Conscience is a Stalinist strict judgment that a Soviet man implants himself

In the Imprint "Ice" the publishing house "AST" is the book "System of conscience. Wine, duty and ethical errors. ” The book of a modern philosopher studying the semantic structures of reality, Doctor of Philosophy and Professor of the Higher School of Economics, George Chernavin, is devoted to the phenomenon of “likeness of conscience”: the conscience of false and/or mistaken.

The author offers the concept of “similarity of conscience” - a parasitic form of the inner voice, which fuel a neurotic sense of guilt and whispering requirements of exhaust debt.

With the kind permission of the publisher, we publish the chapter "Stalin's affection".

In 1949, Marietta Shaginyan publishes a note by our conscience in the magazine "New Time". I propose to get used to the coordinate system that is sketched in this note, to try on the described specific form of conscience: the conscience of a different orderψ, the new inner voiceψ.

The Soviet people have already heard a new inner voice for a third century, developed an internal reflex to their behavior, which differs from an old familiar understanding of conscience. The word “conscience”, although simple and familiar, speaks of a very complex, very deep line, formed in generations of people with a long, long, constant influence of that morality, those moral standards that have developed a certain era, a certain class. In Stalin, in his image, we, Soviet people, personified our conscience. How was this Stalinist strict judgment about itself, which has become our conscience? And how does this conscience of the Soviet man differ from the previous compassionate, mournful conscience? The question is huge, and you can’t answer it immediately and briefly. The stories of ordinary Soviet people help us approach the answer.

Thirty years and three years (from 1917 to 1949), Soviet people hear a new inner voice in themselves, that is, from the very moment they became Soviet people. At the same time, they themselves developed it as an “internal reflex to their behavior”, which differs from the “old familiar understanding of conscience”, from the “former compassionate, mournful conscience”. In Soviet people, "a Stalinist strict judgment about himself, which became their conscience, was" educated and formed. " Conscience is a Stalinist strict judgment that a Soviet man implants himself.

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