Dzerzhinsky in Black Cuba

After a generation - how will they do with the monuments of evil?

Sobyanin’s decision to leave Lubyanskaya Square without a monument is essentially correct, and in the form a paternalist and arrogant, because the mayor single -handedly chose the third option, which the Muscovites were deprived of. And it does not cover the problem, but prolongs. It’s not a matter of which monument to put, but that we have such an archaic dispute in general.

Dzerzhinsky/Nevsky, especially in the absence of options of the third (nothing) and the fourth (Nemtsov? Yeltsin? Gorbachev?), Modern young people are indifferent. But with the fact that they will put today, after some time to understand it. Let's try to imagine how in new Russia they could get by with monuments to both applicants.

The first is Alexander Nevsky. The idea of ​​the monument to the discourse of Holy Rus', in reality, a monument to anyone and nothing. He would be made in the style of Putin's fantasy-after Rambo-Kalashnikov and Gandalf-Vladimir, and his presence in the center of the Great City, one of the world capitals, a megalopolis-the generator of meanings and aesthetic horizons, will be perceived stupid from the point of view of not morality, but taste.

No one will destroy such monuments. They are ridiculous, but in the future this line will become a valuable reminder of a strange time.

Probably, in New Russia, all such “monuments” will be collected and brought to the reserve - for example, to the Patriot Park, next to the main temple of the Russian Cosmesant.

Frescoes with Putin and Shoigu, I hope that inside the temple will also be restored.

I have no other ideas that I do with them: they are not interesting to either contemporaries or descendants. This is an ersatz-memory, fake symbols, they do not even have a charge of provocation, they are simply devoid of meaning. It is only a pity that they spend money on them that could go to the aid of real living people, but this is also an important tradition of today's Russia - to take more to ghosts and the dead than the living.

The second is Felix Dzerzhinsky. Unlike Nevsky, this is a real symbol, not by itself, but, coupled with history, as it was demolished thirty years ago, so now they could return it. If Lenin is not taken out of the Mausoleum, this is a sleeping person who has not yet woken up, then Dzerzhinsky - this empire makes a response. Certificate and evidence that the country has returned back - to the anti -human suppression regime, full, adult authoritarianism. Without hybrid masks of laws, rights and constitutions, elections and international obligations, along with the reversing and amendments of Russia - anti -Western autocracy, and she needs an appropriate symbolic retinue.

Dzerzhinsky in this context, of course, is more honest. And if he nevertheless returns to the Lubyanka (and, as we understand, the question will not be removed until the guarantor of the authorities will be state security, not democratic institutions), then this monument from the city center will not come out again. The second time this mistake should not be repeated. You can, of course, demolish and utilize - but this is an infantile script. It suits society, which seeks the past not to even forget, but to rewrite. Since the past, in this case, this refers not so much to “Soviet” as “Putin”, I believe, there is a better solution.

A healthy society, which, I hope we will force in post -Putin Russia, will not recklessly erect/demolish monuments, devalizing their value. If Dzerzhinsky returns to Lubyanka, then he needs to be left there: only not in the quality in which the revanchists would like to see him there. It is necessary to turn this Dzerzhinsky into an art object.

The first thing that comes to mind is to install a stand with a paintball gun next to him so that everyone can shoot with a paint; Such a constant satirical performance is worse than the “death of Stalin” by Iannucci. This is a funny solution, but banal.

Another option: take a monument to Dzerzhinsky and cover it from above. Cover with a prison cage, condemn and arrest post -fact, at least a hundred years later. Or - quite cool - with a black monolith, a cube of dull glass. Place not in the literal, but in a temporal prison: and so that the monument would be visible through the glass, but only at a suitable angle and in suitable weather, with special lighting.

To do this correctly - and the visually excellent monument of Wuchetich’s work will turn his beauty against his “hero”. This is evil - beautiful, attractive and that is doubly terrible - a trapped evil that we won, but which we did not forget. Invisible at first glance - but always present here, nearby, as a reminder of the past and a warning about the future. It did not go - it is always there, and it is enough to change the viewing point, wait for the weather, hour, light - and now, it is already appearing, defeated, sharpened, but always ready to break free.

Sometimes, in order to defeat the monsters, you need to let them come true.

And even if Dzerzhinsky triumphantly returns to the Lubyanka, then sooner or later he will find himself locked inside a black cube.