Igor Aidman: "Sowing the Wind"

"I have already repeatedly wrote that the Putin authorities advance on old Soviet rakes over and over again. Here is the last pearl. Dragon -sized recommendations for communication for Russian scientists with foreign partners were introduced. According to the results of such meetings, Russians should now make a report with a description of the discussion. That is, they are simply forced to knock on foreign colleagues. Every scientist should not be in Putin’s Russia not only to be. a patriot, but also a little Chekist, ”writes a sociologist on his Facebook page.

"All this was already in the USSR. My Father-Dettor Fiz-Mat of Sciences, in order to avoid such a" knocking ", did not even try to ride abroad at all. But the head of the theoretical department of the scientific and research of the radiophysical institution (Nirfi), in which he worked, the wonderful scientist and the person Nikolai Denisov for the time being actively visited international conferences. However, at some point he still decided that it was unacceptable that it was unacceptable that it was morally unacceptable To write purely formal bureaucratic reports to the Chekists about meetings with foreign colleagues that it smells of police officers and is incompatible with scientific work after the next foreign trip Denisov refused to write such a report and became tightly deliberate.

"And where does the old rake?" - You ask. And here. Denisov, who did not love the Soviet regime so much, after this story began to treat him even more definitely, and Nirfi led by him turned into a native of free thought. It is no coincidence that many of his employees after the death of the boss took an active part in the anti-communist revolution of 1989-1991.

Everyone knows about Boris Nemtsov, who considered my father and Denisov his teachers. But he was not alone. In addition to him, three more employees of the Nirfi theory, where only ten to fifteen people worked, later became anti-communist deputies of different levels. In 1990 - by deputies of the Supreme Council of the Russian Federation and the regional council of the Nizhny Novgorod (Gorky) region, and one more a lot later - the State Duma of the Russian Federation from the ATP faction.

Such a number of future deputies in the small department of a small institute is of course an unprecedented phenomenon. But it reflected the all -Russian trend. During perestroika, many scientists went into politics, some of them led the protest movement. For example, in the main opposition faction of the Gorbachev Supreme Soviet of the USSR (MDG), four out of five co -chairs were scientists.

Soviet scientists like my father and Denisov lived financially quite decently. It is not the absence of sausages and pins on the shelves of sausage and pins with the Soviet regime. On their salaries, all this could be bought in the market and in cooperative stores. My father repeatedly told me then that he was not satisfied with the Soviet system, first of all, the lack of personal freedom, free access to information, dependence on the authorities, the inability to read, whatever you want, to communicate with whom you want, go where you want. Scientists did not want to be state serfs. This is precisely what formed the front in the scientific community, which played a large role in the collapse of the USSR. Trying to return scientists to the state stall, humiliating them with distrust, beating and planting students, the Putitan authorities make them their enemies, repeating the suicidal Soviet experience.

The authorities themselves contribute to the politicization of the scientific community, to strengthen opposition sentiments there. At one time, it became one of the burial grounds of the Soviet regime. The Putin Kremlin does everything so that the same thing happens to him. "