EP. "THE BUNCH OF FREAKS, INDEED!" - HOW THE AMERICAN POP-CULTURE CONTRIBUTED TO THE DEGRADATION OF THE WORLD

 EP. Truly a "bunch of freaks"! This is what Vladimir Solovyov said about those who are trying to blacken the memory of the general, the Hero of Russia, the head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, who died saving another person. Not yet buried! How is this possible? And who are these freaks who have forgotten about everything human? These are our children. Or - their children...

And those who are hysterically shouting about the terrible threats of Russia, and themselves are quietly preparing all sorts of nasty things for it... Aren't they freaks?

And those who left their children at the mercy of the Internet, and then are surprised that they grow up stupid and soulless? And light up from the Eternal Flame (of the War Memorial). Or become victims of pedophiles...

Our parents were also busy - constantly  -they worked and studied at the same time, often graduating from two universities, like mine, ran to exhibitions, theaters and concerts, went to the movies and regularly gathered with friends.

And they were constantly reading - in the subway, on the bus, on the trolleybus, in queues and while waiting for a doctor's appointment. Everyone had libraries at home. We had a big one. My father's friends had a huge one. 

Even the simplest people had "libraries of world literature", they were given as a reward at work and for collecting waste paper. The propaganda of the "bloody Mordor" did its job well - everyone was striving for education and awareness and read constantly.

And if not they themselves, then their children definitely read. Their children are us, who studied at school in the 60s and 70s. (And even the 70s and 80s, judging by my friends and acquaintances. They have all read the main world literature, including Russian, since early childhood.) I started reading at the age of 6.

My parents had two educations and were constantly interested in everything that was happening. Both in the country and in the world. They read newspapers regularly and also subscribed to the best literary magazines.

I don't remember what my father was wearing at all. But my mother was a fashionista, she dressed very elegantly, ordered dresses for herself at a dressmaker and even wore a hat sometimes.

She was a simple economist (at the Hermitage, after graduating the Leningrad Institute for Finances and Economy), and then an art critic-editor (at an art publishing house, after the Academy of Arts). And she pulled herself up in an intelligent society that appreciated the aesthetics of appearance.

It was the early 60s. Only 15 years since the war ended. Life was already good. Not everyone had separate apartments yet, but everyone had housing. Everyone had a job and the opportunity to study. And the opportunity to get a job after graduating.

There were products in the stores (I'm talking about Leningrad) - and they were very tasty and very cheap. The taste of milk, sour cream, cheese, cottage cheese, eggs, bread and vegetables is still present in my memory. And the sweets were simply extraordinary - the nut tubes were unforgettable. There were not enough exotic fruits and only on the market. And there were always apples in every stores.

The clothes of children and non-fashionistas were simple and practical, as were their shoes. "Fashionistas" dressed at private dressmakers.

We grew up free and without fear. We have been traveling on public transport since the age of 6 without any escort. We lived under the supervision of the elderly neighbors, but independently enough. We also met couple of times some "strange adaults", but we ran away from them terrified, not waiting for anything even of curiosity.

Of course, if our parents had given us more time, we would probably have become a little different. But they came home by 8 pm, and until that time we had to cope on our own. Everyone knew how to cook pasta and fry minced meat, make scrambled eggs, mix cottage cheese with sour cream and sugar, or make an express cake - a piece of white bread with butter and sugar. And that was enough. 

In the evening, one of the parents cooked dinner and the child listened to the conversations of the parents at dinner. All the formation of the child took place at school and among friends on the street. Good teachers became friends and sometimes replaced parents. Parents intervened when there were problems - if there were any.

The main occupations of children were games in the yard, hobbies, sports and reading. At five or six o'clock it was necessary to be at home - alone. And there was nothing to do, except for lessons and reading books. There were no mass-produced television sets yet, they appeared somewhere in 1966. Small portable ones. My grandfather had a "KVN" with a small screen and a huge lens a long time ago. There we watched everything we needed - "New Year's Concerts", "KVN-shows", news, "International panoramas".

Already in the 1968 "dealers" of foreign records appeared at school, but no one had the money to buy them. It was possible to take it for a small amount of money and rewrite it on tape. Many had reel-to-reel tape recorders with film. 

But their whole real life was spent at school, where there were interest clubs, theater and literary studios, sports clubs etc. Many  studied in parallel at a music or sports school and in art circles at museums or Art schools. Everyone was fond of literature (of all times) and theater. At school they talked about serious things.

But too active or radical people were taken into account and under control, or stopped by general condemnation at some Pioneer-Komsomol meetings.

The parents of the parents had and retained their religious beliefs. My grandmother was very religious, regularly attended church and adhered to the "circle of life of the church calendar". 

And it conditionally defined thoughts and actions for every day, holidays, fasts and even a certain food at a certain period of the year. And it made an impression with its order and reasonableness, and often also with beauty. My grandparents did not particularly advertise this commitment, but they did not hide it either. And I was baptized secretly, too. In 1959.

When I came to school, there was still astronomy and logic in programme. Until the sixth-seventh grade, all children were absolutely loyal and patriotic. After the seventh grade other influences began to seep in. In 1970, the first discos began to appear. It seems to me that this was the beginning of the end. Youth culture suddenly found itself in a vacuum, and then under direct Western influence.

The children of the intelligentsia received a classical, I would even say aristocratic, upbringing (in the good sense of the word), studied literature, poetry, music, art, history. They studied at Universities and MGIMO. Then they made a patronaged career. They did not go anywhere according to the distribution after universities, but found jobs in Moscow and Leningrad, and bred "cultural" intelligentsia and "creative" bureaucracy.

Philological education was considered a necessary minimum for good brides for young men from "good" families. They formed their own closed world, consisting of the fragments of noble families and various intelligentsia (including the old revolutionary one). And it was an incredible mixture of the old way of life, the old world of European culture, Russian classics and a constant life in the shadows and, at the same time, in the Soviet Union - a people's socialistic state.

The children of the "new bourgeoisie" = party nomenclature - also got attached to good institutions, but they often studied sloppily, confused by the bohemian lifestyle.

And the bohemian lifestyle spread through theaters, communities of musicians and composers, artists, sculptors and architects, writers and poets and just the near-bohemian riffraff that started near any community.

And all this - above the people. The Soviet people worked hard, rebuilt the country after the war, and lived a simple, ordinary, normal life. Without war. And people were happy and grateful to their rulers for that.

"На заре советской власти интеллигенция постепенно выделялась из числа образованных и одаренных рабочих (гораздо реже – крестьян) и тех представителей этой категории досоветских времен, которые с готовностью приняли новую идеологию ("идейных" и карьеристов-приспособленцев еп.). Так постепенно образовывался элитный класс, который в подходящее время, выделил из своей среды тех, кого можно было назвать «советским дворянством» — партноменклатуру.

"At the dawn of the Soviet state, the intelligentsia gradually stood out from among the educated and gifted workers (much less often – peasants) and also  representatives of this category from the pre-Soviet times, who readily accepted the new ideology ("the followers" and the career climbers-adaptants ep.). In this way, an elite class was gradually formed, and at the right time it singled out from its midst  those who could be called the "Soviet nobility" - the party nomenclature.

Source: https://osssr.ru/life/klassovye-gruppy-v-sssr-rabochij-intelligentsiya

The Soviet intelligentsia, which partially replaced the real nobility, at least publicly, but remained under its indirect influence, multiplied and flooded all cultural institutions, all editorial offices of newspapers and magazines, all publishing houses and institutions. All administrations of enterprises and factories. Very few went to teach in schools or colleges.

They were more eager for an academic career at universities and institutes, including research institutes - Science Research institutes, of which a huge number were created in all branches of science simply (among other reasons, of course) for the employment of scientific and technical intelligentsia - a huge number of specialists with higher technical and humanitarian education, many of whom wore their pants off, doing nothing, in the workplace for an excellent salary of 120 rubles. 

Every such institution was headed by a party member responsible for development, maintaining of general guidelines, correction of errors and identification of shortcomings. But such leader was either a representative of the same crypto-noble or bourgeois-party intelligentsia, or a representative of the real - new Soviet intelligentsia (party nomenclature of workers and peasants, or just career climbers). 

These two groups were in contradiction and had disagreements. Moreover, the first group tried to preserve (and furnish accordingly) the old "noble" or bourgeois way of life, dreaming of the overthrow of the Soviet system and doing everything necessary for this, including constant criticism of the Soviet system and constant small or large-scale sabotage of real decisions and measures for the development of socialism in the country with an aspiration for communism, about which, however, no one had any clear idea. 

Everyone associated it, especially under Khrushchev, with material well-being, and from the West they broadcast on all possible channels that capitalism (the new modern humane one) works better in this than socialism. 

But communism is not about that at all. This would be a fundamentally new social formation. 

The movement towards communism ended in the reign of Khrushchev. The rhetorics - slogans and the leading role of the Communist Party in the life of the country remained.

Party leaders often joined the first group of elites and ceased to perform their controlling and directing function. And most importantly, they stopped correcting possible failures and deviations from the course developed by the government of the peoples state, they represented. And were responsible for. 

And these representatives of the real new Soviet elite were actively controlled and lured, pulled into their ranks by representatives of the first group of elites. In extreme cases, they were compromised, blackmailed, or ostracized and forced to leave the post, where they were a disturbing factor and did the real work. 

But we, their children, have seen and heard from their conversations how they were being disturbed. How all constructive processes and promising projects were slowed down or cancelled. In intellectual circles one could hear how boring ideological cliches (which they spread themselves) were ridiculed and real values were emasculated (which they also debunked and subjected to sarcastic ostracism). 

By the end of the 1970s, the entire creative intelligentsia was full only of themselves, dreaming of the possibility of traveling or working abroad, solving the problems of ensuring a "decent life" for THEMSELVES. To do this, it was necessary to take a certain position in the nomenclature. And for this it was necessary to adapt, match and pretend. And to fight with competitors - and there were already quite a lot of them.

"In pre-revolutionary Russia, according to the population census of 1897, the number of intellectuals employed in the country's economy was a little more than 700 thousand people. 

Of the entire composition of the intelligentsia of tsarist Russia, the number of education and health workers was about 270 thousand people, the rest of the intelligentsia were mainly officials, judicial and legal workers, army officers, landowners and factory owners.  

In the USSR, during the years of Soviet power, a new, truly popular intelligentsia was created. Only the number of employees of science, education, health care and cultural and educational institutions is currently 4.3 million people, and the entire number of Soviet intellectuals employed in the national economy and students is almost 15.5 million people. 

At the same time, the data on the number of Soviet intelligentsia does not include a large number of workers and other categories of workers who have secondary education and study on-the-job in specialized secondary and higher educational institutions.  

The number of intellectuals in the previously backward regions of the country (the Middle Asia) has increased even more significantly. For example, in the Uzbek Republic, where there was very little of its intelligentsia before the revolution, at the end of 1956, there were already 164 thousand specialists with higher and secondary special education at work. 

Before the revolution, Kazakhstan also had almost no intelligentsia of its own, and at the end of 1956, about 230 thousand people worked in the Kazakh Republic as specialists with higher and secondary special education.

 This is an incredible achievement. No one has ever grown an elite class in any country - intellectuals = intelligentsia - an educated layer of the population to such a size. And this was fraught with dangers. Mainly because of the heterogeneity of the elite. There were too many representatives of the crypto-nobility and the former bourgeoisie in it, pretending to be the people's Soviet intelligentsia.

"The intelligentsia was not called a stratum by chance, because if you call it a class, it was not long before the appearance of a" hostile "and even" parasitic " class. This could not be allowed in Soviet society in any way. Therefore, it was a" stratum "and"people's". Of course, the intelligentsia has always been in the minority, for example, by 1976 their share in Soviet society was only 14.2% of the total population, which amounted to more than 36 million people. 

Interestingly, over the previous 40 years, their number has increased 4 times."

 This is meant since 1946 - for the post-war period of reconstruction - 4 times! There were 9 million before the war, and it became 36 million of educated people after it - the number of intellectuals after the war increased by 27 million people in 40 years. It is really incredible!

The same number is the number of people killed during the war - both civilians and military - 27 million Soviet citizens perished during the war.

"One of the main reasons for this was that it was from this stratum, in the process of building a socialist society, that the monster of the party nomenclature, who were later called bureaucrats, grew up.

Source: https://osssr.ru/life/klassovye-gruppy-v-sssr-rabochij-intelligentsiya

 Expert opinion 

Konstantin Pavlovich Vetrov

Assistant and Adviser to the Minister of State Control of the USSR, Hero of Socialist Labor, historian, Doctor of Historical Sciences. Author of many scientific papers on the history of the Soviet Union.

"So, it would seem, from the most enlightened and developed stratum of society, something was formed that undermined its foundations and became one of the main reasons for its collapse." 

 Source: https://osssr.ru/life/klassovye-gruppy-v-sssr-rabochij-intelligentsiyaИсточник: https://osssr.ru/life/klassovye-gruppy-v-sssr-rabochij-intelligentsiya

 Analyzing the reasons for the collapse of the USSR, they talk about anything, but very rarely about the real role (betrayal) of the intelligentsia and the party nomenclature - the near government circles and ruling elite - in the processes of emasculating the ideology and creating moral decay of the Soviet people, as a result of which everything else became possible - the collapse/sabotage of the economy, the political crisis of the Communist Party, artificial food shortages (or of certain important products), discontent and unrest in the streets, Yeltsin's rise to power, and the deliberate dismantling of the Soviet Union with the abolition of the state system - the Socialism - there were no objective reasons for this, except for the desire of the crypto-noble and bourgeois elite for revenge and the restoration of the class and capitalist order, and the betrayal of the party nomenclature, which had gradually turned into the party bourgeoisie.

The ideological suffocation into which the intellectual minority in Russia turned one of the most progressive and constructive anti-bourgeois ideologies in the world, was supposed to drag the loyal part of the Soviet intelligentsia to the side of the bourgeois, or at least to turn it away from the official power. Which was achieved. 

Thinking and patriotic intellectuals who thought about and analyzed the situation in the Soviet Union for 1975-80 were ousted from public discourse and compromised and pressured by internal security agencies (which indicates their active participation in the bourgeois revanchist conspiracy).

The pressure, including economic pressure, when a journalist of the prestigious TASS news agency was forced to leave his job and get hired as a stoker or butcher to feed his family, was unbearable, which pushed those who had such an opportunity to leave the USSR and build a future life in the West. 

To the credit of Russian "foreigners", it must be said that many emigrants (who had Jewish or other roots, as well as half-breeds) were sincere patriots of Russia, real intellectuals who could solve or help solve its problems, but were ousted from public discussions and from important positions, and even from the country altogether. 

My husband was engaged in the revision of Marxism-Leninism and a comparative analysis of its theoretical calculations with the implemented practices of the late Soviet Union, indicating errors and methods of their correction. And this was exactly what was vital for the correction and development of Soviet socialism. But it was neutralized and then eliminated in one way or another.

The Soviet Union was destroyed along with its powerful economy and defamed ideology. The people are demoralized, stupefied and corrupted by the political incomprehensibility of what was happening and the mass pop culture of the West, the ideology of consumption and free sexual relations, which was tearing down the" roof " especially among young people and middle-aged people. The Soviet people, as the bearer of the concept of the owner of the state and the source of power, are discredited, humiliated, and then trampled by the "new capitalists" who came to power and the crime released to the surface. 

Those who participated in the planning and implementation of the plot against socialist Russia from the Western side were not prepared for the fact that the plot would succeed. They counted on the weakening and some chaoticization of the USSR, but not on its complete collapse. 

The Russian part of the conspirators did not think much about anything. They just wanted to destroy everything, especially and forever - communism and even the desire for it. Socialism was popular in the West, its elements were actively introduced into the state system of Western countries, since capitalism had already become unviable by this time, and this was well understood in the West. But in Russia, the "wild capitalism" of the period of primary accumulation (that is, robbery) was introduced and supported in every possible way, which was especially mean on the part of the American and European advisers of the "Soviet conspirators". 

The result exceeded all the expectations of the West - they got another 10 years of relatively prosperous existence due to the plundering of Russia and due to its simple absence in the international arena. 

Socialism as a whole doctrine was discredited all over the world, communism passed into the category of debunked utopias, "dying capitalism" rhetorically won all over the world. The communist movement was finished. The left Socialists have been thrown back a hundred years. 

The precedent of the USSR was used as the main argument in proving the non-viability of socialism and its unrealizability in practice. And the victory over the Soviet Union was attributed entirely to the United States and served as the foundation for their short-term seizure of power in the world.

At the same time, the dismantling of social structures in the West, built during the Cold War under the pressure of the example of the USSR, began. The traditional society, which has been transformed into a "welfare society" in some European countries, has also been destroyed by discrediting religious institutions, reducing the educational level of the population and the quality of education for peoples, debunking family values, introducing a gender agenda, the primacy of individualism and mercantilism in everything, carefully undermining even the authority of national sovereign states (EU). And even the introduction of the theory of "downshifting" - the neutralization of the ideology of mass consumption under the guise of environmental protection, reducing / solving environmental problems - warming/cooling, etc. 

All of that - unsuccessfully.

Then - the eternal American "wars without end" - the seizure of foreign resources and the destruction of peripheral states (including Ukraine and inciting discord with Russia) - and then - the directed million flows of angry migrants to Europe (the unmotivated unheard-of aggression of Arab and black migrants against the residents of the host countries) - the problem of the aging white population of the world, the problems of degeneration and degradation in Europe, and finally, the coronavirus pandemic (on the third attempt, including Ebola). 

As a result, there is a general obvious degradation of the population around the world and its managerial elites. Global financial and economic crises. The mass discontent of the population in Europe and in the United States and an aggravation of racial and class problems. 

The polarization of the population into the poor and the "rest" (about 1%). Restriction of civil liberties and curtailment of the rights of "democratic" citizens. The stupefaction and degradation of a part of the population - especially young people.

And against this background, the revival of Russia (5-6 place in the world economy after its total crush, the first places in solving military, diplomatic and political world problems, a wild surge of Russophobia - to the point of frenzy - as before the wars), the economic rise of China (and India) and their entry into the first places in the world economy and gradually in politics. 

The agony of the United States in Afghanistan and the shameful flight from there with the chaotic, hysterical shooting of the frightened by the explosion American soldiers at a crowd of their Afghan supporters and helpers who were loyal to them, who crowded around the walls of the airport and even clung to the landing gear of American planes and then fell from there at a huge height. This demonstration of American treatment of their allies shocked the world.

In Afghanistan, the Taliban came to power, against whom "heroic Americans" fought for 20 years. Americans, who did not build or grow anything in this country except endless fields of heroin poppy.

Squabbling over vaccines, vaccine segregation even in European countries. 

The confusion of young people, who do not understand, what to prepare for and how to behave in a situation of increasing chaos and tension between everyone. And the main issue - their future, they have no idea of it. No promises, no guarantees. 

Hence, in every country there are local "bunches of freaks" that outrage normal people. But normal people are politically passive. On the contrary, the "freaks" are very active. These thoughtless or evil freaks are ready to sell anything for money - and do sell everything -  their own mother, their own country and their own future.  

Normal people do not have real levers of power that can influence the quality and content of educational programs. Normal people cannot resist the "networks of freaks" who are steadily pursuing their destructive program. 

And actually, why can't they? Yes, they can. Just look - the officials are already afraid to open their mouths - they blurt out - they will be fired! The indignant reactions of people on the web force the bureaucratic authorities to stop the contemptuous statements of officials. 

The opposition to systemic Russophobes and freaks-non-Russian comedians - has already started - they will be expelled or banned from entering Russia for from 10 to 50 years. 

All those who work in Russia against Russia on money from abroad are marked as "foreign agent" (not all of them are bad, there are also real bona fide charitable organizations). Just so that people know who they are listening to and who they are getting help from. Just in case... 

It is incomprehensible that there is a liberal and condescending attitude towards the most terrible freaks - pedophiles, who rape, mutilate and kill children. 8 years instead of 20, stipulated by the law?! Or instead of the lifelong state maintenance of freaks who have committed a repeated or multiple crimes against children??! 

What about the partial lifting of the death penalty moratorium for this category? In order to reduce the number of freaks, eliminate the danger to other children and their parents, and as a general warning to this kind of sick criminals.  

Why do the pedophile lobbies win in parliaments and dumas? Maybe we should take a closer look at these lobbyists? As well as at all the freaks, trying to destroy Russia again and the whole world of normal humans? Maybe it is time to seriously think about our own values?

EP. 13.9.2021