Stanislav Lem

“God! They’re shitting!”

Very good, informative post by the Cleaner about one of my favorite science fiction writers – Stanislav Lem. Usually, the Poles had in 20 cases approximately outstanding, international level masters of the word, ironically with names that differed only by 1 letter: Stanislav Lem and Stanislav (Jerzy) Lec. Brilliant science fiction philosopher and brilliant aphorist philosopher. I am afraid, however, that both are Polish Jews …

Although no, probably three – still Julian Tuwim: we know (knew) him in the USSR as a child, and he is the author of a brilliant aphorism “An egoist is a person who, after all, cares about himself more than about me.” So three (although it is very likely that Tuwim was also … that … of these). The Poles survived almost all the Jews from their country, became a unique homogeneous country (98% of the Poles) – but with genes in this racial purity, it became bad for them.

But that’s okay, it’s not about that. Cleaning woman in great luxurywho I sincerely believe in reading the inflammation, furiously reproaches Lem for not falling in love with the USSR, nor the Russians – despite the fact that he receives the main income from the publication of his books only from the Soviets, and in the West his fame began to penetrate just literally recently.

And it turns out that there is a certain “letter from Lem” from Berlin, a translator to thinking people who have become famous (naturally, everywhere, but not here):

“Here [в Берлине] I, of course, read books that are not available in Poland, incl. private memoirs of the Germans, an avalanche of the Red Army swept over the assets as a result of the use of Hitler, 1945, especially memoirs from Pomerania (Pomerania). The notes of one doctor, after all, a count, a believer who survived hell, saw everything, on the sample formed by that ugly system, did not fix it on paper. Although I didn’t see anything he saw. The cruelty of the Germans who invaded the occupied countries in the era of Hitler is NOT comparable in conscious entry into experience both in breadth and depth with the Soviet one. The Germans (at first, banalities) – had a method, systematically, observed the commandments of the impersonal and generally mechanically, they considered themselves the superior race, and we, the court, – Ungeziefer, parasites doomed to destruction, parasites SO insidious, gifted with such chutspa that these parasites dared thanks to high mimicry of acquiring similarity, surprisingly amazing probability on a Human.
In turn, the Russians were born, aware of their meanness and baseness, wordless, deaf, capable of any kind of unreasonableness; so, raping 80-year-old grandmothers, handing out death from lust, casually, among other things, subverting, developing and destroying all the signs of prosperity, construction, civilized wealth, disease, and the disinterestedness of this disease, considerable Foresight, Initiative, Attention, Concentration, Tension of Will – thanks to for this, they took revenge not only on the Germans (after all, on OTHERS!) for what the Germans did in Russia, but also took revenge around the world outside of their reality, the meanest possible: after all, they slandered everything – no animals cover , so to speak, EXCREMENTAL cruelty, which the Russians demonstrated, clogging and filling with their excrement the destroyed salons, hospital rooms, bidets, closets, greying on books, carpets, altars; what a joy it is! to dig up, crush, crap, and on top of everything else, rape and kill which of their poor fellow-martinet no longer had a chance among the Germans in the hospital, because his defenders took away everything that could be taken away, he burst into tears in despair and at the same time shouted that if you do not immediately get a watch, then he will shoot the first three people he meets). Once in Moscow [19]61 years old, I visited after 12 nights, having arrived directly from the airfield, to the restaurant of the “exclusive hotel” (on the street, a crowd of other people who wanted to have fun pounded on the hotel doors to no avail) – and although no one there raped anyone, DID NOT kill or slander, I saw the same, and this is based on an indelible impression, I called them a mad stage, because they do not believe in God, that is, I saw people, factors cut off qualities, totally amputated ethics; it was a truly disgusting sight.” (Stanislav Lem).

Really curious! The main thing is that others, for example, many authors who wrote about the events of the Russian revolution and civil war, wrote a lot about this desire of any “wealth” in the first place, roughly speaking – just don’t give a damn.

I immediately remembered, of course, how Galkovsky wrote about this, back in the 90s, in his (destroyed by himself) “Book of Thanks and Requests”. But, as they say, “the Internet remembers everything!” Here are some strong parallels from Galkovsky:

“Now “internal politics” after the “Great October Socialist Revolution” and “the tragedy of the Russian intelligentsia”. How did you start drinking. Wine pogroms began, people got on all fours and lapped up wine and vodka, flowing like a river from broken barrels. Then the sewers in the cities froze and burst. And the Russians began to go under themselves. All the streets are covered with excrement, they were heaped with frozen mountains along the sides. People urinated and defecated from the windows of the houses on the streets, but that’s okay: they put them on the stairwells, in the corridors. It was done as a way of life, no one was embarrassed by each other. This is the MAIN thing that I noticed yesterday and that amazed everyone. Everyone wrote about it: Gorky, Zinaida Gippius, Yuri Annenkov, Nabokov, Lenin.

That’s all. Monkey. But when the little animal, as one of the inhabitants of our guestbook, all at once, jumping from the table to the closet, then … No, Russian intellectuals were ready for a lot, tea didn’t live on the moon, but at first they rubbed their eyes: “it can’t be ‘, ‘God, they’re shitting.’
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Until 1917, they went up step by step. Difficult, but consistent, decade after decade. Because Russian is a great nation and they have many strategic advantages. But there are also disadvantages. One scary one: the biological Russian man is a “tabula of times”. No matter how high the Russian rises, there is an opportunity to win back to such an extent that it is TERRIBLE. The Russians are very far to fall down. Eisenstein’s staircase of a billion steps goes into the abyss. Going down is always easy. You can just roll head over heels. We rolled” (GALKOVSKY, KBiP, 1999).

Now I’m thinking: maybe Galkovsky, when he wrote this, was Lem’s letter also in mind? In general, it’s interesting. After all, the revolution of 1917 and 1944-45, when the Red Army swept over Europe, is separated by a rather large gap, almost a generation has changed. However, fecal orientation was probably not overcome. Yes, it is understandable – the country, after all, still overwhelmingly suppresses the peasants with the “outhouse on the street.”

In general, this is a classic “anal fixation” – where, it turns out, some kind of national scale. And this, in a strange way, echoes the historical data. For example, quite a long time ago – in 2014 – we found the following data, sorry, from Pornhub:

“According to the expected PornHub portal, users from Russia are more likely than in any other country in the world to watch videos with anal sex. Statistics provided by the British edition of the Independent.

And, frankly, it can be seen with the naked eye: enough comments on social networks, just listening to the conversations of “simple”, and not very simple people in Russia – it’s hard not to notice that the anal-fecal theme practically dominates. Personally, it has always amazed me, since my time in the army, to what extent everyone is fixated on the topic of “go … on” and “f.. py”, and even on the topic of homosexual rape.

And then Lem (thanks to the Cleaning Lady!) reminded me.

The Cleaning Lady herself is quite harsh there – for some reason, in the end, the confidence that “now” (apparently, after her revelations) “Lem will not be read in Russia.” I disagree, of course. Unless in the sense that the Russian Federation is falling into a new medieval ignorance, it is “unfashionable” to read, and Lem “will not be read” in the same way, and any other authors.

But those who read (in the sense – the meaning is in READING as a process) – they will read like that. And Lem, they – a few know-it-alls – will only read more – after all, his posthumous fame is only growing, and all over the world.

Will they not read “because of resentment”, “because he did not like Russians”? It’s all nonsense, in my opinion. A smart Russian has a calm attitude towards someone else’s dislike – he himself is his own people, according to Danila Bagrov, “somehow not very much.”

Source: Reflections of a free sociologist