Russia Day is a holiday that doesn’t exist

Podcast guest - writer Anatoly Korolev

Russia Day is a holiday that is misunderstood and has not become popular. In 1990, when the declaration of sovereignty of the Russian Federation was not adopted, the last congress of the Union of Writers of the RSFSR was held. Valentin Rasputin made a proposal at it - to leave the Russian Federation from the USSR - "and let's see how they are without us." It was funny then, but then it became reality.

Anatoly Korolev: “For me, the collapse of the USSR began with the catastrophes of 1986 - the Challenger explosion and the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. These are catastrophes that cast shadows into the future. Let us recall that in the portraits of Gorbachev his famous spot was painted over. why did the retouchers remove it? To embellish. Hide. We knew very little about Yeltsin when he came to power, about his problems. Since then, it has been like this: we are essentially absent from the time in which we live, and this holiday, which is not, now emphasizes this existential problem of our society.

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