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How Dud stole the future at Prilepin
The stronger from the older generations and authorities is the imposition of a positive image of Stalin, the acute the request for his criticism is in the form understandable to youth. About disputes around the film about Kolyma - political scientist Fedor Krasheninnikov
Dud against Stalin
On April 23, on the copyright channel of journalist Yuri Dudia, on the social network YouTube, the documentary film “Kolyma is the birthplace of our fear” shot by him and his team. Both the theme of the film and its solid duration (more than 2 hours) were surprising. But even more were more surprised at how popular the film turned out to be - in almost two weeks more than 11,000,000 views and more than 650,000 “likes”. It is noteworthy that only 45,000 of its spectators negatively rated the film.
Paphos Yuri Dudia is sharply anti -Stalin . Those who remember perestroika, the excitement around the film seemed strange - it seems that nothing new does not say anything new, everything has long been known. Meanwhile, in the youth audience - and first of all, she watches YouTube in general and the Dudia channel in particular - the theme of the Stalinist repressions turned out to be sensational.
All recent years, Russian youth have been bombarding stanks about the “effective manager” of Stalin, and perhaps the film Dudya fell into an important nerve - the generational denial of the values of the fathers. The stronger from the older generations and authorities is the imposition of a positive image of Stalin, the acute the request for his criticism is in the form understandable to youth.
11 million views are an sufficient indicator that the topic of repressions is in demand by the audience, and the logic of modern social networks should be expected by the boat of anti -Stalinist journalism - at least in the hope of getting your million of views.
Stalinists are against Dudia
Dude’s performance can already be considered success that the Stalinists of all stripes reacted to his film with a uniform tantrum. On all profile channels in YouTube, the exposures of Dudia and apology Stalin multiply, and the texts have no number at all.
A peculiar manifesto of the non -postalinists was the article by Zakhara Prilepin “Iceful Dud for Children”, published 6 days after the release of the film.
All recent years, Russian youth have been stuffed with stories about Stalin's “effective manager”, and perhaps the film Dudya fell into an important nerve - into the generational denial of the values of the fathers
In the deep sense, the answer of the writer Zakhara Prilepin to the journalist Yuri Dudu is a vivid example of the confrontation of the old and new, a visual illustration to the eternal plot about the transition of a person from the category of “voice of youth” to the league “for those for ...” this is even evident: Prilepin directly calls the audience of Dudia, acting as an angry father.
Between the correspondence disputes is only 11 years old, the age of difference, but in fact they are shared by the abyss - the Dud lives in a completely different technological, intellectual, moral and ideological environment than Prilepin, and works for the absolutely incomprehensible Menstrel of the audience.
The dispute of Prilepin and Dudia is fundamental, and he is about who will lead the youth to the future and what the future will become. And here it is impossible not to give the proper insight of Prilepin: he understands that new generations will rather follow Dudem than for him and like him. “They believe Dudya for a word ...”, Prilepin laments.
For each writing person, this is undoubtedly a tragedy-when you and your writings are no longer believed and are not particularly interested in it at all, but for some kind of dudu-hundreds of thousands of likes believe and put it.
In fact, Prilepin signed in his ideological collapse: from the writer who gave great hopes to say something on behalf of the youth of the 90s, he turned into a middle-aged and already quite dull propagandist who was completely immersed in problems from the Putin TV: Crimea, Donbass, a great victory, the damned 90s and all the more.
Change of generations
The text of Prilepin is interesting precisely as a generational manifesto. Naturally, it is impossible to row all our generation under one comb - the author of these lines himself is younger than Zakhara for only a year. But it is not a secret that in modern Russian journalism there is a circle of authors born in the 1975-1980s, who have been busy with revenge for the scolded ideals of their childhood and youth for many years: they did not like the collapse of the USSR and Boris Yeltsin, they believe that democracy was shot in 1993, and in 1996 it was necessary to vote for Zyuganov. They flaunt their nationalism and worry about Serbia and Kosovo, they are glad of the Crimea and hate Ukraine, it still seems that the main evil in the world is Leah Akhedzhakov and the stars of journalism and journalism of the 90s, and therefore we must not regret bile and ink, cursing them in the worst traditions of the newspapers “Tomorrow” and “Lemon”.
Dud lives in a completely different technological, intellectual, moral and ideological environment than Prilepin, and works for the absolutely incomprehensible Menstrel of the Donbass of the audience
The fact that entire generations of people have grown up who are not interesting and for whom the 90s is the time of the youth of their parents, all these fighters with Yeltsinism did not even notice. For some reason, Prilepin and the company, it seems that young people should still curse Yeltsin and mourn the great power with them. Meanwhile, Yeltsin has been spat on so intensely that on the principle of denial of denial could well have been in the same role in which Stalin turned out to be for some youth in the 90s: since you tell us from all sides that he was bad, we will scream in your face, that he is good.
Triumph and the fall of revenge
The 2010s became the years of the triumph of Soviet revengeists, whose banner was Vladimir Putin. The older generations of revengeists seized the power and wealth of the country, and the previous and worried National Bolshes and other “anti-systemers” of the 90s hired a piar service. In 2014, even those who, back in 2013, did not give their hands in handy.
“Perestroika’s children” who led the media in the 90s and early 2000s, by that time had already been pushed far aside (or they were reborn and remained on the air, like fabulous Kiselev and Soloviev). It turned out that in 2014, in the seemingly respectable media, you can publish without any hesitation everything that was read in Limonka in 1994.
Actually, the guys took up this-and all the nonsense and banality from the baggage of the marginal opposition of the 90s became the intellectual base for the luminaries of the postcracular propaganda.
But after 2014, five years passed, and now it is already quite obvious that the peak of madness and revengeism has been passed. Prilepin and like they suddenly found that they were not at all idols of youth and are not at all interesting to younger generations with all their problems from the 90s. Some Yuri Dud receives millions of views in YouTube, and some Alexander Gorbunov -hundreds of thousands of readings in a telegram on the Stalingulag Channel Channel. And both write and say not at all what Prilepin and his associates would like. But they read and listen to them, and Prilepin can only scribble abusive Pasquili into half -dead publications.
We can repeat
The collapse of the Soviet regime, Prilepin, feels that this time everything can go according to the same scenario and equally successfully. “It turns out that the focus that was produced in 1987-1991. “It is quite possible to repeat again,” he writes. And he continues: “The customers are not satisfied with the previous result ... Well, okay, they said, we will pack your future with you: your lupo -eyed heirs. And more than successfully steal! "
The stuffy conspiracyology is characteristic, which in itself is the best marker for any Putin guard and propagandist: nothing happens without a customer in their world, and they squeeze the whole world history into this miserable logic of satisfaction of the customer for his money.
Translating into Russian, the passage quoted above is as follows: for the last 20th comrades for the past 20 years, we watered this damned perestroika with slop and dragged Comrade Stalin into the idols of youth, and then some boy from the street repeated many times ridiculed, spat on and refuted by the slogans of the late 80s-and led our heirs! And we have nothing to tell them, and there is nothing to become silent-they do not listen and do not obey!
Dud and Gorbunov are the first loud voices of the new generations of Russians, who are doomed to displace from the advances of Prilepin and all the others who accidentally ended up on the wave of Kremlin attempts to give out a banal theft for the revival of the Fatherland
But the most important phrase in the text of Prilepin is this one: “Five hundred thousand likes are you, keep in mind, good Maidan Square filled to the edges!”
Here, the habitual Prilepin and his like -minded matrix of behavior appears for black envy: when there is nothing to say, you just need to set the appropriate organs to the young and successful competitor in the struggle for the attention and trust of the audience - they say, comrade boss, I consider it my duty to report that the Dudan prepares a minimum of 500,000 people! I ask you to urgently take measures!
But no measures will help. Dud and Gorbunov are the first loud voices of the new generations of Russians, who are doomed to displace from the advances of Prilepin and all the others who accidentally ended up in recent years in the wake of the Kremlin attempts to give out a banal theft for the revival of the Fatherland. The defeat of Prilepin and the like is inevitable to him, because all their rotten nostalgia for the USSR, all their masochistic love for the boots of Comrade. Stalin, their unscrupulous juggling medals of the dead veterans and posing in uniforms, all these epics about the Donbass and the provincial hatred of America and Europe - all this does not sell to those who were born and lived all his life on the Internet. They, these guys, are not interested in Prilepin about the Donbass, they are interested in the Dud about Kolyma - and this is a good reason for optimism!
Photo: Novayagazeta.ru, zaharpilepin.ru