It is difficult to find a politician in modern Russia who has not at least once uttered a magic phrase about Russia on his knees in one way or another. But for some reason, few have thought of it since that memorable day, when this metaphor was first voiced, - why is Russia suddenly on its knees? What a strange pose for one sixth of sushi?
An entertaining metaphor made in a speech after the inauguration of Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin in 1990 has since been sold with a sonorous Internet meme. She began to devote poems and songs to both famous and popular performers and amateurs: a reflection of this meme can be found in the works of Egor Letov, Igor Talkov, Zhanna Bichevskaya. Politicians of all stripes - from pro-Kremlin to opposition - no, no, and they will resort to this capacious image. Why did he become so attractive and explain a lot on various occasions?
Background
As noted above, for the first time, in a recognizable version, the phrase was uttered in a speech after the inauguration of Boris Yeltsin in 1990.
Eight and a half years later, having rethought it somewhat in the popular Gulag vocabulary inherent in him, the current President of the Russian Federation and then Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said: “Russia can rise from its knees and how to warm it up.” Actually, as time has shown, in this expression a brief summary of the concept of all of his domestic and foreign policies was formulated.
Sociological Reflections
The image of a man on his knees involuntarily draws several mutually exclusive pictures in his imagination, and if a sociological survey is conducted in which respondents are asked to choose a picture that suits this image, then most likely the audience of respondents will be divided both by age and by degree awareness and involvement in the life of social networks.
In principle, it is easy to assume that the older generation will often choose from the proposed pictures a person who is weakened, who does not have the strength not only to stand, but just to stand up, but he still does not allow himself to fall completely.
Generations of respondents born in the mid-70s - 90s are likely to be divided in percentage terms by level of education and Internet advancement: from a weakened or humiliated person to a person using the kneeling pose as one of the hundred poses of the art of sex - Kama Sutras, i.e. a person is not just physically strong, but energetically strong, who finds pleasure and pleasure in this particular pose.
That is, it becomes obvious that over the past years the image has changed its orientation and its use only indicates the aging “winged phrase”, which, over time, most likely in the dictionary “Winged Phrases” will have a footnote “obsolete.” - outdated. True, there is one small condition for this - by that time Russia should have “risen” from the very tribes to which it was overthrown by tired citizens of the older generation - those who were over sixty in their mass.
