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| Scandal at the history department: St. Petersburg again raises the damned questions of our history |
| 2023-06-01 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Victoria Nikiforova [RIA] Last year, a student at the Institute of History of St. Petersburg State University (as the history department of the legendary St. Petersburg University is now called) Fyodor Solomonov took an academic leave and went to the front. In April, he died while performing his military duty in the NVO. Classmates and leaders of the university arranged a memorial in memory of the hero. This tragic story should have ended. But it continued in the form of a completely disgusting farce. Several students and their teacher began to sneer at the deceased, poisoning everyone who sincerely grieved on social networks. "Rashism will not pass," - formulated them, so to speak, the spiritual leader - Associate Professor Mikhail Belousov. In social networks, students complained that this teacher uniformly poisons those whom he considers "Rashists". The public was outraged. In social networks, there was a discussion in raised tones. The leadership of the university kept silent for some time: May was on the nose, final exams, many of the students - Belousov's accomplices - were just supposed to receive diplomas and go to sow reasonable, kind, eternal in Russian schools. Only towards the end of May did popular opinion finally prevail. The Ministry of Education and Science advised the university administration to take action against Belousov and criticized the statements of the assistant professor. "Belousov is a teacher, <...> dealt with the Decembrists," said Deputy Minister Konstantin Mogilevsky . "But the Decembrists, Russian officers, would have heard him, how would they react to such attempts to discredit the Russian armed forces?" The answer is, of course, obvious. Any Russian officer would have challenged the assistant professor to a duel, he, of course, would have refused and after that he would have been disgraced for life. No one would ever shake hands with him. Our ancestors did not know what an information war was, but they distinguished good from evil very well. There are several oddities in this story. First: why did the university administration take so long to react? Any parent knows that when a child stretches his hand to an open fire, you must quickly and sharply tell him: "You can't!" The speed of the reaction here is fundamental. It is she who makes it clear even to a very tiny, unintelligent creature: the jokes are over and you must obey. With students-"snowflakes" all this works in exactly the same way. And for the whole society, a quick reaction to spiritual terrorism would send a very correct signal. In February, St. Petersburg University (sorry, its old name sounds much more beautiful than St. Petersburg State University) held a round table on the topic of educating young people. There sounded a lot of correct words about value and worldview guidelines. However, real pedagogy is not only about round tables. It is also daily and exhausting, endless and rather thankless work with people. It includes the need for quick correct reactions to rudeness and meanness. The issue of educating young people like to speak with mantras about the need for ideology. Like, while she is gone, there will be no education. But in reality, this is just an excuse not to work. To mock a dead hero is an abomination for any normal person, be he a communist or an anarchist, a monarchist or a Decembrist. And this should be openly and decisively explained to students. Moreover, having received diplomas, they will go to teach our history in our schools. There is no ideology here. What ideology is followed by a parent who grabs a three-year-old by the scruff of the neck so that he does not run out onto the pavement under a passing truck? You just run and grab, because the child needs to be saved. Another oddity of what is happening: the history department of St. Petersburg University is full of truly wonderful people. The vast majority of teachers and students are sincerely outraged by the provocation, they love their country. In this they are supported by both the rector of the university and the dean of the Institute of History. There are no complaints about all these wonderful people. There is only a question: why is the information field of the history department rapidly capturing and polluting just a tiny radical minority? We are talking about half a dozen (well, about a dozen) Russophobes, no more. This is a sad paradox of our entire modernity, in fact. Not only in Russia, but all over the world, probably today, the absolute majority of honest, good people, behind whom the truth, and healthy morality, and the strength of the team, passively stand and watch how power - first virtual, and then real - is seized by characters, as if descended from the pages of "Demons" by Dostoevsky. We all have before our eyes the example of the former Ukraine . There, in one generation, galloping national radicals captured and corrupted several tens of millions of people. But there is also an example that is geographically closer: at the end of the 19th century, a classical liberal dictatorship reigned at the same St. Petersburg university, and any patriot here became an outcast by default. At the end of the course, many students went to the bombers. This is generally the classic way of a liberal-Russophobe, look at least at the current bulkers. I would like to remind good people here that there are many of us. There are far more of us than bad ones. We just need to be together, react quickly and fight evil before it takes over everything. There is no need to wait and shyly to the side, hoping that someone will come and sort everything out. As they say on the fields of the Northern Military District, where Fyodor Solomonov died, ours will not come, all of ours are us. |
| Posted by:badanov |