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The Ministry of Education and Science deprived the doctoral title of historian Kirill Alexandrov for a dissertation about General Vlasov

The attack on Cyril Alexandrov has been going on for many months. He is called the defender of the Vlasovites, an apologet of betrayal. They are accused of "calling for the unleashing of an aggressive war", which is completely absurd. Before the heap, they remembered the article “Bandera and Bandera” in Novaya Gazeta and recommended to enter it on the list of extremist materials. The article was published in the fall of 2014, and now they remembered. What happened?

Aleksandrov never hid his anti -Soviet, at least anti -Stalinist views. Since the 1990s, he has been studying anti-Stalinist resistance in Russia, the history of World War II and ROA, and the Russian Liberation Army of Vlasov. His candidate was called "Armed formations of the Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia in 1944-1945." The defense took place in 2002-quietly, without a violent external reaction.

The insanity on the patriotic theme was then just beginning, has not yet entered the active phase.

And in 2016, he submitted to the doctorate “Generals and officer personnel of the armed groups of the Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia 1943-1946”. ” And the ugly scandal broke out. Although there is no excuse for the Vlasovites there at all. Alexandrov only studied the biographies of Vlasov officers and saw that most of them had objective reasons not to love advice and Stalin. Does it take off this from them for betrayal? Of course not. Is this topic of study? Undoubtedly. If you do not understand the origins of betrayal, it will be repeated again and again.

He says so: "A public agreement between a citizen and the state will be strong and strong only if both sides are equally observed." Where is the apology of betrayal? This is a conversation that the situation is more complicated than it seems. She is not exhausted by division into her and strangers, there are shades.

Historian Pavel Polyan comments: “I know Alexandrov as a deep and conscientious scientist. For the fact that, working in the archives, he collected and introduced such a huge array of information into scientific everyday life, I must say thank you, not poison. ”

It was hardly a signal to the persecution that came from above. An ideology comes from above, according to which anti -Sovietism is equated with attempts on the foundations of the existing system, and Stalin’s criticism to criticize the president. The national idea has long been formed, it sounds like this: we are good. And they were always like that. And the one who considers differently is the enemy.

This position creates the perfect prerequisites for bullying and accounting.

It is known that the campaign against Alexandrov began on the initiative of his colleagues.

We can say - the initiative, but it is possible - a denunciation, as more convenient. A great way to conduct a scientific discussion: you are a doctorate for me, and I am a challenge to the prosecutor’s office for you. Spread, give facts, study the material ... But why, if you can do it easier.

But on people like the ex -ode of Aleksandrov, if you think about it, the Russian state is now. How many he gave the opportunity to speak out, how many people at his expense attracted attention and made political capital. Here is just a small part.

• The head of the People’s Cathedral movement, assistant deputy Milonov Anatoly Artyukh wrote an appeal to the prosecutor's office of the Petrograd district and gave a series of interviews.

• A certain supervisory department held a installation conversation with the director of the St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences Nikolai Smirnov.

• Professor of the Higher School of Economics, Alexei Plotnikov, called the dissertation of Alexandrov with a roughly worked out ideological agitation.

• The St. Petersburg public organization of war veterans, labor, the armed forces and law enforcement agencies was amazed that the word “patriotism” was not found in the text.

• The channel "Russia 24" reproached the scientist for not using the book "Anatomy of betrayal" in his work.

• Archpriest Alexander Ilyashenko called the defense of Alexandrov "a successful operation of the information war, which has been conducted for many years against Russia."

And so on.

And everyone is happy. So that they do without him? Doctors to them all, doctors!