Putin is like an optimist

President Putin, speaking at the Economic Council on December 4, called for focus on constructive proposals to improve the economy instead of "plunging into hopeless pessimism." The fact is, he explained that to immerse himself in pessimism and “start criticizing everything and everything” - much easier than bear responsibility for changes in the country and do business.

How familiar. Especially "bear responsibility."

September 13, 1930 Comrade Stalin writes Comrade. Molotov from the Caucasus, where he improves health:

"Vyacheslav!

... 3) Turn, for the sake of God, a seal with her mouse screeching about “continuous breakthroughs”, “endless failures”, “breakdowns”, etc. Brechne. This is a hysterical Trotskyist-legitimate tone, not justified by the data and not going to the Bolsheviks. “Economic Life”, “Pravda”, “for industrialization”, and partly Izvestia are especially quirrels. They squeak about the "fall" of the pace, about the casting of workers, but do not explain what the matter is. In fact, where did this “sudden” tint of workers in the village come from, this “catastrophic” fluidity, how to explain it? Maybe a poor food supply? But did they suppose better last year than in this? Why was there no such fluidity then, such an ebb? Is it not clear that the workers went to the village for the crop, left so that their collective farms did not deprive in the sense of the distribution of the crop, left to work for a month or two on the collective farm in sight of everyone and thereby ensure the right to their full collective farm share? Why don't they write about it, but are limited to a panic screech? By the way, the “appeal” of the Central Committee also missed this moment.

Well, for now. I shake my hand.

I. Stalin "

They are delighted with two coincidences.

Firstly, the depth of analysis and the accuracy of the moment. President Putin’s economy has once again approached the doubling of GDP-and here is on you. In Stalin, the victorious dawn of collectivization (with the subsequent holodomor and death of 5-7 million peasants) is just as inevitably dawn. But was the supply in the past 1929 the supply was better?! And now, the workers on cards give out as many as three hundred grams of black bread with sawdust. So we're going the right course, comrades! The only thing you will have to calm the screeching panickers who made their way into the ranks of the proletarian press. The former bourgeois press was subsided back in 1918 (almost 500 independent publications were prohibited)-and no one, thank God, prevented the Bolsheviks from mentioning 3 million people with the help of military communism and the first Soviet hunger.

Hence, secondly, the same responsibility. Stalin and Molotov before everyone was responsible for the bazaar. The editorial board of "Pravda", "Izvestia" and "Economic Life" were dispersed. From Pravda, with a decrease in the mosquito, the editor -in -chief of Maximilian Savelyev was removed and put in his place the Lev Mehlis devoted before the screech. Editor and economic observer Izvestia and Ec. Life "Garald Krumin since 1931 was transferred to the lower party work in Sverdlovsk and Chelyabinsk; Ivan Gronsky, who replaced him, also did not last long, was replaced by Nikolai Bukharin. However, all three “Izvestins” were repressed only in 1938, to a heap with the once popular Mikhail Koltsov. Rush I.V. Stalin did not like.

In parallel, responsibility for optimism was assigned to official statistics. In the Central Administration of People's Economic Accounting under the State Planning Commission (Tsunghu) from 1926 to 1940. Of the eight directors, five were shot. As long as the remaining finally did not realize what to do with the numbers, so as not to indulge panic. Actually, they understood this right away, simply not to everyone helped.

Having correctly evaluated the party line, the head of the Central Department Store V. Osinsky on July 4, 1932 is shared with readers of the updated Izvestia by scientifically based optimism: “If ... accept as a multiplier the area that is sown on June 20 (with additives on June 25 according to 5 regions), and move it to the indicator of the average grain of grain from the hectare by the available views Harvest, we get that excess collection compared to the latest data for 1931 is 500 million pounds. This surplus is in fact more significant, because The calculation does not include backward accounting data on sowing areas ... In general ... Views for the crop in the middle of the summer of 1932 promise us a significant increase in the food and feed fund for 1932 compared to the results of 1931 "

How convincing it is: if “accept as a multiplier”, and then “change it to an indicator”, then in the end you will just lick your fingers!

True, after incomplete two months, on August 25, 1932, Osinsky’s deputy S. Minaev in a memorandum in the Council of People's Commissars reports that the crop is expected in the amount of only 671 million centners - 98.3% by 1931. What is explained by a decrease in sown areas by 5.4%. That is, for the oscillation of optimism in Izvestia, it was “accepted as a multiplier” a little wrong. Which, generally speaking, is called falsification. Whether we, accustomed to Churov’s numbers, do not understand what we are talking about!

However, the Minaev report is already closed departmental information. Here, hanging noodles about the increase “at 500 million pounds”, simple -minded statistics are considered unacceptable. Oh, in vain! The shabby power needs victorious lies not only for the broad masses, but also for itself. Otherwise, the poison of pessimism will penetrate the bowels of the state apparatus, undermine faith into the only right course and give trump cards in the hands of possible opponents of the leader. It is necessary to think, comrades!

Already in November of that year, V. Osinsky was belatedly justified in the memorandum in the Central Committee of the All -Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks for a departmental puncture: “I would like to ... bring the Central Committee an apology for a political mistake and tactlessness ... expressed in the publication for relatively widespread (in the August Bulletin“ The main indicators of the implementation of the national economic plan ”, which was released in order not subject to not subject to issue Materials) Cocking data on crops, crops and fees ... If these numbers were born, then this is because I was on vacation. ”

That's the same! Finally I guessed that the real numbers from now on could not be reported even in a closed (“for official use”) ballot. And even more so give Stalin - so as not to spoil the mood in vain. What are the scum and fools these statistics! The leader needs data in order to weightfully, with numbers and facts in his hands, as he knows and loves, to demonstrate the victorious tread of socialism to the people and the whole world. And these, sorry, are sorry, the goats of the Taldychat, that only 650-655 million centners were collected according to the Hamburg account. Even worse than promised in August, no more than 95% of the 1931 crop. Well, tell me by conscience, how can you not shoot such mutton?!

Here is a smart comrade Molotov, to whom I.V. Stalin instructed to reveal the true face of pests from Tsunghu, much thinner understood what they expected from him. And, having deeply delved into the essence of the issue, he explained with all the party directness: the fact is that Osinsky "went down the lower path." The term “slanderous fabrications” was then not yet invented, but it is about that. And the wise comrade. Stalin with a sense of deep satisfaction is answered by Comrade. Molotov: “I agree ... that according to the gross collection of grain for 32 g. It is necessary to take 698 million centners. No less. "

That's right. No less! Now (retroactively) there is three percent growth by 1931. It has become better to live, living has become more fun. True, the yard is the peak of the Holodomor, but not a word about this in the updated party press. And what is not in the press is not in public consciousness. Everyone is starving and dies alone, but together we go from victory to victory! So optimism beats with a key. As for the unbearable statistics of Osinsky, it still had to be put into expense after a while. In general, and it’s not a pity at all - especially since in his youth he was familiar with Trotsky.

And you know, life began to improve. A shock pace! It was from that time that the steady rise in the Stalinist industry and agriculture began on the pages of Soviet newspapers and party reports. In many simple -minded heads, it remains and at this time. This is a close, but separate problem: it is difficult for normal people to imagine the scale of the unlimited and shameless triumphant lies, which, in the conditions of an information monopoly and blockade, thugs the Bolshevik propaganda machine. The current Churov, Onishchenko, Medinsky, Markin Mamonts, although they strive to imitate glorious samples, are not good for real giants of party thought.

In those legendary years, academician Strumilin opened (for a narrow circle of professionals) the main law of Soviet economic science: "It is better to stand at high economic growths than to sit for low." Whoever is older, probably remembers that in the textbooks of political economy of socialism, the formula Strumilin was represented in an improved form and was called the "law of the steady satisfaction of constantly growing material and spiritual needs of workers." The same fundamental pattern of the plannedly developing Soviet economy with some delay (when they stopped planting as jokes) noted the broad masses: "Our grocery orders are accepted by phone and issued on TV."

In the light of a wide historical retrospective, it is easy to figure out that President Putin is in the objective course of economic events is injected to the wall and is forced to turn to a time -tested practice. That is, it will be even more determined to fight for increasing the norms of the issuance of TV talons for optimism. Although, it seems, there is nowhere to go - and so fed up. The business is native, quite predictable. Naturally, in parallel, it will be necessary to engage in the identification and neutralization of distributors of various kinds of panic rumors and fabrications, denigrating the achievements of the Soviet system. Stalin's experience testifies: otherwise you will be hell, not optimism.

Returning to justice. Our respected president invites her to carry someone else with a hospitable gesture. Which is also organic to tears. It is easy to guess that in the end it will be entrusted to those very critics. It is not for nothing that S. Guriev and S. Aleksashenko, who are well aware of the economic history of the USSR, were left for an internship abroad in advance. Professionals - they understand.

Comrade Stalin agreed to bear responsibility for the brilliant figures of industrialization, massive collective farm growth and agricultural abundance in the film “Kuban Cossacks”. But it’s not for the fact that he had passed Hitler and left the Red Army in the first two years with a desperate deficiency of weapons: one thing was uneven tons of cast iron and became in falsified reporting and completely different - in the face of a real enemy. For this, others were responsible for him-first of all, those three or four million front-line soldiers who take place as irreversible losses of 1941.

Similarly, Comrade Putin is ready to be responsible for lifting from the knees and curbing the West (about the doubling of GDP and catching Portugal, the television fountains of optimism are silent). This, of course, is wonderful. There remains a trifle: to find the one who will be responsible for the 127th place of Russia in the global corruption rating, for a similar position in the rating of investment attractiveness, for the fall of the ruble, which, I remember, someone promised to make a world currency. Etc. etc.

Someone, of course, will answer. But not Putin! Together with the cooperative, the “lake” is offered to draw raking hands into the sleeves and stay away from the economy as a real step to improve it can only overturned Russophobes and foreign agents. How to offer Comrade at one time. Dzhugashvili (the bearer of the original Russian values) not to break through the knee a Russian village, industry and demography could only malicious Trotsky-lawsuits. It was also necessary to invent such a shabby concept, incredibly uniting rabid levak-revolutionaries and moderate supporters of market relations!

Because it doesn’t matter to him: anyone who dares to say a word and offer an alternative to the nomenclature-Chekist corporation and her tightly clinging to the power of the leader-the enemy, pest and traitor. It must be erased from the face of the earth. At least on the left, at least on the right. Turn to camp dust. Shoot like crazy dogs.

So more optimism, comrades! Ahead is radiant prospects. We take off the double two in an accelerated sprinkle.

Photo by ITAR-TASS/ Denis Vyshinsky