“Tanks, death, Pushkin”. Runet about Russian Ukraine classics in the war against
Ukraine is approaching the hundredth day of the war against Russia. This war affects the cultural level. His monuments were found in several Ukrainian cities.
Russia, on the other hand, delivered a shock response: in the occupied Kherson appeared with a banner of Pushkin, which, apparently, should have been observed Russian claims to the city.
God. When will they leave him alone? Then he advised to vote for, now this
Back in 2003, he campaigned for the Unity party with a fake quote from a letter to Chaadaev, Help Luzhkov (“how much there is in this sound …”), fought liberalism (“I do not value high-profile rights …” )…
Participated in zeroing (I don’t remember the quote, but I know the Arap profile in this area for sure). “Slanderers of Russia” in subsequent times, they hit it like a record and made it more popular than frost and sun. If the television had quoted with the same frequency after Beslan the impossibility of praying for Tsar Herod, the country would have been different.
Now Pushkin, with all his shields, welcomes the occupation of Kherson, in the construction of which his Ethiopian great-grandfather participates.[…]
The unfortunate and wordless Alexander Sergeevich has now fallen into all the holes. As he himself wrote in that letter to Chaadaev himself, “this cynical contempt for thoughts and virtues is quite common in despair.”
Pushkin was brought in tanks to the captured city… As a marker of the “new order”. They form a conditioned reflex and an associative chain: Tanks – war – death – occupation – Pushkin.
#war2022
Totalitarian regimes attach special importance to culture and therefore pull it over themselves like a blanket with bloody paws to cover their bare ass with their own dubious legitimacy. I think this will help. This does not help them, and culture irreparably humiliates and stains them.
This is also mafia mutual responsibility: to cover up everyone and everything. The dead won’t mind.
She said that her German Nazis did not use Goethe or Heine as markers of enslavement, but then she remembered that in concentration camps, during executions, the Comparison ordered the reproduction of Bach and Beethoven … The same technique. One can imagine how the surviving prisoners who heard the sounds of the same concerts found themselves for the rest of their lives …
Is Beethoven to blame? The dead don’t answer.
About six months ago, during an online discussion of Ivan Kurilla’s book “Battles for History”, I said that monuments to Pushkin stand everywhere, as far as the Russian soldier has reached, such is their cultural and political function: to seize this very thing, geopolitical domination. To this, Ivan appropriately objected that there is also a monument to Pushkin in the center of Washington. Well, yes. And now.
Fighting the humiliation of Russian culture at a time when people are dying from Russian bullets may be inappropriate. But fighting Russian culture itself is appropriate, right?
The peculiarity of it, this culture, the carrier.
Here the motivation is twofold. The first is that Dostoevsky swing between self-aggrandizement and self-humiliation, which is also part of it, Russian culture, and not the healthiest one. That is, if we are sinners and there is not always light from us, then we must crawl in the dust and ask for forgiveness for the fact that we exist, and even better – die. If not a god, then a worm. Have you tried being human? In addition to Dostoevsky, there is also Pushkin and Chekhov.
But there is also a second component. This is some kind of total hostility to culture as a system (if you like, as a construction), which has been spreading all over the world in recent years among people who claim to be harsh. The tradition of a priori behavior towards the spiritual and aesthetic work of a person focuses on the name of very good and right things – racial and gender taste, conflict with risk, etc. At the same time, good ideas are caricaturally simplified, exaggerated and turned into their opposite. Because in fact there was no fight against “dead white men”, imperialists and other things. for the rights of the minority, and the hatred of the trio for the complexity of the world (even if at the political level now – temporarily! – “everything is simple”, at the metaphysical level it will simply never be), to the independence of the artist and thinker.
The words on duty were made about the fact that now 1) is not the time to reproach the Ukrainians and 2) especially not the Russians to do this. But it’s not only that. Who am I – and who are you, dear cultured compatriots (including those much more cultured than me), to spread your big top – oh sorry, your pantheon – over anyone?
No matter how unconditional a figure for Russians, for example. Pushkin – we must abandon this figure in advance. Hear another! Because Ukrainians are not Russian, they are NO LONGER Russian – and that’s enough [болтать] about the brothers of the peoples. Fucked up already. Now we will [болтать] about fraternal cultures?
Let’s shut up, huh. The cultural community will not go anywhere – to the extent that the Ukrainians themselves want to preserve it. Yes, historically we have taken quite a lot of large loans with them (in the Bologna sense), but there is no need to impose paternal figures and mandatory subjects on anyone anymore. You are not the Soviet Ministry of Defense (by the way, this is practically painful from the Ministry of Defense).
Israeli site “Details” contact column Yuri Volodarsky:
It is now widely believed in Ukraine that not only the current generation of Russian cultural figures, but the entire Russian culture is responsible for the responsibility. First of all, literature, according to the conscious spirit of chauvinistic, arrogant, depressive, alien to the Ukrainian mentality. Pushkin and Brodsky are commemorated by the infamous poems, respectively “Slanderers of Russia” and “On the Independence of Ukraine.” Dostoevsky is accused of being an English messianic. In addition to Dostoevsky and Brodsky, the list of Ukrainianophobes on the Wikipedia page includes Gorky, Bulgakov, and Solzhenitsyn. Increasingly, demands are being made for the total reduction of Russian culture in Ukraine and the maximum possible limitation of its opportunities in the world.
Russian liberals console themselves with the fact that the current situation is transient, that over time the views of Ukrainians are becoming less radical. However, one must understand that just a few outcomes of hostilities alone will not be enough for such changes. A necessary condition for changing the attitudes of Ukrainians towards Russians is the military defeat of Russia, the collapse of the growth of Russian power, and in the best case, the collapse of the Russian state, which will put an end to its imperial ambitions. Until this is set up, the fact that the Ukrainian leaders will change their attitude towards the voters, the Russian language and Russian culture is not worth counting on.
I read a sensible and clear article by Yuri Volodarsky about why monuments to Pushkin are actually appearing in Ukraine now, and after thinking, I realized that Volodarsky did not write about the main thing (in my opinion).
The vileness of the current situation, modeled by Putin and his henchmen, is also contained in the fact that the conditional Russian “us” now simply does not have the rights and opportunities to limit the actions of Ukraine and Ukrainians.
It seems to me that much of what Volodarsky writes about as specific to the Russian consciousness (for example, an arrogant attitude towards other peoples) is actually almost typical for all peoples, including many Ukrainians. And, perhaps, those rude reproaches that Ukrainians mistreat me, like many of us, were (often) dealt with by unfair and any Russians, I would immediately go to the ban for them.
BUT: it was the Russian state that unleashed a criminal war in Ukraine, it is precisely through the fault of the Russian state that they are now dying, and therefore the people of Ukrainians and Ukraine are now inappropriate and unfair.
quite simply: Putin also deprived us of the opportunity to argue with the Ukrainians at a low level.
Another similar text contact “New newspaper. Europe”its author is a Ukrainian journalist Yuri Makarov:
Damn it, gentlemen, your culture was not fulfilling its purpose, the infection was not going to be fulfilled. It is this currying before the abyss that you do not want to forgive. And what’s more, what’s wonderful: on the move, everyone hears your condescending reservations about our anthropological horror here: “Ukrainians, of course, they have the right, they are injured, but you, you, Europeans, what?” So the Europeans in the first place had to be “what”. We are just familiar, after all, neighbors, and all this causal relationship is in no way obvious. “We are so terrible, but that is why we are good.” “We are good!” “Guys, are we here?” With what, with what! No need to appeal to those who turned away in horror. No need to teach, it is better to be silent for a while. This is how I tell you in Russian.
Now I am also for the demolition of monuments to Pushkin. And where to go?
As if some kind of mild war, the Russophobe decided to screw up everything no less conventional. Immediate memory of victory in the second mass destruction by victorious frenzy, now “our everything” is a symbol of the occupation.
Ps I foresee with horror that he advises whom they will stick around with their bloody hands – Christ.