МЕРЗКИЕ ЛЮДИ или ЛЕТО 2017 (часть 1) Плохие...

NASTY PEOPLE or SUMMER 2017 (part 1)
There are bad people in every country and in every city. Someone is worse, someone is better ... this is the natural order of things.
And who would have thought that I (I !!!) would become a misanthrope? This year I have the tenth (anniversary) summer on Lake Baikal. Once, in 2007 I came here as a volunteer and worked for food (not of the best quality) and practice for a university ????
Then, one fine night, a certain Ivan Sh. From the city of I. said that “you have a loud voice. Do you want to work as a guide?” ... and away we go.
In many ways, Baikal is its own state. Here are your own rules and laws. “Own” problems and the people who solve them are also “their own”. It is not customary to take dirty linen out of the hut and, all the more, attract "strangers" to resolve disputes.
Of course, there are two-faced people (and where are they not?), But this is not about them.
It's about those who come here (IFA, Olkhon, etc.) and are trying to establish their own order. These people "impose" their opinions on others and sincerely resent when they are rebuffed.

The first story: "As an activist, the capital scolded local residents for garbage."
Once another representative of the greens arrived at Olkhon (I don’t know where exactly, but a very unpleasant person). Unfortunately, the man did not have time (or did not want to) introduce himself.
"I want to clean the shore" - and everything seems to be so. And it’s a good thing ... but at the same time it adds: "... and the locals are so busy ... and they don’t want to protect Lake Baikal at all." Sorry what? Local? Do locals come by car with tents and arrange landfills in the reserve? Yes, never! Locals clean this garbage. And all year round! And no one (note, NOBODY!) Says "thank you" to them. Why, you ask? Yes, because they completely free of charge (and often at their own expense!) Organize garbage removal after 3 months of hell (the prospectus says "rest season on Lake Baikal") and clean the coast 12 months a year. Should? Are you obligated? NO! They are just people who honor their laws and their ancestors. And keeping the land of ancestors in a mess is not good.
I heard here, recently, the drunken boast of one of the volunteers (excuse me, friends, but there are some among you): "... if it weren’t for our action, the island would have gone under the water ...". It's funny Do you think that 3 days and 100 people can save the situation? And who cleans the shore for the remaining 362 days? Guessed?
In many articles I read that garbage is "household" and "local" to blame for so much garbage ... and so, I tell you. These are not “local”, but “new local” - new camp sites and, accordingly, new employees who are too busy to organize garbage collection outside the island.
In general, whatever you say, you don’t need to offend the locals. They already do more than they should - remove the consequences of the stormy vacations of strangers.

The second story: "The Tale of how we fed the Germans."
I somehow drove a group to Khoboy (north of Olkhon). Birds, flowers, seals .. beauty! It was lunch time and the driver expertly began to cut fish in his ear. The whole group warmed up on a bench and sits - meditating ... gnaws at cookies.
But German tourists caught my eye. And strangely, neither a guide nor a translator ... also on their machines. They walk around, look around ... and with longing for
look at our boiling ear. And the girl still holds the child in her arms and almost cries. I could not stand it, I went up and asked "you with whom, where is your guide?" They were so happy that at least someone knows German :) They say that they arrived on their own - in rented cars, without a guide. But they like everything ... that's just how the cafe and the store can’t find what it should be here. I hang. Hobo. Cape. Trees, rocks and a couple of gazebos. And that's it. ALL! Where is the store to be? And they put a piece of paper with a map for me (a daub on a napkin) and there really is a very detailed road (even kilometers are marked) and at the end of the road there is a store (house with the inscription “shop.” It turned out that yesterday they met very nice people (also on their own had a rest) who came back from Khoboy and knew good English. And these "comrades" talked about the road ... and what kind of store there is with a cool cafe. They say don’t take food with you - you’ll just throw it out. It’s better to buy everything there "! They also took a picture with them last ... I look at the photo - and there the Germans and ours are standing. N shi are happy to horror, they are already shining, and in the background there is a car with the inscription "to Berlin" and a tank on half of the rear window. What is this, revenge? A wicked joke? Still plays "gene memory"? And all would be fine, but the Germans there were children of 3 and 5 years old ... who almost remained hungry.
It's funny to you? But I’m not so. I am ashamed.