Self -Stalinization

What is the restoration of the Stalin bas -relief at the Taganskaya station of the Moscow Metro: an attempt to decrypt

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Elizaveta Likhacheva, who did not take the post of director of the Mlime for long, called Stalin Mickey Mouse - in the sociocultural sense that he became a kind of postmodern playing way, and therefore not terrible and not related to current politics. It was either an example of Wishful Thinking, or an inaccurate assessment of reality, or adaptation to a new position. Or all three factors in one bottle.

Stalin is not just not an ironic postmodern abstraction, he is a figurative quintessence of today's “Putin's ultra -large glare”. He is the very modern Russian reality, which was suddenly overturned with his head into the bloody past, and it scooped him up and returned to today completely different, complete embittering and resentification.

“Superbolstery”, generally indifferent and adaptable, considers it necessary for himself to be a supporter of the regime and repeat his mantras. Unloved by many, but the deep and protruding theorist of the “system of the Russian Federation” Gleb Pavlovsky wrote: a person who has passed the processing of Putinism is no longer just a passive spectator, but an adherent. Which also begins to "extort commitment" from everyone around. And the most active behave as "party organizations."

Mental violence and censorship from above give an impulse to self -censorship, but not always expressed in silence, but manifesting itself in an active position that looks like “turbopatriotism”.

In the days of the 80th anniversary of Victory, the fashion trend of aggressive conformism was discovered: the most ordinary people, for example, university teachers, suddenly began in a deliberately pathos style, congratulating on the victory, remember the enthusiastic word "Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin." Respect for which, the admiration of which went upward in parallel to the mature of the current regime. With the acceleration attached to the Crimean campaign of 2014 and its beginning in 2022.

No Putin and even no presidential administration demanded to restore the most primitive, even from the point of view of totalitarian art, the whale composition of gratitude to Stalin, deservedly dismantled in the 1960s (to call these years in the logic of today's propagandists “dashing”). All Sam-Sama-Sama. Anticipating. It is better to show great cruelty and stupidity than then to be accused of the absence of state thinking and vigilance. This system is not just self -censorship, but self -discharging cruelty and stupidity. Incredible ignorance, whose voids are filled with the lessons of historical mythology from the authorities, by this very cruelty and stupidity to help, to people who brought flowers to the Novodel composition at the Taganskaya station, and it does not occur to it that it is like giving honors to Mussolini or Franco.

The memorialization of the victims, which was characteristic of the Gorbachevsky and Yeltsin periods of Soviet and post -Soviet history, was replaced, according to the remark of the historian Yevgeny Dobrenko, monumentalization of victories. But then, perhaps, the following stage of evolution took place, more precisely, involution (backward movements): the Victory cult was transformed into the cult of the victorious war, which should never stop, and our battle with the West is the continuation of not only the Great Patriotic, but also the First Patriotic War of 1812. Memorialization was transformed into the destruction and desecration of the memory of the victims (pulling out from the root from the walls of the “last address” - only part of the process). And not only and not so much victory as the executioner began to be monumentalized.

What is Mickey Mouse here ...

This is the same involution. By definition of Nadezhda Mandelstam: "Everything is scary, like a reverse biological process." So she commented on the poem by Osip Mandelstam May 1932 Lamarck, which is not read by biology, but political anthropology:

*“He said:“ Pretty full

You loved Mozart in vain

The deafness of the spider comes

Here the failure is stronger than our forces. "*

The political regime marks its territory with monuments. Andrei Zhdanov is not random in Mariupol, Count Uvarov at St. Petersburg University, Stalin, consecrated by the governor, in Vologda, Ivan the Terrible in Orel. And the portrait of Alexander III behind Putin gives an interview is not accidental. A mesh of historical images is pounced on the country. A suffocating political atmosphere goes into another aggregate state and casts in granite. Or gypsum. Or in other materials.

Self -staulinization triumphantly walks around the country. It ideally enters the grooves with the device of the political regime and its ideology. The desecration of the memory of the victims of Stalinism, but what is there, an open struggle with them, a decisive battle for historical amnesia is a flip side of the persecution of today's disagreements. Memory repression is part of the process of eliminating internal enemies. And this process should have its own historical symbol, for without a “great” history of Putinism does not exist. And in such a symbol, Stalin was naturally and remains. The degree of Stalinization is a way of measuring the stiffness of today's regime. And if Stalinization is included in the phase of self -stagnation, this speaks a lot about the state of not only the state, but also of society. What is happening seems to be conflicting with the scenery of the still vocalized urban environment, which should not be misleading: not Mickey Mouse returned, but rebelled from Ada, under the banner of which “Russian identity” and other “cultural codes” are returned. The codes are hacked ...

To do what was done in 2022, it was necessary to discourage people with memory and replace it with the prosthesis of the mythology of “unified textbooks” and television shows.

In order to fix and continue what reached the apogei in the 2020s-a model of the eternal reign of one person-you should continue to work with unconsciousness and fill the vacuum with clear symbols.

Stalin returned in the form of a gypsum statue, as if a girl with an oar found a second life. People's masses welcome the leader breeding in the cities and towns. The relict radiation of Stalinism broke out and turns part of the Russian society into a zombie community. Which is required to maintain the moral and political stability of the regime.

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