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Mirror is a very important thing. Not a single Russian revolution, beginning from the year of 1905, could not do without it. This is quite reasonable, as four fiths of information about the world around us we gather by our eyes. One would like to see a lot. If not Louvres, Bahamas and Manhattan, then at least one's own motherland. And it is worth seeing it. For instance, to look at people who worked at the famous fourth reactor, or to look at those who sent tanks to the centre of Grozny, or at those who invested their money in "crash is-guaranteed" firmlets... These are the people who built developed socialism and made firm people's friend ship, who began mastering new thinking under command, who privatised country in the broad daylight, who change ivory to glass beads and fatherland to spirits, introducing such broad sovereignty that people get sick from it... Where could one see all those types, this astounding new historical community? In the mirror only. In such a mirror that is presented to us by utmost realistic, at once acknowledgeable "debil-art" drawings by Nikolay Uvarov. Doctors assert that there are already 17% of debils (idiots) in our society, and in case if even one percent is added, then a non re-vercible social degradation will start, but it is know that in difficult cases doctors use lies as a saviour. Seventeen per cent only? Don't lie. Better go out in the street and look around. Read a newspaper, watch TV. So, how many debils are around us? Yes, so it is. But there, in the mirror, whom do you see there? It is we who held to the line marked by the Party. We approved all as one. We were proud of, held high our banners and so on, and so on. Now we continue doing the same, having slightly changed phraseology only. So, think, how it looks from outside. If you are not sure, please look at the drawings created by Uvarov. They are a little bit strange, but it does not mean a lot. They are very honest. Everything is depicted as taken from our reality, all spades are called spades. Those drawings are quite unusual for those people, who got used to seeing one thing, thinking something else and saying quite the opposite and who continue in the same spirit now. It is unusual, but useful for them. If noone at last calls debil a debil, if noone points out how many they are in reality, then all this will continue from reconstruction to skirmish and back, in self contented blindness. One can all his life do nothing but excavations in his own nose, dig things in rubbish, believe one is a dandy while his ass is bare and his hat is worn-out — all this is a matter of taste and tastes differ. But one can also draw all this as it is, and this is not forbidden, also. So, it turned out that socialist realism has the only "shining" peakand it is "debil-art" by Nikolay Uvarov. Surely, this is "socialist", and by all means, "realism". It is terrible or funny, vicious or poignant, but this is our life as it is. Reflected precisely, as in the mirror. Maybe, someone may say that reflecting surface is not quite smooth. But one must remember the proverb that it is'not the mirror that you must blame. So, do not blame the mirror... Nikolay Gudanets, literator.