Natalya Slutskaya: Relapse

In the calendar of the significant dates of Russia, it has been listed for not the first year on October 30 - the day of memory of victims of political repression in the USSR. Eight decades have passed since the time of great terror. And although at present the previously classified lists of the NKVD employees have been published, the Gulag Museum of History in Moscow has been opened, the Butovo training ground was created (which, by the way, was facilitated only by relatives of the dead and the Memorial human rights society), is it possible to say today that Russian society is generally ready to realize what happened in our country? After all, it is one thing to know about any facts, and another is to realize them.

Are there any echoes of a terrible phenomenon that can be called "Russian fascism" in modern Russia without exaggeration? Is there a chronic disease called the "personality cult"?

Here are just some facts.

More recently, a memorial plate dedicated to the performance of Stalin in this educational institution has been installed in the Moscow State Law Academy. A group of young people turned to the mayor of Yekaterinburg Evgeny Roizman with the initiative to erect a monument to the Soviet dictator. Roizman proposed a variant of the monument to Stalin with an ax and a strangle. In Kirov, on the initiative of the KGB veterans, a monument to Felix Dzerzhinsky was erected. In the center of Moscow in the line of "rulers of Russia" the work of Zurab Tsereteli are busts of Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin.

What is happening in the minds of most Russian society can be called a return to the usual state of slavery

The fate of the people is determined by the deep processes of consciousness. The rehabilitation of Stalinism is used by the power of modern Russia to cultivate "imperial patriotism", which inevitably leads the country to a new form of totalitarianism. The call to recognize the policy of democratic reforms of the 1990s of the criminal was from the director Nikita Mikhalkov-as if the continuation of the statement of the President of Russia that the collapse of the USSR was a disaster for the Russian people.

What is happening in the minds of most Russian society can be called a return to the usual state of slavery, when there is no responsibility and awareness of hidden and obvious processes taking place in the country and the world. This is the result of the fact that the Communist Party managed to evade liability, since the court was not held at the CPSU with subsequent lustration, as it was in the Nuremberg process immediately after the defeat of Nazism. Part of the educational school curriculum in Germany is to visit the Nazi concentration camps and, for example, the exhibition "Topography of Terror" in Berlin. In the educational programs of Russia, the history of domestic terror is not paid to due attention - this is considered nonpatriotic.

Natalya Slutskaya - philologist, Yekaterinburg

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