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Stalin in your head
Monument to the 60th anniversary of the death of Dzhugashvili and every minute evil
A brief schedule of public events at the beginning of March: March 1 at 11.00 in the Basmanny Court - consideration of the case of Andrei Barabanov on a change in preventive measure. March 1 at 14.15 - in the cinema "October" the film "Metro". March 1 at 13.00 - consideration of the case of Stepan Zimin on a change in preventive measure. March 1 at 19.00 at Crocus City Hall - a concert of the Chaif group. March 1 at 14.00 - consideration of the case of Yaroslav Belousov ...
Concerts, opening exhibitions, consideration of the case of Nikolai Caucasian, football matches, fashion shows, lectures. Court. And so all the near future - now meetings are on the so -called "swamp business." March 5 - sixty years since the death of Stalin.
Sixty years have passed, and Joseph Dzhugashvili turns into a myth. Not for everyone - there are those who can say: "I remember how it was." Who will say: “I was born under Stalin, I remember the hunger of collectivization”, “I remember how in the camp we cried with happiness, learning about his death”, “I remember how we went to tanks, doomed doomed:“ For the homeland, for Stalin! ”,“ I remember how the child crushed the child during the trumpary of Stalin’s funeral. ”
But more and more people for whom his image has nothing to do with historical reality. He merges with the epic hero - or in the new terminology with an effective manager - with the beard of Ivan the Terrible, who, “no matter what,” did so much for our country. The main companions of this image are unions of “although”, “but” and “despite”.
These “despite” will help when the head refuses to believe in the numbers of the executed. When you begin to read the names of those who were tortured, crushed, pulled out of beds, dragged into the “black funnels”, shot at dungeons, shot in the back of the back of the black pit, choked, forced to admit everything who was washed into dust, who was beaten with a boot to death, who was laughed in the face, who was destroyed by the trigger, who was destroyed by the white camp. They forced to abandon everything that he loved in a few minutes. These are not necessarily the names of a “close -knit group of traitors” or “organizers of the riots”. These are the names of the accidentally selected. There you will meet your namesakes, relatives, rustling neighbors, the names of the executioners and victims. The names of workers, priests, engineers, members of the party, doctors, housewives, journalists, Stalinists, sectarians, ballerinas, crane operators, singers, builders, poets, Jews, Hindus, Belarusians, Russians, Armenians, Germans, Poles, Historians, Knights, Secretary, Condes, Professors, Flements.
Sixty years ago, when the radio announced: “Stalin died”, the abbreviation of the “USSR” was already everywhere hesitated as “the death of Stalin Freedom of Russia”.
Sixty years later, people are debating about the “effective manager” and “bloody executioner”. People propose to introduce Stalinobuses, propose to re -ize Volgograd to Stalingrad, return the monuments to the leader of the peoples, “conduct a discussion”. Other people say: “How can you! He is a tyrant, he is a murderer! " But both have nothing to worry about. Monuments to Stalin 60 years later "stand" throughout the country. In every prison. In every court. In the State Duma. In the offices of the presidential administration. In fashion clubs. In progressive editions. In expensive grocery stores. In apartments and offices. At trolleybus stops.
The 60th anniversary of the death of Stalin celebrates the country widely. The divisions of numbers are going on: "Over the past year, more than four thousand people died in Russian investigative insulators and prisons." Hooray, comrades! The boots of the “Swamp business” rumble: “21 people organized riots, 14 of them are already in prison, the list is open, the work is being carried out.” Friendly Ura-aaaaa!
Whatever the textbook of history dedicated to the beginning of the 2010s, it will have a “swamp business”, even if it is given as a figure of silence. This will be the history of the exemplary demonstration process, in which - in science - there is no corpus delicti, there are no witnesses, there are no evidence, lawyers are powerless. “In the dock, enemies of the existing system accidentally snatched from the crowd are sitting. One of them, someone Kovyazin, as we see on the video, touched the dry closet. Another, someone Margolin, has foreign friends abroad, which means that it can hide. The third, Savelov, who could hardly speak due to the illness of the larynx, asked for a change in the preventive measure and the opportunity to consult a doctor. Refusal: being free, will continue criminal activity. Are there any objections? Everything is already written there, I do not want to answer anymore. And in general, we do not consider the case on the merits, but only - the extension of the arrest. ”
Lyon Feikhtwanger, who wrote “Based on Personal Impressions”, a book about the USSR in 1937, enthusiastically writes about New Moscow, about construction, about holidays, about cinema, about the demonstration process and refers to the opinion of Soviet people: “At the process we showed only the quintessence, a dissected result of the preliminary investigation. On the process we had enough confirmation of their recognition. This process was primarily political. We were interested in cleaning the domestic political atmosphere. We tried to furnish the process with maximum simplicity and clarity. A detailed presentation of documents, testimonies, various kinds of investigative material may be interested in lawyers, forensics, historians, and we would only confuse our Soviet citizens with such excessive pile of details. ”
The main thing that Stalin gave humanity: the denial of the value of the life of another person, the perception of the other as a piece of shit, not to count the victims, shoot at the back of the head, until they shot at yours. Complete indifference, spit on everyday injustice. Monthly evil.
On the anniversary of the 60th anniversary of Stalin’s death, he was erected the best monument: a demonstration process over innocent people, passing in the capital of a huge state, with the complete indifference of the inhabitants of this huge state. It's nothing. This is a cleaning of the domestic political atmosphere.
If at every house from which the arrested terror were forever led away, signs with their names will hang, if a museum of repressions is created in the shot house, if the union “Despite” the mentions of Stalin will not be mentioned, he will cease to be a mythological “effective manager”, and will remain a historical character. And if each court in the “swamp case” will collect hundreds of people, and the crowd will have a crowd, the “monument to Stalin” will begin to crumble. This applies to all, regardless of income, interests and political views. Just “all” for which everyday injustice, every minute Stalinism is not the norm.
Otherwise, all the conversations about the tennization, “horror-uzhas”, new textbooks, an effective manager and so on are exercises in oratory.
Otherwise, the white louse, the lord of the prisoner, the queen of the mainland, will never enter the fire.
Photo: Pavel Kassin/Kommersant