In the regions

Offended professionals

September 2, 2006 Alexander Golts

With Yuri Savelyev, the former rector of the St. Petersburg military commissar, and now the State Duma deputy I met on a discussion radio broadcast dedicated to Iran nuclear programs. He expressed his views that we are commonly called “sovereign” and “state”. Russia, they say, should provide all kinds of support to Iran, who, in general, has the right to create an atomic bomb.


The least of all this person could be expected by decisive disagreement with the official version of the Beslan events. And suddenly Saveliev, who is a member of the parliamentary commission, publishes this week a detailed, containing a huge number of calculations, a report that does not leave stone on a stone from the statements that the massacre at the school began due to the explosion arranged by terrorists. Savelyev, who honestly admits that he began working with the desire to substantiate just the official version. But a large specialist in combustion physics, well versed in the striking factors of various ammunition, he could not pass by the contradictions obvious to him, a professional. He could not just keep silent. After all, his signature, under the commission containing a non -true report, would question his knowledge, his competence. That is, just what is the subject of self -esteem of each normal person. And Savelyev went against everyone and published his own special opinion.


Lenin once wrote that every professional will come to an understanding of socialism through his profession. It turned out exactly the opposite. Sooner or later, professionalism led to the rejection of socialism. Therefore, it was necessary to send and kill intellectuals, create a gulag and sharashki. And still did not help. The genius of Sakharov is the most striking example of how a specialist in the highest class ultimately rejects the lie imposed on him.

It seems that something similar is happening now. Let us recall at least Viktor Gerashchenko at the Echo of Moscow. Here is also the despair of a professional. He, by no means a political opponent of the current government, took up the salvation of Yukos, counting on his unique skill in the financier. And he suffered a complete defeat, because he collided with crooks, who put all the power of the state in his service. And although the situation is extremely clear to everyone, his knowledge was called into question, his ability to assess the situation. And Gerashchenko only remains to swear.

I note that even people are quite servile like Leonid Roshal, who always agree to sign another collective letter in support of the authorities, are not ready to prostrate the profession. The same Roshal spoke extremely strictly regarding the rationality of the national project "Medicine".

Of course, there are dark examples of reverse property. The head of the Burdenko hospital, in a blue eye, proves in court in the Sychev case that the unfortunate guy was not injured from the bullying of the “grandfathers”, but due to the fact that civilian doctors did not recognize a difficult hereditary disease of blood on time. Where is professional ethics, if there is a clearly expressed desire of the authorities to protect the honor of the uniform. The famous TV presenter, without embarrassment, admits that there are closed topics for him. And he, the basis of the profession of which is to inform the viewer about all significant events and processes, agrees with such restrictions. There is no need to talk about employees of the legal system - custom -made cases, custom -made sentences - all this destroys the very essence of their profession.

Nevertheless, the story with Savelyev convinces: the more lies will spread power around him, the more often the dignity of professionals will rebel. And sooner or later, through their profession, they will come to the denial of “controlled democracy”.


Alexander Golts

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