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All roads lead to Kursk station
How the punishing hand of Russian nationalist ideology overtook the broom of Erofeev
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The world of autocracy is the world of anti -utopia. What part of the population of Russia was convinced, which with the beginning of her beaten the reading of Orwell, checked with the text, became convinced that yes, it was there that we got there, and continued to live, adapting to what it was impossible to influence. Having reached four years of incredible heights of adaptation, so even with the abolition of voice calls in WhatApp ** and Telegram you can’t reach us. “All God's dew,” as a broom said, but more on that below.
Autocracy is also the universe of the imaginary worlds, where the Russian people become simultaneously a cherivable, God -bearing and rocket lamp, carrying all other peoples the highest Messian knowledge and kindness within the SCO and BRICS. In these worlds, Russia has no boundaries. Here, due to the lack of real achievements in today, they feed on the juices of the past. On the basis of which the cargo cult is developing.
Last summer, the garden ring in Moscow was once blocked under the celebration of the anniversary of the Moscow Olympiad-1980. Since the regime is excommunicated from world sports, then, accordingly, there is a historical reconstruction of the events important for the country.
So the natives of the Pacific Islands, after the allied planes flew away from them, began to conduct marches with “aircraft” made of hay-salt or worse-this is a pure cargo cult.
And the world of imitations: for example, the event under the Soviet name “Intervation” is going to be a mass of money, which should portray foreign guests in national costumes, who are facing their own.
This is anti -utopia. And all would be nothing, and not so used to the long -suffering and multinational Soviet, and then the Russian people. But living in an imaginary Russian world, cleansed of migrants and filled with robots from Gzhel and other fictional creatures from the reports of Malofeev, Karaganov, Dugina, are also offended. And they write denunciations. Moreover, the battle goes not only with today's challenges in the form of pro-Western undesirable liberals of “foreign agents”, but also with ghosts from the past. For example, with Venedikt Vasilievich Erofeev.
Studyed broom
The Russian Orthodox Church was indignant - with exiles, as in other times, about the complaints of the workers - the “heroization and romanticization” of the image of a broom, namely with the advent of the “Erofeev Museum” in the cockerels next to the Church of St. Athanasius, as well as the “Erofeev paths”. According to the Russian Orthodox Church, "local residents are concerned that the museum will be immortalized from quotes from the works of Venedikt Erofeev, which will negatively affect the education of the younger generation."
"Malication"! Yes, they are already immortalized. Cast in granite, in the "tear of the Komsomol member." At least from the moment when in the magazine “Sobriety and Culture” in 1988-1989 the poem “Moscow -Petushki” was published. The magazine was published in a circulation of more than 600 thousand copies, the editors were in a great place - on Chekhov Street, that is, Malaya Dmitrovka. I don’t know how the problem of stimulating creativity was decided by colleagues from “sobriety and culture”, in each editorial team of those years-differently (for example, in the theoretical journal of the CPSU Central Committee “Communist”, in addition to duty by number, the closest store with the code name “Three Steps” was established), but to Eliseevsky from the Street of Chekhov to be subjected to ... There were curious, in a perestroika spirit. For example, I was intrigued by the title “Crase-87 and others. The journalist continues the investigation. ”
Of course, the editorial office published “Moscow-Petushki”, firstly, in profile, and secondly, as a counter-propaganda-they say, what can be dug up.
Of course, in today's anti -utopian circumstances, the poem is considered, on the contrary, as the propaganda of drunkenness and alcoholism. What was reported by the Vladimir diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church: "... openly promotes one of the most severe and destructive passions - the passion of wineopy, representing it as the only form of existence and communication." Really, having read Erofeev, inquisitive youth will certainly follow the example of his lyrical hero? What, however, in the Russian Orthodox Church, faith in virtue of the artistic word.
Denunciation on the deceased
But the main thing for the Vladimir diocese, which announced the “statement on the issue of popularizing the work and personality of Venedikt Vasilyevich Erofeev”, is not quite this plot, but slander into the Russian people. I won’t give “two -legged” for insulting feelings, Erofeev has long died, and his own immortal work was written “in cable work in Sheremetyevo” in the fall of 1969. But it turns out that it is possible to build over the modest grave of the writer the majestic Taj Mahal of Russian ideology. On a negative basis, on a negative example.
In general, the entire identity of Russian quasiPatriots is negative, it is built from the nasty: we are not the same as ... further on the list. Okay, we are not like Western people. But we are not the same as the heroes of Erofeev. In Moscow - Cockerels, however, there is something to be offended, since it is also social prose, designed on Soviet ideological stamps. And it sounds, this prose, more than relevant, only the characters in Venichkin’s analysis of the international situation and internal position have changed, but the essence of politics is not.
That is why the radio detainees of the Russian world were offended by the text of almost 60 years ago. For three and a half years in Russia, everything has changed, and for 60 years - nothing. In some ways it became worse ...
So that the occasion does not seem ridiculous and small, it increases in size to monumental and is clothed in the indictment rhetoric, which has become the sign of today's hatred language - the backstage evil forces “exalt”, “romantic”, “heroize” Erofeev. The fashionable word is "destructive." Creativity carries "destructive charge, pernicious for personality and society." That is, the justification with the religious motives of death, followed by forgiveness of sins, is approved, and the statement of the wretchedness of Russian life in the late Soviet power is a “destructive charge” by artistic means of the wretchedness of Russian life.
By the way, the Vladimir diocese recommends reading classical Russian literature instead of Erofeev. I would be in their place to be struck by: the freedom -loving poems of Pushkin, the “unwashed Russia” by Lermontov, the “dead souls” of Gogol (also slander the Russian people, oh, what kind of slander), “grief from the mind” of Griboedov, “crime and punishment” of Dostoevsky (“heroization” of the murder of old women?), Yes, all Herzen, and the whole of the bulk of Tolstoy, coupled with his anti -war, courage Light, with a pamphlet "come to your senses!". For a long time they did not read in the diocese the entire set of anti -demosic Russian literature and journalism - this is what the “destructive charge” carries in the anti -utopian sense. Tolstoy, however, once the predecessors of the current radiocts of morality were excommunicated from the church.
It is not for nothing that the intelligent interlocutors of the broom drank "for the Oryol nobleman Ivan Turgenev, a citizen of beautiful France." In general, a literary analysis, combined with historical and sociological assessments, is good: “And you see what it turns out! The darkness of ignorance is everything thickening, and the impoverishment grows absolutely! Have you read Marx? Absolutely! In other words, they drink more and more! The despair of the Social Democrat increases in proportion, not Lafit, not Kliko, they still somehow got Herzen! And now - all the thinking Russia, yearning for a man, drinks without waking up! Beat all the bells, all over London - no one will raise their heads in Russia, everything is in vomit and everyone is hard! .. And so - to our times! ”
"Sacrificial work"
“Distortion of national identity” as “slander in the Russian people”, “having a rich history, culture and traditions based on faith, virtue and sacrificial work.” This is another point of accusations. All of the above qualities have the Russian people, calm down, like Portuguese, Greenland, New Zealand, Nigerian, Chinese, American and, of course, spiritually and culturally close North Korean peoples. But there are nuances.
Especially "sacrificial" was the work of millions in the Gulag. And the “labor” described by Erofeev in the form of curtailing and unfolding the cable is familiar to every former Soviet man - from “fence and lunch”, “we pretend that we work, you pretend that you pay.” How is it in Moscow - Cockerels:
“And until time everything went excellently. We were sent to them once a month, and they have a salary twice a month for us. For example, we write: on the occasion of the upcoming century, we undertake to end production injuries. Or like this: on the occasion of the glorious century, we will achieve that every sixth study in absentia in a higher educational institution. And what is the injuries and institutions, if we are behind the Sika ( card game. - A.K. ) do not see white light, and we are only five! ”
As for the existence of an alcoholic lyrical hero of the narrative, from a scientific-statistical point of view there can be no complaints about the broom. In the period 1964–1965, the shower consumption of alcohol in the USSR increased 2.2 times, the number of offenses on the basis of alcohol abuse is 5.7 times, the number of patients with alcoholism is 7 times, almost all absenteeism-due to drunkenness. Mortality - went off scale. In 1986, 4 million people consisted of narcological accounting. The annual stream of sobering -ups - 9 million people. The reports of ministers have not far from Venichka states: after the anti-alcohol campaign “In July-December 1989, the sale of sugar increased by 22%”. The Minister of Trade of the USSR Kondrat Terekh reported: in 1986, the sale of cologne in Moscow grew one and a half times, the sale of glue by more than 30%, fluids for cleaning glasses by 15%. There is something worse than Venichkina's “Tears of Komsomolskaya Pravda”. From a kilogram of sugar - a liter of moonshine. From the glue of the BF by Russian ingenuity it was possible to expel ethyl alcohol, for this we needed a drilling machine - just to the question of “sacrificial work” ...
Are they serious? Erofeev’s works “cultivate despondency, despair and mockery of the institutions of society and the state, which contributes to a split, and not the consolidation of citizens.” Of course, you need to have fun, walk in the line on a blocked garden ring, participate in automotive races and processions, turn your brain into a prefix to the TV - then there will be consolidation. And then the Russian people will begin to differ from the representatives of the “destructive” West.
Something like Erofeev:
“... Deeply hidden, lurking, predatory and frightened eyes ... devaluation, unemployment, powerism ... They look from underneath, with unraveling care and flour - these are the eyes in the world purely ... But my people have what eyes! They constantly have a lot, but - no tension in them. The complete absence of any sense - but what power! (What spiritual power!) These eyes will not sell. They will not sell anything and do not buy anything. No matter what happens to my country, in the days of doubt, in the days of painful thoughts, in the year of any trials and disasters - these eyes are not wrinkled. They are all God's dew ... "
However, there are in the claims of the Vladimir diocese to the writer the grain of truth. In the fifth paragraph of their denunciation to the deceased, comrades write:
“Lack of moral ideal. All works are permeated with the idea of aimlessness, futility and existential impasse. They completely lack any positive or moral ideal, the hope of salvation and transformation, which contradicts the foundations of a Christian worldview underlying our culture. ”
So they wrote half a century ago about the works of bourgeois literature. Only instead of the Christian worldview was the Marxist-Leninist.
Our church, following the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has learned the rich word "existential." For the “positive” goal, which is nothing, and the movement towards it is everything, this is an “existential battle with the West”. A very, very moral goal leading to salvation, someday there, beyond the horizon. In about the same way, communism looked at the period of Venichkin’s wandering along the roads, each of which leads to the Kursk station, and not to the temple.
Three and a half years is what is going on. And if we consider ten commandments by school foundations of Christianity, then our officiaious churchmen are difficult to suspect in strict adherence to them.
All this is the old National-imperial Russian idea, based on deeply archaic ideas about the messianism of the Russian people in the form in which it exists in propaganda speeches, reports and denunciations.
Just the lyrical hero of Erofeev affirmed those very Christian values. Only they are not seen by diocesan readers. This is the value of a small person, it is called - life: “... oh, if the whole world, if everyone in the world would have been, as now, is quiet and fearful and would not be sure of anything: it would be good in himself, or in the seriousness of his place - how good it would be! No enthusiasts, no feats, no obsession! - Universal cowardice. I would agree to live on Earth for an eternity if they had previously been shown to me a corner where there is no place for exploits. ”