How killed the Soviet civilization
By the beginning of the 1950s, socialist society had taken place, the system gained momentum. The people sincerely believed that they were building the most just, kind and strong country. Hence the mass folk art, invention and genuine enthusiasm. The great victory, the rapid restoration of the country and new shock construction projects changed the Union literally before our eyes. It seemed that there was still dumb, and Russia-USSR would win historical a debate about the superiority of the light side of man over his dark side, good over evil, spirit over matter. This was not a competition between socialism and capitalism (this was the visible side), but between justice and injustice, good and evil. And we had all the prerequisites for a new great victory. The USSR had every chance to become the “king of the hill” on the planet, to complete Soviet (Russian) globalization.
However, the party leadership was frightened of this future, of its people, of its creative, creative impulse. Instead of a breakthrough into the future, overtaking an animal predatory West for a thousand years, the nomenklatura chose stability ("stagnation"). The owners of the country were afraid of the new reality. Instead of dynamics, stability was chosen, instead of change - firmness. Therefore, the grave of Stalin littered with garbage, his image blackened. All kinds of Solzhenitsyn were used to create the myth of “the bloody dictator” and the lies of “tens of millions of innocently repressed”. The noble impulse of the people began to extinguish. First, with the help of radicalism and voluntarism of Khrushchev, the development of virgin soil, the corn and meat "epic", the harsh demilitarization with the collapse of the most combat-ready units and the expulsion of military cadres, the "thaw", etc. Then began the Brezhnev "stagnation" with his "big deal" between the party elite and the people.
So The second phase of the destruction of the Soviet civilization began. The party elite has relied on material needs and personal interest. Enthusiasm is replaced by "long ruble." Matter wins spirit. At the same time, in words, the people were promised a quick offensive of communism, but now they were just words, an empty form without an action. Now the nomenclature was thinking not how to conquer the old world, capitalism, but how to reconcile with it, how to negotiate coexistence with the Western elite. Thus, the new super-civilization and the society of the future was dealt a mortal blow. Soviet civilization and the people betrayed. The door to tomorrow closed. Began the rapid degeneration of the Soviet elite, its bourgeoisie. Soon the rotten part of the Soviet elite and its national cadres will wish to destroy the USSR in order to appropriate people's property and become “new masters” in the old capitalist world, part of the global “elite” mafia. This will be the third phase of the collapse of the Soviet project, which will end with the 1991 disaster of the year. - the second in a century terrible disaster of Russian civilization and the people.
The powerful pace and energy of development set under Stalin could not be stopped immediately. Therefore, the country was still developing rapidly. Not surprisingly, the first half of Brezhnev’s reign became the “golden age” of the USSR. Life has improved. The hardships of mobilization, war and its consequences are a thing of the past. For the first time in its history, Russia-USSR lived in complete safety, no one would dare to attack our country. There was still hope for the victory of communism. Kosygin reform strengthened the economy, gave it a new impetus for development.
However, the problem was that now the successes in the economy, the development of the territory, the cosmos and military affairs were no longer based on the energy of creation. The party elite has stopped thinking about a “bright future” for everyone. The party now was only concerned with the struggle for power and bargaining with the West for the best conditions for coexistence. At the same time, under Brezhnev, the USSR found an “Eldorado” - huge deposits of “black gold”. USSR mastered the oil deposits of Western Siberia. At the end of the 1960-s, the Union begins a massive export of oil. Arab-Israeli wars 1967 and 1973 led to a sharp rise in oil prices. The West has experienced a severe oil crisis. Moscow received a powerful source of currency inflows. And the Soviet elite stakes on massive energy exports. The Russian Federation will repeat this strategic mistake.
The model was simple: we sell “black gold” to the West, we get currency, and with these funds we buy everything we want in the same Europe. Kosygin reforms collapse. Why develop and improve the economy, if everything is okay? The Soviet economy is becoming flawed: instead of creating and doing independently, the Union began to buy everything. The economy of the oil and gas pipe appears. From this moment on, the USSR begins to lag in a number of industries, many breakthrough programs are curtailed. So, science was still well funded, Russian scientists continued to invent, create new magnificent technologies, equipment, machines, but for the most part it went under the cloth, went to the archive. Why invent and work efficiently if you can just sell raw materials? The party elite already preferred not to bother themselves, but to buy in the West. The old disease of the Russian “elite” is being revived - to consider that the Western is obviously better than its own, Russian. Even with its own, with a higher quality, was chosen Western.
Production and science in the USSR begin to live separately from each other. High qualification, progress and high breakthrough technologies continue to be appreciated in the military-industrial complex of the USSR. In fact, a huge number of breakthrough technologies were accumulated in the Soviet military industrial complex at that time, which could turn the Union into a space, military, and economic superpower, a decade ahead of the rest of the world. However, unlike the United States, where all the best from the defense industry was immediately mastered in civilian production (dual technologies), in the Brezhnev USSR the military industrial complex lived separately from the country. Science and the defense industry were still going forward, to the future, creating super-civilization, and the authorities, the people were accustomed to live in a stagnant swamp.
The psychological, social, and economic consequences of “oil communism” were terrible. In fact, the authorities and the people then made a “big deal”. People got the opportunity to live beyond their means, raise their standard of living without regard to the growth of production efficiency and labor productivity. Most buy "freebie." They say that the people suffered for a long time and tightened their belts, let them now live in fullness. In exchange, the Soviet elite got the right to quietly curtail the course of building communism, rot, begin a soft privatization of national wealth and begin negotiations with the West on coexistence and merger.
Under Brezhnev, the leveling inherited from Khrushchev was intensified and reached marasmus. Under Stalin, aces pilots, professors could receive more Allied ministers. And during the "stagnation" an engineer in the USSR turns into an ordinary worker, the salary of a trolleybus driver is compared with the income of a candidate of science. Stalin's healthy hierarchy: the higher the qualifications - the more the salary goes into the past. A healthy work ethic is dying. It is not surprising that, under Stalin, scientific and technical progress went by leaps and bounds, and under Brezhnev, the military-industrial complex faded away or was enclosed with an “iron curtain”.
A new parasitic, degradation class is ripening. Imported goods were scarce. They had to be bought illegally with overpayment from the workers of the Soviet trade, people who have the opportunity to visit abroad. Thus, the basis for the emergence of a class of traders-speculators. In the USSR, there is a "gray market", underground criminal capitals. At the same time, these tendencies were stronger and more pronounced in the national suburbs, in the Caucasus and in Central Asia. Being such a speculator, a person admitted to distribution, becomes more profitable than a pilot, a border guard or a scientist, a teacher. Ripens class interested in the collapse of the Soviet empire.
therefore the rise and the "golden age" of Brezhnev quickly faded away. Ideas and ideals faded. There comes disappointment in such “oil communism” and the party (while the people still have respect for Stalin). Materialism takes the place of spiritual ideals., "Sausage" and "jeans". At the place of exploration of the Moon and Mars, the depths of the oceans comes a miserable and gray reality. And the place of national culture is taken by “pops” - an American (western) surrogate of culture. The disintegration of society begins. Party nobility and ordinary people want a “beautiful life”, pictures of which they see in Western films or during business trips abroad. People begin to jam the void in their souls with alcohol, mass alcoholization of Soviet society begins. Hence the growth of crime, the growth of carriers of criminal ethics.
The “big deal” began to turn the people into a corrupted “flock”, not wanting to work well and hard, but wanting “a beautiful life”. They form the image of the "fairytale West" - a rich and beautiful world, where everything is good and complete freedom. There is a division of the Soviet people, a single monolith is destroyed. Nationalism is reborn, which, after the collapse of the USSR, will be reborn into open Nazism. The Georgian, Baltic or Ukrainian intelligentsia is told that their nations are better than others, that by getting rid of the “scoop” (Russian, “moskaley”), they will live much better. At the same time, everyone subconsciously believed that the achievements of the USSR would be preserved: no threat of war, a high level of development of education and health care, low crime rates, free kindergartens, schools and institutes, free apartments, low prices for housing and communal services (gas, electricity , water, etc.) and other achievements of socialism.
Thus, the degeneration of Soviet nobility destroyed Soviet civilization. If under Stalin, the elite was disciplined, responsible, and placed on domestic culture, education, science, technology and production, then after the great leader, an anti-elite began to form, which looked to the West and dreamed of privatizing national property, “to live beautifully”. The decay was swift, and in the second period of Brezhnev’s reign, the party elite and its national cadres did not rely on the victory of the USSR in a historical confrontation with the West, but on the collapse and defeat of Soviet civilization. It seemed to the Soviet anti-elite that there were so many national property and resources that the great Russia (USSR) could be dismembered and feasted on its ruins. Enough for them and their families. Great betrayal and looting will allow them to become part of the already global mafia.
As a result, we lost the great Soviet civilization, the project of creating a society of the future. The USSR collapsed not because of the inefficiency of the economy and exorbitant military spending, not because of the strength of the West, which won us in space, military, and scientific and technological competition. We collapsed because of the betrayal of the “elite”, who exchanged a great and wonderful future for Western “beads”.
- Alexander Samsonov
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