Russia burying Solzhenitsyn for the second time? — DV — 01/24/2023
Military patriotism craves all new victims. It has always been so, and so it is now. Eternal return to butchery, a merry-go-round of lies, human rights national truth. Therefore, it is not surprising, but it is still very disgusting that the bandit attack on Alexander Solzhenitsyn has started right now. The legendary creature is covered with the same themes as in Soviet times. And some non-literary critic, the surname is not important here, but he comes from the Duma semi-leaders, declares that the “Gulag Archipelago” is an invention, sucked out of evidence. And it needs to be driven out of the school curriculum, because, in essence, this is slander against the Motherland.
Alexander Isaevich, did you ever think, especially during a friendly group meeting with Putin, that you would be sent back to the camp of enemies? After all, your hard-won documentary book was a book of purification, not a place. it seems that never again will Russia repeat that special path of its own, which is disastrous both for itself and for the increase in the number of countries. But no, the country slipped into a repeat of the infernal record.
So mah to offend a mortal, offend, insult the Stalinist prisons, which passed through the memory of those who remained there forever like camp dust
But it’s been almost a year now, and nothing surprises you. For almost a year now, a military-patriotic escort has been assigned to the description, to the theater, to culture in general, and it is becoming more and more ferocious from day to day.
The authors of performances, plays, songs, actors and comedians, and all creative people, without exception, their unique free point of view on the Russian-Ukrainian apocalypse, who love their country, do not meet with plywood patriotism, are erased from posters, etched from the public field, trampled on their feet , issued by traitors.
Books of objectionable writers are sent in special covers, similar in essence to contract work, separately from readers, out of sight, to distant shelves, and some books are not allowed to be sold at all.
But the current ideology, no matter how hard it tries, is not the Stalinist granite of the communicative sciences, a cover, somehow woven from Uvarovism (“Orthodoxy. Self-maintenance. Nationality”), Pobedonostsev, Zhdanov, the “Memory” society and the current Dugins. Here there is a struggle for the entire sacred canvas of Russian history from beginning to end, but it will close, it is torn and will be torn until the very end of the end of the trouble. That is why, in this holey veil, a critic of criticism of Solzhenitsyn, from the same Duma, also appears, with an appeal not to rush into the exceptional Solzhenitsyn from the school curriculum, the question, they say, was not and is not worth it, a professional approach is needed. In general, it is not necessary to carry with a sword naked for the spring, an embraced catfish. Who will win this fight: a checker or an eye on the president – look. But there is an ideological hole.
To mend it, we need faithful helpers, Soviet writer friends who have never let down the party and the government. The Supreme Commander-in-Chief demands the return to the literary system of Fadeev’s “Young Guard”, obsequiously rewritten at one time by Stalin’s order. The same Fadeev who approved death and indefinite sentences for the dead and who shot himself when the thaw brought the survivors home. I am interested in the novel by Nikolai Ostrovsky “How the Steel Was Tempered”, which is also now designated as a school reference book: this novel was ugly mutilated by Soviet censorship (it is easy to find out about this), and its first edition and – varnished – are completely different books. In short, long live varnished Soviet literature!
Culture howls under escort. Everything will pass – and this waste, but we all, although in very different ways, will walk burned for a long time. Culture is freed one way or another from the escort, at least for a while, but those who want to be escorts will not get away from us anywhere.
Victor Erofeev, writer, literary critic, TV presenter, author of the books “Russian Beauty”, “Good Stalin”, “Akimuds” of many and others, holder of the French Order of the Legion of Honor.
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