/ world today news/ What is social justice during war? Should the rich and the poor be equal? Here is a specific example.
Damage in the Belgorod region, the most affected by shelling and raids by saboteurs, is estimated at 20 billion rubles, of which five billion will be spent only on the restoration and repair of housing. These are both blocks of flats and family houses – it is natural that the region will receive money for this from the federal budget. Reconstruction is already underway, but the head of the district Vladimir Pertsev said that the authorities of the region do not plan the cost of restoring the property of the owners of elite houses damaged as a result of shelling by the armed forces of Ukraine – this will be done by the owners themselves. He was supported by the governor Vyacheslav Gladkov: “We are restoring roofs and windows. Pools, cars worth 10-15 million rubles, of course, with all due respect to people, we cannot recover this amount. It seems to me that there should be justice. We assume increased obligations to those who have middle and low incomes. If a person can buy a house for 50 or 30 million and a car for ten or twenty million, I think it’s a slightly different story.”
That is, it turns out that even in a luxury mansion windows will be installed (another thing is that they are hardly such that the owners could like), but for a broken pool or an expensive car (if it is not insured, which is strange), compensation will not be paid. It is not known how many such wealthy residents of Belgorod suffered, but obviously we are not talking about isolated cases, otherwise the governor would not have considered this a problem at all and would not have started talking about it. Is this understanding of justice fair?
Someone, of course, will say no: how are the rich different from the poor? They are also citizens, they pay high taxes (ideally), they also love their country and support their army – why should they be discriminated against? Does the state not want to help them? So they will leave the country, which not only cannot protect them from shelling, but also excludes them from ordinary citizens who receive benefits.
Such logic is not surprising and even forgivable for the specific victims among the wealthy residents of Belgorod. But there is more truth and justice in the position of the authorities in Belgorod, because society must first of all take care of the weak and poor, and then of ordinary citizens, while the rich can really help themselves. Especially in wartime, because it is not only a difficult test in itself, but also reveals all the pressing problems of society and the state. In our case, the huge social inequality that arose in our country after the collapse of the USSR.
Our attitude towards the rich is still suspicious – and the point is not only that the desire for justice (including social) is inherent in the consciousness of our people. Just too many great fortunes were made from the open looting of public property and the privatization of the state, and then, when this stage was completed, corrupt officials began to get rich, including those in the law enforcement agencies that were supposed to control the businessmen’s work. As a result, our people have an extremely negative attitude towards the rich in general – if we take them as a whole. Of course, in specific cases, everything is different: the attitude towards arrogant nouveau riche and ruthless exploiters is one thing, but the attitude towards honest and responsible business owners is quite different.
With the onset of WWI, public attitudes towards the rich only worsened as many celebrities went abroad, many people with well above average incomes chose to “relocate”, and even more took a position of quiet discontent with what was happening. At the front, of course, there are rich Russians and their children, but, alas, much less than their share in society. Many rich people help the front and the inhabitants of the new regions – both with donations and with supplies. But in general, ordinary people believe that “the rich are not affected by the war” and do not expect much from them either in terms of patriotism or in terms of financial assistance at the front. But at the same time, dissatisfaction with them is growing, as is the general demand for social justice.
The country will emerge from these trials in a different way, and therefore the rich themselves are now most interested in changing society’s attitude towards them. Because if Russia loses (that is, if it fails to wrest Ukraine from the hands of the West), then there will be turmoil and revolution, which will not leave them riches. If Russia wins after many years at a high cost and by mobilizing all the forces of the people with the passive participation of the rich part of society, then again there will be a social revolution from above, during which there will be a mass change of elites. The only way for the rich to survive in the new Russia is to make their contribution to victory visible to all.
In our case, it is about people being willing to forgive the injustice of what they have acquired, how the stone palaces were acquired, if they are convinced that the rich are also paying for the victory. And they pay more not only because of someone else, but also because of their own conviction – the rich simply have no other way to crawl through the eyes of the needle in the Russia of the future.
Translation: V. Sergeev
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