On December 19, a monument to Alexander Solzhenitsyn was unveiled in Kislovodsk, the centenary of whose birth was celebrated on December 11. The sculpture was made by Zurab Tsereteli. The monument is a figure of the writer in full growth on a pedestal, to which is attached a brass decor with quotations from his works.
“Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s literary, social and philosophical heritage will help us to “live not in a lie” and build Russia without repeating the mistakes of the past,” said Federation Council head Valentina Matvienko, speaking at the opening ceremony. How the well-known appeal “to live by falsehood” is combined with the figure of 66 million repressed, as quoted by Solzhenitsyn in his works, the chairman of the Federation Council did not report.
Meanwhile, on December 12, the opening of a similar monument in Moscow, in which Vladimir Putin took part, did not arouse interest among the residents of the capital. Moreover, before the official opening ceremony of the monument to Solzhenitsyn in Moscow, unknown persons decorated it with a sign saying "Judas", after which the authorities were forced to take the monument under protection by installing video surveillance and placing a police squad on it.
In many cities of Russia for many months pickets are held with the requirement to remove the works of Alexander Solzhenitsyn from the school curriculum, since he is a denister of the history of our Motherland. Last year there were protests and demands to name 2018 not in honor of Solzhenitsyn, but in honor of Maxim Gorky. It can be seen that both ordinary citizens and representatives of various public and political organizations are united against Solzhenitsynism, and this huge mass of people cannot simply be called "Stalinists." Despite all the efforts of the Russian authorities, the people refused to honor the author, who admired the traitors to the Motherland and treated the Soviet people with contempt. Even many dissidents have quarreled with Solzhenitsyn. But it was precisely for this anti-popular position that Solzhenitsyn became the “banner” of the perestroika intelligentsia and politics. And until now Solzhenitsyn is honored in our country by an insignificant minority of citizens - at all the events in honor of the writer the same faces flash, which have known each other for more than a dozen years.
Solzhenitsynism is also militant ignorance. As the author wrote in the GULAG Archipelago: “I do not dare to write the history of the Archipelago: I did not get to read the documents. <...> In this book there are no fictional faces or fictional events. People and places are named with their own names. <...> If they are not named at all, it is only because human memory has not preserved the names, but everything was just that. ” This is nothing but a claim to truth without any evidence. Therefore, the author wrote his book with his hands untied, without limiting himself in any way either morally, or stylistically, or historically. The main thing that the readers of the “GULAG Archipelago” carried out was that the USSR was a mistake, that the whole country and all the people were criminal, that one half of the Soviet citizens imprisoned the other half of the citizens, that treason had a justification.
But Solzhenitsyn proclaimed himself the destroyer of his country. And even historians sympathizing with him admit this. Candidate of Historical Sciences Galina Tyurina spoke on December 18 with a lecture “The 100th anniversary of Alexander Solzhenitsyn in Russia and the world” in Arkhangelsk. In the lecture itself, Galina Tyurina noted that Solzhenitsyn was arrested in 1945 for criticizing Stalin in the correspondence, and later, answering the question, said:
“His resolution № / 1 <...>, in which they discuss how, after the end of the war, they will fight this criminal regime. Indeed, there is such a document, but in the archives of the FSB (we also do not have access to it at all). But you know what's very interesting there? There is such a point, <...> that this is a struggle, it will still be not that an armed uprising. It will still be through the means that Solzhenitsyn has available, which he owns. In particular, it is creative means. ”
The lecturer also noted that young people have a hatred for Solzhenitsyn in modern Russia - “this is such a protest love for what it was before. They see these difficulties that are happening around. It scares them. This, however, scares. And therefore, people begin to remember how it was well before: there was stability, the doors did not close with a lock, sweets were sweet, and so on. What actually does not quite correspond to reality, but some of these attacks on Solzhenitsyn, it is precisely connected with this, which is scary for people today. ”
And people are REALLY scared. We are frightened by war, hunger and foreign invaders, and then we are “given” at the same time a world football championship and pension reforms. And prohibit the rally, frightening machine guns Rosguards. And we are defenseless now only because we are led in life by fear, not conscience. Who did this? The very power that destroyed the USSR shot the parliament and falsified the elections. This power is either silent, or grins, or turns away, or is brazenly lying about the fact that robbing half of the country is the only way out. January has come, increased VAT has come, prices have come, prices have risen. This is capitalism. Everything that the Communists allegedly lied to us about turned out to be true.
The domestic policy of the Russian authorities has not changed since 1991. Privatization of factories, sale of natural resources and security forces, like three whales, which hold the rest. Solzhenitsyn was an excuse for Gorbachev, for the Yeltsinites, now for Putinists. Putin, who opens the monument, is not at all a bolt from the blue. Here is the news from 2008:
“Alexander Isaevich could have become one of those ideologues of Russian development to whom the United Russia party could orient,” said United Russia’s Yuri Shuvalov. United Russia Andrei Isaev noted that the party follows the traditions of conservatism, which were laid by Solzhenitsyn. According to him, the ideas that the writer expressed in the 1970s were already the concept of a “strong Russia, but that was not the concept of liberal Russia at that time.” “He left the conservative ideology on which Russia stands today, which is the ideology of our party. We are a conservative party in the sense in which Alexander Isayevich was,” said Isaev.
One could ask “conservatives” several questions at once. Do they accept the thesis that Soviet and Russian are different people, and Soviet culture is not Russian? Do they admit the interference of external forces in the internal affairs of the country? Do they consider it necessary for all the people to repent for their fascination with the ideas of the West, and especially with communism? Are they ready to reject the Enlightenment and its idea of humanism? Did the party leaders themselves read the works of Solzhenitsyn? Do they understand what ideology they subscribe to?
We, theAUCPB, understand the main thing: this ideology is hostile to our people. This ideology justifies any meanness, any betrayal, any shkurnichestvo. It recognizes neither conscience, nor honor, nor freedom. Yes exactly. Solzhenitsynism is the ideology of slaves, the very ones that Lenin called lackeys. Witness Solzhenitsyn enslaves himself, in the human mind he does not believe, he sees all as enemies, and himself as the beacon of truth. We recommend reading the book by Vladimir Bushin “Alexander Solzhenitsyn: The Genius of the First Spit” on this topic.
And we advise you not to worry about monuments, but instead to tell people the truth, relying on verified facts. Do not argue with believing fanatics, but persuade neutral listeners. Our goal is not a change of monuments, but a change of power, or rather, a change of the social system. We want Russia to be socialist, and without any "national." And when socialism comes, the power will belong to the urban and rural workers, and the progressive intelligentsia will support them. And this new government will easily get rid of the enemy monuments.
Ivan Kotran, AUCPB-Kuybyshev
