Table about real communists – Picture of the day – Kommersant

The faction of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation in the Moscow City Duma on Friday held a round table dedicated to the 105th anniversary of the revolution committed by the Bolsheviks on October 25, 1917. Party members and their supporters believe that the current government, although it calls the collapse of the USSR a mistake, in fact deliberately belittles the role of the Communist Party in the history of Russia. Even Vladimir Putin got it for blaming Vladimir Lenin for the collapse of the Soviet state. To remedy the situation, the Communists intend to “reach out” to the youth through educational activities. However, two representatives of the younger generation, who criticized the round table, were offered to organize their own and threatened to “slap on the ears.”

According to the Moscow communists, the celebration of the 105th anniversary of the revolution this year, despite the ongoing events, was very “modest”. Historians and members of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation participating in the round table accused the current government of this, which deliberately “hushes up” the achievements of the communists. Representatives of the authorities “from the very top to the very bottom” constantly declare the inadmissibility of “rewriting history”, but they themselves “lie”, interpreting individual events, said the historian, co-host of the event Yevgeny Spitsyn. In his opinion, the communists themselves will have to preserve the “true history”, and for this they should use important historical dates for themselves – for example, the upcoming 100th anniversary of the USSR.

“In theory, the president was supposed to issue a decree on these celebrations and the whole year was supposed to pass under this sign. But – silence, – Mr. Spitsyn was inflamed. – Some kind of schizophrenia: we seem to be fighting for the restoration of the unity of the Soviet territory and at the same time we are talking about some kind of “bombs” that were planted by Lenin, Stalin and further down the list.

Recall that in 2016, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Vladimir Lenin was guilty of the collapse of the USSR, having planted an “atomic bomb” under the building called Russia in his ideological works.

The political scientist Vitaly Tretyakov also considered the scale of the celebration of the coup d’état carried out by the Bolsheviks to be insufficient, although “it is difficult to find a more grandiose event in the history of the 20th century.” The authorities, including through educational programs, “indistinctly state” and “hush up” the events of that time, which is “comparable to the fact that the French hushed up the French Revolution,” the political scientist developed the idea. He added that the Bolsheviks, who came out of the “underground and libraries”, despite the lack of experience in public administration, “badly, with” mines “, but collected” the country in five years, while modern managers “cannot take power in the city, where some bandit is sitting, ”and the ongoing special operation in Ukraine is dragging on.

Mr. Tretyakov said that the current government should learn from Vladimir Lenin, and proposed the creation of a scientific institute for the study of the USSR. “Developed socialism is called unsuccessful, but it was a grandiose experiment, and it needs to be studied. And who said that it will not be repeated at a new stage more successfully? the political scientist dreamed.

The participants of the round table did not skimp on memories of the achievements of the USSR: the constant improvement of the quality of life, social guarantees and, of course, the “best in the world” education. Moscow City Duma deputy Lyubov Nikitina recalled that the Soviet government carried out not only “total education of all illiterate citizens” and “the fight against homelessness”, but also “training in the system of camps for convicts.” “Even on Solovki (a camp for political and criminal criminals that operated until 1933.— “b”) were evening schools. Not only children and teenagers were trained, but also adult convicts. I went there, saw the classrooms. It is debatable, of course, but nevertheless,” the deputy said, without specifying whether the very existence of such a system of forced labor camps or the training of convicts causes controversy.

The current youth, according to the communists, knows almost nothing about the feat of the Bolsheviks because of the government’s approach to “filtering information”. The participants in the discussion recalled mistakes in the Unified State Examination, little mention of Soviet holidays on television, invitations to the programs of “anti-Soviet scientists”, anti-Covid bans on rallies, and even the cartoon “Chipollino”, which is no longer shown on TV. In order to reach out to the young, the participants of the round table recorded a number of initiatives in its resolution: the opening of a museum of the USSR, the creation of museums of military glory in schools, “linked to current events”, the construction of the Tatlin Tower (designed in 1919, but not implemented project of a 400-meter monument III International).

One of the speakers even offered to give lectures on the October Revolution to Moscow schoolchildren.

“No one will let you in there!” someone shouted angrily.

At the end of the event, the young people themselves also got the floor: two of their representatives, who came to the round table, drew attention to errors in the press release of the event, and to the fact that “theory” was discussed more than practical tasks. Mr. Spitsyn immediately replied that since the guests did not like the discussion, they could organize their own, and attributed the errors to the “technical performer.” “Yes, they are over the ears for this (speech.— “b”) slap,” came from the audience from one of the supporters of the best practices of Soviet education.

Kira Heifetz