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Anti-Sovietism and religious obscurantism modern Russia
I propose in this article to reflect together on what we have and what we can expect from the future in Russia. The questions that I propose to answer together will be formulated as if on behalf of a simple layman, not burdened with knowledge from political science, sociology, history, philosophy and other sciences about the state and social formations. These questions will be naive and, at first glance, stupid. But, as you know, there are no stupid questions, but only stupid answers.
Anti-Sovietism as the basis of the project
By historical standards, quite recently we observed the development of the Ukraine project, and now we see the collapse of this country and the tragedy of an entire nation as a natural completion of this pseudo-project. It all happened so quickly… Just some 25 years! But, experts say, time is shrinking and what in previous eras took centuries and millennia is now unfolding and collapsing in decades before our eyes.
This article is written not at all about Ukraine, which interests us only as a source of parallels and analogies of the modern Russia project. Yes, Russia is also a project, which in the socio-political aspect is very reminiscent of Ukraine. What unites these two projects is that both of them were conceived as anti-USSR. Naturally, this explains the caveman anti-Sovietism that we have been observing all these 25 years.
Ukrainian anti-Sovietism was originally intended to justify the emergence of a separate Ukrainian state and quickly transformed into Russophobia, which became the basis for the existence of the already national project "Ukraine". Thus, Russophobia is the basis of the foundations on which Ukraine is based. Without Russophobia, Ukraine turns into just a “piece” of Russia, illegally torn away from it as a result of a separatist act committed by the republican party elite of the Ukrainian SSR in 1991.
Anti-Sovietism, deployed as an ideological doctrine, in the newly formed Russian Federation also served as a rationale for this new project, and at the same time legitimizing the new government, which came “not quite” legally. In that shaky and politically unstable period of 1991-1993, legitimation was needed by the authorities like air. After all, the Soviet government, which came at one time as a result of the revolution, over 70 years of history has gone through all the necessary stages of legitimation. This is the victory in the Civil War, and the Great Victory of 1945, and, in fact, the construction of a perfect new socialist state with the education of a new type of person and the emergence of a new community - the Soviet people. All this turned Soviet power into an absolutely legal power, the legitimacy of which no one in the world doubted, and the Victory in the War turned the USSR into a superpower, "without whose knowledge not a single gun was fired in the world."
There was nothing of this in the newborn project of the "RF", as the new government could not accomplish anything heroic for its authority. Unless to unleash a civil war... But even in the event of a civil war, the victory of the new government did not shine at all. Therefore, it was decided to confine ourselves to the ideological whipping up of anti-Soviet hysteria. Thus, the project Russian Federation”, like the “fraternal” project “Ukraine”, is also based on anti-Sovietism. But anti-Sovietism - that's bad luck - is inevitably a form of Russophobia, which in Russia is becoming a factor tearing society apart. In Ukraine, we note that anti-Sovietism-Russophobia still cements a part of Ukrainian society.
But the years go by and Her Majesty History has turned the young Russian Federation into an internationally recognized state, and no one has long doubted the legitimacy of her power. So why is anti-Sovietism still in demand? Why not thrown out as an anachronism in a landfill? Why is the Russian elite so nervous and continues to exploit anti-Sovietism? What is the source of her discomfort? The problem, as we see, is the vitally important for her to consolidate the chosen course and the guaranteed irreversibility of the process of building capitalism in Russia.
Bastard Russian capitalism and its ideology.
Does Russia have a capitalist future?
But even with capitalism, not everything is clear. It is known that the most developed countries of the West, as a result of natural community development came to the social democratic model, which in Soviet times was called "pink socialism". This is France, and Norway, and Finland, and Canada, and other countries. About Sweden, which gave the name of its country to the mentioned model of socialism, it’s completely banal to write ... So, after all, they said: “Swedish socialism”. Why shouldn't the Russian Federation choose the course of building the "correct" socialism? This is just in case for those who claim that socialism in the USSR was supposedly wrong. Indeed, why not follow the example of China, which has subjected its “wrong” Mao Zedong socialism to a profound revision and is now building a new, correct socialism with a diversified economy at the base and the leadership of the Communist Party at the superstructure? By the way, it builds very, very successfully, while the new Russia eats up the remnants of the heritage former USSR, without creating anything new in these quarter of a century.
The questions are, of course, rhetorical. Everyone understands everything very well - liberal capitalism is being built in Russia. The task of the anti-Soviet hysteria is to completely eradicate the socialist consciousness that was formed in the process of evolution of the Russian people in specific geographical, climatic and demographic conditions and finally took shape in the Soviet period of Russian history.
It’s just that it’s not clear where the builders of capitalism in Russia came from, that they will build it and live like in the West? Who told them this? Or did you come up with it yourself? It is well known that capitalism is a world system, at the core of which is the Anglo-Saxon world. The Anglo-Saxons own the world capitalist system. The rest of the world is divided into zones. The nearest zone is the European Union and Japan. The rest is the countries of peripheral capitalism. No matter how you jump, you will not jump above your head. No one will let you into the core of the capsystem, no matter how hard you try to please the USA and Great Britain. And it makes no sense to flirt with the European Union - they are only satellites of the Anglo-American core of the system.
But if, for example, rich oil monarchies can afford a decent standard of living for the small population of their countries, then this does not shine for Russia. If the Anglo-Saxons allowed the industrious Japanese and Koreans to live decently, it was only because they needed these forges of inexpensive and high-quality goods. Neither Japan nor South Korea are competitors to the Anglo-Saxons. By the way, at any moment they can be turned off from the production chain, and then the Japanese economic miracle wept along with the Korean one.
Russia does not suit the Anglo-Saxons for inclusion in their system by any of the parameters. First, Russia is too big. Secondly, an insignificant resource-producing part of the economy is efficient. The rest, by capitalist standards, is absolutely inefficient. Thirdly, Russia cannot by virtue of cultural characteristics and racial energy to compete on equal terms with the frenetically hardworking Chinese. The Anglo-Saxons simply do not need Russians in this role. In a word, there is nowhere to shove Russia into the world capital system. According to capitalist laws, Russia is an absolutely inefficient asset. Therefore, its role is assigned exclusively as a raw materials appendage of the countries of the capitalist core and the nearest satellites. The population not involved in the resource sector is subject to optimization. That is, reduction. Margaret Thatcher, after all, not out of hatred for Russians stated that living in Russia is economically justified by 15 million people. This is not misanthropy, this is the purely economic capitalist approach of the Anglo-Saxons to any business. One should not be offended, but one should think about why, for example, in the USSR in the national economic complex there was a catastrophic shortage of workers and engineering and technical workers, and in capitalist Russia there was unemployment? Why did the country develop and deteriorate during the Soviet period, and now it shrinks, dries up and shrinks? Supporters of the liberal-capitalist model will object that, they say, under socialism they worked inefficiently and, therefore, a lot of labor was required. And under capitalism, they say, they manage with a smaller number of workers. Yes, there is some truth in this. But the Lie is hidden in the fact that the task of socialism was to involve the maximum number of citizens in the creative process so that they all provide for themselves with their work, and the results of their work work for the development of the country. Capitalism has no such goals. He understands only the language of profit. Capital is only interested in maximizing this profit. Russia does not meet the criteria of capitalist profit maximization. According to these criteria, Russia is ineffective in principle, and, therefore, it should not exist at all. So let's answer ourselves, is capitalism suitable for Russia?
Anti-Sovietism of the President and the "swinishness" of the new elite
As we answer some questions, new ones arise.
Why, for example, a quarter of a century after perestroika, anti-Stalinism is being escalated with increasing intensity? What about Stalin? Even the oldest citizens no longer remember him! Why does the President, with or without reason, try to kick the Soviet past? Either Lenin will be remembered “in vanity”, then Stalin, then repressions, then the Soviet system? To whom is he sending these messages? Who wants to please and please? In any case, not to Russian citizens who gave the best years of their lives to building Soviet state and, by the way, a just socialist system. Why does the President not consider the feelings of the Russians? After all, even the religious feelings of believers are protected by law, and now for the words "there is no God" you can go to jail! And this is in a civilized country in the 21st century! Why are the feelings of those who believe in mythical characters protected by law, while the feelings of real citizens who actually built a real state are not only not protected, but, in violation of the simple rules of tact, ethics and political correctness, are spat upon and ridiculed?! By the way, the President heads the legal successor of this real state - Russia, and the new bourgeois elite owns industrial assets that were selflessly created by several generations of these very real Soviet citizens. What kind of swine is this?
The question sounds rhetorical again and again, since everything is obvious: anti-Sovietism is necessary for the elite in order to justify its existence and secure the right to property stolen from the people.
And it would be fine if they stole it, but they would multiply it and use it for the good of the country and people. Yes, indeed, no! Contrary to Article 7 of the Constitution, which states that Russia is a social state, this social state is being dismantled before our eyes. As, however, contrary to Article 14 of the Constitution that Russia is a secular state, religious obscurantism is being revived at the state level! Just think, in the 21st century in a secular state for supposedly disrespect for religious feelings is a criminal article! What is this, if not a return to the dark Middle Ages?
Religious obscurantism as another ideological setting
Yes, those girls who danced in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior are narrow-minded and unpleasant characters ... But, let's think for a moment, in a civilized country, for a stupid but harmless joke, criminal articles are incriminated and they are given a prison term! For what? What is their crime? The Cathedral of Christ the Savior, like any other church building, is a private area owned by a private public organization like, say, the Auchan or Metro hypermarket. The Russian Orthodox Church is a private company and citizens are not obliged to honor its internal rules of conduct and share ideas about ethics, which are not universally recognized and generally accepted by everyone. In addition to the religious aspect described above, another unpleasant aspect looms in the background. This is the mention by these girls in their song of the name of the President. As a result, the criminal prosecution of these stupid girls smacks of elements of political persecution. Obviously, this provocation was conceived as such. Conceived with a double subtext, exposing the President in an unattractive light, and Russia - in the form of a state in which such medieval savages are happening. Of course, this is a provocation to which the head of state succumbed so much. ... Or he was "set up" by the environment. But everything would be fine if the criminal prosecution of the mentioned characters was not accompanied by propaganda hysteria. The tone, shamefully, was set again by the President, who in a TV interview hinted that, for example, in a Muslim mosque, these girls would simply be torn to pieces. Let's think about what the President is indirectly calling for! And in this context it sounded like a call! I remember that in one European country, someone also justified the imprisonment of unwanted people in concentration camps by saying that otherwise an angry people would subject them to lynching. Conclusion in a concentration camp, they say, allows the wrong citizens to avoid the just people's wrath.
Yes, the association looks too extreme and, fortunately, we live in modern democratic Russia. But how to explain such presidential blunders? Why do they follow one after the other?
In this regard, the question arises, how to make sure that our Presidents, whose cultural and educational level is sometimes so low, do not speak out on such painful, divisive and already divided society topics?
The answer to the above question is simple: Russia needs a new ideology to unite and guide us all.
What ideology do we need?
In the Soviet project, despite the degeneration of the party-Soviet elite, which curtailed this project and offered nothing new to Soviet society, there was a higher goal. The Soviet project had an idea and a super-task. The successes of the USSR in the first five-year plans, the Great Victory of 1945, the primacy in space exploration and the peaceful atom are evidence of the mastery of the masses of the idea that was proposed to the people by the Soviet government and successfully carried out by the national leader Stalin. It was a truly great project that advanced Russia and the Russian people to the most advanced frontiers of historical development. But everything exhausts itself sooner or later, and new ideas and projects are required at each new frontier.
The pitiful attempts of the current government to pick up at least some kind of ideology, either flirting with religion, or declaring the goal of the state to support entrepreneurship, or declaring patriotism as an ideology, do not have a response among the people and do not seize the masses.
Religion, for example, cannot be an ideology. And the point is not that the times of religions have passed, but that religion does not set goals for the state and society, does not interpret the ideas of the existence of the state. Religion does not explain to us why Russia exists, why the people must endure their power and their sometimes unjust state. …Finally, religion does not indicate the path that our people will take in the future.
Moses led his people for 40 years through the wilderness in search of the promised land. He referred to the supreme authority of God, who, as the legend says, promised the Jewish people happiness in the new land. And where are the Russian people being led by their elite, the President with the State Duma and United Russia? Why all these costs that the people must endure in the process of finding a goal? Why this operation in Syria, why all these Kalibr missiles, S-400, S-500 systems and nuclear submarines, if Russia is torn apart from the inside and is about to be blown up?
Returning to the question of religion as an ideology, it should be stated that religion is focused on a relatively small percentage of the believing population. For the rest, it either does not exist, or is an element of folklore and no more. And what about Muslims or atheists, with whom Russian society is fairly diluted? In a word, religion is not suitable and does not draw on ideology. Rather, it is a dividing and sowing social institution. By the way, the new leadership of the ROC does not particularly hide their corporate interests and political views, adopting sharply anti-Soviet rhetoric in their preaching activities. There are rumors that Archimandrite Tikhon (Shevkunov), known for his vicious anti-Sovietism, is supposedly the President's confessor. What does this confessor whisper to his spiritual child during their spiritual conversations? It remains to be guessed what, in part, explains the anti-Soviet verbal blunders of our President.
However, the main disadvantage of Orthodoxy as an ideology is not only that religion has no future and attempts to revive it are an empty and harmful undertaking. Orthodoxy, like any other religion, is a medieval feudal institution, unable to respond to the modern challenges that hyperindustrialism and globalism pose to humanity. What can Orthodoxy give us under these conditions? Complex social formations require deep scientific and moral understanding. The moral component this stage no less important than at the stage of transition, for example, from feudalism to capitalism. But morality has long been desacralized and the reference to the highest authority in the face of the mythical God simply does not work. Humanism has long been divorced from religion and exists independently. Why do we need medieval Orthodoxy and the church organization of the Russian Orthodox Church? Let's leave them for weak people who find it difficult to live without it, especially since they are still not capable of intellectual understanding of the challenges that humanity faces at the current stage of development.
Russia needs an ideology that unites society, rallying it around its elite, setting higher goals for the people and the state, revealing super-tasks. And so that we don’t hear more presidential blunders and don’t watch television series with permanent anti-Soviet overtones on television, the new ideology must proclaim the unity of Russian history and the equal value for society of all its stages, including the most outstanding and heroic period of Russian history - the Soviet one. Anti-Sovietism and Russophobia should be tabooed. Otherwise, we will disintegrate as a society and we have no future.
Does the Russian Orthodox Church have a moral right
for mentorship in public affairs?
The idea of this article is not at all to stigmatize religion and Orthodoxy. But since we have touched on the topic of ideology, the Russian Orthodox Church, which strives so stubbornly at all times to occupy an ideological niche, will receive here in full. Let me remind you of the fateful role of the ROC, due to which Russia found itself on the outskirts of European civilization and stuck between the world cultures of East and West, and the Russian people never realized themselves as a European nation.
It is foolish to condemn only Prince Vladimir, who converted to Orthodoxy, in the fallacy of the civilizational choice. Everyone makes mistakes, especially statesmen who stand at the crossroads of historical development. Let us leave to the children the parable of Nestor the Chronicler in the retelling of the historian N. Karamzin, who picturesquely described the casting organized by Vladimir for representatives of the Abrahamic religions. Let's try to reproduce the political logic of the prince, who was faced with the most difficult and urgent task of uniting the Russian principalities under a single crown and at the same time maintaining sovereignty in the face of political pressure and inclinations from the already fairly established Europe. Prince Vladimir, just like Vladimir the President, needed an ideology. In those distant times, any power that claims to be on a national scale was faced with the need to justify its legitimacy. But only religion and the organization that personified it were able to provide such legitimacy. Monotheistic Christianity, in an actual way, reflected the formula "one God in Heaven, one monarch on Earth", which is so necessary for uniting Russian lands under a single authority. The choice of the prince in favor of the Byzantine Christian rite, of course, is ridiculous to justify, according to Karamzin, his naive charm with the eloquence of missionaries from Orthodox Byzantium and the delight of Vladimir's ambassadors with the splendor and luxury of Constantinople churches - let's leave this to the children. But the desire to preserve sovereignty from an overly active Europe and the Pope of Rome looks quite rational and politically wise. Thus, it is not fair to explain the tragedy of the future centuries-old backwardness of Rus' and future Russia in isolation from enlightened Europe by the political short-sightedness of the prince. Patriarch Kirill, for example, honestly and frankly comments on the attacks on the ROC by the critical public. He justifies Vladimir by the fact that in those distant times Europe was not at all enlightened and prosperous, while Byzantium was fragrant and was clearly a more attractive model for borrowing a socio-political system. It was later that Byzantium degraded and collapsed, and the Age of Enlightenment and rapid cultural development began in Europe, which, indeed, was not obvious in the era of Prince Vladimir.
And yet, in the history of Rus', there were chances to smoothly merge into European civilization and unite the Russian people of European origin with the family of other peoples of Europe. One of them was the choice of Prince Alexander Nevsky, when Rus' could unite with Europe against the Horde and thereby prevent almost 300 years of the Mongol-Tatar yoke. But Prince Alexander Nevsky, urged on by the Orthodox clergy, made an insane choice in favor of the barbarian Horde, rejecting the hand extended by Europe in the person of the Pope, hated by the Orthodox church elite. Rus' for centuries plunged into dark times and into slavish dependence on the wild and barbaric steppe "suzerain". The Russian Orthodox Church, pursuing its narrow corporate interests in the form of economic and political benefits, established cooperation with the Horde and reoriented Rus' towards its barbaric eastern neighbor. As a result of this choice, Rus' and future Russia 700 years behind its European neighbors. The first universities, founded in Europe as early as the 11th century, appeared in Russia only in the 18th century. Culture, science and industry were postponed respectively until the 19th century, having received a full-blooded development only in the Soviet period of the 20th century.
But the harm done by the Russian Orthodox Church lies not only in the fact that it tore the Russian people away from the European peoples, interrupting this natural connection and causing the country to lag behind in science and culture. The main thing, perhaps, is that the Orthodox Church itself, being a dense barbaric offshoot of Christianity, not only did not take part in the development of sciences, patronizing them like its Roman Catholic sister, but with its obscurantism oppressed even those scientific thoughts that timidly originated in Russia. Up to late XIX century, the Russian Orthodox Church continued to persecute scientists, allowing itself completely wild antics. By the way, Alexander Nevzorov talks about this in detail in his educational cycle "Lessons of Atheism" - see on the Internet.
So let's answer ourselves, can this most harmful medieval barbarian organization of the Russian Orthodox Church become our spiritual mentor and sanctify the path to new frontiers of historical development for us?
Let's not pretend from false political correctness that all this just happens and the people choose their own spiritual guide. Orthodoxy, as an ideology, is persistently introduced into the life of Russians and the activities of the state are completely artificial. Under the presidential patronage, the ROC launched its greedy tentacles into all spheres of social life: school, university, army, etc. From the state budget, that is, from the taxpayer's funds, the ROC is actively subsidized. With these funds, countless churches of the so-called walking distance are being built, museum real estate is transferred, which never belonged to the Russian Orthodox Church, since until 1917 it was state property. What are the impudent attempts of the ROC to get Saint Isaac's Cathedral in St. Petersburg, which also never belonged to the Russian Orthodox Church and she never had anything to do with its construction. Why should the invaluable cultural heritage of the people be transferred to a private firm of the Russian Orthodox Church. I repeat, the ROC is a private commercial company, which, by the way, is exempt from taxes for unknown reasons. Giant financial resources in the form of "black cash" are turned around in this company, but there are no taxes!
Let us not blush ashamed of the obvious circumstance that the Orthodox religion is planted in Russia artificially and purposefully. Its role is to form an ignorant, and therefore helpless and submissive mass of slaves who can be exploited indefinitely in the obviously inefficient capitalist economy of Russia. Well, the more intensively you need to exploit!
A small digression into a delicate topic
The claims of the ROC for a role in the revival of morality and spirituality actualize the question, is this organization itself moral? For ethical reasons and political correctness, the history of the collaborationism of the Russian Orthodox Church with the Nazis during the Second World War is stubbornly hushed up. The cooperation of the Russian Orthodox Church with the German invaders in the occupied territories of the USSR is well known. But the most unpleasant discovery is the history of relations between the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR), with which such a solemn reunification of the ROC recently took place, and the Nazi command of Nazi Germany - read "Metropolitan Anastassy A. Hitler's Letter of Gratitude to June 12, 1938." Driven by its corporate interests, at a time when the entire civilized world, putting aside political differences, united against Nazi Germany, the Russian Orthodox Church (ROCOR) blessed this fascist regime - see materials on the Internet.
But the Russian Orthodox Church was not going to appreciate and respond in kind to the generosity and political correctness in its address on the part of the Soviet authorities. Having suffered their combat losses in the Civil War, in which the Russian Orthodox Church took a side hostile to the people's Red Army and the people's Soviet power, the Orthodox clergy harbored a sense of revenge for a long time. And now, after the treacherous defeat of the USSR in the Cold War, the leadership of the Russian Orthodox Church with pleasure rushed to tear and mix the hated Soviet power with mud. In satisfying the feeling of revenge, the Russian Orthodox Church still will not stop. Orthodox leaders still curse the Soviet system, not "complexing" before the fact that the moral image of Soviet society was not commensurately higher than the new Russian society, spiritually led by the Russian Orthodox Church. The Orthodox clergy do not care about the spirituality and moral character of society, they are only concerned about business! Business and only business on stupid and weak people dispossessed as a result of the collapse of the state. The impudent swine faces of the Orthodox priests "neigh" from the TV screens and revel in their power over the stupid flock.
So maybe Russia needs European integration?
Criticizing history is counterproductive. Modern Russia is a completed product of the historical process and the subjunctive mood in the analysis of the current situation is not appropriate. The times of religions have passed and the Christian Church has not played any significant role in the life of societies and states of European civilization for a long time. Attempts to revive Orthodoxy in Russia are an empty undertaking, only squandering the resources necessary for investing in the development of Russia. Who will need all these temples within walking distance, which grow like mushrooms, if religion has no future. As soon as the authorities curtail this project and stop forcibly promoting and financing it, all new temple buildings will be abandoned and, at best, clubs will be arranged in them, and at worst, they will be demolished as unnecessary.
Introduction to Western Christian Churches Protestant and Catholic rites, as well as the European integration of Russia, will also not change anything. Europe can no longer be healed, and Russia cannot be made more cultured. Europe and Russia are complete civilizations. And the achievements of culture and science have long ceased to be the monopoly of Europe, being the heritage of mankind, which we only need to put into practice. This requires political will, which is so incompetently and senselessly used in attempts to revive religiosity in Russia. Against this background, literature, art, theatre, the unique Russian ballet and cinema, which were so highly developed in the Soviet period, are degrading. And the problem again rests on the absence of a creative state ideology, without which the state is not able to formulate a state order for cultural products. Under these conditions, culture will not be revived. Boiling in its own juice, culture can only decompose, showing us cheap commercial "pop", ugly creations in the form of stupid television series or installations of the so-called gallery owners. But the Russian society so needs not a false religious spirituality, but a creative and developing secular spirituality!
With regard to European integration, which is advocated by liberal-minded figures, we should clearly define what we actually need in the European experience and whether it is possible to join it by integrating into European structures. Integration into the bureaucratic structures of the European Union, as the Baltic republics did or Ukraine is trying to "break through", of course, will not bring us anything. We need to build Europe under our feet. What exactly is Europe? Ukrainian society, for example, fascinated by the European standard of living and achievements, is unable to understand what the European phenomenon is. The official anti-Sovietism is to blame for this, confusing Ukrainians, who feel the natural need for modern society for a fair social structure of the state. Europe is, first of all, a social-democratic (socialist) social system. The speculations of stupid, leavened Orthodox patriots about the alleged moral decay of European post-Christian societies are already confusing Russian society. Meanwhile, European socialism represents the highest moral state of society, which implies social justice, equality and social protection of the population, limits the exploitation of man by man, implies the protection of natural rights and freedoms, respect for human life, health and dignity. Yes, sometimes, it takes on somewhat perverted forms in the form of inadequate promotion of the interests of homosexuals. But this does not indicate a disease of society. Perhaps this is a neophyte overlap that accompanies the current state of Europeans. We need to build European socialism in Russia and popularize it in our confused society!
Patriotism as an ideology
Another initiative of the President, after a not entirely successful attempt at a new planting of Orthodoxy, was the announcement of patriotism as a state ideology. Well, what can I say? Yes, there is nothing special ... Patriotism is not an ideology. It manifests itself, rather, as a result of the people's awareness of the leading and unifying idea. Patriotism embraces the masses only when an idea seizes them. Soviet patriotism at one time was not put forward as an ideology, it manifested itself as a result of the Soviet people's awareness of their participation in the construction of a new just state, when all strata of society, without exception, were involved in the process, which in the pre-revolutionary Russian Empire were superfluous people, forced to win their place every day under the sun. Everyone was called to build a new type of socialist state. Each pair of working hands, the knowledge of each engineer or doctor were valued, and the acquisition of knowledge became a cult.
Nothing else can explain the patriotic impulse of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War, as a result of which they won a blinding victory. And the call "for the Motherland, for Stalin!" was not a propaganda fiction, but really existed.
Unfortunately, in the First World War, the Russian people did not show similar patriotism, and ordinary Orthodox peasants deserted en masse from the front. The people simply did not understand why and for whom they were fighting, and this peasant did not see the point in shedding blood for incomprehensible whose interests and defending a state that does not protect the social interests of the peasant. The Orthodox ideology did not help either, which ended with the priests being thrown from the church bell towers by these same baptized and regularly taking communion Orthodox peasants. After all, it was not Trotsky and Lenin who personally threw the priests from the bell towers - they did not even call for these senseless actions, as the current supporters of the "Orthodox idyll" claim.
Sense of justice
Sometimes one has to hear demagogic rantings that justice does not exist at all, that each person has his own understanding of justice. They say that justice for ordinary hard workers is to work as little as possible and get as much as possible. For the entrepreneur, justice consists in not paying taxes, but in squeezing as much as possible out of the employee, paying as little as possible. In a word, different examples are given, but all of them are just examples of injustice, and reasoning is pure demagoguery. The sense of justice exists objectively and is not only a social phenomenon, but also inherent in human nature. And, perhaps, not only in humans, but also in more or less reasonable our smaller brothers. Try, for example, to punish a dog for not committing a violation of the order to which you have accustomed this animal. I think that at best she will be offended for a long time by an unfair owner. I know what I'm talking about - there was an example in my life when cynologists advised me to bring up a dog of the Doberman Pinscher breed in strictness. I was young, immature and I liked to demonstrate my power over the animal. The dog, indeed, got used to the order and became very disciplined. “Breaking the order”, as a rule, she came with a confession herself, bowing her head and demonstrating her remorse with her whole appearance. Once I got carried away and, without understanding, beat the dog. Not so cruelly - rather for psychological suppression ... But what was the reaction - my Dober pounced on me and bit my hands, which I had to fight back, to deep wounds. After this incident, I thought a lot and changed my attitude towards my dog and animals in general. Now, of course, I advise everyone to educate animals only with affection and love, not forgetting about justice. After all, animals understand everything and they also have a sense of justice!
conclusions
So, what does Russia need for progressive development and survival in the 21st century in the face of fierce competition in the geopolitical arena?
Religion
We are offered religion. But religion is yesterday's "ideology" turned to the past. religion
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The obscurantism of the ROC. June 21st, 2018
In general, I am always very sad when I read about the obscurantism of the ROC. For obvious reasons. And once again, the representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church shook their heads and brought out dense nonsense. "Cossacks", by the way, also did not stand aside.
"In the city of Livny, Oryol region, the conflict between representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church(ROC) and the creator of the park "Slavic Garden". The park is a zone free from smoking and alcohol and conducive to a healthy lifestyle - walking and playing sports. However, the priests did not like the children's sandbox in the form of an Old Slavic rune, and then the whole park."
Slavic runes and what?
Obscurantists from the Russian Orthodox Church, do not know that paganism, Rodnovers, are not prohibited in Russia? We now do not have the Russian Empire, which blackened out and erased the memory of the ancient Slavic faith. Yes, I consider myself a Christian, but I have no hostility towards other beliefs and religions. Especially to the beliefs of our ancestors. This is part of our culture. Which is much older than Orthodoxy, by the way.
A very interesting Bishop Nectarius is in touch:
"IN Lately neo-pagan movements intensified in the city of Livny. Many of our townspeople and residents of the region are unaware of the danger posed by the new movement "For a sober Russia and healthy lifestyle life". Most of the townspeople do not know that cult pagan meetings take place in the park near the church of St. George the Victorious, in which young people participate and priests come, initiating the youth of our city into pagan cults and culture," the message of the bishop says.
Nektariy must have felt sad that these young people would not give him another car for 6 million rubles:
"Baptism is a choice for us that is historically and actually irreversible. And attempts to reconsider this choice, including citing arguments that, as it seems to apologists, support interest in paganism, are based on the invention of pagan ideas about the surrounding reality," noted Vakhtang Kipshidze, Deputy Head of the Department of the Moscow Patriarchate for Relations between the Church, Society and the Media.
Well, what's the problem? Someone chooses baptism, someone chooses paganism, someone else chooses some other beliefs. This is freedom of choice. Every person has every right to this.
And no one has the right to force him. I had an unconscious choice, I was baptized as a baby. And I do not protest against it, on the contrary. Russia has indeed been built for a thousand years under the influence of Christian culture. All of Europe, as we used to see it and see it, is the fruit of Christian culture. And this is my culture. But someone chose a different faith. This is his personal choice and path in life. The Church may not like it, but the ROC has no right to engage in persecution and destruction. This is not Christianity, but some kind of raiding. And let's not remember the Middle Ages and the Crusades. This past.
Therefore, this whole story is the usual, stupid obscurantism. ROC should be ashamed.
P.S.
"A few weeks after the message, the Cossacks came to the Slavic Garden and destroyed the sandbox in the form of a Slavic symbol."
In some circles, it has become commonplace to assert that today Russia is experiencing a surge of obscurantism and onion Black Hundreds. The smell of incense draws from the country: clericalization overtakes archaization. That's about to be burned for atheism. Pathetics is not new and not very interesting. Users talking about this unimportant topic tend to make a number of inaccuracies, which, in turn, are important.
The Russian state, for all its obviousness, which is often mistaken for stupidity or sluggishness, is read rather ambiguously. There seems to be an object whose sides are equally equal for all observers, but the results of these observations are contradictory, and fundamentally contradictory. For radical Russian nationalists, the Russian Federation is an anti-Russian state, destroying the Russian people and pandering to non-Russians, but in the communities of non-Russian nationalists, Russia is already perceived as an oppressor, strangling Kumyr freedom with a shaggy chauvinistic paw. For liberals, the Russian state is terry-Soviet, but for the Soviet people, the state is ruled by liberals who have ruined everything. Opinions are so contradictory that a compromise cannot be found even in the middle - this would threaten schizophrenia. The answer should be sought in the plane from which they try to interpret Russia, in the field of beliefs of the most different colors who have in common that they are equally neurotic. Their neuroticism lies in the fact that the stereotypes shared by an individual or a group of individuals are transferred to an entire nation or an entire state. Hence the mutually exclusive conclusions: well, the state cannot be at the same time Russophobic and ultra-Russian, Soviet and liberal, but it cannot, then the point is not in the state, but in you.
Nevertheless, it seems that the clericalization of Russian society has objective grounds. These are Orthodox activists, and the growing role of the “ROC” in society, and the law on protecting the feelings of believers, and scandals with a religious odor, and the attack of faith on education, and religion in general, in particular Christianity and its representatives, now quite a noticeable part of the public life. Another "milestone" was the scandal surrounding the film "Matilda". The editor-in-chief of the Carnegie Center even remarked on this: “In just a few days, Russia crossed an important line that had been moving towards for a long time: Orthodox extremists made two real terrorist attacks. One in Yekaterinburg, in a car loaded with gas cylinders, crashed into a cinema window; others near the office of Konstantin Dobrynin burned cars - all for Matilda.
Alas, the stereotype trap worked. He led the Carnegie Center to an article by Andrei Arkhangelsky, where the publicist guessed that the state, having finally punished the persecutors of Matilda, seemed to demonstrate to the liberals that we are still the only European here protecting you Westerners from a dashing person. An attempt at analysis again stumbled over the beliefs that determined the following prophecy of Arkhangelsky: “However, from now on we live in a post-“Matilda” space, where every word and every gesture can shake the foundations. And this is not a story about a film or a sect, but about the fact that society is too fragile and does not have any internal bonds - the louder they are shouted about, the more they fall out of the skin with a crash.
Is it so?
November 1997 Ostankino. Orthodox protesters oppose the showing of Martin Scorsese's film "The Last Temptation of Christ" on NTV. The minimum limit of participants is one and a half thousand, the maximum is ten. More than ever opposed "Matilda". The film was removed from the broadcast network twice, and NTV received a letter from the Memory society, which (in the event the film was shown) did not guarantee the safety of the company's employees. The situation is a mirror image, only its scale is more significant, and the result is brighter. The State Duma considered the topic “Anti-Christian Action of the TV Company “NTV””. Unlike "Matilda", the head of the patriarchal church, Alexy II, spoke out against the film, although the current head of the "ROC", Kirill, maintains a restrained silence. As a result, the film, as it was originally planned, was not shown on Easter Eve. Does this mean that since 1997 we have been living in the post-“Last Temptations of Christ”, where in the ruins secular culture ascended the Orthodox caliphate? Of course not. Because you do not need to use your beliefs as an evidence base.
A careful study of Russian "Orthodox fundamentalism" means a completely different reality - it used to be, before V. Putin, society was radical, meaner and more fragile, and Christian fanatics did not rip off "blasphemous" T-shirts, but killed cops and planned to build a theocratic monarchy by force of arms.
In 1999, on the eve of Easter, Orthodox fanatics Alexander Sysoev and Yevgeny Kharlamov tried to raise a popular uprising against the Sanhedrin in Vyshny Volochek. As a result, they killed three cops and seriously wounded one. For a moment, this is the most "productive" single action of Russian radicals against the System. And it was not the Primorsky Partisans who did it, but the peasants who went to work with icons. If today some person who considers himself Orthodox killed three policemen in the name of the Orthodox State, the next day the newspapers would be full of headlines that "We finished the game" and "It has begun." This is articulated by few, but the peak of "Orthodox obscurantism" was just in the late eighties, nineties and early zero - this is the "RNE" (with all reservations), with which it is a shame to compare the "Forty Forties", this is the "Memory" society, this is literature John Snychev, and these are militants like the aforementioned Alexander Sysoev. Behind last years there was only one real terrorist attack in Russia, based on Christian fundamentalism, and this was by no means the case with a mentally ill person from Yekaterinburg.
What is fundamentalism anyway? This is thinking, in all its apologetic fullness, guarding some idea. Fundamentalism is not only peculiar to religion - there is liberal or left fundamentalism. Contemporary Orthodox fundamentalism in Russia has gone through several stages. But, unlike Protestant fundamentalism, there was one important feature in Russia - a seventy-year-old atheistic state. A time gap has formed between the religious past and the post-Soviet present. This gap had to be filled, and it began to be filled not only with a newly built continuity, but also with a complex of inevitable myths. These are myths about the pre-revolutionary church, about monarchism, about the tsar, about the spirituality of the former society, about which Christian institution or non-institution is true. The gap was never bridged. He predetermined the development of Orthodox fundamentalism, which at first branched out from the Memory Society. This is, so to speak, informal fundamentalism, which has disintegrated into many patriotic, nationalist and sectarian organizations. Another root stretches to the "ROC", where it is called "traditionalist". It was the “traditionalist” wing that actively supported the new federal law “On Freedom of Conscience and Religious Associations” of 1997. In the preamble of this law there is a wording that the Federation recognizes "the special role of Orthodoxy in the history of Russia, in the formation and development of its spirituality and culture." There was no such important wording in the previous version of the law. Then, in the late nineties, future patriarch Cyril corrects the previous line and begins to deliver anti-liberal sermons.
Without going into the details of the internal controversy of the "ROC" and without listing the numerous informal Christian organizations, we can generalize that the so-called. The "clericalization" of Russian society proceeded in two directions - vertical, institutionalized and horizontal, informal, partly marginal. These were not parallel lines: they intersected when the interests of informal fundamentalists coincided with those of church traditionalists. As in the protests against NTV, Gusinsky and Scorsese, where "Memory" and Alexy II "united" on the same topic. A very important feature follows from this - Orthodox fundamentalism in modern Russia achieved something only if the main Orthodox institution showed solidarity with its position. And vice versa. If, however, a temporary fellowship did not develop, informal fundamentalists continued to drag out a boring existence in their tiny organizations and on the pages of their small-circulation press.
Under V. Putin, vertical "fundamentalism" has become much stronger. Suffice it to say that Kirill, a man who eventually turned to anti-Western and anti-liberal views, became the head of the patriarchal church. Having strengthened, the "ROC" continued its previous policy, the first serious fruit of which was the adoption of a federal law in 1997. At the same time, the institution curbed its most radical "traditionalists" such as the notorious Dmitry Smirnov. But informal fundamentalism has grown sickly. Thousands of movements of the past fell apart, fragmented, and for the new prominent nationalist organizations, the issue of religion was secondary to political and national self-determination. If organized "traditionalism" received a certain legitimation, then a bunch of horizontal organizations successfully marginalized. Up to hostility towards, in fact, the "ROC". So, Alexander Barkashov took tonsure in the organization "True Orthodox Church" and regularly accuses the "ROC" of deviations from faith and truth. Of course, the "ROC" could no longer somehow stand in solidarity with the former fellow travelers. Yes, she did not need these marginals. But the scandal with “Pussy Riot” showed that there is no mass and organized lay youth movement around the “ROC” capable of confronting those who encroach on non-street institutional values on the street. And then everything that is being talked about today appeared - “Forty Sorokov”, “Holy Rus'” and other communities. On the same topic, "God's will" rose.
Recall that informal fundamentalism in modern Russia achieved limited success when the “ROC” agreed with it in some ways. The Patriarchal Church, although it has very different views, was quite pleased that rallies, stands and peaceful actions were held in its defense. But the consent or tacit approval of the “ROC” inevitably led to the radicalization of its informal supporters, such as the events in the Torfyanka park or the “pogrom” of the exhibition of Vadim Sidur. At the same time, the highest hierarchs of the "ROC" never justified violence against their opponents, although they did not speak out harshly against those who allowed this (very insignificant) violence. That is, the successful activity of Soroka Sorokov is primarily associated with the benevolence of the ROC. Without this benevolence, such organizations, as always, would remain marginalized.
The communication revolution and the post-modern state have left their mark on informal fundamentalism. This is frivolity, playfulness, eccentricity, entertainment, shocking, formalism. The same Dmitry Enteo came out of a typical new-age. This is even funny in modern times - the user, who made sacrifices to Ganesha, then becomes the defender of the Orthodox faith. Yes, a break with a past unrighteous life is a classic hagiographic story, but, nevertheless, not when they enthusiastically talk about it on YouTube. The attention paid to these characters and their antics, and even the analysis they are given for some reason, is similar to the analysis of wrestling. It seems that someone is jumping, the ring is shaking and the audience is roaring, but everyone understands that this is a production. Same with the Christian State. An informal organization of several people, that is, in fact, something even non-existent, thanks to a couple of loud statements and supposedly burning cars, grows into a fundamentalist moloch, similar to the Islamic State. But in reality - no mass organization, no numerous supporters, no serious actions. Again a fiction, the weight of which was given by a stereotype from the outside.
But vertical and horizontal fundamentalism, the latter of which also split into post-modern buffoonery, does not end there. Numerous radical texts written over a quarter of a century have not disappeared anywhere and have had their impact. In December 2015, two young people were detained in St. Petersburg, accused of attempting to assassinate police officers. During the interrogation, the guys announced that they consider the state bodies to be the product of the Antichrist, who has established himself in the world.
Anton Golovyrtsev and Nikolai Motovilov, who were not even thirty, were supporters of the non-priestly consents of the Old Believers. The guys were not parishioners of any St. Petersburg communities, but sympathized with the radical rumors of the Old Believers, especially the runners. Hence the lack of communication with the communities - the one who in the 18th century made the wanderers consent, the monk Euthymius, baptized himself, thereby breaking with the rest of the priestlessness. Following Euthymius, the guys believed that the spiritual Antichrist had established itself in the world, which means that everything was poisoned - churches, authorities, hierarchies, money. So young people have entered the armed path. According to investigators, with the help of artillery mines, they tried twice to undermine traffic police posts. One of the alleged terrorists, Anton Golovyrtsev, fought for the DPR. Moreover, he was not photographed at checkpoints, but passed in the infantry in the summer-autumn of 2014. That Anton Golovyrtsev, that Nikolai Motovil faces life imprisonment. I mean, it's not a joke anymore. It's not like breaking a plate and giving a winning interview. Actually, this is the only terrorist attack implicated in Orthodox fundamentalism over the past years in Russia.
Moreover, it was allegedly committed by people who are not connected either with the "ROC", or with other "Nikonian" groups, or with Russian state. For them, they are enemies. Antichrist. There was an important rejection of the concepts that worried the former informal fundamentalism (even the one that was negatively disposed towards the "ROC") - this is the rejection of the tsar, the monarchy, Russia, the church as a hierarchy, etc. The described does not fit into any of the stereotypes so much, that neither the "liberal" nor the "fundamentalist" press is simply writing about what happened. And this, of course, is a new way of developing informal fundamentalism - network, independent, non-canonical, solitary, sectarian, but, most importantly, not appealing to the "ROC", empire, monarchy and tsars. The spiritual Antichrist has triumphed in the world, and that's it. Almost for the first time in modern Russia, informal fundamentalism was fueled not by the conditional Shafarevich, but from the Old Believer literature of the 17th-18th centuries.
However, these are isolated cases. They are unlikely to recur soon. Even despite the war in Ukraine, which attracted a fair amount of religious fanatics, even despite the patriarchal church, expressing more and more conservative ideas, despite the communication hysteria, supported up to the State Duma deputy - a religious response to all these cases and initiative remains extremely low. Whoever didn’t wind up “Matilda” and as soon as they didn’t pile up users whose feelings were agitated by an unwatched film, but the whole result of a large-scale months-long hype is threats, two burned cars and a ramming of a cinema by a crazy one. Well, even during the upcoming shows, someone will spray a gas canister in the hall, and there will be a lot of talk about this too.
Neither Sysoev nor Golovyrtsev. Only nonsense sucked from the finger. But this nonsense is revealing. Somehow, imperceptibly and somehow suddenly, Russia approached its most significant anniversary - the centenary of the October Revolution. In a year when society had to conflict, swear, argue, fight with each other because of the most controversial, tragic, great, bloody event in its history that changed the lives of tens, hundreds of millions of people, users enthusiastically argue about the film, which even did not see.
What is it - stupidity or madness?
Yes why. It's just that the Russian state, in which all sides are equal and which is still considered so ambiguous, is by no means busy with the clericalization of society. It freezes him. It chills him. To not hurt. To not bleed. Historical stability, national reconciliation. Now it snows even in May.
There remains only a vague hope that someday a dashing person will nevertheless step on a numb gum.
The number of venereal disease infections among children and adolescents has sharply increased in the region with the obligatory study of "Orthodox culture" by schoolchildren
"In the Belgorod region over the past seven years number only adolescents with syphilis increased 14 times, children under the age of 12 - 35 times. According to the data of the regional dermatological clinic, the main source of infection is unprotected sexual contacts, the correspondent of Portal-Credo.Ru reports with reference to the Belgorod news agency Bel.Ru.
According to a poll “15% of girls and 22% of boys noted the presence of sexual contacts in their lives. At the same time, 50% of them indicated that the first sexual intercourse was committed before the age of 15 years ... " As a preventive measure doctors talk about the need for sex education for children and adolescents in the family and school with the participation of specialists (venereologists, urologists) and psychologists, the use of condoms.
What prevents to stop this African squalor - syphilis in teenagers!? And here's what:
In 2006, the GPC became a compulsory subject for study in Belgorod schools from grades 2 to 11 (in the regional version it is called « Orthodox culture» ). In early 2010, the ruling bishop of the ROC MP, Archbishop John (Popov), set the task for the priests to check the quality of the teaching of the GPC, which is conducted by secular teachers.
ROC MP considers sexual education of schoolchildren and more broadly - the whole range of measures referred to as "Family Planning" - "western invention", the main purpose of which is to destroy the foundations of the Russian family tradition.
"Many Orthodox are concerned talk about the possibility of introducing sexual education for schoolchildren and juvenile justice (the Western juvenile justice system) in Russia, said Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Kirill at a meeting with the Secretary of the Presidium of the General Council of the United Russia party Vyacheslav Volodin and his deputy Andrey Isaev on Wednesday in Moscow”
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“United Russia assured the hierarchy of the Russian Orthodox Church that they would defend Russian traditions in the field of raising children and protecting their rights. Volodin and Isaev promised to resist
understanding of such an interpretation of the Social Charter of the Council of Europe, which would encourage Russia to introduce sex education
and juvenile justice.
Religion is the opium of the people. The rightness of Lenin (as well as the author - Navalis, Marx and O. Bender) in this particular case was confirmed by the Orthodox Church. More precisely, its brightest representatives in one particular school. Although with the same success any religious schizophrenia could manifest itself.
April 12, 2012 for students of grade 1 A in the municipal educational institution "Vostryakovskaya secondary comprehensive school No. 3 "began unconventionally. To the lesson" the world"Instead of stories about the day of cosmonautics and Yuri Gagarin, children began to be told about the death of Jesus Christ on Mount Golgotha and his resurrection from the dead, that the stars light up with the birth of the gods and on the day of Jesus Christ's entry into Jerusalem it is necessary to go to the church of CJSC "ROC" with willow branches. The children spent the whole lesson painting eggs, and the next day there was to be a competition for the best egg. At the lesson, posters with the image of Jesus were hung, with prayers before studying and other nonsense. About Yuri Gagarin, stubbornly, no one began to tell the children that day .Having heard the story of my daughter, the next day I went to talk with the teacher ....
To my questions, on what basis, without the permission of the parents, the teacher is engaged in church propaganda, she stated that she did not do anything like that, but talked about traditions in Russia. When asked why she talked about the death of Jesus and his resurrection, she said that she did not tell anything like that, but my daughter said that she did. Then the teacher said that she would not make excuses in the presence of the child, and that everything she does was done according to the program. Then I demanded to provide a program that describes the lessons with my child. I was directed to the director and said that the conversation was over. I demanded to remove the icon from the classroom, the teacher answered me that if I didn’t like it, then I could transfer my child to another school. I explained to her that it would be easier for me to transfer the teacher to another school. After that, I went to the methodologist, who did not give the program and sent me to the director.
According to the director's version, based on the need to talk about "Pysanki", the teacher began to talk about the death of Jesus Christ on Mount Golgotha and his resurrection. The fact that the stars are lit with the birth of the gods and on the day of the entry of Jesus Christ into Jerusalem, you must go to church with willow branches. After that, the children painted the eggs throughout the lesson. The primary school teacher could not substantiate her behavior with anything else, while she was very worried about how she could now tell about ancient Russian wooden buildings without mentioning the Old and New Testaments, if this directly intersects with the "red corner" of the Russian hut. And about the founders of Russian writing, it’s impossible without a church at all.
I was offered to admit that my daughter had a problematic perception of a religious topic and asked how, with such a beginning, I was going to continue to send my child to study at this school, they say I have the only problem perception of their activities in this school for so many years and everything is under me suffering Orthodox parents will not shape their children. And on April 12, the projector broke down at the teacher and she could not show a film about the day of cosmonautics, and instead of it, high school students came and told students of grade 1 A about such a wonderful national holiday, and only my daughter for some reason remembered only Golgotha (no high school students on this day the first-graders didn’t have any and no one told them about Yuri Gagarin).
After listening to all this nonsense, I asked them to copy the program for me and show me places in the program about crucifixion, resurrection, Palm Sunday and other religious propaganda. As an answer, they told me that the teacher was simply answering the questions of Orthodox children. I explained to the director and teacher that they would have to write everything that they told me to write as an answer to my incoming letter with the outgoing number and answer all my questions in it. He answered that teachers discredit themselves in the eyes of students by telling anti-scientific stories with a bad retelling of the Bible, with which parents teach in astronomy, botany, geology, physics, mathematics, music, and other disciplines. And how they are going to continue to educate children with undermined authority - I do not quite understand.
That to show disrespect on April 12 to the builders and residents of the Domodedovo air town is the height of disrespect for the people around them. That, according to Soviet and Russian tradition, April 12 is celebrated as Cosmonautics Day, and according to Russian tradition, “International Day of Aviation and Cosmonautics”, which is an international holiday and this holiday has been approved by the UN. He said that any religious propaganda brings discord to the children's collective in the secular educational institution, and I categorically object to such propaganda in relation to my children. He expressed surprise that teachers do not understand simple things, that having given the most precious thing that I have to school and giving them a credit of trust, I am going to continue to monitor the quality of their work and that the quality does not suit me and the teacher did not justify the credit of trust issued, and now I will more carefully monitor its work.
Such a formulation of the question clearly did not suit them, surprised and upset (as I understood, they were going to do with the children what they were not going to devote their parents to). As a result of the conversation, the principal of the school tried to smooth over the conflict, stating that even though a minister of the nearest church wanders around their school and gives icons to all classes, she will hold a meeting with 12 primary school teachers on the subject that children do not need directly as a teacher. live to tell about God and what they will explain, what he needs to say, they say there is different people who believe in different things and there is one group of people (ROC) who believe in this and that, but their faith is not the only one, and there is everything scientific explanation. But she will not remove the icon from the class, because There are children who really need it.
Like this brief retelling meetings with a fair reduction and the transfer of the main meaning.
In general, I was dissatisfied with the meeting, although I saw these people were frightened about what they had done, apparently they thought that none of the parents would react to their trick. Therefore, I will write a letter with acknowledgment of receipt addressed to the principal of the school demanding that icons and their photographs be removed from the classroom and corridors and protect my child from the influence of their religion. I will publish the letter on my page. Based on the results of the correspondence, the general parent meeting and the reaction to my appeals, I will publish a detailed article in my journal and in the SCEPSYS magazine about how religion is being pushed into educational institutions ...
