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September 2, 2018 in Togliatti on the territory of the church in honor of St. Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', at st. Liza Chaikina, 30, a monument to the commander of the Stavropol Cossack Kalmyk regiment Diomidy will be unveiled.
The event starts at 12.00.
Organizers: GKU SO "House of Friendship of Peoples", Tolyatti City Cossack Society, RO MOO "Union of Orthodox Women".
Monuments to the defenders of the Fatherland are an important symbol of military glory and help preserve the memory of significant historical events, forming a sense of patriotism and a willingness to honestly carry out military duty. Monument to Lieutenant Colonel Diomidiy P.I. serves the cause of perpetuating the memory of the military glory of the Stavropol Cossack Kalmyk regiment and the feat of its commander. For according to the great Russian scientist Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov, a people that does not know its past has no future.

For reference:
On the hot day of August 15, 1812, when residents of the Volga village of Perevoloki, young and old, were doing corvée on the master's threshing floors, a church bell suddenly rang. Hearing the alarm bell, people stopped working and ran to the square. Here they were stunned by the news of the outbreak of war with the French. So, with a delay of two months, this news reached a provincial Russian district. Bells rang that day in Samara, Usolye, Shigony, Stavropol and other places. The terrible news of the war spread throughout the Volga region on courier troikas, mail and yam carts, with messengers on horseback. Meetings were held everywhere, provisions, fodder and horses were allocated to form an army...
At the end of 1811, the command of the Stavropol Kalmyk regiment was taken by the 32-year-old captain of the Orenburg garrison regiment Pavel Ivanovich Diomidy. A Greek by birth, a soldier of the Suvorov school, Pavel Ivanovich took part in many major battles, including the famous assault on Izmail. P.I. Diomidium was educated person who know European languages. “Trained in Russian literacy and other languages, geography, arithmetic, fortification, situations and history, he knows how to draw,” this is how his contemporaries spoke of him. Under his command, the regiment gained real military glory.
A glorious page in the history of the Stavropol Kalmyk regiment was its participation in the battle near the town of Mir on June 27-28, 1812. This battle was between the Cossack corps of M.I. Platov and the vanguard of the French corps of Marshal Davout was the first serious clash of Russian cavalry with Napoleonic troops. For participation in this battle and near Romanovo (July 2) and the courage and bravery shown at the same time, the regimental commander, Captain P.I. Diomidy was promoted to the rank of major.
On October 31, the regiment took part in the battle of Smolensk. In early December, after the defeat of the Napoleonic army near Berezino, the Stavropol residents pursued the enemy from Smorgon to Vilno in the vanguard of the army of Pyotr Khristoforovich Wittgeinstein. They managed to capture 7 chief officers and 220 people of lower ranks. For this feat, the regiment commander, Major P.I. Diomidy and the cornet Dandarov were awarded the Order of St. Vladimir IV degree.
(In preparation, materials from the site were used

A wise aphorism says: “A people that does not remember its past has no future.” How much do we know about our past? Do we still have the memory of what we lived 30-50 years ago? It was not so long ago, the time of our parents’ youth. The answer to this question will be the number of books, exhibitions, museums dedicated to that time that are known to us. Memorial museums are particularly striking exponents of culture. It’s like islands of the past, where you are transported back in time. One of these places that gives a deep understanding of that period, the state memorial museum in memory of Bulat Okudzhava. After all, history and culture are not only dates and events, they are, first of all, people who are the embodiment of the original traditions of their time, and who bring them to us through songs, books, and films. Okudzhava Museum, it's not big wooden house in Peredelkino. But when you get into it, you begin to breathe that era. You are surrounded by objects of that time, the poet’s clothes, pieces of furniture, a typewriter, a collection of bells collected by Bulat Shalvovich. The other part is dedicated to the bard's environment and friends. Looking from the photographs: Fazil Iskander, Bella Akhmadulina, Joseph Brodsky, who lived and worked 50 years ago. However, the museum is not a monument set in stone. It has an active scientific activity, conferences are held, and in the summer there are so-called “Bulatov Saturdays”, where writers and songwriters gather.

Unfortunately, the last two years, despite the popularity and cultural value, the museum is struggling to survive. The funds transferred from the budget are only enough for salaries; there is no money for household needs or maintaining the exhibition. Meanwhile, rents have been increased tenfold. This situation is not limited to this historic house. Funding for many cultural monuments that do not generate income has been reduced; the situation is further complicated by their location on very expensive land plots that people far from the culture would like to use for financial gain. Does money really do more for us than memories of the past? What money gives is the satisfaction of immediate needs, but history gives us self-awareness. It is a shame that such little importance is given to this. It takes 25 years for a generation to change. 21 years have passed since the collapse of the Soviet Union. With this attitude, very soon the younger generation will forget who we are. Will it begin to respect and care for the elderly after this? Who will we be in a society in which everyone is only interested in their momentary petty material values?

First of all, the state leadership, the government, the Ministry of Culture must realize this. Our historical and cultural heritage gives us an idea of who we are, what we strive for, what we have achieved, and how we differ from others. Without knowledge and respect for the history of the country and cultural traditions, it is impossible to unite society around a single goal, and without this we are nothing and are going nowhere.

This is especially striking when discussing the legendary and difficult era of the reign of Tsar Ivan the Terrible, and clear example This is given in the article on the website “URA.RU” (http://ura.ru/content/chel/05-06-2013/news/1052158993.html):

Examples of children's statements:

“Ivan the Terrible stood at the lowest stage of human development.”
“Ivan the Terrible had authority among the guardsmen. The others treated him like he was crazy."
“The guardsmen of Ivan the Terrible were like anarchists in the service of the state.”
“Ivan the Terrible did not allow the people to lead a deviant lifestyle.”
"Under Ivan the Terrible on Bolotnaya Square they cut off heads, not shouted at whatever happened.”
"Stalin could have won Livonian War. Ivan the Terrible was not Stalin after all.”
“Ivan the Terrible loved spirituality, which did not stop him from roasting Novgorodians on fire pits.”
“Under Ivan the Terrible, even a philosophical steamship would not have saved anyone.”
“Since childhood, Ivan IV did not like people, which is why mass executions occurred.”
“The best minds were chopped off by the executioner Skuratov.”
“Modern police officers are offended when they are called guardsmen. My dad, a policeman, hits me in the face like that.”
“Whoever didn’t like to work joined the guardsmen.”
“The guardsmen helped Ivan the Terrible strengthen the ruble.”
“The guardsmen didn’t go to Siberia, they sent the Cossacks there.”
“We owe the annexation of Siberia to the oprichniks.”
“After everything, Ivan the Terrible tried to force the guardsmen to engage agriculture. But nothing worked out. They didn't want to work. I had to kill them too.”
“Ivan the Terrible is the creator of totalitarianism.”
“Ivan the Terrible banned all newspapers.”
“The tsar put an end to the boyar lawlessness; whoever he didn’t kill, he kicked out.”
“Ivan the Terrible was an enemy of stability. His enemy is Kurbsky, however, too.”
“Ivan the Terrible divided the country into a zone of terror and a zone of anarchy.”
“Under Ivan the Terrible, the boyars were nervous, they were really scared.”
“Under Grozny, large masses of the boyar population died.”
“The obedience of the people increased under Ivan IV, but who would benefit from this if they dream of bloody boys every night.”
“Under Ivan the Terrible, the military could earn good money.”

Dear parents!

The great Russian scientist Mikhail Lomonosov, in his scientific work on the history of the Slavs, said: “A people that does not know its past has no future”*. Indeed, we cannot have a normal future if we consider our Russian history only as a succession of bloody and cruel events, and consider most of our rulers from the past exclusively “executioners and stranglers of freedom.”

Of course, in many ways the “mess” in the heads of our children is due to the decline in the quality of teaching national history in schools, but there is another important factor - the passivity of parents in this most important area of knowledge. It is necessary and important for parents themselves to study the history of their Motherland, then bringing it to their children in an accessible and popular form.

On our website in the section “For guys about the history of Russia” we regularly publish various materials, there is also about Ivan the Terrible, but in order for Ivan’s reign not to be limited in your mind only to the introduction of the oprichnina and repressions against the boyars, we offer for information short list his innovations.

So, during the reign of Ivan the Terrible, the following innovations and events took place in Rus':

jury trial introduced;
free appeared elementary education(parochial schools);
medical quarantine has been introduced at the borders;
local elected self-government appeared instead of governors;
a regular army was created for the first time (the first in the world military uniform appeared among the archers);
Tatar raids from Crimea were stopped (after his death, the raids acquired their previous proportions - tens and hundreds of thousands of people were taken into slavery every year);
the piracy of “thieves’ Cossacks” on the middle and lower Volga was stopped;
equality was established between all segments of the population (serfdom did not exist in Rus' at that time: the peasants were obliged to sit on the land until they paid for its rent, and their children were considered free from birth);
Slave labor is prohibited (the code of law of Ivan the Terrible);
a state monopoly on the fur trade was introduced;
the country's territory has been increased 30 times (the Baltic states, Kazan, Astrakhan, Siberia, Wild Field, Don);
emigration of the population from Europe exceeded 30 thousand families (those who settled along the Zasechnaya Line were paid an allowance of 5 rubles per family);
the increase in the well-being of the population (and taxes paid) during the reign amounted to several thousand percent;
during the entire reign (a quarter of a century) there was not a single person executed without trial, total number“repressed” amounted to from 3 to 4 thousand people (!!!).

Regarding repressions and human casualties, the same 16th century in Western Europe:

the Inquisition condemned to death and executed 25 thousand inhabitants of the Netherlands;
in Germany under Charles V, about 100 thousand people were executed;
in England under Henry VIII, 72 thousand people were hanged over 14 years:
in England from 1558 to 1603 under Elizabeth, 89 thousand people were executed;
St. Bartholomew's Night in France claimed the lives of 20 thousand Protestant Huguenots (for this the Pope awarded those who distinguished themselves with a special medal).

* Note on quotation

As for the origin of this quote, the specific documents signed by M.V. Lomonosov, containing exactly this phrase, unfortunately, has not survived. And the background here is as follows. In 1749-1750, Lomonosov sharply opposed the then new version of Russian history, created by academicians G. Miller and I. Bayer. He publicly criticized Miller’s dissertation “On the Origin of the Russian Name and People,” and gave a scathing characterization of Bayer’s works on Russian history.

From that time on, studying issues of Russian history became as necessary for Lomonosov as studying natural sciences. In correspondence with I.I. Shuvalov (curator of Moscow University) he mentioned his works “Description of impostors and Streltsy riots”, “On the state of Russia during the reign of the sovereign Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich”, “Abridged description of the affairs of the sovereign”, “Notes on the works of the monarch”, but his most famous work became “Ancient Russian history from the beginning” Russian people before the death of Grand Duke Yaroslav the First or before 1054, composed by Mikhail Lomonosov, state councilor, professor of chemistry and member of the St. Petersburg Imperial and Royal Swedish Academies of Sciences" (full title).

However, neither the mentioned works, nor other numerous documents that Lomonosov intended to publish in the form of notes, nor preparatory materials, nor manuscripts of the 2nd and 3rd parts of volume I of “Ancient Russian history“It didn’t reach us. They were confiscated after the death of the great scientist in 1765 and disappeared without a trace. Only the 1st part of the first volume was published in 1772.

In Soviet times, the 1st part of the first volume of “Ancient Russian History” was published in the Complete Works of M.V. Lomonosov (vol. 6, Publishing House of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Leningrad, 1952).

That is why the famous statement of M.V. Lomonosov began to diverge in Russian society in folklore version, reaching the present day.

P.S. Since this article aroused great interest among readers, more than 3 thousand site visitors read it in 2014 alone, the editors considered it possible to add additional information to it interesting material concerning two legendary historical figures Russia – Ivan the Terrible and Joseph Stalin, published on January 3 on the website of the AfterShock information center by the author “Solidarny” (original source http://aftershock.su/?q=node/278741).

Stalin about Grozny

On AS (AfterShock) I found only a couple of offers from here. I believe that these statements by J.V. Stalin about Tsar Ivan IV should be on the resource - they have not lost a bit of their relevance.

Speech at a meeting of the Organizing Bureau of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks on the issue of the film “Big Life”

“Or another film - Eisenstein’s Ivan the Terrible, second series. I don’t know if anyone saw it, I looked - it’s a disgusting thing! The man is completely distracted from history. He portrayed the guardsmen as the last scoundrels, degenerates, something like the American Ku Klux Klan. Eisenstein did not understand that the oprichnina troops were progressive troops that Ivan the Terrible relied on to unite Russia into one centralized state, against the feudal princes who wanted to fragment and weaken him. Eisenstein has an old attitude towards the oprichnina. The attitude of old historians towards the oprichnina was grossly negative, because they regarded the repressions of Grozny as the repressions of Nicholas II, and were completely distracted from historical situation in which this happened.

In our time, there is a different view of the oprichnina. Russia, fragmented into feudal principalities, i.e. into several states, had to unite if she did not want to fall under the Tatar yoke a second time. This is clear to everyone and should have been clear to Eisenstein. Eisenstein cannot but know this, because there is corresponding literature, and he portrayed some kind of degenerates. Ivan the Terrible was a man with will, with character, but in Eisenstein he is some kind of weak-willed Hamlet. This is already formalism. What do we care about formalism - give us historical truth. Studying requires patience, and some directors don't have the patience, so they put everything together and present the film: here you go, "sip it," especially since it has Eisenstein's stamp on it. How can we teach people to treat their duties and the interests of the audience and the state conscientiously? After all, we want to educate young people on the truth, and not on distorting the truth.”

Recorded conversation with S.M. Eisenstein and N.K. Cherkasov about the film “Ivan the Terrible”

Stalin. Have you studied history?

Eisenstein. More or less…

Stalin. More or less?.. I am also a little familiar with history. Your depiction of the oprichnina is incorrect. Oprichnina is the royal army. Unlike the feudal army, which could at any moment fold its banners and leave the war, a regular army, a progressive army, was formed. Your guardsmen are shown as the Ku Klux Klan.

Eisenstein He said that they are wearing white caps, and we are wearing black ones.

Molotov. This does not make a fundamental difference.

Stalin. Your king turned out to be indecisive, similar to Hamlet. Everyone tells him what to do, and he doesn’t make decisions himself... Tsar Ivan was a great and wise ruler, and if you compare him with Louis XI (have you read about Louis XI, who prepared absolutism for Louis XIV?), then Ivan the Terrible towards Louis in Tenth Heaven. The wisdom of Ivan the Terrible was that he stood on a national point of view and did not allow foreigners into his country, protecting the country from the penetration of foreign influence. In the presentation of Ivan the Terrible in this direction, deviations and irregularities were made. Peter I is also a great sovereign, but he was too liberal towards foreigners, opened the gates too much and allowed foreign influence into the country, allowing the Germanization of Russia. Catherine allowed it even more. And further. Was the court of Alexander I a Russian court? Was the court of Nicholas I a Russian court? No. These were German courts.

A remarkable event of Ivan the Terrible was that he was the first to introduce a state monopoly foreign trade. Ivan the Terrible was the first to introduce it, Lenin was the second.

Zhdanov. Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible turned out to be a neurasthenic.

Molotov. In general, emphasis is placed on psychologism, on excessive emphasizing internal psychological contradictions and personal experiences.

Stalin. It is necessary to show historical figures in the correct style. So, for example, in the first episode it is not true that Ivan the Terrible kisses his wife for so long. In those days this was not allowed.

Zhdanov. The picture was made in a Byzantine slant, and this was not practiced there either.

Molotov. The second series is very cramped by vaults, basements, there is no fresh air, there is no width of Moscow, there is no showing of people. You can show conversations, you can show repressions, but not only that.

Stalin. Ivan the Terrible was very cruel. It is possible to show that he was cruel, but you need to show why it is necessary to be cruel. One of the mistakes of Ivan the Terrible was that he did not kill five large feudal families. If he had destroyed these five boyar families, then there would have been no Time of Troubles at all. And Ivan the Terrible executed someone and then repented and prayed for a long time. God prevented him in this matter... He had to be even more decisive.

In the last article there was a conversation about the highest - the ideological and methodological priority of conducting a modern hybrid war or the six main means of managing social systems. RIGHT (the root of this word will be deciphered in the next article) worldview equips people with a methodology of knowledge that allows especially inexperienced youth to quickly understand the world around them, and in the heap of information that falls upon us today, to distinguish Truth from lies, and Good from evil is an ability given to people from above according to their morality. The speed of action of these controls gradually increases from priority 1 to priority 6, but their effectiveness quickly decreases. The war moves into the sixth, fast-acting hot phase only with failures at higher priorities of its conduct, when they are no longer effective. But victories at this level are very unstable. “A rifle gives birth to power,” said the founder of the People’s Republic of China, Mao Zedong, but one cannot sit on bayonets – echoes folk proverb: to manage anything you need ideas that unite people, general agreement and will. We all need to learn to defend ourselves without weapons, using higher levels of confrontation, which, although slower, lead to more stable and long-lasting results. Their meaningful use allows you to influence the fate of society and actually control its life or death.

In this article, we turn to the second priority of management - historical-algorithmic or information of a chronological, chronicle nature, which allows us to see the direction of the flow of society and all social processes and phenomena - what stems from what.

Famous foreign writer and the essayist George Orwell said: “Who controls the past controls the future.” Therefore, it is no coincidence that the leader of our country cares about the purity of its history, which our enemies have been constantly trying to distort since the time of the great Russian scientist from the people’s hinterland, M. Lomonosov, who wrote: “A people who do not know their past have no future.” Therefore, he mercilessly exposed German academics in the Academy of Sciences who were rewriting our history in the manner prescribed by their foreign curators, distorting and cutting it off, thereby cutting off our people’s ancient nourishing roots.

And the history of the Russian people is estimated at at least seven and a half thousand years: after all, even when Peter I introduced the new Gregorian Christian calendar in 1700, the year 7208 was already running according to the old calendar. According to foreign researchers, the R1a1 genetic code, characteristic of the Russian people, was formed about 12 thousand years ago. Even our ancient writing, the alphabet of which had 49 letters and revealed the message of our ancestors to their descendants (Az Gods Lead the Verb Good Is Am - As God Knows the Verb Good That Is Life), on the basis of which Cyril and Methodius created Church Slavonic writing, had several thousand years of prehistory. The German Empress Catherine II herself wrote in her “Notes on Russian History”: “... the Slavs older than Nestor had a written language, but they were lost and have not yet been found and therefore have not reached us. The Slavs had letters long before the birth of Christ.” The Russian language underlies many Western languages, formed later, including the English language.

Which great importance has historical control priority, as shown by the events in our outskirts of Ukraine after the coup organized by Western intelligence services. Previously, over many decades, they distorted the history of part of our country, in fact, they attributed the history of the Rus-Russians, who are narrated in ancient source- “The Book of Veles”, the fictitious people - the “ancient Ukrainians”, bringing it to the point of absurdity, and put fictitious myths into the heads of immature youth. The result is that one part of the Russian people, living on the outskirts of Rus'-Russia, was forced to fight with another, and brought this part of our country to impoverishment, chaos and collapse.

Feel the difference in the perception of Russian youth: our country is only 25 years old, like the Russian Federation, or many millennia of the huge Rus'-Russia on the sixth part of the entire earth's land rich in natural and human resources! Is this why the West is so eager to humiliate us, to make the people Ivans who do not remember kinship, to cut off our deep roots? This talk about Russia's entry into Europe is tantamount to sewing a caftan to a button. After all, our Motherland is a special Russian Civilization, today still divided by artificial borders. Attempts to limit the history of our country even to a millennium - after the introduction of Christianity to Rus' - or to the time after the arrival of Rurik are untenable. After all, already in those days, Western travelers called it Gardarika - the country of cities.
In England, maps of the “Great Tartary”, which occupied almost all of Asia and the Middle East in the Middle Ages, have been preserved, and preserved mummies of people of the white race are found in the ancient burials of Altai. Recently excavated at Southern Urals fortified settlement of Arkai;m, belonging to the so-called. “Land of Cities” dates back to the Middle Bronze Age at the turn of the 3rd millennium BC. e. To this day, descendants of Russians live for many generations in the settlements of California. Recently, the head of state drew attention to the fact that when troops stood on the Ugra River in 1480, which put an end to the so-called “Tatar-Mongol” Horde yoke, there were Russian squads on both sides. Wasn't it just our internal squabbles? And the poet A. Blok wrote: “Yes, we are the Scythians! Yes, we are Asians...” Our ancient people, who had different times different names, moving from the east following the sun beyond the Ra River (Volga) to Scotland (Scotland) and beyond, left many topological Russian names in Europe.

Such a huge civilization was governed and interacted not by the laws of any government (after all, even in the 17th and 18th centuries, tsarist decrees went to the outskirts of Russia for many months and even years), but according to spiritual laws - on the basis of the unity of language and worldview of the people who sought to live according to the canons God's - Truth, Rule, Conscience and common sense.

But Western ideologists again and again slander the Russian princes, tsars and heads of our country in modern history.
For example, they made Ivan the Terrible, under whom there were an order of magnitude fewer casualties than in contemporary Europe, a bloody tyrant and poisoned him. But under him, serious reforms were carried out and many things appeared that did not exist then in the West: jury trials were introduced, free primary education (parochial schools), local elected self-government appeared instead of governors, a regular army was created for the first time, equality was established between all layers of the population and much more.

After the Time of Troubles that arose with the suppression of the royal Rurik dynasty, the proteges of England, the Romanovs, reigned in Russia, and it lost its sovereignty for a long time, and many court foreigners began to influence the governance of the country.

During the reign of Peter I's father Alexei, the so-called church reforms Patriarch Nikon. They did not come down to trifles in the practice of worship, but to the replacement of old handwritten church books - copies from Byzantine ones - with Greek ones, which by that time had already been corrected when they were reprinted in Europe in the sense needed by the West. That is why the protest of the so-called Old Believers, who were excommunicated from the faith of their ancestors and persecuted, was so great and tragic: the protests of the masses were brutally suppressed. But the Old Believers were people who sincerely believed in God, and not Pharisees who performed only the rituals of the cult, whom Jesus Christ denounced. Many large Russian merchants of pre-revolutionary times came from the Old Believers, and were distinguished by decency and honesty, and did not use tobacco or alcohol. They concluded their deals not on paper, but by shaking hands, and no one in his midst simply shook hands with the merchant who broke his word: his trading business was over. You can read about the Nizhny Novgorod Old Believers in Melnikov-Pechersky’s novel “In the Woods.”

Emperor Alexander III- a peacemaker, famous for his statement: “Russia has only two allies: its army and navy,” nevertheless made a strategic mistake in management by allowing the so-called decree “On Cook’s Children” to be signed in 1887, which denied access to people from the lower social classes even to secondary education. The result is a cessation of the influx of fresh minds from the people into the management of the country and a decline in the quality of management of the overweight elite. Three decades later, Russia found itself drawn into the 1st world war with access to the pro-Western bourgeois revolution of February 1917, civil war with the collapse of the empire and the death of the royal dynasty.

Only the Bolsheviks were able to stop the collapse of the country, who, in the person of their leader, declared during the anarchic chaos that began after February in response to the question of the Minister of the Provisional Government, whether anyone could name a party that would risk taking power into its own hands and accepting responsibility for everything that was happening in Russia: “There is such a party!” October Revolution 1917 was organizationally prepared by the Kabbalist Trotsky, who was led by the American adherent of this movement in Judaism, millionaire Schiff: that is why its funding came from abroad. Marxism is also a Western invention of the grandson of two rabbis, which essentially set the workers against the organizers of production, but hid the main thing - the exploitation and management of society through finance and loan interest.

JV Stalin was able to stop the burning of the country and the Russian people by the Trotskyists in the furnace of the world revolution only in 1938. On the eve of the inevitable war, the pro-Western fifth column was removed from power and rendered harmless. This, as well as the unprecedented transformations in industry, army, and education laid down in the 30s by the future Supreme Commander-in-Chief, allowed our people, although at the cost of enormous human and material losses, to win a difficult victory in the Second World War over the military and economic power of all of Europe, financed by world bankers. . Stalin's skillful diplomacy forced the leaders of the USA and England, who intended to support the victim of aggression in the war (so that their competitors would weaken each other as much as possible), to support not Nazi Germany, but the USSR. But when Stalin, after the Second World War, refused to enter into the dollar system of robbing the world, then from “Uncle Joe”, who saved the world from fascism, he instantly turned for the West into a bloody tyrant and aggressor almost worse than Hitler. A cold war was unleashed against the USSR, which ended in 1991 with a pro-American liberal coup and the dismemberment of our people and country, which then existed in the form Soviet Union.

At the end of his life, in his “Testament,” Stalin actually abandoned the dead-end Western Marxism, and wanted to transfer power from the party to the Soviets of Working People’s Deputies at the next congress. Until Khrushchev's neo-Trotskyist coup d'etat in 1953, when the party leadership set a course for joining the Western elite, the cooperative movement and different shapes property, prices for essential goods were reduced annually, wages grew rapidly, the education of the people and the career growth of personnel were encouraged in every possible way. The working day was planned to be gradually reduced to 6 and even 4 hours, so that workers would have time to raise their children and educate themselves. The military card distribution system was abolished earlier than in Western countries, and the national economy destroyed by the war was, contrary to the predictions of our enemies, restored to record levels. short time. Our successes in space exploration and nuclear energy were laid precisely at that time. Large employers and governments Western countries In order to maintain an attractive showcase of the “free” world, it was necessary to make social concessions to the population, losing in their income. Perhaps this is why Stalin is so hated by the Western elite of exploiters and their puppets in Russia, but is revered by the majority of our people, who are not intoxicated by liberal propaganda.

In general, we have something to be proud of in our long history, and based on this, strive for new heights in the future. Such information about our history must be disseminated, our children and grandchildren must be introduced to it, so that they grow up to be true patriots of their great Motherland, since school textbooks published with Western grants do not write about this, and the order of the head of state for a new unified history textbook so far this has not been accomplished. The goal of our enemies is clear - to prove that we received everything good from outside, and therefore should be subordinate to them - in the role of a raw materials appendage of the West.

But they won't succeed. In China, where at the Silk Road forum a new direction for the development of the world was outlined, V.V. Putin supported this economic project and put forward proposals expanding it. With his melodies on the piano before the meeting with the head of China, he made it clear to those who are trying to get to the bottom of the truth that informal leader national liberation movement in the country and in the world - with the people and showed where we will soon go (see the lyrics of the songs “Moscow Windows” and “Listen to Leningrad”). Unfortunately, while liberals are still strong in power, they have to indicate their intentions in domestic policy in this way.

This direction of movement is confirmed by signs of change during the Victory Day celebrations on May 9. After the break, the previously disbanded Dzerzhinsky Division returned to the parade, the Kantemirovsky Andropov Division marched, and the Artillerymen's Song ("Artillerymen, Stalin gave the order.") was performed by the choir of the Russian National Guard in the State Kremlin Palace (formerly the Palace of Congresses). During the broadcast of the May 9 parade from the city on the Neva, the television screensaver bore the inscription: Leningrad. The symbols of the Bolsheviks-Stalinists are returning...

Considering that our strategic ally China has already declared its new model Chinese-style globalization to replace the Western one that has reached a dead end - the “World Community of Common Destiny” (in fact, a new communism under a different name), which the 19th Congress held in November on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the 19th Revolution Communist Party China must only affirm that the direction of movement of global processes in our country is emerging. But this is already from next topic– about the ideological and informational method of warfare.

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It seems, as they say, “both laughter and tears”... But, having laughed off, those to whom I happened to show these interviews usually became noticeably sadder. And it’s true: if this is the case everywhere, there is nothing to laugh about: “The connection of times has been broken,” no more and no less than a Shakespearean theme.

Every year we accept new students to Sretensky Theological Seminary. More than half are yesterday's schoolchildren, the rest are young people with higher education. Their level humanitarian training just terrifying. Although many graduated from school with excellent grades. I hear the same thing from rectors and teachers of secular higher educational institutions.

To rectify the situation, we teach a course in Russian literature for three years as a bachelor, as they say, from scratch, and four years for history. To be fair, it should be said that in each course there are one or two well-prepared students, but there are only a few of them. An average Soviet graduate from some 1975-1980 is a luminary compared to the excellent students of the Unified State Exam 2016.

The interviews you saw were, at our request, conducted by two well-known television companies, “Red Square” and “Workshop,” whose correspondents interviewed university students and young people with higher education. Many young people refused, saying that they were not ready to answer questions of a humanitarian nature. What is presented is by no means a selection of the worst answers: this was our condition, the fulfillment of which was assured to us by the television company workers.

When preparing this video for publication, we initially wanted to hide the faces of young people. But then they decided to leave everything as it was. Firstly, the young people answering our questions are surprisingly lively, attractive, resourceful and smart (this is not irony). And secondly, in my opinion, it is not their fault that they are practically not even familiar with the literature, art and culture of Russia - the great heritage not only of our country, but of all humanity. But this property belongs primarily to these young people - by right of birth, by right native language. It is really not they who are to blame for the current situation, but those who did not pass on their rightful spiritual inheritance to them. These are none other than us - people of the middle and older generations. We are to blame.

Our parents and grandfathers, in the difficult, to put it mildly, conditions of the 20th century, were able to pass on to us a priceless treasure - the great Russian culture: literature and art, instilling taste and love for them. We, in turn, had to do the same for the next generations. But they failed to fulfill their duty.

Many reasons can be found for what happened - from the influence of the Internet, unprofessionalism and negligence of reformer officials to the machinations of liberals and the machinations of the West. It is possible to explain very convincingly why everything happened exactly this way. But this will not change the essence of the matter: our generation, quite obviously, has not fulfilled its duty towards those to whom we will hand Russia over, these guys from the screen.

Having dealt with our first traditional and sacramental question, “Who is to blame?”, Let’s move on to the second traditional question: “What to do?”

Last year the Society of Russian Literature was formed, it was headed by His Holiness Patriarch Kirill. One of the projects of the society will be the association "Pushkin Union", the task of which, so to speak, is the return of Russian classics and - more broadly - Russian culture, literature and art in the field of spiritual and intellectual life younger generation. Members of the Society of Russian Literature, Ministers of Culture and Education V. R. Medinsky and O. Yu. Vasilyeva, Rector of Moscow State University V. A. Sadovnichy, rectors of many other universities, heads of creative unions, cultural figures have already met twice to discuss and develop a program of action.

It was obvious to everyone: the worst thing that can be done in the current situation is to begin to force people to love the classics with all the power of the state, the Church and society. In fact, the real and most important thing is to convey to young people who have already left school at least the basics of our cultural heritage, which neither school nor family were able to introduce them to. Instill a taste for Russian literature and art. For current and future schoolchildren and students, through joint efforts, instead of the current simulacrum of humanitarian education, it is necessary to create an effective and holistic educational system with living teaching methods. This is what many departments and public associations are now doing, with the general coordination of the Society of Russian Literature. By the way, a similar and positive experience already exists: the activities of the Russian Historical Society.

What was great about the Soviet education system, if we leave aside its ideological component? After all, by the mid-1970s, communist ideology, even without any restructuring, remained outside the lessons of most thinking teachers.

The phenomenon of Soviet education was based on two extraordinary and brilliant achievements. The first is the Teacher. Second - a unique system schooling and education..

A good and even outstanding teacher was not an exception, but an excellent, but also familiar norm. I remember my regular Moscow school. All our teachers, from a human point of view, were extremely interesting personalities. From the point of view of their specialty, they are outstanding professionals.

It’s not for me to judge how things are now. But looking at the system of so-called practice-oriented education currently existing in pedagogical universities, one is at least amazed at the courage of its creators. I remember the Soviet five-year Teacher Education then students. Prepared for university by that school at that level, students were allowed to practice in the classroom, starting only from the penultimate year. Now undergraduate students (four years of study) are removed from lectures and sent to practical work to school from the first year. The teachers I have talked to on this topic are horrified by this system.

And now about the system. Soviet education was built and streamlined in such a way that even a teacher of average abilities interested students in a humanitarian subject, conveyed and made clear and relatable the values that ours carried. great literature. In addition, endless essays (let me remind you: school essays, canceled by our reformers, returned to schools only by direct order of the President just three years ago), surveys, control of RONO, subordinate to the Ministry of Education, excluded for the majority cultural amnesia and large-scale illiteracy as a phenomenon.

Today, schools are not under the Ministry of Education. Their superiors are regional and municipal authorities. This is the same as if local garrisons in the army were subordinate not to the Ministry of Defense, but to the governors.

Comparison educational sphere with the army is not accidental. I remember the significant words of the Leipzig geography professor Oskar Peschel, spoken by him after the victory of the Prussian army over the Austrians in 1866:

"Public education plays a decisive role in war. When the Prussians beat the Austrians, it was a victory of the Prussian teacher over the Austrian schoolteacher.".

These words hit the mark so much that their authorship is still attributed to the unshakable authority in state and national construction, Otto von Bismarck.

The current education system, its reforms and programs have been criticized so often that there is no point in taking up this matter again. At the first congress of the Society of Russian Literature, President V.V. Putin set very specific tasks, the main ones being the formation of a state language policy and a “golden” list of works required to be studied in schools.

“Alternative”, that is, essentially not mandatory for study, is, in addition to the works already cited, also, for example, “War and Peace”. At school, we didn’t read this novel in full either, missing the author’s historiosophical reflections, but most of Tolstoy’s masterpiece, accessible to a teenager, shaped the worldview of generations. “Crime and Punishment” is also from the list of variable, read, optional works for studying. Even "Mumu", in which we learned compassion and mercy, is from the same group. "Young people won't read this!" With energy worthy of better use, we are persuaded and forced to accept this "advanced" point of view.

But, firstly, young people, if they are truly introduced to the world of domestic and world literature and art, discover an amazing interest in them. And they only wonder why until now they have been excommunicated from all this treasure. And secondly, the alternative to turning to the best examples culture created by previous generations is completely obvious. A. S. Pushkin clearly reminds us of what a deliberate and snobbish disregard for the classics leads to: “Respect for the past is the feature that distinguishes education from savagery.”

Of course, let the professionals judge all this in the end. But we, the humble recipients of their students and pupils in society as a whole and in higher school in particular, we cannot help but ask questions.

In fact, the Society of Russian Literature was created as a platform for such discussions. Of course, no one is going to force young people to delve only into the classics and force them to completely forget about modern culture. This is how one can interpret public concern about the decline of liberal arts education only if one looks at the problem through the eyes of malevolent partiality. I am writing this because there are many who want to discredit the cause of the return of Russian classics.

Let me give you one last but illustrative example. Recently, Minister of Culture V.R. Medinsky gathered the most popular video bloggers to discuss exactly the issues we are talking about today. The audience of these bloggers is millions of subscribers, representatives of exactly the generation we are talking about. It is a well-known fact: many young people hardly read. They don't watch TV. Therefore, even if plans for new productions of classics in TV series are implemented, these young people simply will not see such films. With rare exceptions, they do not attend popular, let alone scientific, lectures. The cultural figures beloved by older generations are not convincing to them and are absolutely not interesting. The new generation spends a significant part of their lives online. Representatives of their culture, who have enormous influence on them, are completely unknown to us. Or they cause us approximately the same rejection that a current student with an earring in his nose experiences towards people of art of the last century who are significant to us. Sometimes it seems that we are becoming more and more aliens to each other.

The bloggers turned out to be very interesting interlocutors and thoughtful people. At a meeting with the minister, they made several important proposals, among which was the idea of attracting the attention of young people to the classics through those whom the young people themselves are ready to hear. We suggested thinking about whether it was possible modern performers, which attracts huge youth audiences, unite to hold special concerts on the best works Russian poetry and music. Such performers, like no one else in our situation, could help the common cause. This idea, it seemed to me, was unanimously supported by all our young interlocutors.

And if, they added, these singers also read excerpts from their favorite poetic and prose works classics and encourage listeners to seek and find the beauty of the best creations of Russian poets, then, without a doubt, they will be heard. Moreover, some of the most popular performers today give video lectures, for example, on issues of culture and art of the early twentieth century. All these were working moments of the discussion. Everyone understood that final decisions were still far away.

The bloggers, despite their youth, turned out to be professional and - most importantly - noble interlocutors: nothing from the preliminary discussion was “thrown” into the network by them. But a correspondent from one of the leading news agencies present at the meeting taught them a lesson in “professionalism”: having taken several phrases out of the context of the discussion and without explaining any details, she published sensational news in her agency that the Patriarchal Council for Culture had made a proposal to popularize the classics with with the help of swearer Shnur and rapper Timati. This was, of course, quite strange, but for me the most important thing in this story was the decency and professionalism of our young interlocutors. And there will still be plenty of people who want to discredit the planned work. Sometimes from the most unexpected areas. And you need to be prepared for this.

“What does the Church have to do with it?” - they will ask us a question from the church environment. (From the secular environment we expect tougher questions, but let’s leave them aside for now.) So, what is the point for the Church to participate in the solution of, of course, an important, but purely secular problem? The best way the Church's interest in liberal arts education expressed by one of the most famous elders 20th century - Venerable Silouan of Athos: "IN last times Educated people will find the way to salvation." . .

The bloggers turned out to be very interesting interlocutors and thoughtful people. They proposed to attract the attention of young people to the classics through those whom the youth themselves are ready to hear
I have no doubt that, despite all the complexity, the problem we raised today will be solved. The key to this is the common concern of parents and teachers, secular and church people, government officials and cultural figures. Losses cannot be avoided, but in general many real steps have been outlined by our ministries and creative and public communities.

But there is another factor that gives hope.

“Uncle, without looking at anyone, blew off the dust, tapped the lid of the guitar with his bony fingers, tuned it and adjusted himself in the chair. He took (with a somewhat theatrical gesture, placing the elbow of his left hand) the guitar above the neck and, winking at Anisya Fedorovna, began not to Barynya, but took one sonorous, clean chord and measuredly, calmly, but firmly began to finish at a very quiet pace famous song“Along the u-li-i-itsa pavement.” At once, in time with that sedate joy (the very same that Anisya Fedorovna’s whole being breathed), the motive of the song began to sing in the souls of Nikolai and Natasha. Anisya Fedorovna blushed and, covering herself with a handkerchief, laughing and left the room...

Lovely, lovely, uncle! more more! - Natasha screamed as soon as he finished. She jumped up from her seat, hugged her uncle and kissed him. - Nikolenka, Nikolenka! - she said, looking back at her brother and as if asking him: what is this?

...Natasha threw off the scarf that was draped over her, ran ahead of her uncle and, putting her hands on her hips, moved her shoulders and stood.

Where, how, when did this countess, raised by a French emigrant, suck into herself from the Russian air that she breathed, this spirit, where did she get these techniques that pas de châle should have long ago been supplanted? But these spirits and techniques were the very same, inimitable, unstudied, Russian ones that her uncle expected from her. As soon as she stood up and smiled solemnly, proudly and slyly and cheerfully, the first fear that gripped Nikolai and everyone present, the fear that she would do the wrong thing, passed, and they were already admiring her.

She did the same thing and did it so precisely, so completely accurately that Anisya Fedorovna, who immediately handed her the scarf she needed for her business, burst into tears through laughter, looking at this thin, graceful, so alien to her, well-bred countess in silk and velvet. , who knew how to understand everything that was in Anisya, and in Anisya’s father, and in his aunt, and in his mother, and in every Russian person.” - L. N. Tolstoy “War and Peace”.
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Survey
Dead Souls of Dostoevsky

Who and when did the Bolsheviks overthrow?

University graduate student:

Oh-ho-ho, I won't answer this question.

Journalist:

I don't know, I didn't study history well.

English teacher:

What works did Antosha Chekhonte write?

Who? I haven't heard that at all.

Student of the Faculty of Foreign Languages:

- "Mtsyri", it seems?

- "Dog's heart"?