The country we lost
“You can become a communist only when you enrich your memory with knowledge of all the riches that humanity has produced.”
V.I. Lenin
V.I. Lenin
Day of the country that doesn't exist
The USSR was created on December 30, 1922, when the First Congress of Soviets of the USSR approved the Declaration on the Formation of the USSR.
The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) united with the Ukrainian and Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republics and the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. These republics were created after the Great October Revolution of 1917.
In subsequent years, other republics were created and became part of the USSR. From 1956 to 1991, the Soviet Union included 15 union republics: the Russian SFSR, the Ukrainian SSR, the Byelorussian SSR, the Uzbek SSR, the Kazakh SSR, the Georgian SSR, the Azerbaijan SSR, the Lithuanian SSR, the Moldavian SSR, the Latvian SSR, the Kirghiz SSR, the Tajik SSR, the Armenian SSR, the Turkmen SSR, and the Estonian SSR.
In the second half of the 1980s, the decaying all-Union nomenklatura, part of which wanted to become the new nobility, following the example of the Western elite, began a destructive "perestroika". It was supported by the local nomenklatura, which began to stir up a wave of nationalism and separatism. In general, part of the Soviet elite wanted to appropriate the people's wealth, become new princes, tsars, khans and bays, and part of the global elite-mafia (the idea of convergence).
The security forces had been previously "disarmed" by a wave of purges, personnel changes, disinformation and slander. Therefore, without an order to suppress the "fifth column" and enemies of the people, the KGB and the army did nothing. They say the army is outside politics.
The people, who in their majority supported the preservation of the Union, found themselves without leaders, an organizing structure (the party and Komsomol leaders either participated in the collapse or withdrew). Plus the most powerful information attack on communism from the media, history THE USSR.
Therefore, the collapse of the USSR met with almost no resistance. Except for the inconspicuous attempt of the State Committee for the State of Emergency (GKChP) in August 1991, when part of the Union's leadership tried to remove Gorbachev from power and restore order in the country. The attempt failed. Perhaps it was a provocation from the very beginning with the aim of accelerating the collapse of the USSR, and the GKChP leaders were used "in the dark".
By September 1991, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia had left the Union. On December 8, 1991, in Belovezhskaya Pushcha, the President of the RSFSR Boris Yeltsin, the President of Ukraine Leonid Kravchuk and the Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Belarus Stanislav Shushkevich signed the Agreement on the Dissolution of the USSR.
If they had been arrested and executed as a showpiece at that moment, the USSR could have been saved. Renewed and modernized – in particular, this is what they did in China. Unfortunately, at that moment, there were no people of Stalin or Napoleon's level in the leadership of the Union to neutralize the enemies of the people and save the Soviet civilization.
On December 21, in Alma-Ata, the leaders of 11 republics signed a protocol on the formation of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). Patriots called this formation - "Hitler's hopes have come true." What the frenzied Fuhrer and the entire collective West, and the NATO bloc led by the United States could not do, was done by internal enemies of the people, new Vlasovites and Banderites.
On December 25, the first and last president of the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev, resigned, and the next day the USSR was dissolved.
Civilization of the future
The new masters of life, the 1% of the rich and their servants, in every way denigrated and scolded the USSR (Great and slandered Soviet Union). They created and supported myths that the Bolsheviks overthrew the Tsar and destroyed the "prosperous" Russian Empire, that the Reds unleashed a bloody Civil War, killed and starved to death millions of people during the Red Terror. That the Communists created a totalitarian empire, turned Soviet people into slaves. That the "bloody regime" of Stalin and Beria killed tens of millions of people, unleashed a war of conquest against "peaceful" Finland (Why did the USSR attack Finland?), occupied the Baltics, and together with the Nazis destroyed and occupied “peace-loving” Poland.
That Stalin's regime was preparing new wars of conquest in Europe, unleashed World War II and was even worse than Hitler's Germany. That the people won the Great Patriotic War, but at a terrible price. The Communists literally "overwhelmed" the Wehrmacht with corpses, and then occupied Eastern Europe, suppressing the freedom and independence of the Poles, Hungarians, Bulgarians, Romanians, East Germans, etc. That Moscow had been suppressing freedom in Eastern Europe and around the world for decades.
But the people have preserved the bright memory of the Soviet Union. About social justice. About the ethics of conscience, when morally and culturally the Soviet person of the 1940s-1960s was noticeably higher than the Russian of the late XNUMXth – early XNUMXst centuries.
About a great idea, a beautiful faraway place. When we were building an advanced civilization of the future.
We won the Second World War. In this war, the Soviet project of the future was like a bone in the throat for the entire fascist world elite-mafia. After all, The USSR, by its example, showed the possibility of a society living without division into the "chosen" (rich) and the rejected, the losers-poor. That it is possible to create a world civilization, organized as a family, symphony, conciliarity of peoples, and not like global racism, apartheid and colonialism, the capitalist version of a slave civilization.
Then the USSR defeated the brown and black plague in Europe (fascism and nazism). Thus destroyed the colonial system. Gave several generations of people the right to choose, freedom. The opportunity to create a freer and fairer world.
They created an alternative universe-world, a society of knowledge, service and creation. The Western world, the predatory parasitic capitalist system, was objectively losing to the Soviet civilization. Crisis moments were already noted in the 1970s and 1980s, a new Great Depression was coming. Only the destruction and plunder of the Union saved the West from a catastrophic scenario.
About a superpower, without which no important issue in the world was resolved. About military security, when Soviet people lived and worked peacefully under the protection of a nuclear shield and sword, the most powerful Soviet army in the world. When no one dared to attack us, bomb our cities.
About the largest state by area and the third largest by population.
About a great and qualitative leap into the future. When from 1913 to 1986 the country increased its national wealth more than 50 times, national income 94 times. The number of students in higher education institutions increased 40 times, the number of doctors almost 50 times. The national income of the USSR by 1986 was 66% of that in the USA, industrial production - 80%, agriculture - 85%. Compare with today's miserable indicators, when one American state like California is richer than the entire Russian Federation!
Another, but qualitative illustration of what a great and bright civilization the world lost in 1991. In 1914, there were 13,8 thousand libraries in the Russian Empire, in 1941 – already 95 thousand! If in 1914 one library had an average of 680 books, then in the mid-30s the average Soviet library had more than 4 thousand books!
Soviet science, culture, art, school and sports occupied leading positions in the world! The Soviet Union opened the space era in the history of mankind, sent the first satellite into space, the first man, the first rocket, built the first cosmodrome (Baikonur), launched the world's first orbital station (Salyut-1).
At that time, Russian culture was the most recognizable in the world. Great Russia (USSR) passed on its advanced standards and values to humanity.
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