Red Emperor. Stalin's lessons for Russia
On January 4, 1943, the American magazine Time named Joseph Stalin the Man of 1942. The Red Emperor managed to create a unique Soviet civilization, which achieved an unprecedented unity of the people, a bright faith in the future Victory and our beautiful bright world.
The magazine said:
“... Not a step back! .. 1942 was a year of blood and strength. The man whose name means steel, the one whose English vocabulary includes tough guy, is the 1942 Man. Only Joseph Stalin knows how close Russia was to defeat in 1942. And only Joseph Stalin knows how he managed to save Russia. Joseph Stalin won. He is that cool guy…”
Red emperor
Stalin got a completely ruined, murdered country. A destroyed civilization and a people bled white by the First World War, turmoil and intervention. Virtually no industry, no gold reserves, no technology and no future. Mass unemployment, poverty. Rampant crime. The dominance of the bureaucracy, which has grown monstrously in comparison with tsarist times (due to the decline in the quality of management). The fusion of the bureaucracy, the local party apparatus with the NEPmen (then the new Russians - the new bourgeoisie). The famous "Golden Calf" by Ilf and Petrov is an encyclopedia of theft and fraud that permeated Russia at that time.
It seemed that Soviet Russia of the 20s was doomed to become a raw material appendage of the more developed West and East (Japan). In conditions when the next round of the crisis of capitalism began in the West, deindustrialized, poorly armed Russia inevitably became a victim of stronger neighbors. Even Poland and Finland were a threat, not to mention militaristic Japan and the future Third Reich. At the same time, a new turmoil was brewing within Russia itself: a clash between the city and the countryside. In the 20s, Soviet Russia, barely emerging from the catastrophe of 1917-1920, was slipping towards a new national “Hiroshima”. The end was approaching: either after a military defeat, or because of an internal, economic catastrophe. Or all together.
Stalin managed to do the almost impossible. He not only kept civilization, country and people on the edge of a new catastrophe, but also threw it into a breakthrough, into the future. The Iron General Secretary was able to materialize a new reality, a new Soviet civilization. Create a new society focused on development, knowledge, creation and service.
Stalin was able to give the people and especially the younger generations the image of a new beautiful world - "beautiful far away." The ideal of a new reality, tomorrow's world, in which labor, creativity and creation will be the main thing. A world in which there will be no exploitation of man by man. A world where an immeasurably higher level of development will be achieved due to labor, creativity, the disclosure of the intellectual, spiritual abilities of a person, due to a completely different attitude and mood of people (who do not work for someone else's uncle), an effective organization of the economy.
A new civilization will arise - the world of the future, where human desires will be reasonable, where spirituality will take up over the material, responsibility to society will outweigh animal egoism. At the same time, everyone understands that in order for a happy tomorrow to come, today one must endure hardships and work hard. If necessary, then be prepared to make sacrifices.
Thus, Russian communism, Stalinism, in essence, repeated the best ideals of Christian civilization. He tried to save people from the world of the "golden calf", from the materialization, "ossification" of people. Stalin and his associates built a new bright reality, where the ethics of work, conscience, goodness and justice will prevail.
Society of the Future
An attractive, beautiful dream, alluring and possible reality became the basis of the Soviet miracle. People believed the red emperor, and faith works wonders. With the whole world, all the people and all the earth they built a great power, defended it in the fiercest battles with the Western world and brought humanity into space.
Stalin solved several great, seemingly unsolvable tasks. An appropriate defense potential and the country's economy were built. As a result, when the collective West struck, Russia was ready, unlike the Russian Empire of 1914. The grandiose task - to overcome the age-old economic and technological backwardness of 10 years in one jerk and repel an external threat - has been solved!
There was another important task. "The Fifth Column", which destroyed the Russian Empire on the verge of its victory (the German bloc was losing the war). Stalin neutralized her. This is the secret of the Great Purge. They destroyed most of the Trotskyists, internationalists, nationalists (in the Baltics and Ukraine), military conspirators. The Red Emperor cleared out the party, which was rapidly degenerating, using power for personal enrichment. This made it possible to avoid the collapse of the USSR at the very beginning of the Great Patriotic War, which was expected in Germany, the USA and England.
Stalin literally before our eyes, every year created the future. I didn’t “rebuild”, I didn’t “optimize”, I didn’t “modernize”, but I created it. Thousands of plants, factories, machine and tractor stations, laboratories were built, new houses, new communications, and transport were built in cities. They built railways, oil pipelines, communications. Kindergartens, schools, technical schools, institutes, theaters, libraries, houses of culture and creativity. They built a new reality, one that did not exist after the Civil War, when everything was destroyed.
The well-known expression of W. Churchill, which actually belongs to the British historian I. Deutscher:
“... he accepted Russia with a plow, and leaves with nuclear reactors. He raised Russia to the level of the second industrialized country in the world. It was not the result of purely material progress and organizational work. Such achievements would not have been possible without a comprehensive cultural revolution, during which the entire population attended school and studied very hard. ”
social creator
Russia was lucky that a former seminarian, a revolutionary, self-taught and, perhaps, the best manager in our entire country turned out to be at the head. history.
For example, he clearly defined that there was no alternative to collectivization in the then conditions. Either economic, and then the state, civilizational collapse, or collectivization, as a completely reasonable, technological operation to bring the Russian village to a different, modern level, while maintaining the world-community as the foundation of the Russian people. Money and resources were obtained for industrialization, cheap labor resources appeared for the rise of industry. A modern agriculture was being established, capable of providing raw materials for industry, sustainably supplying cities and the army. Such agriculture, which made it possible to create the industrial basis of the new world. It was planned that in the future the new Soviet industry would ensure the revival of the Russian village. He will return the debts of society to the peasantry, revive them to a new life. Unfortunately, first the Great War, and then "Khrushchevism" did not allow this to be done.
Another source for a breakthrough into the future was the rich resources of the country. They did not go to enrich a narrow caste of plutocrats, capitalists, and did not invest in Western economies and banks, but for the development of the country, they invested in the future (education, science, technology, industry, etc.). Therefore, Stalin not only restored the gold reserves of the Russian state, plundered by various kinds of revolutionaries, whites and Westerners, but surpassed it.
Stalin used the crisis of capitalism and the West as much as possible to develop the Union. Western equipment, technologies, design services were bought. The West was in crisis. Therefore, Moscow skillfully bargained, knocked down prices. The USSR took a lot from the West. While the capitalist world was in decline, production in Russia grew rapidly. With the help of American specialists, giants of the industry were built, such as GAZ in Nizhny Novgorod, the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works, tractor factories in Kharkov and Stalingrad.
Stalin found a replacement for market competition: he set tasks for the regular reduction of prices and costs. This forced plant and factory directors to look for and implement new technologies, reduce costs, and manage prudently.
The Stalinist system showed that Russia was capable of amazing mobilization and concentration of forces. The maximum effect was achieved with the least expenditure of money, materials and time. This is how modern mechanical engineering, metallurgy, fuel and energy complex, aircraft building and the nuclear industry were created.
The Soviet elite was responsible for the assigned work with their heads. And to the highest degree. Party workers, officials and directors of factories were personally responsible for the assigned work and entrusted values. The country was spared from mass theft, the withdrawal of huge funds abroad. Therefore, the funds did not go to cash palaces with golden toilets, yachts and planes, but to factories, schools, design bureaus, research institutes. This was how the real power of the state and the country was created.
Industrialization, collectivization, and the scientific and technological revolution went hand in hand with the cultural revolution. A cult of youth, education and science, strength and purity was created. All the best was given to children (the future of the nation). A network of pioneer camps, houses of culture, creativity, music schools, etc., has been created throughout the country so that children can identify and develop their physical, intellectual and creative abilities, engage in self-education, science, art, and creativity. Get basic military training, become future paratroopers, pilots, snipers to defend the Motherland. Soviet power has enabled tens of millions of people to realize their physical, intellectual and spiritual potential.
Therefore, the Russians won the most terrible war in their history, when they wanted to completely destroy them. They fought to the death and they knew what they were dying for. Soviet people believed in the future of their country.
Stalin managed to create a unique Soviet (Russian) civilization, which achieved an unprecedented unity of the people, a bright faith in the future Victory and our beautiful bright world, which was expressed in the fury of noble and selfless work. People worked real miracles in labor and in war. We won. Created a superpower and the basis of the society of the future. Societies of knowledge, service and creation. What gives hope for a bright future for the current generations of Russian people.
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