A complex person

Historical figures often cause an ambiguous attitude in society. There is nothing easier than smearing a person whom the whole country knows, only with black paint. It is much more difficult to try to figure out an extraordinary personality: what motives he was guided by, what he achieved, who opposed him and what came of all this in the end.

Journalists, analysts and historians who are simplified at the world are often not able to appreciate the scale of the personality and inconsistency of a particular figure, especially when it concerns contemporaries. This is understandable. First of all, what lies on the surface, which is well known, that does not need either checks or evidence is striking. Meanwhile, with this approach to the life of famous people from the scope of public attention, the most important thing leaves - the motive motives and the deep inner world of a person, his spiritual throwing and torment: after all, even the most nightmarish crimes are rarely done with a calm soul.

It is still honestly asking for the question: for what this person did what many accuse him of and what has not yet forgiven for? Maybe everything is not as simple as their fierce prosecutors say? Maybe it's all about upbringing, surrounded, in a dysfunctional set of life circumstances?

No, it is not about rehabiliting him for the evil that he caused to society. But not a single person can be the standard of evil - probably there was something good in that. Was not to look at the person to whom such attention of society was focused, and on the other hand? Look at him as a loving father, preoccupied with the fate of his daughter and son. As a mentor and teacher, who was an example for his students. In the end, how not to understand that a person who has received a higher education in the specialty of Marxism-Leninism has prepared this way and no other. It was destined. Where else could a person with such a specialty go? Who to become?

Yes, his convictions are right - he became a maniac, a killer, on his hands the blood of innocent sacrifices. For twelve years he has been engaged in activities that few would risk calling a decent. Everything is so. But do not forget that he was a contradictory, a man of a complex fate and, of course, a tragic end. Yes, Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo was judged and shot in 1994 as a serial killer and a sexual maniac.

Did you think I was talking about Andropov? No, Andrei Romanovich to Yuri Vladimirovich is very far away. Chikatilo was accused of killing 53 people, while Andropov’s hands, about which the central television channels are shooting today, such felt films, the blood of a much larger number of people. Did not put the monuments nearby? They stand each other.