Symbolic deafness: Is state ideology possible in Russia?

Time provokes the state-owned thinkers in a hurry-literally on the knee-to cook ideological models for the new Russia (there is no particular need to say that a couple of months ago we woke up in a new country, and this time-really in the new one, we are not talking about rhetorical jewelry). “Power” has already talked about contexts in which it is now fashionable to use the word “denazification”, but not denazing the unified regime. Denacification, whatever one may say, is a process involving a certain final point. Even if its developers dream about denancing the whole world. But even after the successful end of this fascinating process, the state should somehow fill the minds of its subjects.

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For starters - only a couple of quotes. This is Alexander Dugin , a famous and well -deserved man. He has everything seriously, he has a conflict of civilizations in his head and around: “We have entered into a conflict of civilizations, and now we owe - first of all to ourselves - to present what kind of civilization we are? Who are we? What is our feature, what are our main distinctive features? What mission do we carry the peoples of the world? Ukraine? Bratsk CIS countries? Everyone else?

This is vital today.

In the present - in culture, in economics, in education, in ethics - we do not have many arguments. Yes, almost no. What we have is not far from anti-Russia. Today we remain ourselves only because the “Immortal Regiment”, because we have a great past and great dead. Because Russia (according to Count Minikh) is controlled by God. This drives the people. Attracts him to victory.

The Russian depth does not appear thanks to the surface of the bewildered post -Soviet and already post -liberal society, but contrary to it. ”

And what can the civilization of the great dead offer small alive? The following is approximately the following: “The West cuts us out of itself, but we must also cut ourselves out of ourselves the West. Remove, perform a resection of the tumor. ” You may be surprised, but this is a positive proposal. Others are absent.

You can make a dozen or two similar extracts, but, firstly, Dugin formulates beautifully, and secondly, all of them are about one thing: we are guest to the Western world, we need to get rid of oppressive influence, we will break everything here-and we live.

Such a plan for the coming decades. Or on the coming days. It is not clear how much time we really have taking into account the statement of Sergei Lavrov that nuclear war is unacceptable and this is a fundamental position of Russia.

Intermedia: Genichensky Lenin

From deep thoughts - to simple stories. In 2015 - the very height of Leninapada - demolished the monument to Lenin in the Ukrainian city of Genichesk. And in April 2022, when Genichesk was under the control of the Russian troops, the idol was found in some warehouse (Ukrainians, they say, people are reserve, they simply don’t throw anything away). And returned to the pedestal.

For what?

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