Indecent word on the fence

On August 25, the Kurskaya - Ring Metro station was solemnly opened after a annual reconstruction. If two lines from the Soviet anthem (in its original edition) were decorated before the repair (in its original version), namely, “through the thunderstorms, the Sun of Freedom shone to us, and Lenin the Great Patient for us”, now the passengers will meet other lines from the same stanza: “Stalin has grown us on loyalty to the people and inspired us for exploits”.

There is no punctuation in the inscription, and I still do not know what Mikhalkov had in mind. And, alas, from yesterday it would not be possible to ask him about this: did he think that Stalin only raised us to be faithful to the people or, on the contrary, that he inspired us for this fidelity, just like a little further - inspired labor and exploits? Depending on the interpretation, in one place or another, a comma is needed, but it is not nowhere, it seems like in the famous mystery “you can’t have mercy”. However, that these strange associations climb into my head. I'm talking about something else.

This text was carved by the lobby marble initially, when the station was opened in 1950, however, after the XX Congress of the CPSU, in connection with the Khrushchev teninization, one fragment of the Stalinist anthem was replaced by another. In a sense, this replacement was completely magical. Then, in the 50s, people also remembered what lines followed further, and the passenger, having mechanically ran his eyes about the inscription about Lenin, was just as mechanically continued her in his own head and inevitably remembered Stalin-the mental return of the violator of the Leninist norms took place as if even in a more creative way than if the responsibility for the line was only attended by the soulless marble. However, just as the mention of the taboo name, say, the bear, from the point of view of an ancient person, woke the beast, pulled him from a wild thicket to our huts, to us to trouble, just in the same way the name “Stalin”, according to Khrushchev, as if reviving the cadre, made him terribly move - for loyalty or on work.

Over the past half a century, the anthem first lost his words, then found others, then others, and by the time the Kursk-Koltseva lobby was closed, it was unlikely that many people remembered that there were carved over their heads, well, something else about Lenin. And in this sense, the operation performed is not just the restoration of what was, how the head of the press service of the Moscow Metro, Pavel Sukharnikov tried to assure the public in that. This is the appearance of the text about Stalin on a new, from scratch, that is, marble.

But, in the end, they restore according to the old drawings of the estate, which in their original form have not found several generations. So, from the point of view of the consistent protection of monuments, the restorers acted correctly. But something is wrong here. Firstly, why are everyone afraid to take responsibility for this decision? “To the question, whose idea was to recreate the inscription, Pavel Sukharnikov did not comment,” Echo Moscow reports. According to the "newspaper. Ru ”,“ Mosstroyometroproekt CEO (it was this organization that reconstructed) Ernest Semenovsky at the opening stated that the decision was made at the city level. But, as the head of the Mosgordumi Commission on Urban Planning and Prospective Development, Mikhail Moskvin-Tarkhanov, said, nothing of the same by the city authorities was discussed. ” That is, to write a word on the fence is please, but how to admit, there are no them. If the whole thing is the protection of the monuments, then why is it so cowardly?

However, the main thing is not even this: initially the station was also decorated with a statue of Comrade Stalin. If everything was taken to restore, then it was necessary to return it. “We worked out the issue of installing another monument, but decided at the place where Stalin stood, to leave the light niche,” said Dmitry Gaev, head of the Moscow Metro. The point, they say, is that the original statue disappeared from the metro reserves. Well, this is a very ridiculous explanation - they could make an exact copy, because the marble slab in the lobby is not original. Yes, and the inscriptions of Stalingrad instead of Volgograd in the decoration of the station itself are also made again, although extremely sloppy, and then suddenly ... a light niche.

The above circumstances force the Moscow authorities to look for a different explanation of this step. What did the Soviet drivers mean when they spanked a portrait of Stalin on the windshield, and even a physiognomy out? After all, Nicholas no one is turning so today. The saint now is for himself, but Stalin was then - outside, for shocking. But what was that stagnant shocking? It was not a longing for terror or collection nostalgia. It was an instinctive provocation against the evasive position of the authorities. The driver seemed to declare a conditional Suslov: there is no need to pretend that you are all sure that you know the answers to all questions. There is, and we know this for sure, one question on which you jail, dodge and look sorry - so what is there with Stalin? So I hung it: I did it well or bad?

The waves of the Gorbachev Red Stalinization and the Yeltsin decommunization, alas, have subsided, but it is nevertheless impossible to return everything lost. The authorities still cannot clearly explain what is there with Stalin. Then Putin will suddenly tell Natalya Solzhenitsyna that the dictator was a monster, then he suddenly repented Glazunov, why did he put Generalissimus and Trotsky in some sled. It would seem that it would be much easier to fight with the Ukrainian interpretation of the Holodomor if throughout Russia to instruct the monuments to the victims of that great hunger - but it is impossible to force yourself, it does not allow yourself. Butovsky and Kommunarsky shooting training grounds are better to give to the church than to put something on behalf of the state except a tiny slab. After all, then you will have to write some words on the basement of the monument, but what to write-we will not decide.

The word "Stalin" Moscow authorities shouted how the child shouts an indecent word: he understands that everyone knows him, but at the same time pretend that there is no such words. A striking business: thirty years have passed-and everything is still. Only because of freedom of speech, it is now not citizens are engaged in frontalness, but by individual layers of the bureaucratic apparatus, and underground. In this way, middle -level chiefs protest against ideological metabolism. But they do it - mesh. It would be a bold, ideologically unambiguous act, our answer to Chamberlain, NATO, the European Union and the OSCE in the old place of Stalin at the Kurskaya station. But instead of an answer, the “light niche” is still.