After a post about a “shameful and vile” war, the RANEPA teacher was forced to resign. Denis Grekov left Russia
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RANEPA lecturer Denis Grekov, who published a post on Facebook about the “shameful and vile” war with Ukraine and the exhausted propaganda myth around May 9, was forced to resign and leave Russia.
As the philosopher and political scientist (and until recently a teacher of the Critical Thinking course at the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation) Grekov told the BBC, on the evening of May 10, excellent messages began to pour into all his scientific networks hate messages.
Two days earlier, on May 8, Grekov posted on Facebook post-reflection about the celebration of Victory Day: <...> for an external observer, the self-structural place of Russia in this myth has changed.
He further writes that, in his opinion, Putin’s Russia is now firmly and for a long time occupied there. [в мифе] the place of the Third Reich, and Lukashenka’s Belarus – the discovery of fascist Italy on the rollers.
“Therefore, any cases of infection on accounts or other communities cover the surrounding countries as large-scale aggression and have the opposite effect,” the political scientist wrote.
The Greeks called the war in Ukraine “shameful and vile.”
On the evening of the same May 10, when he began to receive messages, Grekovu called him the head of the department and the screenwriter at a meeting. The next morning, at his suggestion, the philosopher was offered to resign of his own free will – despite the fact that retroactively, on May 6, in order to legally turn out that he wrote his post, he did not receive an employee of the academy. Even the old interview with Grekov was deleted from the RANEPA website.
Grekov voluntarily resigned: “I discovered this so that there would be no reason to persecute our faculty and department. I did not want them to happen because of the attack on me.”
An outraged complaint about Grekov’s post was written on May 10 in his Telegram channel by his colleague at the university, historian Natalia Tanshina. With six (in total) exclamation marks, she quoted Grekov’s post and concluded that “when we have such educators of the younger generation, we don’t need any external enemies. We ourselves will spoil and destroy everything.”
Natalia Tanshina – Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor at RANEPA. Grekov told the BBC that they were observed while working at a university – for example, Tanshina held a conference for students, which was held by a philosopher.
“She gave the impression of a friendly person, but in the field of patriotism, friendliness has evaporated somewhere,” he says.
In her channel, Tanshina follows posts about the geopolitical situation, often criticizes Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Western countries and Western media.
One of the reader’s posts is as follows: “Somehow Nif-Nif, Naf-Naf and Nuf-Nuf gathered to build a common house against Russia. Nif-Nif, let’s call it that (there are no smart pigs in this tale), the overseas piglet was the most active , the most persistent and, most importantly, the richest, so the European pig brothers obeyed almost unconditionally, they built a common house against Russia very successfully, they used the most modern materials for the construction.
Tanshina’s post about Grekov gained more than 200 thousand views.
As Grekov slowed down, Tanshina processed his statements in such a way that they acquired a different meaning. “There is a difference between talking about feeling, about war, and about propaganda about it. convinced.”
“The propaganda myth takes up most of the work.
On Sunday, May 15, Tanshina wrote on her channel about the situation with Grekov and its structure: “This is due to the fact that our country already has a civil society, and it is starting to work effectively” and thanked the social networks for their support.
On the night of May 16, the scientist flew out of Russia, fearing infection from the authorities.
According to Grekov, he intends to use this case in his courses on critical thinking.