The cult of decent

Stalin will not die soon, the whole week ahead, but the sad date of the individual memorable Russians have already begun to celebrate in some places. For example, in Yekaterinburg, where a stalinobus was launched in honor of an effective manager: such as a bus with the image of a mustachioed commander and an inscription like "I will return the victory name!" In fact, this is important: not to forget the name of the Generalissimo, who passed away on March 5, 1953. Almost 60 years ago.

However, they recall him in Russia differently, and not every Yekaterinburger is ready to ride on that minibus. In particular, a group of local citizens who compiled the public organization "Volunteer Movement" decided to inform the fellow countrymen with some little -known facts from the life of Stalin and the state to which he ruled. The fact that in 1937-38. The special triples of the NKVD were sentenced to death of more than 680,000 people. The fact that since 1935 the best friend of children established executions for minors. The fact that the decline of the rural population from hunger in the Southern Urals in 1933-35. amounted to 30%. And that 18,500 victims of the Stalinist repressions are buried very close, on the 12th kilometer of the Moscow tract. By the way, the final stop of one of the Stalinobuses was just near the memorial to the victims of the repression established on this path.

Further, a group of volunteers, led by a deputy of the City Duma Leonid Volkov, decided to share this information with the townspeople, posting information on billboards and providing numbers with clear illustrations. (In particular, the well -known picture of the artist Peter Belov “1941”, on which the leader rakes and presses his clawed masses.) As well as a slogan “For the Homeland without Stalin”.

We calculated the budget, decided on the dates. Turned to advertising agencies. Where began to get rather monotonous answers that came down to the fact that the organizers of the action violate the law on advertising. Leonid Volkov himself summed up the results of the discussion: "... the entire advertising market in Yekaterinburg is completely controlled by the city administration", which means that the ban on anti -Stalinist posters is a political decision of local authorities. Therefore, the bus, advertising Dzhugashvili, goes and walk around the city, but there is no place for billboards with understandable illustrations in Yekaterinburg.

Stalin will not die soon, but the question is: when? When in the "One Textbook" proposed by the highest authorities, they will finally write a simple, convenient truth to remember? When will this boss itself deal with their history? When, according to the measurements of sociologists, every third Russian will cease to praise the leader? When the advertisers, in the provinces and in the capital, will cease to shy away from billboards with criticism of the father of peoples, as if ten years are supposed to be placed without the right to correspondence?

You see, it's not about liberal ideas and not in humanism. And the memory is God with her, although the people, indifferently betraying their killed and tortured fathers, grandfathers and great -grandfathers, worthy of the fate of an unenviable. In the end, the matter is in love for the homeland, even if the most national-patriotic variety.

For decades, the beasts circled over the country, devouring millions of innocent people. If you add here the methodology of warfare, then he put so much Russians that Hitler only had to bite his elbows from envy. Stalin destroyed the peasantry as a class. Heeded the Orthodox priests along with their flock. He shot, drove into the camps, humiliated and trampled the Russian intelligentsia into the mud - both technical and creative. He accepted the country with Sohu and left behind such a landscape, as if several nuclear bombs had been dropped on it. Nevertheless, from the high stands, some snouts are thoughtfully discussing the dialectical properties of the Stalin era: they say, on the one hand, on the other hand ... and Volgograd is supposed to be named six times a year in honor of the beastless world, and stretching on the Yekaterinburg streets, sparingly informing about some acts of Koba, are equated with extremism and anti-Russian propaganda.

In fact, this is incomprehensible. If an authoritarian system is built in Russia according to the patterns of Comrade. Honecker and Stasi, Stalin is not needed and even harmful. If the authorities are inclined to the Orthodox-Mrakobyar Triad, then the executioner of the Russian people, traveling a hare on their buses, is doubly inappropriate. However, Stalinobus with impunity cuts the streets of Russian cities with impunity, and there is nowhere to transfer the final stop at the Moscow tract in the former Sverdlovsk. Arrived.