Igor Aidman: "How Bukovsky tried to give Russia a chance"

“Not just“ outstanding Soviet dissident ”and“ fighter for freedom ”died, as it is customary to write, a man who made a true diagnosis of his time and tried to change the course of history,” the sociologist writes on Facebook in connection with the death of Vladimir Bukovsky.

"Bukovsky quickly realized that the restructuring would lead to the collapse of the USSR. I remember that somewhere at the very beginning, he compared the Soviet Union with the old car, which somehow drove, but if he tries to repair it, he would finally fall apart. And then he also determined exactly that there will be no democracy in Russia while the nomenclature remains in power. Speaking about the new Russian ruling bureaucracy, consisting of almost the time of the former members The Communist Party recalled the old Soviet joke about the fact that of the three qualities: smart, honest and party - a person can only have two.

During the restructuring of the CPSU, it was divided into a party of honest fools who tried to preserve, and then revive the USSR, and a batch of smart scoundrels, who quickly oriented themselves in the situation and climbed to power and property in the new market Russia. The first belonged to Ligachev, Anpilov, Andreev. The second is the Yeltsin environment: from Korzhakov to Chubais. The small civil war in Moscow in October 1993 was, in fact, a clash of the first and second post -compartment.

Bukovsky quickly understood this alignment and tried to blow up the power of a new-old nomenclature. Such a bomb could become a new “Nuremberg process” over the communist system and party, which he tried to organize in the early 90s. If this process took place, the lustrations of former communists and Chekists would become inevitable. In his course, evidence of the monstrous crimes of the party and the KGB would be published, and they themselves would be recognized as criminal organizations, former members and employees of which do not have the right to occupy high government posts. The question arose about the complete lustration of the Yeltsin elite, from which one Nemtsov was not a member of the CPSU. The nomenclature could hardly have been able to maintain power in such a situation, which means that there would be no Putin, no war, nor dictatorship.

Bukovsky acted as an experienced, grated convict, divorcing Vertukhaev. He managed to stick some prominent Yeltsin associates. But Yeltsin himself instinctively felt the threat of his power and did not give good to the Moscow process. So Russia missed a historical chance of democracy. "