Our real tomorrow: mummers or guardians?
The mail has arrived. From Voronezh. It’s somewhat disruptive, such as “What kind of chaos is happening”, but the essence is simple: on May 9, leaning on all the bans, a number of citizens who had similarities with the reenactors arranged a certain event.
In general, nothing quite like that, well, they came, laid flowers, showed portraits of veterans on cameras. It is clear that all this was contrary to the decree of the governor, but in general the decree there wasn’t really that way ... To drop sneakers, hurry to sit at home on May 9. In general, this is on everyone’s conscience; he himself did not sit at home. What others to judge?
I don’t want to discuss the fact that distances, masks, because everything is just nonsense.
So from the entire letter for consideration I took only the negative in relation to what was hanging on the chests of some reenactors.
In general, that moment most of all plunged into the negative of the reader. Well, I agree, the order of Glory in the form of a citizen ... well, it doesn’t look at all.
I started to understand. And the further, the more interesting it became.
So in the style of the late Zadornov I’ll ask everyone who is interested to be patient, everything is really not so simple and even informative.
To begin with, I venture to give a definition of who, where and how can hang something on myself from: awards, copies, signs, badges and so on.
Naturally, I couldn’t untwist all of this myself, therefore I asked for help, which they didn’t refuse me, and they explained everything so coolly.
Therefore, using my right, I want to express my most sincere gratitude to the experts who spent a lot of their personal time on me:
Maxim Bochkov
Dmitry Bystrov
Elena Kirillova
Andrei Bondar
These people are very famous in the reconstruction environment, so I'm sure the level of my experts is more than adequate.
And now let's go and go from the very beginning.
About what is happening in our country in terms of awards, I will say later. In the end. Although it’s all in the know, that is complete mess and mess. But then our reality is simultaneously with the generals from the press services.
But still, the Great Patriotic War is still something unshakably holy. And the rewards of that war still (with rare exceptions) do not touch with dirty hands. And the rare exceptions due to the Internet are very quickly exposed to ridicule and condemnation, so that for now you can fall asleep.
Let me emphasize the word “Bye”. Fat like that.
In the meantime, a man in a military uniform of the times of World War II with awards of the same time on this uniform can appear before us without conviction in just a few cases:
1. He is a participant in the filming of a historical film.
2. He is a member of the theatrical production, both on the stage and outside it.
In principle, historical reconstruction is a variant of theatrical production. And in this aspect, I completely without problems and remorse allow the participants of this event to wear copies of awards for the sake of historical conformity.
In our example, which in the photo, of course, we are not talking about reconstruction. This is the usual civil procedure for laying flowers on Memorial Day performed by people dressed in the uniform of soldiers of that time. Are such fake rewards appropriate here? Yes, and the form itself is not particularly appropriate. This is still not part of the theatrical performance, it must be understood.
In this case, I am sorry that the club leader, who allowed such an (probably uncoordinated) event, thought only of PR.
I am well aware of who these people are, I will not give names and surnames precisely because I do not want to do additional advertising. What these citizens did is not entirely beautiful, and defiant at the same time. And we will end with this, of course, they may have their own position on this issue, but it is not entirely appropriate here.
But let's talk about the awards in full.
For those who are not in the know, it will be interesting to know that there are rewards in the reconstruction movement. Actually, this is logical. Military historical clubs are often quite registered organizations, of course, public organizations, and therefore have the right to release their order products.
From the point of view of the law, everything is clean.
But there is a nuance.
As one of the experts explained to me, club awards, as well as awards dedicated to events held, they are deliberately ordered very similar to real ones. Intentionally, for what purpose: in order to use them as props in performances.
This is done as follows: the order (or medal) is ordered so as to be as similar as possible from a distance to the original. And point-blank, from a distance of 2-3 meters, it would be obvious that this is not even a copy, but ... however, judge for yourself.
From these figures it is clear that the Order of Glory is one thing, and the "Order" of the Glory of the Red Army is another. But from a distance, one really does not understand what a person hangs there. Order, copy or "order".
And almost every of the reenactors has a whole collection of such “orders” and “medals”.
This is a collection of one of the experts.
As I understood from the answers to my questions, there is no system in this matter. Installation documents too. My questions about how and who can wear what, received answers, from which it followed that all this was personally on the conscience of each individual person.
Here is what one of the interviewees told me:
Wearing state decorations native of that time is NOT YOURSELF punished. Stylized for those awards to the point of confusion and other trinkets for participating in some event, you can wear it, but all this is left to the conscience and vanity of the re-enactor.
If it is about putting on something to participate in the reconstruction, such things are done only with the permission of the organizer and only stylized. That is, from 3 meters it is the Order of the Red Banner, closer we see a slightly smaller size, and inside it says “Battlefield 2017”.
I personally put on a reward when appropriate, wearing one reward. And then, if an ordinary, then I don’t put on a fight at all. If I win back the victorious soldier who returned from the front after the victory, then 1-2 soldiers’s awards. And all the trinkets I never hang. "
Actually, here. Everything is very well formulated and gives a complete picture for understanding.
That is, anyone who wants to can wear anything. Self-regulation, so to speak. And effective, because today it’s difficult for me to imagine a person in a reconstruction environment who will carry two metals on himself. They will dishonor their own.
If you think about it, there is nothing like this here, except for this very similarity. You look at the medal - it seems to be taking Vienna. Point blank - nothing like that.
It is very difficult to determine the line of reason in this case. On the one hand - it seems like a good idea, and nobody touches real awards, on the other - this similarity has plunged and will plunge into fury those who understand this.
That's it, we finish with the reenactors before the end of the material and move on to the answer to the question that always worried those who have a mind. That is: what to do?
And everything is very simple. So that no one worries and does not fall into a righteous rage, you just need to make sure that everyone does not care.
And to do it is very simple. Easier than anyone ever thinks.
It is necessary that no one pay attention to a person with rewards in a uniform / jacket. Whatever it is, even the Hero of Russia.
Although everything is already normal with the Hero of Labor of Russia, after the merits of Mr. Rotenberg. Work, so to speak, is underway.
However, the Hero of Russia Sergey Vladimirovich Kiriyenko also, except for a crooked smirk, causes nothing.
Hero of the Russian Federation (Hero of Russia - an unofficial version of the name) - the state award of the Russian Federation - the highest rank awarded for services to the state and people associated with the performance of a heroic feat.
What the heroic feat of Mr. Kirienko was, we obviously will never know.
How the discrediting of the order and medals of the order "For Merit to the Fatherland" is in full swing. They reward everyone ... They just reward everyone.
Citizens of Finland, for example, Ksenia Frank and Elena Timchenko. Order of Friendship. The daughter and wife of the most famous person in the country, Gennady Timchenko. Citizenship of Mrs. Frank does not prevent the latter from working in various structures under the President of Russia.
Medals for the Order of Merit to the Fatherland are distributed to rappers and pop singers, bloggers of both sexes, designers and fashion designers. The medal “For participation in the military operation in Syria” was awarded not only to those who fought and offered cartridges, but also to numerous artists who came with concerts.
For comparison, just for comparison: Lev Leshchenko, who skated in parts in Afghanistan from 1982 to 1989 and gave more than one hundred concerts there, was not awarded a military award. Order of the Badge of Honor.
The list of winners can be continued indefinitely. But there are all "their", so there is nothing, there is no sense.
However, there is one more point.
Education of the younger generations.
In general, the awarding of all the space on a uniform, tunic or jacket is an obligatory attribute of a totalitarian state. And here we also have complete order. Cadet schools, cadet corps, Cossack schools and corps work tirelessly in that field.
There is nothing to comment on. Everything, as they say, is in the photo.
But then what? And then these cadets, Cossacks and Suvorov troops will have a service. Well, with the majority. And immunity to metal tinkling on a tunic. And dozens of products from the assortment of “order products”, which are annually produced by the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Russian Guard, the Federal Security Service, the Federal Security Service, the Federal Penitentiary Service and other government agencies.
And of course, without "help" from public organizations in any way. There, starting with the strangest products from the Communist Party, which are essentially the same as the “medals” of the reenactors, and in fact became the first alterations in the history of the country.
About the Cossacks, as they say, "Hussars, keep quiet !!!"
Total And what is the “total”? And we have a very peculiar situation in the country.
The state stamps medals at an accelerated pace (the Ministry of Defense introduced 2012 departmental awards from 2020 to 53) and distribute them at the same pace. Let not everyone, but everyone who has the opportunity to receive.
Public organizations ... You know, just go to the site of an enterprise such as Chelznak to assess the scale of production. There are thousands of “orders” and medals for all occasions.
And even today you cannot really figure out (without being a specialist) where the state award is, where the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, where else what public organization. And it will only get worse, because the youngest carriers of Soviet awards, that is, the "Afghans", today are all 50 years old and older.
Soon they will be lost completely against the backdrop of a sparkling waterfall that adorns modern media.
What can I say, in the near future, if nothing changes in the policy of victory by May 9, we are doomed to the mass appearance of "reenactors of veterans of the Great Patriotic War."
That is, those who are today called "mummers." Who is laughed at and to whom the inconclusive statements to the authorities are written.
Soon real veterans of that war will go down in history. All. Ascribed to themselves years, sons of regiments, that's all. The idea that we can get to this does not give me real peace of mind. Before the reconstruction of the Great Patriotic War veterans. But everything tells us that we have a lot ahead and everything is moving towards that.
After all, the state itself encourages and arranges premium lawlessness. Moreover, without reporting specifically what heroic deeds of the same kind were accomplished by the same gentlemen Kiriyenko and Shoigu. Say I'm clinging? Sorry, that’s what the award’s statute says. Heroic feat! Where??? When???
Discrediting, followed by depreciation in the eyes of everyone and everything. Not the most beautiful future, is it? But the other is somehow not observed.
And now, in fact, the finale. And back to the reenactors.
I confess that, communicating with my voluntary assistants (once again, special thanks for the educational program to Elena and Dmitry), and then studying the topic, I very much changed my opinion on this issue.
I am sure that the reenactors will be surprised most of all now.
My conclusion is this: in a good way, the whole community of reenactors needs to think carefully about the fact that after a while, quite, incidentally, a little, they will remain the only custodians of the “correct” appearance of the victorious soldiers.
Therefore, it would be better to leave aside these badges in the style of the Communist Party, incomprehensible and inaudible, and for reconstruction, yes, it is during the reconstruction to use copies of these awards. In accordance with the reconstruction time.
In the end, I personally do not see anything wrong with that. If we accept that the re-enactor is an artist, an actor, depicting a soldier or officer of the Great Patriotic War or World War II, in the form and equipment as close as possible to the original, then why instead of awards corresponding to the era, you have to cling to it, don’t understand what?
I emphasize very boldly: only at events.
All other club meetings, rehearsals, civic events are best done without entourage at all.
Here is a soldier. Here is his form, here is his weapon. And here are his rewards.
And yes, I will allow myself to imagine that in 10 years, when there will definitely be no more veterans, it is precisely these people who will tell their children by example that this order in the form of a star was paid in blood. The same red.
And this is great, because bloggers, businessmen, rappers and others will never tell anyone how their rewards were paid. How will we never know what feat Hero of Russia Kiriyenko accomplished.
Therefore, I do not see anything shameful in applying (that is) as the props of copies of USSR awards by the rectors. On the contrary, one good. Credibility. And if for each award a person knows by heart its history, statute, the number of recipients, then in general.
Since, in essence, reenactors are actually keepers of history, no matter how inconsistent this community is (yes, there is something to criticize for), in fact, only they are those who can really show in the future “how it was” .
Well, not in the end, after all, count on the Russian Ministry of Culturelessness?
And as one historical character said: “To keep is an honorable thing too ...”
This is the kind of thinking. To the anger of the day and with one single piece of advice to the reenactors: you should think and give up Zyuganov’s practice of sculpting, don’t understand anything on the basis of old Soviet awards.
Well, if you comply - so in full. It will not be worse.
P.S. Perhaps I disappointed the people who wrote to us. Sorry, but this is an investigation. And against the background of what is happening in the country as a whole, the reenactors are far from the most harmful part of our society. And in my opinion - very useful. Although not the easiest to communicate often.
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