There is no need to save ordinary Stalin. Generalissimo is able to handle himself
My today's hero is Boris Lazarevich Vishnevsky, political scientist, journalist, publicist, public figure, politician, oppositionist. Head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg since September 22, 2016.
Boris Lazarevich's parents are Rimma Borisovna Vishnevskaya and Lazar Abelevich Rabbit, intellectuals in the highest sense of the word, honored people who survived the horror of the Leningrad blockade in childhood.
Their son is a very, very intelligent man, educated and ... hating Stalin. Moreover, hatred of Stalin can be safely put in the first place in Vishnevsky's character traits. In 2014, Vishnevsky achieved the dismissal of the head of the St. Petersburg Committee on Youth Policy, Alexander Parkhomenko, due to the fact that on May 9 he went to the parade with a portrait of Stalin.
In 2014, he condemned the annexation of Crimea to Russia, calling it illegal. On December 13, 2014, at a meeting of the federal council of the Yabloko party, Vishnevsky spoke for the unconditional return of Crimea to Ukraine, saying:
Actually, Boris Lazarevich took part in many cases of the Russian opposition, sometimes even useful ones, but these two moments from the recent past perfectly show what kind of person he is.
And so, on the pages of Novaya Gazeta, Mr. Vishnevsky published an article “To Save Private Stalin”.
Save Private Stalin.
Mr. Vishnevsky is not satisfied with the fact that the Russian government supported the Yarovaya bill in terms of criminal liability for disseminating "knowingly false information about the activities of the USSR during the Second World War" on the Internet and social networks. And the fact that in the depths of the Investigative Committee a whole unit is being created, which will investigate precisely cases of distortion historical facts.
In some ways I agree with Mr. Vishnevsky. In terms of: "Who are the judges?" Because it will not take long in our country to create forces that will follow the rules and regulations. Information Rosgvardia will sweep a lot out of the information space without problems. Another question, who will indicate to the infoguards, so to speak, give the command "face"?
The question, however ...
The draft law mentions, among other things, the need to supplement Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation with criminal liability for committing the acts provided for by it on the Internet: established by the said verdict, as well as the dissemination of deliberately false information about the activities of the USSR during the Second World War.
Again, I agree with Vishnevsky that the decisions of the Nuremberg Tribunal in our country are somehow not even accepted to challenge. For now, at least. So far - this is because more and more strange groups appear on the Internet in which strange people with closed social media profiles write strange things.
Here is an example:
Need to fight them? It is necessary. For forgetfulness in relation to the exploits of our ancestors is one thing, but the chanting of the Hartmans is completely different. So the article is very useful, and Vishnevsky, protesting, pours water in a completely different direction.
A really serious question arises: who will determine which information is true and which is false? Which ones should be punished immediately and for which not?
Yes, if it is Medinsky and his RVIO, this is universal sadness and anguish, because almost everything that is done under the auspices of this society is done very badly. Maybe Surkov? Also a very so-so option.
But Vishnevsky's Yabloko partners are also not the option that we need. We are those who honor and appreciate the history of our country sincerely and from the heart.
I'll just allow myself a quote from Vishnevsky's article.
The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs reacted immediately, praising the said pact of 23 August 1939. Like, "thanks to the Soviet-German non-aggression pact (this is how the pact was officially called), the war began on the strategically more advantageous borders for the USSR, and the population of these territories was subjected to Nazi terror two years later." And it did it exactly on the day of the 80th anniversary of the joint military parade of the troops of Germany and the USSR in Brest - in connection with the transfer of the city to the Soviet Union. The parade, which has become a black page in Russian history ”.
Actually, that's all. You don't have to go further. It is obvious and understandable that Mr. Vishnevsky is writing his own story. And he writes it not with a brush, but with kvachom. Which dips in a known substance, brown and unpleasant stinking.
The war did indeed begin two years later. Not enough later, but still. It's hard to deny. And the population of many annexed territories, having tasted socialism, did not rush after 22.06.1941/XNUMX/XNUMX to enroll in the SS in droves. Yes, there were collaborators, but so much has been said about this ...
It is strange that Mr. Vishnevsky is not in the know.
Well, the cherry on the cake, after which I don't even want to argue with Mr. Vishnevsky - this is the so-called "parade in Brest".
There are such people. With the dew of God in my eyes. Well, they need to have that parade in Brest - and there is no way to prove otherwise. Not a single shot of the passage of Soviet troops. Not a single meter of newsreels. Not a single eyewitness account. Nothing.
There are a lot of pictures of the Wehrmacht troops, there is a chronicle, and all that is in the dossier of the "truth-tellers" is General Krivoshein on an improvised platform and a Soviet orchestra. And yes, the tankmen watching the Germans pass.
But if you really want to have a parade, at least a stake on your head please some personalities, but they will hollow like woodpeckers that there was a parade.
They just really need him, the parade in Brest.
As for the "secret protocols", "according to which Hitler and Stalin divided between themselves" spheres of interests "in Europe, and in fact - divided part of Europe among themselves in advance", this is generally a masterpiece.
To begin with, it would be necessary to find at least one document that would be signed by Hitler and Stalin. In which there would be at least a hint of the carve-up of Europe.
But no. That immediately puts Mr. Vishnevsky in the cohort of those who are targeted by the new bill.
Everything else that Mr. Vishnevsky wrote with his article is small things. He just forgot that Europe was divided in the same way in Tehran, and in Yalta, and in Potsdam. What is Europe, the world was cut.
It's just that for some reason Hitler and Stalin can't do it, but Churchill, Roosevelt, Truman can. Such a strange selectivity. Meanwhile, one division of the Middle East was worth what.
REN-TV called? It's time. Where Mr. Vishnevsky got this from, it is very difficult for me to say personally. But he took it somewhere, and therefore published it. Why not publish, because every word there is a denunciation of Stalin!
That is, a matter that is completely pleasing to certain forces with all the ensuing consequences.
But here I really want to call for help the investigators of the relevant department of the RF IC, who would ask where this is from? Well, it's an obvious invention. And at the same time, the author could be asked about where the money was paid for such compositions ...
I am quoting Mr. Vishnevsky again.
Excuse me, but what else can you call it?
“Where is the guarantee that with such a position of the president, references to two Soviet-German treaties and a joint military parade in Brest will not be announced tomorrow as spreading“ knowingly false information ”?
Tomorrow? I would have it today, but in 2016, after a trip to Brest, I wrote more than one article in which I explained on my fingers that “the joint parade of the Red Army and the Wehrmacht in Brest” is a fairy tale invented by scoundrels. So tomorrow we have to bring all these writers of alternative history under the article and send them to sew mittens.
Well, at least some benefit to be. Apparently, this is what frightens Mr. Vishnevsky. What kind of tales with a dubious plot will be planted.
In general, we were probably late. Today it is necessary. Especially for the "parade in Brest". And without the right to parole.
Quote again:
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But who can guarantee that tomorrow some "military-historical society" telling monstrous fables about the fact that not the victims of Stalinist repressions are buried in the Karelian Sandarmokh, but the alleged "Red Army men shot by the Finns", will not declare the information about these deportations "false"? And will not demand criminal prosecution of those who will remind of these crimes? "
In the language of the great Bulgakov, "And again a case of the so-called lies!" That’s just for the tale of Sandarmokh Cherkasov and his companions from “Memorial”, and we must imprison! And not for the night of the aforementioned Dmitriev, not for pedophilia, attracted (possibly) for ..., but for “black digging”.
Very good article of the Criminal Code. Just wonderful. I never thought that I would be “for” with two hands. It is precisely on the example of Sandarmokh that one must judge and plant. Because all the tales of the "Memorial" people were smashed to smithereens by the most elementary calculators. But we can talk about Sandarmokh separately, it's worth it.
If such a law is adopted, there will be no guarantee, of course. And it pleases.
One question does not allow me to live in peace: why is any fabrication on the theme that “everything was wrong in the USSR, Stalin was a tyrant”, is taken by some personalities of today as an axiom and there is not even the slightest chance to prove the opposite?
I don't like the course of Putin's liberal team. This is a dead end road. I don't like what Medinsky did with his education, I don't like what his follower is doing. This is a dumb dead end, this is the way to the land of fools.
But when I look where the liberals will lead from the same Yabloko, that is, Mr. Vishnevsky and others like him, I feel completely uncomfortable. This is also a road to a dead end. This is also the way to the land of fools, only on your knees and with repentance. With head banging on the stone floor, trying to beg forgiveness.
It's just who it is not entirely clear. Cherkasov and Vishnevsky? Frankly disgusting.
An interesting situation is developing. Messrs. Liberals from Yavlinsky completely lose to Messrs. Liberals from Putin. Putin's at least do not force repentance, which is an achievement in itself.
Therefore, the liberals from Yavlinsky and in every possible way reproach their colleagues that they are trying to rot in the bud all attempts to carry the word of truth. It is not entirely clear where they are going to carry it. Moreover, it is worth noting that many attempts are carried into the smoke by real historians, operating in completely not classified documents. And this is weird.
But the old record about Stalin's crimes will still sound in Russia, and, I think, not because it was paid for by the owners of the same Memorial from abroad. Because a generation of those who hate our past has already grown up and is even beginning to grow old.
And here is such a gift ...
It is understandable why the Yabloko and Memorial residents were so worried. Why is the bill being compared with the memorable article 190-1 of the RSFSR Criminal Code on "the dissemination of deliberately false fabrications that discredit the Soviet state and social system"?
It will be difficult to blame Stalin for everything. Much of what the same Memorial is doing today will become difficult. It will be difficult to throw mud at those who, under the leadership of one of the brilliant people of the last century, strangled the reptile of fascism in its lair.
I support the project with both hands.
This energy is for good purposes ...
Of course, I am very sorry that Mr. Vishnevsky was unable to do anything other than the war with Stalin. I am very sorry for him and his party comrades.
Alas, the further we go into the world, to the creation of which Mr. Vishnevsky put his hands and head, the brighter the image of the person under whose leadership the Soviet people built a great country, defeated fascism, and restored the country from the ruins after the war.
And the remnants of that country are now Mr. Vishnevsky ready to put on the altar of repentance.
No, Boris Lazarevich, the wind of history becomes a flurry. And the further, the more dirt takes away from the grave of Joseph Stalin. Private Stalin will not have to be saved. At least as long as those who perfectly understand the role of the Generalissimo of the Soviet Union in that victory are still alive. And, I am sure, there will be more and more people wishing to pass on May 9 with a portrait of Stalin. An order of magnitude more than those who make the blame for all mortal sins the goal of life.
However, everyone chooses his own path. I'm not sure that the majority of readers will decide to walk along the road of repentance, it is not clear to whom in a wreath of barbed wire, on their knees, and so on.
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