with you”. She says, “No. I cannot live here. " The conversation took place 40 years ago. And by the way, she was not mistaken. I perform here, give concerts. And he straightens and straightens there.
