2013. Grigory Pomeranz died

A year ago, on February 16, 2013, at the age of 94, the Russian philosopher and culturologist Grigory Solomonovich Pomeranz died.

In December 1945, the front -line officer Pomerantz was expelled from the party for “anti -Soviet conversations”, and in 1949 he was arrested on charges of anti -Soviet activities and convicted of 5 years. Rehabilitation followed in 1956. Pomeranz became a participant in the dissident movement. The report “Moral appearance of a historical person”, read at the Institute of Philosophy on December 3, 1965, gained great fame.

Pomerantz claimed that “Stalin, who turned out to be a despot and killer, could not become worthy of respect again, not to mention love. To restore respect for Stalin, knowing what he was doing is to establish something new, to establish respect for denunciations, torture, and executions. This was not even trying to do it, he preferred to be hypocrite. "

For many years, Pomeranz led in absentia polemic with Alexander Solzhenitsyn , defending the values ​​of liberalism and spiritual autonomy of the individual against “soilny utopianism”.