Tyrant, talker and poet

The question is more topical than it might seem. Why did Pasternak honor Stalin and despised Khrushchev? After all, Khrushchev’s nonsense were not stupid than the Stalin. Makyta did not leave brilliant labor in linguistics, but to genetics, so he even freed from the Stalinist prohibition.

Yes, Pasternak honor Stalin, although this broke through only once - immediately after the death of the tyrant and in a purely personal letter to the “Minister of Writers” Fadeev: “Dear Sasha!” Sasha printed in Pravda an epitaph entitled "Humanism of Stalin". Pasternak picked up this assessment. He writes about the leader’s hands in the coffin - "fulfilled thoughts and for the first time vacationers." What works of vacationers from? From the works of eradicating evil in the world. Stalin, they say, never in his life had changed the youthful fire of indignation at the sight of a "impunity triumphant baseness", but for the sake of a great goal, he "abandoned" all types of petty pity for individual occasions. " Not in this letter, but in private conversations, Pasternak also points to another important dignity of Stalin for him: a villain and obscurantist, but there was still something from the old Russian culture.

And Khrushcheva despised. "For so long, a madman and a killer reigned over us, and now-a fool and a pig ... Previously, blood and tears were shot, but it was still not accepted to remove the pants." These poets will say, the current young man from the techies-warewashes, who does not know that at that time many reasoned so. It is not for us to judge them, but still compare. On one side of the scales - millions of life -ruined lives, on the other - lowered pants of the former locksmith, so remaining. Where did the poet come from - and his people, that’s the main thing! - They took such scales on which the first bowl pulled less than the second?! Here it is necessary to take into account the attitude of Pasternak not to something, but to the civilization of the free market. A young woman who gathered forever abroad, he warns that she will face the worst manifestations of human nature there - only the matter will not be in Soviet conditions, but in this nature.

The Russian intelligentsia never complained of capitalism. She noticed only one of his side and believed that there could be something more beautiful. Well, it should not at the head of everything forever stand purely! In 1913, Blok sang the industrialization of the Wild Field, over which he saw the star of New America, but did not say a word about the Creator of this miracle, about his majesty of the capital ("His Mountains" according to Mayakovsky), about capitalism as the highest quality of public cooperation. Pasternak received his anti -capitalism in the artist's family. The philistine vulgarity, boredom of the trading encouraged to reduce his life more than to writhe in all this until the end of days. He ran into nature, that, as he thought, it still flashed in the human soul from God. At times, he almost accepted the Bolsheviks, only grieved that the new system was created by dark people with their love leaders. He was terrible to, who, mature, began to slowly take all the best from the old Russian life. (We are always in order to take all the best from everywhere, but how to tear off the worst, inextricably connected with him, do not ask us).

Well, Stalin debunked, well, the terror stopped - a merit, who argues, but does she apologize to his uncouthness?!

"Two ladies in gray BOA and hats, as in the works of Serov, ask where the rally will take place on the occasion of the liberation of the city." This is in Orel, just repulsed from the Germans, the summer of 1943. The poet wanted this to return and establish himself forever - the system of the soul, the manners of these surviving ladies, former gymnasiums who are counting now ... by whom? Of course, by them: Block, Pasternak, Akhmatova and, okay, Mayakovsky. Therefore, it warmed up in his soul when he noticed that Stalin deliberately leads to ensuring that Stalinism and Russianness become synonyms. It was seductive to guess that the Russian Orthodox leaven in the former seminarist was not quite dry. I probably liked to think out that it secretly regrets the tyrant, that, with all the desire, could not return the good old autocracy.

And Khrushchev - what is Khrushchev? The same talker as a quarter century will appear in order to involuntarily end socialism, only very illiterate. Well, Stalin debunked, well, the terror stopped - a merit, who argues, but does she apologize to his uncouthness?! “You are ungrateful creatures,” - locked in the country, will answer Nikita who became tearful in old age, but how many celestials will he hear? Helled his plague democracy without democracy. The spectacle of the intelligentsia, which was rushing to improve to new circumstances, her reptile, willingness to climb each other's heads. The relaxed mediocrity without an ax above the head is democracy, if you describe it abusively.

Probably, nowhere in the world, the writers were not of such a high opinion of themselves as in Russia. This is despite the fact that "the poet in Russia is more than the poet" could only be proclaimed by one who was afraid to admit that in fact - less. In Pasternakovsky estimates, the artist’s disappointment, who was waiting for an improved human breed, is through. Stalin did not have time to get out ... The poet refused to accept as a given “uprising of the masses” in the West, which now began to spread to Russia. He did not allow himself the thought that the billions of little Khrushchev would now rule the ball on the planet, which "gymnasiums did not finish", although university diplomas may eventually appear. I wanted to think that it will not be forever. He did not agree with himself that people of selected culture have no choice but to go into internal emigration, and not only in the USSR, but everywhere on Earth until its end.