"The prayers that Stalin wake up do not pass without a trace."

Volgograd can become Stalingrad not only during the days of anniversary celebrations - the idea of ​​the final renaming of the city reached the level of the Russian government. On Friday, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said that "he never hid his unambiguously positive attitude towards this, including from an economic and investment point of view." As a warm -up, Rogozin is ready to support the output of the hashtag #Stalingrad70 to the world trends of Twitter.

The fact that Volgograd will from time to time change his name, the day before, deputies of the local City Duma agreed . The name "Hero-Hero Stalingrad" will be used at citywide events on February 2-on the day of the defeat of the Nazi troops in the Battle of Stalingrad, on May 9-on Victory Day, on June 22-on the day of the World War II, August 23-on the day of memory of the massive bombardment of Nazi air and November 19-November 19-on November 19. On the day of the start of the defeat of the fascist troops near Stalingrad. The decision of the deputies was influenced by "numerous appeals of participants in the Great Patriotic War."

On the same day, the "trade union of Russian citizens" and the Communist Party of the Communist Party transferred 100 thousand signatures to the presidential administration in support of the renaming of Volgograd. The signatures, according to the State Duma deputy from the Communist Party of the Communist Party Alevtina Aparina, gathered in different cities of the country, but trade union figures of St. Petersburg showed special activity in this undertaking.

Blogers The idea of ​​"New Stalingrad" frankly surprised.

Valery Fedotov , the former head of the executive committee of the Vasileostrovsky district department of the United Russia party: “The first impression: the authorities decided to adopt Soviet stylistics. Especially nervous liberal bloggers are already starting to go in hysteria, and the fans of the USSR, on the contrary, say,“ It’s time for the next days. We will most likely see the next srach on the road. Place.

Almost sure: all this "Soviet stylistics" is just another stuffing. The stuffing of the same order as the law on gay propaganda, the Pussy Riot case or the anti-siro amendment to the "Law of Dima Yakovlev". Moreover, the most harmless of all. If I understand the logic of power correctly, the Soviet-patriotic part of the electorate should now inspire, liberal-to crumble in curses, and ultimately both sides are habitually gnawing at each other in the information space. Technologically, by the way, a completely correct solution: it is necessary to distract people with insignificant topics so that the topics are really significant and painful - the reform of education, healthcare, housing and communal services - go into the background. (...)

Do not succumb to media trolling, in short! And then it seems that in the coming days it will begin in full. "

Andrei Kuraev , Protodeacon, professor of the Moscow Theological Academy: “As an anti -communist and anti -Soviet, I advocate to return the historical name Stalingrad to return to Volgograd. But after complementing this from the face of the earth and tablets with the names of Lenin, Sverdlov and others.

The Battle of Stalingrad is the main point of the centuries -old history of this city. And it seems to me that this name will not be in honor of Stalin, but in honor of the battle, in honor of the heroism of our soldiers. "

Georgy Lazarev , Archpriest, Rector of the Temple of All Saints on the Mamaev Kurgan: “I think Volgograd needs to leave the name. The point is not that Stalingrad is named after Stalin. If there was a tsaritsyan battle, would it belittle its historical significance? 70% of the current citizens were born in Volgograd, I myself have been born. Do not get it away from us. Volgograd! Stalingrad is a story.

Gleb Cherkasov , deputy chief editor of the Kommersant newspaper: “My teacher, bright memory, was born in 1923 and passed almost everything that was destined to go through this generation. There was only no zones. And in 1987-1988 he once said to me (I quote very approximately according to the words):“ If Stalin will suddenly resurrect, but the first thing he will shoot those villains who are scream Without any permission, his light face on the windshields of cars hung his light face. "

Konstantin Nemirovsky , psychotherapist: "Our psyche has an important feature-we best remember what was not completed. Someone calls it" incomplete gestalt. "At the level of public consciousness, this was best described by the philosopher J. Santaan:" He who does not remember his past is doomed to survive him again. "

We are like people who return to the place of our crime to be punished. A crime always requires one or another punishment, even a symbolic one. However, if it is not recognized or, worse, idealized, then problems arise not only at the level of individual mental health.

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Only if the country and most of its inhabitants recognize the crimes of its ancestors (e.g. Stalinism), the pathological nature of the system of social relations that existed for decades in our country, then only then we have a chance to get out of the endless repetition of the same story. Maybe then such historical personalities, such as Stalin, will become only historical characters, not idols, and we can develop, and not stomp in the spot. "

Oleg Denisov , co -organizer of the public movement "Union of Emerged Citizens": "Well, let Volgograd be called Stalingrad a few days a year. Moreover, its current state resembles a military Stalingrad after a Luftwaffe. Broken roads, dirty streets and the terrifying state of the city public public household. "

Vladimir Smirnov , blogger: “The fact that this is a political action, and why all this is being done, I personally understand, but I am surprised by another. How quickly our people forget about those hundreds of thousands of repressed, planted and executed. I understand that many have missed strong power, by whip, but it is sincerely incomprehensible for me to live without fear and pi -dyuli?!

All these prayers that Stalin “wake up”, I think, do not pass without a trace, and more and more pushing our rulers to this hard step, but, on the other hand, how unlimited fantasies are, if we want this ourselves?! ”