“What else can you do to control the global atmosphere?”

In the 33rd issue of the Expert magazine, Maxim Sokolov published an article "On the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution", in which he discusses the thesis that the Nashi movement is similar to the Red Guards, which, in particular, Vasily Yakemenko adheres to.

“When Nashi leader V. G. Yakimenko was the first to point out the analogies between his movement and the Red Guards, who overthrew the defeatist elite during the Cultural Revolution in China,” the author writes, “ such a timely historical discovery could still be attributed to the fact that Yakemenko - a practical worker, not a sinologist . However, it suddenly turned out that the idea was in the air: “The struggle against the defeatism of the elites, as well as against the pernicious influence of the West ... in our public thought, here and there began to be described as an explanation and justification for the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution - as well as as a reason for the current successes of China, which, having got rid of the defeatists, unlike us, rushed forward so that you can’t catch up .

Consider the Chinese Cultural Revolution of the 1966-1969 model. the key to the successful development of the country is "this is still a very bold thesis" : "Let's not touch on issues of humanism, although the number of victims of the cultural revolution was in the millions ... But the original thesis about defeatism is also strange . " If the allegedly defeatist Chinese elite carried out all the political transformations in China before the "cultural revolution" , then what is the aggressive elite, the author asks. "A much more banal explanation, that in order to consolidate revolutionary power, it is periodically necessary to shoot old comrades-in-arms (as well as a large number of those who accidentally come to hand), is now rejected as unbelievable" - and what for almost forty years he considered the tragedy of a great country, "looking for youth (as well as political technology) thought in Russia today is already ready to declare a commendable role model.As Vysotsky sang, "how else can you control the world atmosphere?" .

Sources

• Sokolov M. About the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution // Expert. 2005. No. 33.