I'm not me, Kolyma is not mine

The Russian authorities do not want to repent either for the Gulag or for other crimes of the Stalin regime

Sergey Naryshkin in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. Repent or not repent?

Sergei Naryshkin, the speaker of the “furious printer”, part -time chairman of the Russian Historical Society and a graduate of the Minsk KGB school, announced a terrible “threat of the use of falsifications of the Soviet period of Russian history for political purposes to change the international balance of forces”. And, they say, this threat "has real outlines."

What is the gentleman afraid of (or already a comrade?) Naryshkin? What will everyone understand: we have a stigma in the gun too? I understood for a long time. The President of many decades of the repentant Germany Joachim Gauk invited Russia to join and "repent of his Soviet history." But it turned out that we have nothing to repent after the victory in the Second World War! Victory will write off everything.

Margaret Thatcher repented the issuance of refugees to Stalin. The United States is doing everything to make amends in front of African Americans and Indians. The civilized world repents, and we viciously persist in our imaginary infallibility. We, they say, are only liberators, not the invaders. And if you ask the released? Today is liberation, and the next day - executions and deportation. The Tallinn Museum of occupation with a steam locomotive, decorated with a swastika and a red star, does not justify the Germans, but the USSR does not.

And the Soviet-Finnish war? They still did not have time to remove the song in Special Sector: "Take us, Suomi beautiful." And then there is a description of the “pleasant date” with this very suoomi: “Wide clearing tanks are breaking, planes circle in the clouds, the low sun of autumn lights the lights on bayonets.”

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What is Mr. Naryshkin afraid of? What will everyone understand: we have a stigma in the gun too?

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I’m afraid that the memories of the communist and Major of the Red Army of Lev Kopelev, later a friend Solzhenitsyn and the dissident, will never reprint. He describes there what the villains were doing with the German civilian population, who had one form with him (Kopelev). There were so many villains that the commander had to issue an order to execute on the site of rapists and looters ... also slander foreign agents?

We "did not raise the question of the destruction of entire peoples"? Tell this Chechens, Crimean Tatars and Volga Germans.

It has already come to “inaccuracy and blunders” in historical films. And how do you remove from the Internet “Katyn”, where it is shown how the Polish elite was destroyed, and the “Chekist”, where the predecessors of Putin and Naryshkin shoot people only because those nobles or officials?

Does Sergey Naryshkin know that the Brest Fortress was taken twice: the Germans - from the Red Army, and the Red Army - from the Poles, only there is no film about it ...

What about the joint parade of Soviet-German troops in Brest in 1939 and the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact? Now the hello of the grandson of Molotov, Vyacheslav Nikonov, unlike the descendants of Goering, does not think to repent ... And Stalin’s grandson fies the claims for everyone.

Putin demanded respect for all the pages of our past. So they will write in new unified textbooks from the heavy hand of those who returned to finish off the country. The heirs of Beria and Yezhov, for whom, like Putin, Stalin will always be better than Hitler, because his father’s father and his hymn are warming their cold snake souls. They changed the skin, but not their nature. They do not want to repent either for the destroyed millions, or for the Russian peasantry uprooted, after which it turned out that we, unlike the Americans, are “collectivists”.

Where will they go to Solzhenitsyn, Evgeny Ginzburg, Varlam Shalamov, introduced into the school curriculum?

These living Chekist corpses returned from the graveyard to give us captivity. They disperse Yukos and look for "rootless cosmopolites." They want us to forget. A line with two we will forget them.

“Later, friends, later we will end forever with pain, and you’ll go, the pipe, what, sing and call for battle! Copper with his flesh, go about my Potma, sing about my mother, there, in an ice hole ”(Alexander Galich).

Photo: Alexander Miridonov/Kommersant