Where Gaidar walked
In Moscow, erected a monument to Yegor Gaidar. One more. The previous one was installed in one of the buildings of the Higher School of Economics on Pokrovsky Boulevard in 2010. At the same time, the Decree on perpetuation of Gaidar’s memory was signed by Dmitry Medvedev, being the president of Russia, and never hid his love for the late reformer. And Medvedev established a Gaidar scholarship, his name was the Moscow school 1301 with in-depth study of the economy ...
Gaidar is adored by liberals on both sides of the border. Abroad, it is regularly published in large editions and is considered one of the most prominent people in Russia. Naturally, the Russia that they would like to see. In Russia, Gaidar hates at least half of the population. The youth is in the other half, Gaydarovsky’s reign is not found and most of them do not know who it is ...
As you know, the founder of the Gaidar dynasty, and at the same time the name that emerged from the pseudonym was the children's writer Arkady Gaidar. In his youth, he was obsessed with the "red" idea and shed a lot of blood for it. His grandson seems to be from another test. Even superficially: grandfather - lean, in a fur cap, with a spark in his eyes; grandson - a typical representative of the Soviet nomenklatura youth, during the period of the expansion of the USSR, became ill with the dream of freedom and sausage. Grandfather was ready to ruin a privileged minority in order to give everything to the majority. The grandson did the exact opposite, strikingly recalling (including externally) Gaidar's “bad boy-Plokhish”, who sold the Motherland to the “damned burzhuinam” Homeland for “a jar of jam and a basket of cookies”.
But both Gaidars have something in common - the belief in the beneficence of revolutionary transformations, in the destruction of the familiar world “to the ground”, followed by the construction of an earthly paradise on its ruins. And also - justification for the sake of this great goal of any sacrifices and sufferings of the people.
Do not represent Yegor Timurovich pathological villain or hired traitor. He was just a man with an absolutely Western world perception and absolutely “economic-centric” thinking. Like all of our liberals, he was a retrained Marxist who piously believed that “being determines consciousness” - that is, everything that a person has in his head depends entirely on the nature of production and consumption. And he firmly believed in the uniqueness of the path of Western civilization, confirmation of the correctness of this path his armchair thinking found in the usual juxtaposition of numbers. Gaidar was convinced that it was worth redoing the “wrong” economy, distributing property into private hands, removing state control and planning as much as possible, as the “invisible hand of the market” would arrange everything for itself.
At the same time, Gaidar and Gaydarovsky did not conceal that the taking away, under the pretext of "privatization" of the public property created by the work of several generations, into private pockets had a purely political goal: to create a support for the Yeltsin regime in the person of the class of large owners. Yes, Gaidar’s talk about freedom and democracy too. But only to the extent that the new political system allowed the class of new owners to provide maximum economic freedom, including freedom from any social obligations to the country and society. When democracy began to interfere with their plans, the Yeltsin team with an unwavering hand abolished the Constitution, shot the parliament and dispersed all democratically elected authorities ...
If someone doubts that this is exactly how it was, let him listen to the testimony of economic consultant Gaidar Jeffrey Sachs: “The main thing that let us down is a huge gap between the reformers' rhetoric and their real actions ... And, I think, the Russian leadership has surpassed the most Marxists' fantastic ideas about capitalism: they considered that it was the state’s business to serve a narrow circle of capitalists by pumping as much money as possible into their pockets and quickly. This is not a shock therapy. This is a malicious, premeditated, well-thought-out action, which has as its goal a large-scale redistribution of wealth in the interests of a narrow circle of people. ”
However, it was not only about changing the economy, political system and forms of ownership. The goal was to change the inner essence, the self-consciousness of the people, reconfiguring it to fundamentally different values and attitudes. For all Russian culture has taught that man is not a rational animal, but the image of God, that his vital needs are not reduced to a stomach, lust, the desire to “devour your neighbor” and a thirst for pleasure. Or, to call these things their liberal notations, to “the constant increase in the level of consumption,” “sexuality,” “success,” and “hedonism.” The liberals understood this very well, and that is why during the times of Gaidar they said that “our reforms are correct, and the people are wrong”. But in such a situation there are only two ways out: either change the project or change the people. To change the project meant for Yeltsin’s team to lose power. Therefore, people began to replace.
This was done in two ways. First, on the principle of "accept, or die." A person was faced with a choice: either to lose any chance not only to succeed, but to survive in his own country, or to act every day against his own conscience, customary values and understanding of good and evil. It was this similar split personality that caused the hardest spiritual and moral crisis that hit the country, which resulted in almost all of our other crises, including a terrible depression, a wave of drunkenness, drug addiction and suicide.
Secondly, in order to accelerate the process of “replacing the people,” its spiritual and cultural degradation and physical extinction were stimulated by all means. The curtailment of the social obligations of the state was aimed at this; and the commercialization of education, health care and mass sports; and the destruction of the family through "juvenile technology"; and in fact legalized propaganda of debauchery, moral corruption of youth, the utmost destruction of traditional morality and ethics; and making culture an entertainment industry; and many many others.
The liberals, in fact, repeating the theory of Malthus, did not hesitate to argue that "the part of the population that did not fit into the market" (that is, the majority) would become extinct, and this would be correct. Apparently, already at that time another goal was being laid - the gradual replacement of the naturally decreasing “wrong people” by immigrants from other countries, which would automatically turn Russia into a “country of immigrants” (modeled on the US), ready to accept any ideas and any project. in exchange for the only right to live here ...
Understanding all this, I will not carry flowers to the monument to Gaidar. But I will not call upon him to demolish it, as the monument to Dzerzhinsky was once demolished. For the enemy of Russia is not Gaidar, but the Gaidar region, entrenched in countless variations of HSE, expert councils, liberal media, the economic bloc of the government, and the headquarters of the belolentochnoy opposition. It is with her that it is necessary to fight, and it is with her overcoming that the real revival of the country will begin. And even then ... well, we will bring all the monuments to Gaidar, Yeltsin and others to the museum’s backyard, where the forgotten monuments of Lenin and his associates, the forerunner of 90’s reformers, are now gathering dust on the principle “before the foundation, but then".
- Vladimir Khomyakov, co-chairman of the Great Patriotic Party
- http://portal-kultura.ru/articles/obozrevatel/16634-kuda-shagal-gaydar/
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