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November 9, 2009 Anatoly Bershtein

Everyone remembers perfectly how the hero of the “little prince” painted a boaver who swallowed the elephant, and the adults considered it like a hat.

Sometimes it seems to me that political scientists are the same adults who are trying to consider the bully struggle hidden under a dense carpet and express their versions. Paparazzi from politics, they are always trying to guess what is happening behind tightly closed doors, “what Kirilenko Brezhnev said to the Politburo,” who was the first to stand at the coffin, as they sat down and the like.

"Guess, guessing - an interesting game"

This is that it may not be so important - why President Medvedev made an anti -Stalinist statement. It may be more important that he performed, took and said. Political scientists, journalists raised his eyebrows in surprise, spread their hands, combed the back of his head. And the rest of the country's citizens simply heard from the lips of a senior official: Stalin is a criminal, and it is impossible to justify repression with anything, it is immoral. And point.

And they will have it, they will not immediately blame Medvedev of hypocrisy or demand from him - renounce or confirm. They just hear. And they will see: what got on the Internet, you won’t ban everywhere.

And in general, maybe not to ask first of all the question “why did he say?”, And to think a little, look around and understand: because Stalinism gains real dangerous outlines, penetrates into history textbooks, because no matter how the genie is released from which we are all khan.

Or maybe “The fact is that it came to save our land; that our earth is already dying not from the invasion of twenty foreign languages, but from ourselves; That another management was formed past legal management, the much strongest of all legal. Their conditions have been established, everything was estimated, and prices are even given in universal fame. ” This was written by Gogol so beloved by Mr. Surin in the "Author's Confession".

In my opinion, the president pronounced in itself is important and significant, regardless of both him and from his relationship with Putin.

Why? “A thinking person can never know with complete confidence where his thought will lead. It is open to the new one, and therefore may seem inconsistent. ” So said Sartre.