The Devils Victory. The origin of the Russian madness and how to deal with it?Photo: YouTube

Just taking a picture in all its integrity, we can destroy true evil myth new Russian fascism

 

09.05.18 14162200

Russia inevitably and relentlessly as death approached the sacred date of may 9. Again we see herds of people in yellow and black ribbons, replica Soviet military uniform of 1943, the slogans “we are proud of-can you repeat that”, sometimes accompanied by obscene pictures of sexual allusions.

And the question arises: where did all this madness went there… and how to fight it?

First of all, it should be noted that the basis of the date 9 may is a lie. The lie of Unconditional Surrender of Germany, adopted as if Zhukov from Keitel on the evening of 8 may 1945 in the Berlin suburb of Karlhorst.

In fact, as you know, the German capitulation was signed there and then. This act, drawn up in the English language of American officers from the strategy Department of the headquarters of General Eisenhower, was signed by General Jodl at night on may 7 at the Eisenhower headquarters in Reims, and adopted by chief of staff Colonel W. Addelem Smith and the Soviet representative to the allied headquarters of General Susloparov.

The document came into force at 23:01 on may 8th. Pompous and meaningless ceremony in Karlshorst with the new signing the same document (in addition translated into Russian and French), 15 minutes before its entry into force, were nothing more than Soviet propaganda play, arranged at the whim of Stalin.

He demanded that the actual signing of the surrender was kept secret until the show in Karlshorst, and that is why Churchill and Roosevelt did not announce the news is the seventh day and may 7 is celebrated as the Victory Day. However, in the afternoon of the 8th, both officially announced the signing of the surrender of Germany, describing the future signing in Karlshorst as a “ratification.” Then the world began the celebration of the great Victory. Around the world, except the Soviet Union. Radio Moscow was silent, only from time to time, announcing “an important government message.” And only 2 hours 10 minutes the night of may 9, Levitan finally read the text of the signed surrender.

Thus, if may 8 is the day celebrated the allies ‘ victory over Nazism in the Second World War, may 9 – this Victory Day of the Soviet People under the leadership of I. V. Stalin in the great Patriotic War – that is, the date itself is quite mythical. The myth is based on mass memory and a powerful shared experience. Indeed, for a generation, passed through this hell, the events between September 1, 1939 and June 22, 1941 as it did not exist, they remained abstract news lines.

Exactly the same for them remained somewhere “behind the scenes” and El Alamein, and the fighting in Italy and Normandy landings, not to mention the events in the Pacific. Their war, deeply peribahasa their own lives, began with Molotov’s speech on 22 June and ended with the speech of Levitan on may 9. So naturally, for our grandfathers 9 may was to a certain extent a personal holiday that they celebrated when he was not listed in the official calendar.

Another thing – the current middle generation. For our generation, the Second World war in any form is not part of personal experience, but pompous Soviet cult of the “great Patriotic war” – is. But our generation, at least, a lot of contact with people who survived the war and remembers how they, jingling medals, were going to meet fellow soldiers. As for the youth, then it seems this war – anything from the games Tanchiki. The current twenty-year spaced from it approximately the same as the generation of Lenin and Churchill – the Napoleonic wars. For them it’s ancient history.

The Soviet-Russian government privatized once the real public memory of the war and victory, but it happened immediately. Stalin, as we know, was afraid of the holiday, reminding recapture men about the years when they ceased to be cogs and felt like the creators of not only their own destiny but also the destiny of their country and the world. Brezhnev took it on Board as soon as he gave the old Soviet myth – the myth of the Great October revolution and the People who Committed the World’s First Socialist Revolution.

The socialist myth finally died after 1968 (when he defeated the idea of “socialism with a human face”), and that thereafter it begins active enforcement of the myth of the “great Patriotic War” and “Victory”. Instead of “October” were now recognized by the Central axis of all the millennia of human history. It is now legitimized the Soviet regime: all the previous, including “October”, was seen as necessary to defeat Hitler, all of the following – how will the results of this victory. Why the Soviet people-the winner is worse off the peoples of the West?- because he suffered a terrible war, and they shamefully surrendered, like the French, or holed up on Islands, like the British, or profited from the war as Americans. And because the whole world owes the Soviet People abiding gratitude.

It was a very important point. On it was based the idea of the election of the Soviet man, he gave meaning to all of its colorless and miserable existence. A Soviet man like every man, educated in a totalitarian society, were in need of a sense of entitlement.

Then there was Perestroika, the collapse of the old mythology, and the attempt of the liberal intelligentsia to replace it with “truth”, which, however, in turn, soon developed into the “black” cantref in which “heroic forefathers” was presented as the crowds of slaves, driven to the position of the enemy “machine guns detachments”. This is absolutely destroying the self-esteem of the former Soviet person. The mass consciousness has resisted. Mass consciousness clung to the familiar myths. And finally Putin came and everything returned to normal. The myth of the “great Patriotic War” and “Victory” again shone in all its splendor.

But before we look from this perspective at the current pobedobesie, let’s ask: what is a myth? Any cultural anthropologist will tell you that a myth is a statement that the bearer of the myth are considered the Highest Truth. Myth, in contrast to the historical events that forever repeats itself: he is always with you (closest example: for the Christian, Christ crucified is constantly and continuously rises). This eternal return of the myth, the mythological cycle time is maintained through Ritual.

Post-Soviet Russians, scared alien and hostile reality, he was hungry myth. The myth gives sense of entitlement, a sense of grandeur, a sense of belonging to something big and transpersonal

In short, myth gives meaning to life. And no wonder that the myth of the great Victory was a perfect fit. The government is only to support and inflate the myth with the help of exalted propaganda and rituals – and the people themselves, gladly and willingly turn themselves into the herd. It is so simply and joyfully – “do” (a verb usually used sexually) all over Europe, all the enemies and villains and save the world – without making the slightest effort, without sacrificing a penny, not a drop of blood from finger and just pulled the, child and the dog ribbon is known for the color and special cut shirt khaki. Pulled – you’re a Winner.

It has long been observed that “pobedobesie” takes on a completely fascist in nature gregarious sublimation of aggression. Ironically, the cult of the “great Victory over fascism” becomes the Central point of the ideology of Russian fascism, with its inevitable companions: chauvinism, militarism and imperialism. Fascism, of course, not an exact copy of the original designs of the past century, it is postmodernistskaya, Pelevin, and all of Putin’s reality – however, the example of “St. George ribbon” has shown that it is able to turn seemingly innocuous symbol on the theme “remember and be proud” – a symbol of a real war, real blood and real gangster dictatorship.

How does this resist? I’m sure the sense is to oppose the mad myth contref about “machine guns detachments” and the alternative heroic “grandfathers-voevala” German uniforms “of Galicia” or ROA. The myth of the “great Victory” as it is insane in its current manifestations, contains a grain of truth. It contains the recollection of a very real and fair sense of the survivors of the war generation that the whole of this hell, which they carried away on their shoulders was not easy so don’t bloody nonsense, he saved them and all mankind from a fate far more grim and terrible than actually occurred after may 1945 Yalta’s not a pretty world. That is the ritual phrase of “great national achievement” had some basis in reality.

To destroy the myth of the “great Victory” is possible only by replacing it with the real history of World war II, where there was a place for everything – and a joint parade in Brest, and senseless slaughter, and tragedy “chernosvitov”, and heinous crimes in Germany – but also the heroism, and the rush of people going to volunteer in defense of their rodinyi, by and large, for the salvation of mankind. Just taking a picture in all its integrity, we can destroy true evil myth new Russian fascism.