Stalin is actually officially rehabilitated in Russia

Gentlemen, we have elections soon! Hooray! And how many marvelous discoveries the election time promises us. It is already only for that to thank the native power, which is still worn with this archaic, long -outstanding format. Last Monday gave us a few marvelous quotes from the performances of the first persons of the state. Let's start, of course, with his (in the sense of the state) of the chapter. Vladimir Putin, although, of course, does not participate in the current election process, he is very worried about the United Russia party. This can be seen.

At a meeting with the Tula governor Igor Rudeney, Vladimir Putin, careful doubt about the circumstances of the death of Patriarch Philip, who, according to official historiography, was killed (strangled by a pillow) by the faithful oprichnik Malyuta Skuratov in 1569. When the head of the Tula region noticed that during the creation of a historical cluster, it would be necessary to move a port on the territory of which the church was once located, where Skuratov was strangled by the Patriarch, Vladimir Vladimirovich threw the following remark: “This is only one of the versions.” In this very moment, Igor Rudeny realized that he could not see any historical cluster.

Here, of course, it is just right to think about that, in fact, Vladimir Putin had in mind. The version that in fact was Patriarch Philip strangled Malyuta Skuratov, I think we must immediately discard. It’s hard to believe this - by that time the patriarch was already weak enough, and Malyuta in the juice itself. Consequently, the clergyman was still killed. But here, who committed this atrocity? Question. Perhaps some liberals went to a terrible crime to substitute the faithful sovereign servant?

There is nothing surprising in the fact that Vladimir Putin stood up for Malyuta Skuratov. Malyuta stood guard of state interests, moreover, he was a security forces. Well, like, Bastrykin of the 16th century. And Patriarch Philip - Fronter, did not support the oprichnin, he refused to bless the king. However, not so long predecessors of Putin at the highest state post, were held by the official version of events. At a meeting with the creative group of the film “Ivan the Terrible”, Joseph Stalin ordered to leave the scene in the final version, in which Malyuta Skuratov strangles Patriarch Philip. He said that it would be "historically correct." The reason, I think, is obvious - Joseph Vissarionovich believed that the Soviet people should know how real patriots had been acting with the traitors in Rus'. However, we note that between Putin and Stalin, some disagreements were unexpectedly outlined. And since we remembered the “father of the peoples” ...

Literally at the same time, when Vladimir Putin entered into a certain correspondence conflict with Joseph Stalin, in Volgograd (which, as we recall, was not always Volgograd), the second number of the United Russia federal list and part -time head of the Foreign Ministry Sergei Lavrov stood up. At a meeting with veterans, Mr. Lavrov said the following: “History cannot be touched. Attacks on Stalin as the main villain, dumping into one pile of everything that he did in the pre -war time, during and after the war - this is also part of the same attack on our past, for the results of the Second World War. ”

No, we, of course, understand - a holy cause in the election suffer from bite off a piece from the Communist Party of the Communist Party. And here the only question is one thing - will the native authorities stop exclusively in rhetoric? Or then will we witness a full -scale campaign for the rehabilitation of the Great Hormic one? Then, of course, a lot will have to be rethought and rethinking. Starting with disavowing the report of Nikita Khrushchev at the 20th Congress of the CPSU. And once again it remains only to exclaim: at what amazing time we had the opportunity to live, dear comrades!

Illustrations: 1. Metropolitan Philip and Malyuta Skuratov / Nikolai Nevrev / State Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan, Kazan.
2. Portrait of I.V. Stalin / Nikolai Denisovsky