Joseph Stalin and Yanka Diaghilev

Just under the celebration of Victory Day in Novosibirsk, a monument to Stalin was still erected . The project for the construction of such a monument in the city center caused a strong opposition during a public hearing in the fall of last year and was first rejected. But now, nevertheless, the goal has been achieved: the monument not only appeared, but will also represent a whole memorial complex with boards, which are applied to its creators of the word about Stalin. Well: a small group of Stalinists and sympathetic achieved this for several years and still achieved its own. Although not in the place where they wanted, not in the center of the city in front of everyone, but Stalin’s bust still appeared. And the performance of the mayor of the city at the opening of the monument gave him a semi -official status.

This is far from the first bust of Stalin in Russia. They are being erected in different cities, somewhere it meets opposition, but somewhere not. Now it is already impossible to name the exact number of busts, monuments and commemorative boards to Stalin in Russia.

Only the influence of television and party propaganda is this grotesque revival of the personality cult. It must be taken seriously. Many of us relate to non -postalist as supporters of flat land, but this does not change anything. If it is despised, non -postalinism will not go anywhere. We live next to him.

Nonstalinism has turned in Russia in recent years into a distinctly distinguishable socio-political movement. It is not organized, although individuals and organizations (such as the "essence of time" or the Communist Party) claim to be leadership. Non-Stalinism is precisely the socio-political and cultural movement: its participants understand each other, have their authorities, form their "alternative" history of Russia and agree with each other in the main thing. If necessary, they are quite effectively co -organized. For example, if you need to raise money for the next monument.

At the same time, modern non -postalinism differs from Soviet Stalinism, he is not even a direct heir. For non -stopped Stalin, this is a powerful symbol. Behind him is a holistic worldview. This is not at all the "Stalinism of the times of Stalinism." He was turned into the future, this one into the past. Stalin revered by non -stopped by non -postalists, Stalin is the winner in the Great War, Stalin is the commander in chief. This is a superman, titanium. It is no coincidence that new monuments are so similar. They do not depict a living person at all. But besides, Stalin for Non-Stalinists is one who, as a kind of heavenly patron, is now opposed to all recent and not very successful attempts by the country to take at least a small step towards other non-orientan values.

In political and social conflicts and confrontations, symbols are important as in real wars, because symbols are means of communication. Do those who confront non -stop in Russia today have their own symbols?

One of the deep principles of "Stalinism" is the denial of private life, the right and the opportunity to build your life according to your own preferences, without looking back at the sources of power (bosses, party, homeland, etc.)

Such symbols are not invented from nothing. At one time in Russia, different groups of intellectuals on the orders of the Kremlin, as you know, tried to formulate the "national idea" - and from this, as it is also known, nothing came of absolutely nothing. The "national idea" cannot be composed. The same with symbols. They appear as if by themselves, and with their help people understand each other without unnecessary words. Individual people become such symbols, but most often - not of their own free will. Stalin, of course, created Stalinism, but we can also say that Stalin created Stalinism. Symbols are an expression of love, adoration, worship. It can be argued that it is in Stalin and what his modern non -stopped by him love. One way or another, modern non -postalinism is organized around Stalin as its symbol.

And what are the symbols of the supporters of the teninization? All the former idols of anti -Stalinists are not interested in new generations. All current opponents of the revival of authoritarian and totalitarian traditions in Russia are skillfully marginalized by today's authorities.

But it seems that it is in Novosibirsk that there is still its own symbol. This is Yanka Diaghilev. All her texts and songs, her image, her fate is the complete denial of Stalinism as a worldview. And at the same time zero heroism and titanism. Private person. A young woman, almost a girl, without any official recognition, outside of any official hierarchy, even without special education. Without any special musical technique or a special voice. I lived not bad and not good - exactly "like everyone else." In a collapse, but in the city center. She studied at the institute, but quit. I traveled around the country by hitchhiking, performed with concerts in someone’s apartments. She died, having gone with her family to the country on a weekend - also in the most ordinary circumstances.

One of the most important principles of "Stalinism" is the denial of private life, the right and the opportunity to build your life according to your own preferences, without looking back at the sources of power (bosses, party, homeland, etc.). On this contempt for a single life, the same legendary (or notorious) "order" is based. In the "Stalinist" world to such musicians as Diaghilev, there is simply no place. Its existence is impossible. "Non -Stalinism" is ready to endure such as marginals, but no more.

It is no coincidence that the deputy of the Novosibirsk Legislative Assembly Vadim Ageenko recently spoke about the work of Yana Diaghileva, replacing his cultural value. He made his statement against the backdrop of disputes about the fate of the poet’s house. The deputy said that the Yankee house is a "typical development of that time" and does not represent any architectural and historical value.

“It turns out that the girl lived in this house, who graduated from school No. 42, entered the piano music school in the class, but did not study, entered the water institute, but, having studied one course, abandoned her studies. The girl learned to play the guitar, began to write texts and perform them at“ home concerts ”, that is, for herself and her friends. The texts are strange, the game on the guitar is not virtuoso, the manner of performance - I have no words, ”Ageenko writes. This, by the way, is the same person who defended the advantages of Stalinism as a political system, where there were“ order and justice. ”As they say,“ how beautiful everything came together ”!

The deputy is also wondering at what funds Yanka Diaghilev lived and traveled.

“Of course, I’m not a musicologist, but what I had to hear and see from Yanka Diaghileva just surprised me. I didn’t turn my tongue at least some kind of art, ” Ageenko believes. “Even if this will be recognized as a“ cultural and historical ”heritage, then, probably, we need to close all music schools and conservatives and conservative Conduct various music contests and festivals. "

The opinion of the deputy coincided with the next wave of discussion of the future fate of the Diaghileva house at the intersection of Yadrintsevskaya streets and the Shamshin family. The wooden house, in which the Yanka lived at one time, was given the status of the revealed object of cultural heritage in April 2018. This then saved him from demolition - the building was in disrepair, and now, social activists emphasize, it continues to dilapidate and it must be saved urgently, having made the Yankee museum in this house. But to implement this plan, the city authorities and financing are needed. There is neither one nor the other yet.

It so happened that it was Yanka Diaghilev who became a key author for the last Soviet generation, the “voice of a generation”. This generation (I belong to it and I) is just in full force in Russia. Diaghilev is a symbol of the right to live as we want, and not as someone else considers us necessary for us: some boss, leader, another superman.

Why exactly her words and her intonations turned out to be “correct”, “the very same” is a question that has no direct relation to the literary qualities of these songs, or her performing skills. Such authors with a minimal ability to take chords on the guitar were and are hundreds-but it was Yanka Diaghilev that turned out to be the only one. This is a sociological fact.

Moreover, for my generation, Yanka Diaghilev is a real symbol of Novosibirsk culture. No boss authorized her for this. But it happened.

And it so happened that the house where she lived has survived - and can become an important urban attraction. Stalin’s bust will not become it, but Diaghileva’s house may well become. Moreover, it is located the best. For a long time, guests of the city have been led to him. But now the not -stop leadership of the city can simply destroy this house. This is not their symbol.

But this is our symbol. This is the old argument about the fate of the house of Diaghileva - what symbols to be?

Mikhail Germans - philosopher

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