Under the heading “Weekend Read” “Military Review” presents a small material, dedicated to the monologue of Mikhail Zhvanetsky, which author 30 odd years ahead of time. It's about the turnstile monologue, which is perceived especially acutely today.
The monologue begins with the proposal of the hero of the narrative - a proposal that, to install turnstiles at the end of the streets, through which one could pass freely, but which would "crack", implying, what a passage, as they would say now, read.
Mikhail Zhvanetsky:
You go to them - your face is on fire, after them - the back burns. And they don't ask anything. For now ... And there is already an effect - this bad stream is being disciplined somehow. Well, at any time you can block ...
In a monologue, Mikhail Zhvanetsky talks about the installation of checkpoints in the squares, about the need to "sort out" in front of the checkpoint with your hands on the fence with a "special paint" – fingerprint…
Author:
In the meantime, let them pass without documents. Although with you – have. When you go to the duty officer, I already want to show the documents. You will pass without presentation - you will only suffer.
Mikhail Zhvanetsky talks about “a small check when leaving the house: where, when, why purse and where, if there is nobody?»
Mikhail Zhvanetsky:
And if you visit, then don't forget the direction (with a local business trip to visit).
Monologue "Turnstiles" played with special colors today, for obvious reasons. You and I recognize in these words virtually everything, what is happening to us here and now. But people laughed at this already then, but, rather, as over the author's violent imagination ... No one could have thought, that it will take three to four decades, and that's all, what did Michal Mikhalych talk about from the stage, will become a reality until “left-arrived-decreased” and rules for leaving the city and leaving the street.
Speech by Mikhail Zhvanetsky (from the collection of the State Television and Radio Fund of Russia):
