The image of Mariupol. Why the fiction festival in the occupied city is the horror of Strugatsky that came to life

"Russian fiction is going to hold the annual Interpresscon Convention in Mariupol. Yes, you did not seem in Mariupol. In the city of Maria, destroyed by Russian troops. In a killed city whose corpse was stolen to be public. " Thought in principle, the news is not impressive. But very indicative. Boris Sidyuk wrote that this year Russian fantas are going to hold the annual Interpresscon convention in Mariupol, together with the home -made local convention of "Star Above Donbass".

Yes, you did not seem - in Mariupol. In the city of Mary, destroyed by Russian troops. In a city where "liberators" killed an unknown number of civilians. In the ruins of which dogs that were burning in the war, they ate the man and pulled human bones in their teeth. Where the Russian bombs took the quarters and the people covered in the cellars for weeks died of starvation and thirst. In a killed city whose corpse was stolen to be public.

"Interpresscon" - the brainchild of the Strugatsky brothers, authors of "inhabited island", "hail of doomed", "difficult to be God". Once upon a time, during the Soviet dictatorship, they were able to write novels that reveal its essence, urgent propaganda and how people under its influence easily turn into a herd. In the inhuman. Life is able to joke in black. Now their "students" are going to go to Mariupol.

It is possible to argue for a long time about what position Arkady Natanovich and Boris Natanovich would take. They are gone, we will never know this. They went, but their books remained. And in these books, as for me, their position is expressed clearly. Unfortunately, they guessed. What a terrible stench! But how freely it breathes in the renovated Arkanar! Why not go to Mariupol noble don? The continuation of the "populated island" is written in our eyes.