Introduction
Exactly ten years ago, in August 1991, through difficult maneuvers and provocations, the top of the CPSU transferred power to a radical anti-Soviet group from the ranks of its own nomenclature, and it carried out the dirty and obviously criminal part of the work to destroy the USSR and the Soviet state.
But the state is not a person, it dies long and hard, and for ten years we have been observing its agony. Only during this agony, through the loss and gain of memory, the living generation begins to gradually realize what kind of state it was - the Soviet one. It begins to understand what kind of society this state was born on and what principles it held on to. Through the death blows at its vulnerable points, we begin to distinguish, still vaguely, its structure, to feel its nature. Assassins and their consultants help.
Geoffrey Sachs, a professional executioner-reformer of many national economies, joked about the Soviet economy: “We opened the patient’s chest, but it turned out that he had a different, unknown anatomy to us.” Lying killer. All of them, who opened the chest of our country, knew where to stick a knife - and he, with a bunch of Soviet scientists and emigrants of all waves, and “ours” grown from diapers grown in regional committees and academies. They knew our anatomy - knowledge of the hater and the killer.
The Soviet system arose in terrible birth pangs. The injuries remained in my memory - someone loved ones suffered, someone was shocked by the sight of other people's suffering. Therefore, there were enough of those who unselfishly and voluntarily helped Yeltsin with Chubais and George W. Bush and Jeffrey Sachs with word and deed. Some of them still rejoice today, but they cannot even understand that they "aimed at communism, but shot at Russia." Apparently, they were aiming at Russia, they spoke of communism out of decency. But let’s not take away the comforts of disinterested killers. Let them believe that they had to destroy Russia by expelling the devil of communism from it. We will talk about the whole.
This book is one of those works that began to appear in recent years, already with new knowledge about the Soviet period of our history. Disasters are a cruel experiment. In the technology of accident and catastrophe - a source of critical knowledge. What can we say about society and the country, the very birth and life of which are covered by many layers of sacred secrets and traditions. It is when these complex and fragile structures collapse under obvious blows that their true internal structure, innermost virtues and weak points are revealed to the eye. At this moment, you can understand a lot - both about the country and about yourself.
But this moment is very short. All of us at the time of the disaster are too shocked and too busy rescuing or looting. And the killers throw the wounds they inflicted with mud, cover up with lies, hide evidence. Yes, the wounds themselves are healed by ugly scars and scars - after all, society does not die, the wounded disabled person comes to life and somehow must again learn to speak, move, and get his own food. Therefore, the essence of things is revealed to us for a very short time, and we must make an effort and manage to gain valuable knowledge while the wounds are open. This knowledge is paid for by the sufferings of millions of people - can we give him an abyss, let him hide the shadow priests of the criminal international!
There is another point of view - on the contrary, stop discussing the Soviet system. You can’t go back there, so there’s nothing to waste time. They must, they say, turn the page of history, bury their dead and start life anew. On this basis, even a compromise with the new owners is possible - we erase their affairs from our collective memory, and they will become more kind to us.
In my opinion, these wishes are naive. This is not about returning to the “Soviet” Soviet system. This is impossible and no one needs to - to return to re-grow Gorbachev with Yeltsin? The fact is that we will move forward blindly, if we do not understand the old, moreover, not removed. And we still understood it to a very small extent. To understand the Soviet system is to win a whole campaign of war with those who sought and are striving to blind us. No wonder anti-Sovietism is one of the main ideological programs today. Perhaps the main one, and all over the world. The power of all colors has been thrown at her recharge in Russia. Precisely because, having understood the Soviet system, people very quickly groped for the contours of a new project - and will break through a tunnel to it. Then again write lost.
The current state of Russia is only an episode of our Time of Troubles, combined with the continuous hot-cold war of the "golden billion" for the nutritional juices of the Earth. In this war, the Soviet project was for the entire fascist world race, like a bone in the throat. Already in his first, early implementation in the form of the USSR, during difficult trials and mistakes, he showed that a life of society without division into the elect and the outcast is possible. Perhaps humanity, arranged as a family, a “symphony” of peoples - and not as world apartheid, a variant of neopagan slavery.
The defeat of the Soviet project on the territory of the USSR is a heavy blow to these hopes. Too strong was in man the instincts of a predator, too stable for centuries introduced the idea of domination, appropriation. For a short time they were pushed into the shade by the spiritual impulse of the peoples of Russia, and the irreconcilable predators were muzzled. Finding powerful allies in world politics and among artists willing to glorify and legitimize them, the predators broke free. The system, which was created on the principles of cooperation and solidarity, did not resist them.
But those who destroyed it, and those who indulged it, and those who failed to protect it, need to restore some kind of order of life. The will to live and the instinct of procreation gradually and imperceptibly begin to distract people from the television and forced to find a way out. At least, there is reason to hope so.
Even today, it is clear to all who have retained common sense that the chaos of the destruction of the USSR has not developed in Russia into a new order that ensures the survival of the country and the people. Those "strategic programs" that we periodically have to chew presidents and their Gref, is a product of purely ideological, whip stitched thread. It is not intended to be discussed, much less implemented. It's a cover for another year or two. While both believers and critics chew this bone, the dominant minority takes the country's heritage abroad, sends children and grandchildren to study there, equips comfort nests in Russia itself – in case the paralysis of the dying people drags on.
And those scenarios that are written seriously provide, as the best option, the transformation of Russia into the periphery of the world capitalist system - into a platform where “economic operators” will produce what the “global market” needs in the small centers of modern production. And these centers will be surrounded by a sea of impoverished people, thrown out of civilization and in the most primitive way earning meager subsistence. This population will no longer be either Russian, or Tatars, or Yakuts, it will be human dust that has lost its national culture. It will be left on earth in such a quantity that it will uninterruptedly give birth and grow up to 18 years old almost free labor for the "centers of civilization" and soldiers of internal troops.
For Russia, for a number of reasons, this scenario is not feasible, although we are encountering this new fascist utopia in a greatly weakened state. Therefore, no matter how the majority delays this moment, everyone will have to face the truth and admit that either the Russians will restore that life arrangement that is compatible with our nature, available resources and culture, or disappear as a people and as a country. They will disappear like the American Indians.
And in choosing and building this possible life arrangement for us, they will absolutely need the experience of the Soviet system. Because it also took shape under the pressure of insurmountable conditions and deadly threats, and many of the decisions plagued by generations of Soviet people are probably the only possible ones. Most likely, a number of the most important principles of living arrangements, under which the Russian people and their culture can only be preserved, will in their main features reproduce the principles of the Soviet system - no matter even under what ideological heading.
Therefore, very soon all of us who want their children and grandchildren to live in our culture, and in General live, will urgently need books in which the Soviet project and the Soviet system would be recreated – what we managed to accomplish from the entire project. Something useful said in his special work of the murderer of the Soviet system. But what a killer needs isn't enough for a Builder.
We will need books that put a barrier to the flow of cartoons, the production of which was established by the anti-Soviet ideological machine. Books written with love, but not excitedly. It is necessary to start a large project to create a history of " structures of Soviet everyday life." From it we will understand what is absolutely necessary for our lives, what is important and desirable, and what can be dispensed with. Let us understand the sources of our strength and our astonishing vulnerability.
This book is written in this way. Its name rather sets the goal of the whole project. In fact, these are still sketches of Soviet civilization, while the picture of the Soviet system as a civilization, we do very rough strokes, the emerging image is too blurred. But we must begin.
I wrote this book with love for the Soviet system and the Soviet people. The one for whom hatred of the USSR became a support in his spiritual life, let him better not read it. A reasonable critic of the Soviet system will not be difficult to read, because I have neither the task nor even the slightest desire to convince someone or lead somewhere.
The whole work is divided into two parts, two books. The first covers the period from the birth of the Soviet project and system to the Victory of the USSR in the great Patriotic war. The second post-war period until the collapse of the Soviet Union in late 1991, these Parts can be read separately, although, of course, constitute together one unit.
This book is not a scientific work, there are many arguments that can not be critically verified by strict methods. But soft arguments are useful to know. Yet the skeleton of the book I built according to the principles of construction of the scientific text, and this skeleton if necessary can be easily isolated. As for the actual data, I took them from the most reliable sources. I think there are no big mistakes that could fundamentally affect the conclusions.
It would be too much work, and too difficult to read, to provide the text with a reference apparatus that would meet scientific standards. Many quotes in the text left without references. I began to make extracts and clippings a long time ago, not even thinking about the book. All sources are in principle available, they could be found and cited, but it would greatly delay the publication of the book. I apologize for the fact that I decided to sacrifice the quality, which for someone would make the text more convincing.
I thank all those who helped in the work on the text, who in a direct discussion or on the Internet supported the ideas expressed in it or criticized them.
