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Izborsk club: Back in the Ussr?

January 9, 2013 Sergey Gogin

How can a conditional liberal to feel at a meeting of the Izborsky club feel? Like a Mahaon in a termite. As an “enemy of the people” in the hut for “socially close ones”. Like a dudes in a yellow jacket and with Coca - at the Komsomol meeting. Like Stirlitz in the gimmler's reception (“On this day, Stirlitz was on the verge of failure”). Like the white, in stupidity, wandered into the McDonald's in the Black Quarter of Washington (I once had such stupidity). Something like that. The smartest thing is to sit in a corner, not to ask questions with liberal subtext, listen and wash on a mustache. And get aesthetic pleasure from performances. For example, the rector of the Ivan Ilyin Ural Business Institute Archpriest Alexandra Chanipo: “The Russian language is divine. Well, how can you translate into English “God, have mercy on me”? Ugh!" Thanks to this priest, by the way, I found out that there is an Orthodox economy: “We do not need competition, we need collegiality. You wish good to me, and I am to you. What is the competition? We are brothers and sisters! ” Or: “Finance, usury, percentage is the greatest sin. Banks should take only for services ... We must change economic practice. We are working on the creation of a theory of higher economy, non-capitalist spiritual and moral economy. Today we are presented with the economy by American textbooks. We must create a domestic textbook of the economy. ” It would be interesting to look at the textbook of Russian Orthodox physics, chemistry and biology. And especially - Russian Orthodox English.

The pathos of the polemic at the Izborsky club is paradoxical and exquisite in its own way, stylistically perfect, like the Pelevin postmodern, like a Prigovsky banter about a “militzer”. Combine two Russia: the “red”, that is, the Soviet, or rather, National Bolshevik Russia of the Stalinist type, and “white”, that is, Orthodox-monarchical Russia, so that the united forces to give mortal battle to liberalism-this is the national idea that the Izborsky club promotes today. This is a group of people who call themselves national and patriotic intellectuals. The most famous names are the founder of neo -Eurasianism Alexander Dugin, writer Alexander Prokhanov, economist Sergei Glazyev, Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky, General Leonid Ivashov, publicist Mikhail Leontyev, TV presenter Maxim Shevchenko (and in a strange way, economist Mikhail Delyagin). They are developing Eurasian, that is, anti -Western and anti -liberal, model of Russia's development.

To discuss the ways to overcome the “metaphysical gap” of red and white Russia, on New Year's Eve, the club arranged an exit meeting in Ulyanovsk at the invitation of local governor Sergei Morozov. Someone immediately proposed to declare Ulyanovsk the “conservative capital of Russia”, so the collection of capital's capital (“Aviation”, “Cultural”, “Kolobok”, etc.) has a chance to replenish with another attribute.

The concept of "conservative" for these intellectuals would be too soft. For me, a sample of a conservative publicist is Julia Latynina, and the Izborsk club is aged and slightly focused national bonds armed with Orthodoxy and Eurasianism. During the controversy, they regularly fall into anti-Semitism, which is not surprising: a mixture of nationalism, Stalinism and Orthodoxy, when shaking, gives something red-brown in sediment.

Nevertheless, the Izborsk club cannot be treated just as I collect freaks. The club was created recently, in September 2012, but has already achieved a lot: the highest Russian government essentially adopted the Eurasian doctrine and even began its implementation. At least, in the President’s Epistle, the Federal Assembly was typical of December 12, typically Izbrogor-Eurasian motifs: “To preserve their national and spiritual identity”, “To tie the historical eras”, “The deficiency of spiritual bonds”, “Cyvalization state fastened by the Russian people”, “the power of the Russian people with its own traditions”, “the development vector of Russia is the development of the development of the development of Russia East ”and other Drang Nah Osten. Putin as a Russian nationalist-autocrat and anti-Western at least today can be accepted into honorary members of the Izborsky Club-according to the totality of merits, taking into account the summer package of repressive laws and the “anti-magnetic act”. No wonder Alexander Dugin in 2007 fell into the Kommersant-Vlast magazine Rating of the Sinkhallim of Visits to Putin with this quote: “There are no more opponents of the Putin course, and if there are, these are mentally ill and they need to be sent for medical examination. Putin is everywhere, Putin is everything, Putin is absolute, Putin is indispensable. ”

If you recall that Dugin is considered an unofficial ideologist of the United Russia party and is part of the expert council under the chairman of the State Duma, then the laughs about the red-white symphony of priests and Stalinists are stuck in the throat. It turns out that the Izborsk club is our present and, do not bring the Lord, the future. For them, Russia is two-tone, red-white. And where to put, for example, "blue"? Those for human rights, freedom of speech, honest elections, separation of powers, a transparent government, an independent court, the rule of law and other liberal abominations? Millions of thirty-seconds of such in Russia, I think, will be typed. And if the Orthodox Stalinists win, where do they go to this “blue” Russia: one half at once in spray, and the other - to Kolyma? Indeed, in their ideology, the nation, the church, the state have rights, and the individual is somehow not visible. Izonians do not use the term “human rights” at all. A millions is more, less millions - for the Great Eurasian project, it does not matter.

In confirmation - a “fiery” quote from Prokhanov’s speech: ““ red project ”of creating the ideal being is not at all the Bogoboric, it corresponds to the prayer“ Our Father ”. The Red Era is not soulless, she confirmed her spirituality during the war. The victory of 1945 is mystical, religious. This war is called sacred, and the victory is also sacred. The people who won this victory are saints. This is a deeply religious, cosmogonic war: the forces of light and darkness collided. Their skirmish demanded from the homeland of giant victims. Thirty million dead are the victims of Christ, red martyrs who were baptized with blood on the battlefields, these are a holy martyr. The commanders of departments, regiments, fronts, armies are also saints. It is no coincidence that we see the icons that depict Generalissimo Stalin with a golden halo. ”

As Prokhanov explains, the reconciliation of white and red Russia will be facilitated by what was in common in them: the primacy of the Russian people, the ideal of God's kingdom (for the Orthodox - in heaven, for the Communists on earth) and the idea of ​​Russia as an empire. Eurasianism is imperial ideology. The Izborsk club welcomes the reconstruction of the empire within the borders of the USSR, considers it even inevitable. “The return will be, it depends on us, faster or slower and how much will have to pay for it,” says one of the founders of the club, political analyst Sergei Chernyakhovsky.

The Ulyanovsk Governor Sergei Morozov, together with Alexander Prokhanov, addressed a letter to Vladimir Putin, in which they write that the 100th anniversary of the education of the USSR could become a “symbolic cross uniting the era” (again this “scrap”, it is time to open a store for the sale of spiritual stationery). It is proposed to announce the appeal on December 30, when an agreement on the formation of the USSR, a commemorative date of Russia was approved, to create a working group in preparation for the 100th anniversary of the USSR in the government, to make Ulyanovsk (where the USSR Museum) the federal site of the main anniversary celebrations. The President, who considers the collapse of the Soviet Union, the chief geopolitical disaster of the twentieth century, will be flattered, but for Governor Morozov, this appeal exacerbates the permanent crisis of regional identity. He wants to make Ulyanovsk the “cultural capital of Europe” (and not Eurasia), he constantly drives in Europe, calls the Western (and not Asian) investors to the region and even achieved some success in this. It turns out that when investments are needed, we look to the west, but since Putin himself is an Eurasian, then we will go to the east, closer to Kim Jong -un. It is clear that all this is a political situation inherent in the senior governors from the "EP". So the Orthodox economist Chanipolo said to Morozov: “You are a Russian man who clearly sees, with a cunning. I will pray for you. "

This cognitive dissonance is very characteristic of the Russian elite: it reads the Eurasian, even Asian, fate for the people, but to herself European. “Antimatic Law” is a vivid confirmation of this. In all this, the abyss of hypocrisy: all the billionaires of the Putin’s call, living in the West and swinging Russian oil in the same place, all his colleagues-cooperators who got rich at the proximity to his body are not drawn to the title of “non-capitalist spiritual and moral economy” according to the patterns of the father of Alexander. Yes, and Putin himself, as you revere the reports of Nemtsov-Milov, with all his Eurasianism, is far from light in the dark kingdom of bureaucratic capitalism.

What useful can be taken from the Izborsky Club? Perhaps the idea of ​​recognizing the general history of the country, the desire for a national agreement about its especially turbulent periods, the continuity of historical consciousness, as well as the integration of different Russia, but not in the truncated Stalin-Nazbolovsky version: red and whites, but the rest to the wall-and all existing Russia, which are many. Russia is not red-white, it is multicolor, multinational, multi-confessional, naturally pluralistic, but the gaps really exist, so I do not want to wait for some common trouble, so that once again to feel like a single nation.

In psychology, there is a school of psychosynthesis. She claims that in a person there are several subpersonalities that can conflict with each other, competing for the energy resource. But each of the subpersonalities is needed for something. Therefore, psychotherapy consists in the synthesis, “reconciliation” of subpersonalities by recognizing their value and subordinating them to the “center of will” or “center of integration”, which is the person himself, only without the layout of social conventions and imposed roles. It seems to me that it is precisely in such therapy that Russia needs today: in recognizing the value of each of its subpersonalities and their reintegration. In the end, all of us, regardless of political convictions, connects the language, territory, general present and future. There will be no consensus - it does not matter, let there be a discussion, there is enough mutual recognition and consent to subordinate to a certain “center of will”. What is the national analogue of this "center of integration", I do not know yet. But he, of course, is not identical to the "national leader." It cannot be one person at all. Maybe this is not a person at all, but the same national idea that we have been looking for so long.

Ulyanovsk

Photo by Alexander Sokolov