Black Sunday

On Sunday, March 3, pretending that it was not for the 60th anniversary of Stalin's death, but just like that, by the way, our malignant NTV channel showed two projects: an allegedly anti-Stalin film "Stalin" in 4 episodes and a pro-Stalin "documentary » sketch by Vladimir Chernyshev «Stalin with us».

In the 4-series Stalinian, everything seems to be in order: Stalin is a maniac who dreams of unleashing a thermonuclear war (which is true). But for some reason, there is a fair barrel of tar in this honey: Stalin reproaches Beria that he does not give the young designer and scientist Sakharov 15,000 prisoners that he asks for work. In 1952, candidate of sciences A.D. Sakharov was only 32 years old, and if anyone could ask something from Beria, it was Kurchatov, the leader of the group. The pure theoretician Sakharov did not need any convicts. Sakharov even worked in Nizhny Novgorod, in exile, because he did not need any equipment or laboratories - only a fountain pen. But few people know this, and a shadow has been cast over Sakharov's sacred name for decent people. Isn't that what the movie was made for? After all, Sakharov's enemies cannot be Stalin's opponents.

Chernyshev's "documentary" is even worse. Everything seems to be there: mountains of corpses, convoys with convicts going to Siberia, the Holodomor, the White Sea-Baltic Canal. Only here is the trouble with the numbers: the list of the dead includes only those who were officially shot, according to the verdict of the court (both the "troika" and the OSO - all this turned out to be a "court"). Of course, they didn’t get even a million, even from 1917 to 1953. They didn’t count those who were slapped without any verdict during the Red Terror (who sentenced the hostages? And to declare “outlaws”, say, the Cadets, is that a sentence?) And most importantly, they didn’t count the millions who died on Solovki and on the White Sea Canal; officers drowned on barges in the White Sea; destroyed in the Crimea, where Comrade Zemlyachka did not know any ships; 40,000 officers who surrendered on parole to Frunze; shot in Kolyma for unfulfilled norms; who died in the Gulag from hunger, cold and overwork; Crimean Tatars, Chechens, Ingush and other objectionable national minorities who were shot on the spot or did not reach Kazakhstan alive. They did not count the exiled “kulaks” and “sub-kulaks” who died out in Eastern Siberia or in the North, the victims of the Volga famine and the Ukrainian Holodomor. Neither Yevgeny Ginzburg, nor Melkunov, nor Solzhenitsyn, nor Aldan-Semenov were read by the creators of "documentary". The conclusions are especially interesting and new. Even in the first, Khrushchev’s, thaw (I’m not talking about Yeltsin’s almost free decade), no one would have dared to formulate this: Stalin was the author of great victories, industrialization and collectivization required sacrifice, personally Stalin was kind, this state was cruel, in everything the victims themselves are to blame - why did they make a totem out of Stalin? The victims, of course, are to blame, but this does not justify the executioners.

The further, the more interesting it was to listen: we live at the expense of what Stalin did, he gave us everything, from the Christmas tree for the New Year and the Russian Orthodox Church to Magnitka; from the atomic bomb to love for Pushkin and Lermontov. Yury Zhukov raged, cursing those who curse the Stalinist past.

Vladimir Chernyshev became like Claudius, who poured an infusion of henbane into the ear of his brother, Hamlet's father. It should be written on the TV: watching is dangerous for your health; NTV kills; NTV causes heart attacks and strokes. The film was called "Stalin with us." And not only Stalin with the filmmakers. To hell with them too.