Ivan Chumakov: Psychology of pain

Today there is an opinion that my people do not need a good life, that my people are passive and stupid, that my people are craving tyranny, slavery and a hard ruling house. And the worst thing, I more often notice: such judgments are actively planted by the Kremlin to justify their parasitic form of existence and extend the stay in power.

It is fair to note that many critics of the current state of society are right. It is difficult not to notice the current level of public, economic and political passivity of citizens in Russia. What are the next False Democrats of the False Duma of Russia, which most of the country's population simply did not notice! Why did Russia become mired in the quagmire of hopelessness, why, 25 years after the collapse of the USSR, Russians cannot make their lives better? Do they not want or cannot?

To begin with, answer the question: when did the serfdom abolish in Russia? Officially, slavery was canceled in 1861, but in fact - in 1991, when the person in Russia finally received the right to dispose of his own life. How a free person differs from a slave - but just the right to dispose of his life and the ability to use this right! If you lived in the USSR, remember whether you disposed of your life and fate? No, they didn’t dispose! The authorities put a clear framework of existence for everyone, there was not even an elementary opportunity to independently determine their place of residence in the territory of his own homeland.

The Soviet Union was one huge cage in which the people were in slavery

What happens to the psyche of a person who falls into slavery with the presence of the owner, as a rule, a tyrant and a constant threat of his life, no matter what form this threat, acute or chronic, accept? Psychologists will answer: a person receives a post -traumatic personality disorder. This is a serious mental state that arises as a result of repeating psycho -traumatic situations - such as, for example, participation in hostilities, physical injury, sexual violence, a threat of death or the death of loved ones. Limiting the will of a person is a severe psychological trauma. Now remember how throughout the history of the USSR the authorities fought with people who want to freely dispose of their fate? Yes, the authorities drowned the free will of our people in the blood! Millions were repressed in the USSR, if not tens of millions of people, including executed, exiled, buried in camps and at various construction sites.

We turn to symptoms. What are the problems of a post -traumatic personality disorder?

• Repeating, obsessive negative memories of the event;
• repeated negative dreams associated with the event;
• sudden deeds and feelings caused by a "return" into a traumatic event;
• intensive psychological stress in events resembling or symbolizing trauma;
• flight from thoughts, feelings and activities related to the event;
• the inability to recall the details of the event;
• a decrease in interest in activities that previously caused interest;
• a sense of detachment, alienation from other people;
• impoverishment of feelings, lack of positive emotions;
• lack of plans for the future;
• Difficulties with falling asleep, insomnia;
• irritability;
• super -bondness;
• explosive reactions;
• difficulties in concentration of attention;
• Physiological reactions to events symbolizing or reminiscent of injury.

What is the only lack of plans for the future or the inability of a vision of the future for the individual? This is life one day, when we do not invest strength and means in our future and our children! Does the described remind you of anything? American psychologists Martin Seligman and Steve Mayer in 1967 conducted an experiment called "acquired helplessness." I’ll make a reservation right away, I definitely against this kind of experiments on animals. But the experiment and its results are already there: psychologists have developed an experiment with a small blow of current with the participation of three groups of dogs.

The people need to feel freedom, they need to recover from this inner pain through which most families passed

Here is a description of the experiment: “The first group was given the opportunity to avoid pain: by pressing the nose on a special panel, the dog of this group could turn off the power of the system causing a blow. Thus, it was able to control the situation, its reaction was important. In the second group, the shutdown of the shock device depended on the actions of the first group. These dogs received the same impact, but their own reaction did not affect the result. Bolly The exposure to the second group was stopped only when the dog of the first group connected with it, the third group of dogs (control), did not receive at all. To make sure that all three groups of dogs could not affect the troubles with a partition, through which any of them could easily jump and thus get rid of an electric shock. The bottom and, whining, endured the shock of increasing and greater power. "

The Soviet Union was one huge cage in which the people were in slavery. Any manifestation of freedom was brutally suppressed! Is it possible, in your opinion, the results of the torture of the whole people for almost 300 years to fix in 25 years? Why 300 years? But what about slavery in tsarist Russia? It also contributed to the history of our people! The people need to feel freedom, they need to recover from this inner pain through which most families passed. But how can we feel freedom today, how can we find our own choice when the Kremlin does everything to take it away? The main argument of the authorities is as follows: no one holds you in this country, I don’t like the power or a bad life - “drive” to the West! But how does nothing hold us? This land holds us, the Motherland holds us, which the current corruption-crapocratic system privatized for individual use!

We were reluctantly given freedom in 1991, and it will no longer be able to pick it up. Generations are updated, and over time, the Russian people will get rid of the shackles of the past traumatic experience, taking their fate in their own hands.

Ivan Chumakov - politician, expert on economic policy and investment