Why did they create the myth about the great writer-truth-worker Solzhenitsyn
10 years ago, 3 August 2008, the famous slanderer of Soviet civilization Alexander Solzhenitsyn passed away. Interestingly, this writer is loved both in the West and by the Russian authorities and pro-governmental media. The fact is that Solzhenitsyn portrayed the USSR as an “evil empire”, which was beneficial both to the Western masters, leading a thousand-year war against the Russian people, and to Westerners-liberals, who headed Russia in 1990-s and had to blacken and smear it in every possible way Union Therefore, a rather mediocre writer was promoted, his name was raised as the banner of the struggle against Soviet totalitarianism, and everything that he had written was declared pure truth.
Alexander Isaevich Solzhenitsyn was born on December 11 of 1918, in Kislovodsk, in a peasant family. In 1924, Solzhenitsyn's family moved to Rostov-on-Don, where the boy went to school. Literature began to get involved in high school, tried to force in essays and poetry. However, after school he entered the RSU in the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics. But, being a student, he did not leave his writing enthusiasm and wrote the first chapters of "August fourteenth".
At the beginning of World War II, he left for distribution with his wife in Morozovsk, where he worked as a teacher (for health reasons he was declared unfit for military service). But soldier Solzhenitsyn, unsuitable for military service, is in some mysterious way about which story is silent, got into an artillery school. Lieutenant Solzhenitsyn came to the front in the spring of 1943. He did not take direct part in battles and battles, as he commanded a sound reconnaissance battery. Apparently, Alexander Isayevich felt well at the front: he read and wrote a lot, he ate well. One fine day, Alexander Isaevich’s orderly, using false documents, brought Captain Solzhenitsyn’s wife out of the evacuation in Kazakhstan. Natalya Reshetovskaya with warmth recalls the time spent with her husband at the front: they walked a lot, read, took pictures, he taught her to shoot. Received awards: Order of the Patriotic War and the Red Star.
Shortly before the victory in 1945, Solzhenitsyn was arrested for correspondence - the captain was engaged in sending letters to the friends criticizing the commander-in-chief and the Soviet system and proposing to create conspiratorial "fives". Captain Solzhenitsyn could not know about the existence of military censorship and counterintelligence. In addition, Alexander Isaevich's childhood and youth friends Kirill Simonyan and Lidia Yezherets spoke of their friend's epistolary activity: “These letters did not correspond to our friend’s eternal cowardice — and Solzhenitsyn is the most cowardly person who ever knew — nor his caution , not even his worldview ... ”Conclusion Professor K. S. Simonyan made simple:“ He clearly saw, as indeed every one of us, that in conditions when victory is already predetermined, there is still a lot to go through, and it’s not excluded the possibility of death at the very goal . The only opportunity was to get to the rear. But how? ... To become a moral self-propelling was in this case for Solzhenitsyn the best way out. And from here and this stream of letters, silly political chatter ".
From the end of 1945 to 1953, he was imprisoned. "Stalin's bloody dungeons" for Solzhenitsyn were quite bearable. Here Alexander Isayevich himself describes his stay in the central political prison: “Ah, well, sweet life! Chess, books, spring beds, down pillows, solid mattresses, shiny linoleum, clean linen. Yes, I have long forgotten that I also slept like that before the war ... ”While enjoying the sweet life, Alexander Isaevich readily testified against his friends and even against his wife. However, only N. D. Vitkevich was seriously injured. Later, the rehabilitated Vitkevich was able to familiarize himself with his case and then found out that his childhood friend, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, wrote that Vitkevich “planned to create an underground subversive group, prepared violent changes in the party’s and government’s policy, and viciously ink Stalin’s ...”
After Lubyanka, there was New Jerusalem, then construction in Moscow, then Rybinsk, Zagorsk and, finally, Marfino, that is, Moscow again. And in Marfin - a pound of white bread a day, in Marfin - butter, any books, volleyball, music on the radio and work in the acoustic laboratory. In conclusion, the writer, according to a number of researchers, became an informant and a provocateur named Vetrov. From Marfin I went to the Ekibastuz camp, where I was a brigadier, worked as a bricklayer, then as a librarian. All this time he composed and kept verses in his memory in order to later put it on paper. He described the camp life in the novel "In the first circle" and the story "One Day of Ivan Denisovich."
After liberation, the writer was sent to live in southern Kazakhstan without the right to leave the village of Berlik. Solzhenitsyn worked there as a teacher of mathematics and physics. In 1956, the writer was rehabilitated, he was allowed to return from exile. He settled in the Vladimir region, then in Ryazan. For the first time, Solzhenitsyn's works were published in 1962 year in the journal “New World” - this was the story “One Day of Ivan Denisovich”. It is important to remember that just a few years ago the famous XX Congress of the CPSU, where N. S. Khrushchev debunked the personality cult of Stalin, took place. The debunking was accompanied by a big lie: Khrushchev, knowing that at the time of the death of his predecessor, about two million prisoners remained in the camps, said publicly about ten million. Since then, the theme of repression, great and bloody, has become the official weapons in the hands of all anti-Sovietists, and the West received an excellent information weapon against Soviet civilization. And it was worth saying about the advantages of the Soviet system, about how much the USSR gave to its citizens, how the crying about “one hundred millions of those executed” immediately began. Khrushchev began with ten million prisoners, and Solzhenitsyn went ahead and offered one hundred million, and not just prisoners, but destroyed (although there were simply not enough people in the USSR to calmly destroy 70-100 million, and the population continued to grow). Thus, Khrushchev and Solzhenitsyn repeated propaganda materials that Hitlerite ideologues also composed.
The theme of repression, which aroused many Soviet people in an aversion to their own state and a guilt complex, was actively used in the “cold war”. Those who considered Khrushchev a renegade and a traitor (in China, Albania), and those leftists in the West who still supported the Soviet system and the communist idea, began to turn away from the USSR. In the USSR itself, the rejection of the Soviet system was also gradually coming into fashion, especially given Khrushchev's “excesses” in the field of national security, national economy, culture, etc. Alexander Isaevich fell into this “wave”, and was noticed by the enemies of the Soviet civilization within Union and the West. After this, Solzhenitsyn began to work on the GULAG Archipelago. Solzhenitsyn, both in the USSR and in the West, is becoming the most fashionable, most famous writer.
However, soon the writer loses the disposition of the authorities (under Brezhnev, the criticism of the Stalin period was generally curtailed), he was forbidden to publish. But the matter has already been done, the author was promoted, and he was supported in the West. So, in 1970, a large group of French writers, scholars and artists nominated Alexander Isaevich for the Nobel Prize. Soon the prize was awarded. The novels “In the First Circle”, “Cancer Corps”, “GULAG Archipelago” were published abroad. For this, in the 1974 year, Solzhenitsyn was deprived of his Soviet citizenship and deported abroad. The author comfortably settled first in Switzerland, then in Canada, and then in the USA, on the estate behind the high fence. And the Americans were so able to unleash the image of the Gulag, that for many inhabitants all over the world, Russia to this day is strongly associated with some kind of bloody horrors, mass arrests and all-round executions of millions of people. The “archipelago ...” became one of the most prominent images of the USSR.
Russian schoolchildren are forced to study the GULAG Archipelago (although there are no literary merits or historical truth in the book). In this book, the terrible atrocities attributed to Stalin, surpassing all the atrocities of the German Nazis. Solzhenitsyn launched the myth of tens of millions repressed under Stalin (as many as 70 or even 100 million people!). The Americans, who sheltered Solzhenitsyn, did not dispute this lie, since they were waging a cold war (informational, ideological) against the USSR. The United States had to present the USSR as an "evil empire," which Solzhenitsyn helped.
Although one of the “think tanks” of the American empire, the analytical center of the CIA “Rand Corporation”, based on demographic data and archival documents, counted the number of repressed in the Stalin era. It turned out that for all the time when Stalin stood at the head of the country, 700 thousand people were shot. The same data is given in other studies of the Stalin era, the authors of which are not interested in personally denigrating Stalin and the USSR. At the same time, the share of those sentenced to an article on a political 58 article is not more than a quarter of cases. The same proportion was observed among imprisoned labor camps. Thus, the number of repressed in the Stalinist period is a hundred times less than it was attributed. This is confirmed by the data of demographic statistics, according to which, with the exception of the failure during the war, the population of the USSR all the time of Stalin’s rule increased steadily. For comparison: during the reign of the liberal-democratic rulers (Yeltsin, Putin and Medvedev), Russia's population is steadily declining, if not to say: dying out (so-called depopulation). Even worse is the situation with demographics in yet another "separatist" fragment of the USSR (Great Russia) - Ukraine-Little Russia, which is dying rapidly.
The second important conclusion from real statistics is that only a quarter of the repressed and prisoners can be considered victims of political repression, while the remaining three quarters were deserving of criminal offenses (it is worth remembering that at present, most people support the death penalty for murderers, rapists, drug dealers and other degenerates). And fans of Solzhenitsyn and others like him are all innocent victims.
Not everything is so simple with "political". Among them were the real "enemies of the people" who worked for the Western special services; Trotsky pests, dreaming to destroy the Soviet project; former executioners, employees of the Cheka – NKVD, whose hands themselves had blood in their elbows and which had been “stripped” of their organs; Vlasovists of various kinds, Bandera, Basmachis, “Forest Brothers”, that is, people who consciously fought against Soviet power. At the same time, we must not forget about the era that radically differed, say, from the peaceful and stable time of the Brezhnev reign. A terrible geopolitical catastrophe has just ended - the death of the Russian empire, turmoil and civil war. The Soviet project had many enemies both in Russia and abroad. Our external enemies tried to prepare the “fifth column” so that it would make a new “February” at a crucial moment. Thus, one of the main reasons for the defeat of Hitler's Third Reich was the fatal miscalculation: in Berlin, the USSR was considered a colossus on clay legs modeled on the Russian Empire 1914 – 1917. or Soviet Russia 1920's. The war was supposed to lead to the collapse of the USSR - a military rebellion, a palace coup and numerous uprisings in Ukraine, the Baltic states, the Caucasus and Central Asia. However, our enemies miscalculated, in the USSR they managed to withdraw most of the heterogeneous “fifth column”. During the years of “perestroika” and reforms, all those repressed in a crowd (both innocent and real enemies of the people) were recorded as “innocent victims” of Stalinism.
In 1991-1993 in Russia, the counter-revolution won; the opponents of the Soviet project, supporters of the western "matrix" - predatory capitalism, caste neo-feudalism, liberal social-Darwinism with the division of people into "successful and elected" and "losers", and "two-legged weapons" captured power. The Soviet project, which sought to build an ideal society of the future - a society of knowledge, service and creation with the domination of the ethics of conscience, destroyed. The western society of the “golden calf”, the society of consumption and self-destruction, received complete domination.
It is not surprising that such shifters like Solzhenitsyn received the green light in the new Russian society. In the name of Solzhenitsyn, contrary to the wishes of the majority of the people, they call the streets, erect monuments or plaques in the streets; his works are included in the compulsory school curriculum, and in the press they speak of him with aspiration as a brilliant writer, thinker of all times and peoples, a prophet and a brave truth-telltale.
Participated great provocateur and the collapse of the USSR. 18 September 1990 was published simultaneously in the Literary Gazette and Komsomolskaya Pravda an article by Solzhenitsyn, How to equip Russia. It includes both “Russia that we lost”, and false Russian philosophy (false “return to sources”, deceitful Great Russian nationalism), and getting rid of “ballast” in the form of the USSR republics, and breaking ties with the former socialist camp, and aggravating national relations, etc. In the same year, Solzhenitsyn was restored to Soviet citizenship with the subsequent termination of the criminal case, in December he was awarded the RSFSR State Prize for the “Gulag Archipelago”.
The writer was able to return to his homeland in 1994. In 2001-2002, his great work, “Two hundred years together,” was published. This is a literary and historical study by a writer of Russian-Jewish relations between the 1795 and 1995 years in two volumes.
It is interesting that at the end of his life the writer’s eyes begin to open up on the truth. In particular, in 1998, he was awarded the Order of the Holy Apostle Andrew the First-Called, but refused the award: “I cannot accept the award from the sovereign power that has brought Russia to its current disastrous state.” In the same year, he published a voluminous historical-journalistic essay “Russia in a fall”, containing reflections on the changes that took place in Russia in the 1990-s and on the situation of the country in which he sharply condemned the reforms carried out by the Yeltsin-Gaidar-Chubais government.
In April, 2006, answering questions from the Moscow news", Solzhenitsyn said:" NATO is methodically and aggressively developing its military apparatus - to the East of Europe and to the continental coverage of Russia from the South. Here there is an open material and ideological support for "color" revolutions, and a paradoxical introduction of North Atlantic interests in Central Asia. All this leaves no doubt that the complete encirclement of Russia is being prepared, and then the loss of its sovereignty. ”
Died Alexander Solzhenitsyn 3 August 2008 year in Moscow.
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