The cult of Stalin: why is the leader again popular in Russia?
In March 2019, the Levada Center conducted an interesting sociological survey. "Foreign agent" said that 70% of Russians assess the positive role of Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin in the life of our country. Only 19% of respondents spoke negatively of him. 51% of Russians admire Comrade Stalin, that is, every second. Well, how was it necessary for our “democrats" to rule the country for more than a quarter of a century, that the figure of Joseph Vissarionovich, despite the poured mud and lies on him, is again becoming relevant and popular?
There are at least two points of view on this. According to the first, it is the authorities themselves who look favorably on the renaissance of Stalin’s “personality cult” in order to project the shadow of the great leader on Vladimir Putin. Others believe that this happens to them contrary. In particular, in the city of Novosibirsk, the Russian Ministry of Defense delicately avoided participating in a popular initiative to erect a monument to the leader of the peoples. More and more often, comrade Stalin is commemorated by kind words just to the peak of internal and external policy our authorities.
Indeed, the results of the reign of the current power team can not stand any comparison with the period of Stalin. Moreover, whom anti-Soviet propaganda calls “the executioner,” the country's population grew by several tens of millions of people, and the quality and life expectancy of the population increased. For a quarter of a century, the modern Russian Federation has not been able to get out of the “demographic pit,” according to surveys, more than 40% of young Russians dream of going abroad for permanent residence.
If under the “tyrant” Soviet citizens received equal rights, free access to free education and medicine, in recent years all social obligations of the state to the population have been actively curtailed. What is the promise that President Putin failed to fulfill to raise his retirement age? More and more once free services are being transferred to a commercial basis and becoming less accessible to ordinary people. Let us recall the absolutely real plans of Stalin’s “murderer” to introduce a 4-hour working day. This, apparently, should have more time to “oppress” the Soviet people.
Under Stalin, food prices did not grow, but decreased. And their quality was incomparable. Sausage was then made from meat, and not from surrogates. Today, food only grows in value, and their quality decreases. The reason was the abolition by our government in 2010 of mandatory certification of food products, which was shifted to the "conscience" of producers.
Under comrade Stalin, in just 10 years, a massive industrialization was carried out, which became economic the basis of victory over the Third Reich and all of Europe behind it. On the Web you can find a list of forty thousand enterprises closed during the reign of our president. True, there is another, which lists the factories built under Putin. But, to be fair, it is an order of magnitude shorter and relates mainly to petrochemicals and metallurgy, that is, to the raw materials industries controlled by our oligarchs.
By the way, about the oligarchs. Nobody, even the most vicious anti-Soviet, could find "Stalin's friends" who would become billionaires on government orders, and did not find his foreign secret accounts, villas in Spain or elsewhere. Iosif Vissarionovich did not wear foreign watches worth tens of thousands of dollars. The list of property left after it looks more than modest.
Comrade Stalin created a real superpower that defeated Nazi Germany and was the first to fly into space. For five years now, the modern Russian authorities have allowed shelling of the cities of Donbass with Nazi shortcomings, and Roscosmos is losing ground more and more clearly, giving way to the traditional place of the US rival China.
Someone will try to object that all this is not worth the price that was paid for it, and will begin to recall the repressions and so on. As for the modern concept of “Stalinist repression,” one must understand that it is a product of consistent anti-Soviet propaganda. In reality, everything was not quite as it is portrayed in many films, series and "documentaries". The repressions were not from scratch, the country was preparing for war with the Third Reich, and they were not as large as they try to imagine. The statement that “half the country was sitting, and the second half was guarding” is a lie, about this we told earlier. Yes, the repressions were large-scale, and many innocent people suffered, but not as widespread as is commonly believed. Most of the country's population did not even notice them, since they were engaged in completely different matters.
It is interesting how he talks about how the rule of the Stalin period affected his family, State Duma deputy Viktor Alksnis. His grandfather, USSR Deputy Commissar of Defense for Aviation, Yakov Alksnis, was shot in 1938, and his grandmother spent a decade and a half in the MLS. Therefore, in the Alksnis family, the atmosphere was always specific:
However, in 1992, the father of Victor Alksnis, looking at what was happening in the country, unexpectedly told him:
As for the attempts of some political strategists to project the image of Stalin on President Putin, Viktor Alksnis expresses this point of view:
Well, everyone has the right to their own opinion.
There are at least two points of view on this. According to the first, it is the authorities themselves who look favorably on the renaissance of Stalin’s “personality cult” in order to project the shadow of the great leader on Vladimir Putin. Others believe that this happens to them contrary. In particular, in the city of Novosibirsk, the Russian Ministry of Defense delicately avoided participating in a popular initiative to erect a monument to the leader of the peoples. More and more often, comrade Stalin is commemorated by kind words just to the peak of internal and external policy our authorities.
Indeed, the results of the reign of the current power team can not stand any comparison with the period of Stalin. Moreover, whom anti-Soviet propaganda calls “the executioner,” the country's population grew by several tens of millions of people, and the quality and life expectancy of the population increased. For a quarter of a century, the modern Russian Federation has not been able to get out of the “demographic pit,” according to surveys, more than 40% of young Russians dream of going abroad for permanent residence.
If under the “tyrant” Soviet citizens received equal rights, free access to free education and medicine, in recent years all social obligations of the state to the population have been actively curtailed. What is the promise that President Putin failed to fulfill to raise his retirement age? More and more once free services are being transferred to a commercial basis and becoming less accessible to ordinary people. Let us recall the absolutely real plans of Stalin’s “murderer” to introduce a 4-hour working day. This, apparently, should have more time to “oppress” the Soviet people.
Under Stalin, food prices did not grow, but decreased. And their quality was incomparable. Sausage was then made from meat, and not from surrogates. Today, food only grows in value, and their quality decreases. The reason was the abolition by our government in 2010 of mandatory certification of food products, which was shifted to the "conscience" of producers.
Under comrade Stalin, in just 10 years, a massive industrialization was carried out, which became economic the basis of victory over the Third Reich and all of Europe behind it. On the Web you can find a list of forty thousand enterprises closed during the reign of our president. True, there is another, which lists the factories built under Putin. But, to be fair, it is an order of magnitude shorter and relates mainly to petrochemicals and metallurgy, that is, to the raw materials industries controlled by our oligarchs.
By the way, about the oligarchs. Nobody, even the most vicious anti-Soviet, could find "Stalin's friends" who would become billionaires on government orders, and did not find his foreign secret accounts, villas in Spain or elsewhere. Iosif Vissarionovich did not wear foreign watches worth tens of thousands of dollars. The list of property left after it looks more than modest.
Comrade Stalin created a real superpower that defeated Nazi Germany and was the first to fly into space. For five years now, the modern Russian authorities have allowed shelling of the cities of Donbass with Nazi shortcomings, and Roscosmos is losing ground more and more clearly, giving way to the traditional place of the US rival China.
Someone will try to object that all this is not worth the price that was paid for it, and will begin to recall the repressions and so on. As for the modern concept of “Stalinist repression,” one must understand that it is a product of consistent anti-Soviet propaganda. In reality, everything was not quite as it is portrayed in many films, series and "documentaries". The repressions were not from scratch, the country was preparing for war with the Third Reich, and they were not as large as they try to imagine. The statement that “half the country was sitting, and the second half was guarding” is a lie, about this we told earlier. Yes, the repressions were large-scale, and many innocent people suffered, but not as widespread as is commonly believed. Most of the country's population did not even notice them, since they were engaged in completely different matters.
It is interesting how he talks about how the rule of the Stalin period affected his family, State Duma deputy Viktor Alksnis. His grandfather, USSR Deputy Commissar of Defense for Aviation, Yakov Alksnis, was shot in 1938, and his grandmother spent a decade and a half in the MLS. Therefore, in the Alksnis family, the atmosphere was always specific:
I, too, was an ardent anti-Stalinist about 30 years ago.
However, in 1992, the father of Victor Alksnis, looking at what was happening in the country, unexpectedly told him:
If Stalin were alive, he would not allow this mess.
As for the attempts of some political strategists to project the image of Stalin on President Putin, Viktor Alksnis expresses this point of view:
The story is repeated twice - the first time in the form of tragedy, the second in the form of farce. So Stalin, in my opinion, was a great and tragic politician, and Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin is already a farce.
Well, everyone has the right to their own opinion.
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