Here is yet another thing happened. Former talented Director (and they are talented, unlike the KGB, the former just becomes very often: it just says “still got it”, in fact, drank a glass of brandy and Patriotic all vanish), and so, the former is a very talented filmmaker praised the annexation of the Crimea. And in Putin’s policy.
No one was tortured. To deprive the domain – not deprived. And dementia, I would also blame did not. It’s just a personal evolution. Not in the sense of e-volutia, “e -” is when up, when the development and IN-Volusia, reverse-development, degradation, atrophy of the mental organs: in this case, ethical Castilia, and with it the aesthetic.
The case, of course, sad, but what can we with themselves to flirt, your guys are far from rare. Yes, there is not a single mass. Epidemic we have such degradation is accepted. Mowing down rows. And not to hide. So what to write about this particular case probably should not have, although the name and loud. But I was interested in here is not in itself a Eulogy of Goodlatte and comment on it a single, largely intact commentator.
This commenter also compared the praise Putin praises Stalin. Remembering Mandelstam, Tynianov, Chukovsky and somehow Bulgakov (“did I Express admiration? – No, Messire, you no admiration did not Express”). And not mentioning dozens of names no less prominent: almost all liberal Europe, with bated breath, looked at the events in the USSR in the 20-ies and 30-ies. However, in the Soviet Union suffocated in the rapture was a lot. Even from those who knew about the horrors of the Gulag.
Unfortunate comparison. There is a big difference between today’s Stalinists and Stalinists – contemporaries of Stalin. Today’s Stalinism – a product and completely ignorant from the point of view of psychotherapy attempt eradication of the complex of national humiliation. Under Stalin, we were great today – pathetic. Long live Stalin! Everything is simple. Narrowed consciousness of the Stalinists does not allow them to be seen together and then the greatness, and his side, and, especially, his historical investigation. They know about everything, but a coherent picture can not keep. Gyrus one, not two, not three or whatever it is you need to see this historical paintings completely. Here they saw only a proud steed, removing his eyes from the abandoned pile of manure and, in General, from the broken navitime hooves stables. In General, the debate today with the Stalinists-Stalinists are reminiscent of the discussion of the act of the maniac who dragged the child to his shack, raped and strangled, and then heard the cry for help of a drowning boy rushed in and saved him, and drowned himself. Good it was a maniac or bad?
Stalinism Stalin’s contemporaries were of a different variety. While face-to-face, on the wrong side goolgowi they just knew relatively little. But the main thing else – they have seen firsthand the grandiose and historical instantaneous transformation of the country. Moreover, changing not so much the country itself, how varied the people. The average twenty-year-old man 37-year was much higher than the average twenty year old youths 17 year. And it was strongly and visibly. That’s what was breathtaking. That’s where Gorky “woolen devils”.
You can deny Makarenko, but you have to admit, the personal evolution of Seeds Kalabalina. 9 years old, laborer, 13 – street, then just a thug. At 17, he meets Makarenko. More personalities and almost instant transformation. Two year technical school. And then he becomes a legendary teacher. Again, you can argue about his pedagogical methods. But of the thugs in the teachers is not the typical gangster way.
Of course, the Stalinists-contemporaries not only never seen the wrong side and paid the price, they also did not distinguish “under Stalin,” and “thanks to Stalin”. But they saw the main thing – the rapid growth of the country. Economy – in the second turn. People – first.
Putinism all the way around. No growth, and degradation. And again: economy in the second turn. First – people. The average twenty year old youth 2007, the first year is much worse, much lower than the average 20-year-old boy 1987. And to see it, does not need glasses. Today, though, the teacher becomes a bandit, the bandit is a teacher.
In General, none of today’s Putinists the “excuses”, which was the Stalinists of the thirties. They saw the rise, this fall. (However, “excuses” and have today’s Stalinist: Stalinists of the thirties saw only part of the way and didn’t know where it goes; today I see the whole “rise – plateau – fall”.)
So Mandelstam Zakharov is not an excuse. Excuse him could be only one: when you fly down, but not yet reached the bottom, it might appear as if not to bother comparing today with yesterday, you can imagine that is not the fall, but just “normal life”.
As imagined many of our former intelligent people. Together with their children and grandchildren.
