Three times above the abyss

In the last months of his life, Comrade Stalin was purely specifically preparing for the third world (nuclear) war with the United States. In parallel, he conceived a double operation to “strengthen the rear”-the deportation of Jews (to protect them from the noble anger of the people after the public process and execution of “killer doctors”) and the next preventive liquidation of the highest layer of the party nomenclature.

At the Plenum of the Central Committee, just chosen by the XIX Congress of the CPSU, on October 16, 1952, Stalin fell against the betrayal of Molotov and Mikoyan and declared his intention to leave the leaderships in the party, which caused the horror of those present, perfectly understanding what the leader was sliding towards.

The grandiose Stalinist plans were not destined to come true. He was ahead of the nearest associates. The conspiracy was headed by Beria, a criminal not less than Stalin, a cruel, cynical and power -loving person, but at the same time, which was extremely adequate for that time and for that environment with an understanding of the situation and strategic tasks of Russia. Beria fought with Stalin not only for his precious life. He fought for that state, whose sovereign leader he saw himself after the death of Stalin. Beria had a large -scale reform program for his time, which he had just begun to implement in 100 days of his short rule. As the further events showed - too large, to the taste of his colleagues.

In foreign policy - the unification of Germany as a neutral, demilitarized state. Which would mean not only the rejection of the war of the “hot” war, but also the end of the “cold” war and the useless exhausting confrontation with the West against the psychological background of not the defeat of the USSR (as happened later in 1989-1991), and, on the contrary, increased the foreign policy authority of the country.

Another decade has passed, and who defeated the Stalinist heirs under the compromise slogan of the peaceful coexistence of the two systems, Khrushchev again put humanity on the line of nuclear disaster. Moreover, this time without any far -reaching strategic idea. Simply, intoxicated by an unexpected deafening propaganda triumph of the Gagarinsky flight, he decided to "put the Americans into the hedgehog pants." Put it.

The agreements of the USSR and the United States to take out the Khrushchevsky hedgehog from the American pants included elements that saved to some extent the face of the Soviet side (the US promise not to take an invasion of Cuba, the conclusion of the later American military bases from the territory of Turkey). But in general, the course and denouement of the crisis (the success of the American sea blockade, the export of Soviet missiles under the control of the UN) looked like a humiliating defeat of the USSR. That is how this whole story was perceived by members of the Politburo. Then, in their minds, a conspiracy was born (much more vegetarian than 10 years ago, there were still different times) against Khrushchev, finally realized two years later. After all, this is thanks to the Khrushchev Cuban adventure, its empty boasting about rockets, which "we produce as sausages", the situation is humiliating for the USSR. And the lowered groin is no longer a plowman - according to all the laws of the communist zone.

The indisputable positive result of the Caribbean crisis was the responsible behavior of the American and Soviet leaders in the nuclear sphere over the next decades. Surviving the experience of the day almost turned out to be the day on October 27, 1962, they never again resorted to each other's nuclear blackmail and did not approach the edge of the abyss. It happened, however, everything. Soviet anti -aircraft gunners shot down American planes over Hanoi. One of them, by the way, was controlled by the son of the US Pacific Fleet, Lieutenant John McCain. But at the same time, Brezhnev and Nixon agreed in the Kremlin on nuclear disarmament. In the 1980s, on the contrary, the Americans supplied the "stingers" to Mujahideen, which actually decided the outcome of the Afghan war. And in Geneva there were Soviet-American negotiations on medium-range nuclear missiles.

But completely different times came, and shook in the satanic laughter of Popol and the Iskander. The Dresden Majors and St. Petersburg mayor's clergymen, thanks to the will and the frantic energy of Berezovsky, who were headed by a huge country, actively dealt with the issues of a nuclear strategy. Why was the look -setting the country on the eve of the XXI century turned out to be potentially more dangerous than Stalin and Khrushchev?

The defeat in the Cold War, and mainly - the quarter -century looting of their own country translated the Russian "elite" from the Super League at best in the first, if not the second division of world politics

Well, for example, by the fact that the post -Soviet political structure is much more primitive than communist. It does not have a first -person insurance system. There is no Politburo, which was capable of grabbing the hand at the critical moment - Comrade Khrushchev or by the throat - Comrade Stalin himself. But first of all, the fact that, despite all his show -offs, despite all his bragging, started by a “good Hitler” hybrid crusade of the Russian world, against the West, is involved in the deepest complex of inferiority, in the realization that Russia is organically not capable of competing with the West. And this is a painful humiliating feeling, which, for all the historical farms of communist leaders, was neither at Stalin nor Khrushchev, this psychopathology of a “gateway” is characteristic not only for our national leader, but for the entire post -Soviet “elite”.

The defeat in the Cold War, and mainly - the quarter -century looting of their own country translated this "elite" from the Super League at best in the first, if not the second division of world politics. And this status is perceived very painfully, as a sensitive blow to the personal ego. Yes, of course, all of them, from oil and gas generals to intellectual service staff from the Council on foreign and defense policies, were very well -very settled, as it was impossible to imagine in the Soviet Union - all the dollar billionaires and multimillionaires. Sons and grandchildren - all in Western universities and companies. But it is no coincidence that all this dirt in silk stockings constantly broadcasts about its unique and highest spirituality, which the mercantile decadent West does not have ***. There is little material well -being.

The greatness, greatness and once again the Russian political "elite" longs! Alas, there are not the slightest objective signs of this greatness - neither in the degree of influence of Russia on the tendency of world development, nor in the indicators of its economic and technological growth, nor in the standard of living, education, health (including mental) fed by this elite "people".

But the most outstanding mediocrity of our political class found its way of the outcast to greatness, its own way to force to draw the attention of all this arrogant to great Russia, if it was cursed three times, a civilized world. Putin borrowed a recipe from the hereditary dictator Kim Jong -un: nuclear blackmail, the threat of turning partners into a radioactive ash.

In this pathological version of greatness, if it is sequentially operated, however, two fundamental problems are laid. Firstly, the great leader must acquire an appropriate reputation. He already has certificates from the Chancelline Merkel and from the demonstratively executed Nemtsov. And finally, the Russian leader made a shocking sincere recognition on the camera in the Candal Russian Rome of the Triumph of Volya. Yes, he would use a nuclear arsenal, arising in the special operation of the return of Crimea to his native harbor complications.

Secondly, blackmail can work once, twice, several times. He is already being triggered: Merkel, along with Holland, rushed to Moscow with peaceful initiatives; Obama does not dare to sell anti -tank missiles to Ukraine. But the West cannot endlessly retreat before the polite "green men", waving nuclear crowbar (in Ukraine, in the Baltic states, then everywhere). Once-and rather earlier than later-the West will rest, and the blackmailer will have to answer the bazaar and press the button.

But the spiritual mentor, the chairman of the Synodal Department for Interaction with the Armed Forces and Law enforcement agencies, the vice-rector of the Orthodox Holy Tikhon Humanitarian University, the dean of the faculty of the Orthodox culture of the Academy of Missile Forces of Strategic Forces to them, took care of this opportunity. Peter the Great, co-chair of the church and public council on the Biomedical Ethics of the Moscow Patriarchate Archpriest Dmitry Smirnov. Archpriest and I in a sense of a colleague. He is an expert on the Orthodox nuclear strategy. This is what the dean of the faculty of the Academy of Mistemen of Strategic Academy of Missile Forces was concerned a few years ago: “We are used to the fact that Russia is large, Russia is strong, Russia is great, that we have a lot of nuclear buttons, we can destroy the whole world. Yes, in principle, this is possible. But we don’t have such people who have enough courage to press these buttons spiritually.”

And what kind of national defense national defense is this man to the main confessor of our missilers at one time? It seems that he still managed to overcome the spiritual grinding of the people in recent years, along with the fascist priest Shevkunov and to educate, in his image and likeness, at least one maniac, who was in the immediate vicinity of the nuclear button. Vladimir is brighter than a thousand sunses are the most dangerous alien in the history of our civilization. He is obsessed with the idea of the "Russian world", is notorious, afraid to lose power, he has a bouquet of somatic and mental disorders, and - in the God -sleeping understanding of Dmitry's father - he did not grind spiritually.

Andrey Piontkovsky - political expert

Opinions expressed under the heading "Law" may not reflect the point of view of the editorial office