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To Ya

to all our ‘patriots’ who think that patriotism is about ‘using and loving only something of one’s national production or descent’
that patriotism is about annexing territories or being historically hysterical
do not mess up patriotism and patridiotism
let me tell you that patriotism is about ‘giving your nation the best the world has at the current moment’
patriotism is not about using obsolete soviet telephones instead of new iphones or whatever
patriotism is about your nation’s wealth and comfort to be able to provide an iphone to each granny in each remote village
patriotism is not about eating your own low-quality degraded cheese or stinky stone-like meat and being proud that ‘it is ours’
patriotism is about being really proud that your compatriots earn enough to pay the best products — to travel wherever they want — to get the best knowledge and education — to invite the best architects of the world to construct your cities — to have the best artists perform all over your country
it is about welcoming tourists both in biggest cities and in hardly accessible natural sites
that’s what love for your country is — to wish it and its citizens all the best and all the best possibilities the given epoque has

7 August 2014. — Saint Petersburg (Russia)