On May 9, in more than 100 countries around the world marched the "Immortal Regiment." This is an international public movement to preserve the personal memory of the generation of participants in the Great Patriotic War. It began even before the appearance of the name "Immortal Regiment": in 1965, students of the Novosibirsk school number 121 walked through the streets of the city with photographs of the front-line soldiers who were still alive then. It was both a tribute and a sign of continuity between generations.
The movement began to become massive since 2012, it was not possible to shut up and ban it, and therefore it was necessary for someone to lead it. Therefore, since 2015, there is a “patronage” organization, the Immortal Regiment of Russia, with a different emblem and a different doctrine. It is her leaders who are trying to turn the “Immortal Regiment” into an official event, as disgusting as “May Day” under the flags of “United Russia”. Officially proclaimed that this procession with portraits of loved ones, without advertising and without politics. But under capitalism, “without advertising” means “advertising the government”, “without politics” means “politics of the ruling class”. A holy place is never empty.
What is “no politics” in our time? They are convincing us in the cinema, in the serials and in the videos from the Internet, that it’s “very good” to be on the sidelines, outside the party, outside the struggle. But this is a lie. Huts that stand "on the edge" are first burned when a forest or steppe fire arrives. Comrade Lenin taught our ancestors that “non-partisanship is indifference to the struggle of parties. But this indifference does not equal neutrality, refraining from the struggle, because there can be no neutrals in the class struggle. Indifference is the tacit support of one who is strong, one who dominates. ” ("The Socialist Party and Non-Party Revolutionism." VI Lenin. Full. Collected Works, vol. 12, p. 137.)
The class struggle undoubtedly exists. And if so, then there are only two classes: the proletariat and the bourgeoisie. And who is not for one class, that means for another. It is in the interests of the bourgeoisie to leave everything “as it is”, because it preserves for it the power and wealth that it received as an invader, plundering the socialist countries. It is in the interests of the proletariat to overthrow all capitalism, completely, once and for all, because the proletarian can become free from capitalism only by freeing all members of society without exception from the capitalist system. We are talking here about the struggle between people, between parties, between states, but at the same time about an internal struggle, because each person is burdened by one or other vices. When we are indifferent or pretend that we are indifferent - we indulge our narrow-mindedness, the desire not to answer for anything and not to notice anything. When we do not indulge this vicious desire - we begin the struggle, resistance, organization.
The site "Red Spring" notifies that in some cases citizens are not allowed to march with a copy of the Victory Banner, Soviet state symbols and portraits of generals or statesmen of that time. The organizers of the march motivate the ban by saying that all of the above is nothing more than communist symbols, and according to the rules it is prohibited, since the march should not turn into a political event. Like any public event, the procession "Immortal Regiment" has its own rules. There is a "Charter of the Regiment", i.e. a list of the nine rules of participation in the march. Clause 4 of the Charter states that “The use of any corporate, political or other symbols ... logos, emblems, names, corporate identity, etc. ... is excluded, including the portrait of a soldier”. How is this rule applied in practice? "What is allowed to Jupiter is not allowed to the bull." After all, the ban on communist symbolism is nothing like politics! Anti-communist policy. And from anti-communism close to Nazism.
Here are some examples. The official (state) symbolism of the “Immortal Regiment of Russia” movement on the march in Krasnodar was so huge that it covered the portraits of soldiers of the Great Patriotic War. In Tula and the Tula region, the organizers explicitly banned copies of the Victory Banner and portraits of military leaders. But not a single volunteer and not a single policeman was able to implement this ban: an attempt to dictate "his" rules for building the "Immortal Regiment" failed.
At the same time, columns of the “Stalin's Regiment” appeared in a number of cities.
Ivan Kotran, Samara (Kuibyshev)
