From Space...

What is the power, brother?
I’m probably going to write the most serious text I’ve ever written on Facebook.
Today, an event happened, which I can not realize to the end yet.
The Federal Republic of Germany, the state in which I now live and work, has transferred to me a fairly large amount of money as a financial aid to survive in quarantine.
I don’t want to write numbers, but that’s roughly my earnings in 3 months.
Translated for free. Translated today on a request that I filed just yesterday. Translated despite the fact that I am not a citizen of this country. Translated without requesting any papers or confirmations.
Just translated it.
And not just me, but ALL the individual entrepreneurs who have lost their jobs and earnings due to the epidemic in Berlin.
Together with me, this help received all my familiar guides, artists, owners of cafes, small hotels, restaurants and so on.
For a big business, this amount may seem small. And for us, individual entrepreneurs, this is just a very large and reliable Rescue Circle!
Why can’t I realize this yet?
For the first time in my life, I understand the concept of “government”.
And here I think...
My country was once the USSR. How did it manifest itself? “We raised you, we taught you, now you owe, owe, owe... for the good of the country.”
It was difficult for me to agree to that. My mom and dad raised me. They taught me too. But the state argued that I "should, should, and should" - to serve in the army, to live on a license, to work not where it is interesting, and where we can be useful, but on "distribution". Of course, it, the state, if I will behave well, could give me an apartment that it, the state will consider suitable for me, a sanatorium that it will assign me, and (!) Maybe even a car after the turn in 10 years.
Did I feel the USSR as my state? No is.
Then my state became the Russian Federation. She initially tried to be democratic, and the plans were very beautiful. Just didn’t come true. The “real master” came, and the attempts of democracy were canceled.
In any case, no real help to people, except,, the "mother capital" (I did not receive it, but my acquaintances received), I did not see from my state before or after.
But Germany did not become my state, for the simple reason that I did not emigrate here, I did not get citizenship, and I do not consider myself a German in any format.
Once I came here under a contract, then got a residence permit here, and since then I have lived here, worked here, paid taxes. I am a foreigner with a permanent residence permit.
But there was trouble in this country. Actually, it happened all over the world. But in this, separately taken state, they decided to help him, the state, the inhabitants in this trouble. to all. Regardless of their nationality or any other belonging... and helped.
If you are not surprised, you have read it in vain. For you, I am a naive fool.
I have never received any gifts from any country in my life. And now I got it.
What is the power, brother?
What is the power of the state?
Per not in the number of nuclear warheads?
And not in the unity of a nationalistic-minded crowd cheering the name of its state?
Maybe the strength is in the hand stretched in a difficult moment? In that most notorious "lake" that many leaders like to recall in speeches?
Today, for the first time, I learned, or rather felt, what “state” is. What is his strength.
I will be aware of this for a while.
Thank you to everyone who read to the end.