Igor Eidman: “Solzhenitsyn directly preached a new Middle Ages”

“One of the monstrous mistakes of the Russian intelligentsia is the cult of Solzhenitsyn. Putinism and Gundyaevism are an attempt to overcome the legacy of the Enlightenment and plunge the country into a new Middle Ages. One of the apostles of the “medieval idea” in Russia is Solzhenitsyn,” the sociologist writes on his Facebook page.

“Humanity is in a long crisis, which began three hundred or even four hundred years ago, when people abandoned religion, abandoned faith in God, stopped recognizing anyone above them and put a pragmatic philosophy as the basis - to do what is useful “It is advantageous to be guided by considerations of calculation, and not by considerations of higher morality.”

And in the Middle Ages, of course, very moral people lived. Both Chaplin and Sterligov will sign off on this.

Solzhenitsyn denounced Stalin, but just like Stalin, he hated the humanistic heritage of the Enlightenment. If Stalin hypocritically ranted about progress, Solzhenitsyn (like his ideological heirs now: Putin, Gundyai, Chaplin, Sterligov, etc.) directly preached a new Middle Ages.”