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Parliamentarians want to return Soviet practice: to belittle to the thread of those who were deprived of citizenship

A group of State Duma deputies and senators from the LDPR (Leonid Slutsky, Sergey Leonov, Andrei Lugovoi, Dmitry Svishchev, Elena Afanasyeva and others) introduced a bill to the parliament, which will oblige those whose citizenship was “terminated”, return the funds spent on their education, treatment and social support to the state.

This, according to the authors, will “increase the financial stability of federal, regional and local budgets by returning state funds and ensure social justice.”

Before us is the next “anti -migrant” law - directed against those who are one of the most vulnerable categories and has neither in the Kremlin, nor in the White House, nor on the Okhotny series of influential intercessors.

And if we talk about the budget - is it really so bad with it that only by recovering the indicated funds from several thousand “deprived”, you can “increase its stability”?

And there are big questions regarding justice.

Not to mention the fact that the idea of ​​Zhirinovites amazingly resembles the practice of the Soviet years.

... In recent years, a number of laws have been adopted that allow us to “stop” acquired citizenship on many grounds.

For committing a number of crimes, including for “fakes” about the army and “discrediting the armed forces”, for actions that “pose a threat to national security” for “non -fulfillment of the obligation to the initial registration of military registration”, in connection with the “establishing the fact of a person presenting fake, fake or invalid documents or messages to them, on the basis of which a decision was made to accept the decision on the reception to the citizenship of the Russian Federation or a decision on recognition by a citizen of the Russian Federation ”and so on.

Now all these “deprivation” the heirs of Zhirinovsky want to force “reimbursing the expenses of the budgets of the budget system of the Russian Federation related to the exercise of their rights guaranteed to citizens of the Russian Federation,

Including the expenses incurred to provide him with social support measures, the organization of education and the provision of medical care that arose during the period of the specified person in the citizenship of the Russian Federation. ”

They call this in the explanatory note “an effective mechanism of financial responsibility”, ensuring the “fair distribution of the financial burden on the budget system of the Russian Federation” and the prevention of “unreasonable use of state resources by persons who have acquired citizenship of the Russian Federation, which was terminated due to illegal actions”.

The requirement to return what was spent on social protection, education and treatment of “deprived”, according to the authors of the project, “will strengthen the legal system and increase the trust of law -abiding citizens towards state institutions, as well as form a conscious attitude of foreign citizens and stateless persons towards the acquisition and preservation of citizenship of the Russian Federation, preventing abuse and deceit in the receipt of citizenship, including the provision of unequal Information or false documents. "

If we talk about the “fair distribution of the financial burden on the budget system”, then, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, about 1,600 people were deprived of the acquired citizenship in 2024. From January to June 2025, about 800 such ex-citizens gained such ex-citizens. That is, we are talking about thousands of people-not about dozens or hundreds. But it is unlikely that they managed to spend on their education and treatment will be a saving circle for the Russian budget system, and their return will restore justice.

And also, if we talk about justice, then all these people, being in Russian citizenship, paid taxes. How about returning the deprived "deprived"? After all, all support measures they received were funded, including at the expense of their taxes.

Or the return rule works only in one direction: what they gave to you, return, and what they gave to the state will not return?

True, as said at the beginning, this is a very old Soviet practice, and the St. Petersburg lawyer and human rights activist Igor Karllinsky drew attention to this circumstance.

The Soviet government not only deprived those who left citizenship - it also demanded that they return the money spent on their education.

On August 3, 1972, a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR No. 3198-VIII was adopted on reimbursing by citizens of the USSR who are permanent residence abroad, state expenses for training, "and on the same day-the Decree of the Council of Ministers of the USSR No. 573" On Compensation by citizens of the USSR who go to permanent residence abroad, state costs of training "(it was recognized as well as invalidable Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation of February 3, 2020 No. 80).

The amount of payments, according to Karlinsky, depended on which university he studied or received a diploma applied for departure.

So, a graduate of Moscow State University was supposed to pay 12.2 thousand rubles, and not completing the training - 2.4–2.5 thousand rubles. For each year of training. Other universities were valued below: 6 thousand rubles. for the entire course or 1.2 thousand rubles. for a year of training.

A diploma confirming the knowledge of foreign languages ​​was a little more expensive - in 6.8 thousand rubles. The full course in engineering, engineering, economic and higher military educational institutions was estimated at 7.7 thousand rubles. In agricultural and forest - in 5.6 thousand rubles.

Education in medical, pharmaceutical, dental and physical education institutions cost 8.3 thousand rubles expensive. Even more expensive - received in the art institutions, including literary and conservatory: in 9.6 thousand rubles. And lower than all, the state appreciated the diplomas of cultural institutions, as well as economic, legal and pedagogical universities - at 4.5 thousand rubles. The same amount cost the VAZ-2101-the unattainable dream of millions of Soviet motorists. And the average salary in the country in 1972 was 121.8 rubles. per month.

From those who had a scientific degree or wanted to receive it, additional payments were charged. Since those who studied in graduate school, residency, adjuncture, but did not defend the dissertation - 1.7 thousand rubles for each year of study; from candidates of science - 5.4 thousand rubles; With doctors of science - 7.2 thousand rubles (while they had to pay for the candidate).

As a result, a graduate of Moscow State University, who defended his doctoral dissertation, had to pay for the right to leave 24.8 thousand rubles. 200 times more than the average salary. Or the whole salary of a doctor of sciences in five to six years ...

Disabled people of the first and second groups were exempted from payments, men who have reached 60 years old, and women who have reached 55 years old, and some other categories. Everyone else was supposed to be "redeemed to the will."

The Soviet government did not even think about returning to permanent residence that they were paid in their entire life. And she released for the "iron curtain", trying to revenge to the thread.

Of course, it was also “forgotten” that many of the departments made such a contribution to science or industry that the economic effect of this repeatedly covered all the costs of their education.

All this laid a heavy burden on those who left (and we must remember how much the obstacle was repaired when leaving, and remember that many years were sitting in the position of “refuseniks”, and left without the work with which they were fired, learning about the desire to go abroad).

And still, the desire to break out of the Soviet Union did not leave many people who wanted freedom and prosperity, if not for themselves, then at least for their children.

No wonder jokes on this topic were so popular: starting with the question in the questionnaire "Were they abroad and why did they return?" - And ending with the announcement of the Cooperative “The Bright Way” will rent a meter of the state border. ”

Veronika Azarov