The sacred word of denial

The 215th anniversary of Pyotr Yakovlevich Chaadaev is dedicated to

June 7 marks the 215th anniversary of the birth of P.Ya. Chaadaeva, a very relevant thinker for us. “I prefer to scour my homeland, prefer to upset it, I prefer to humiliate it - just not to deceive it.” So in 1836 the crusade of the lonely paladin Peter Yakovlevich Chaadaev began against Jesus, vanity, chauvinism, as well as autocracy, Orthodoxy and nationality. With this phrase, he answered those who were shocked by his "philosophical letters." And everyone was shocked, even Pushkin, who "in no world would like to change the Fatherland or have a different story, except for the history of our ancestors, such as God gave it to us."

And God gave our very nasty story to the ill -fated ancestors, if you dump everything on God, on the yoke, west and on the world backstage. But what a scandal! The caustic Gall (“Acute Gallic meaning”) Marquis de Custine with his “Nikolaev Russia” - this is still wherever it went. But your own! Get such a “obscenities” from his brother, Russian, hussar, the hero of the Patriotic War (that first, 1812), Order -bearing! “First, wild barbarism, then rude superstition, further foreign dominion, cruel and humiliating, whose spirit subsequently inherited, is the sad story of our youth. The era of our social life, corresponding to this age, was filled with dull and gloomy existence without strength, without energy, animated only by atrocities and softened only by slavery ... We live only in the most limited present without the past and without future, among a flat stagnation. ”

So for the first time in our history, in the first half of the 19th century, this word “stagnation” was used (which inevitably turns into “sucks”). Stagnation as a conscious rejection of development due to unreasonable pride. How is Vysotsky there? “Clay, red and rusty clay, horses from the stirrup. But they attract me with a sleepy power that it was smacked, swollen from sleep. ” The hussar and the hero of the war, the intellectual and dissident Chaadaev went to the attack of public delusions, as on an enemy reduc. And Nicholas I, the father of stagnation and “storage”, the etist and the creator of the vertical of power, the gendarme of Europe and Russia, the historical and psychological preview of V.V. Putin answered the philosopher with a buckshot. The editor and censor were shot, the Telescop magazine was banned, Chaadaev was declared crazy and put under house arrest with one walk on the day and the daily visit of the doctor. Then the doctors were canceled under the lovely condition "Do not dare to write anything."

Thus began in Russia the history of punitive psychiatry. Thus began the confrontation of the “Slavophiles”-rulers who wanted to hide their and state stamping under the beautiful myths about the great “chosen country” and awarded their slaves the “God-bearing people”, and the outcasts of the country pushing the country to salvation: to Western civilization, progress, human rights.

Behind Chaadaev’s mournful shadow, a whole small broken regiment of Russian Westerners since the 17th century emerges: clerk Kotoshikhin, philosopher and theologian Yuri Krizhanich, Andrei Kurbsky, Vasily Golitsyn, “Supers”, Decembrists, Radishchev, Herzen, Sakharov - all who “preached love with a sacred word of denial”. Nicholas I did not think of only one thing: until the creation of the commission "to prevent falsification of history." When these “commissars in dusty helmets” will get to me, I will answer them with Chaadaev’s words: “I have not learned to love my homeland with my eyes closed, with an advanced head, with locked mouths. I find that a person can be useful to his country only if he clearly sees it; I think that the time of blind love has passed. "