Makarkin about the departure of Soviet culture

Political scientist Alexei Makarkin writes in the telegram channel of the Igor Bunin Center for Political Technologies: “One of the important processes in modern Russia is the gradual departure of Soviet culture. It was culture (first of all, cinema) that played a binding role between generations, especially in recent decades of Soviet power, with the development of television. < ... >

Cult films watched and revised the whole family, quotes from them were recognized by different generations. Foreigners had to explain for a long time what the phrase “Stirlitz walked along the corridor” was noteworthy, and “a thief must sit in prison” pronounced many security forces who came to the electoral policy in the 1990s-they brought the phrase to complete banality. < ... >

Soviet culture for a long time survived the collapse of the USSR - and it seems to the Soviet generation that it will always be relevant. However, time goes on for modern youth and Leonov, and Papanov, and Mironov, and Yankovsky, and other great people of Soviet culture - these are figures from the past, which is mainly not interesting for it. < ... >

The gap between television and Internet generations increases. Modern Russian culture cannot compete with the Soviet for older generations and with the western - for the younger ones (excluding, perhaps, the Russian youth stage, which, in turn, is very westernized). ”