It came at the right time.

Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, in his speech on the occasion of the 1160th anniversary of our statehood in Novgorod, said not only something important, but what he himself had suffered.

He said: “You know, I either wrote in this text or crossed out such names as Nicholas II, Lenin, Stalin.

From a historical point of view, not much time has passed to give full-fledged, objective assessments, devoid of the current political situation.

But all these people have made Russia a great power.”

I've been waiting for these words for so long.

My position on the words of Putin, who dared to say aloud that Nicholas II, Lenin and Stalin “made Russia a great power”, which means that all three are “powermen”, is extremely simple.

Putin ends the Civil War in his speech.

My aesthetic and social choice is known: then I would have ended up on the side where Yesenin and Mayakovsky were, and not on the side where Bunin and Zaitsev were.

But this does not mean that my love and my pain for the fate of Nikolai Turoverov or Gaito Gazdanov is greater than my love for Arkady Gaidar and Mikhail Sholokhov.

And, of course, Nicholas II does not interfere with me among the names named by Putin.

He led my side, carried his cross, he drank his cup.

This is the emperor of my empire, the saint of my church.

The only question is those people who are still hindered by someone on this list, who for some reason continue the “civil war of words”, insisting solely on their own rightness, on the fact that it is their political genealogy that is correct.

Denikin, Kornilov, Kaledin, Kutepov fought for the Fatherland.

Frunze, Kotovsky, Shchors, Chapaev fought for the Fatherland.

And Makhno, by the way, too.

Petliura fought against our Fatherland.

It would seem, why is it so difficult to accept this reality and live with it.

Understand that the abdication of Nicholas II is a huge moral choice, not a defeat.

Understand that before “creating Ukraine”, Lenin defeated and crushed Ukrainian separatism.

To understand that we are not disentangling someone else's mistakes, but the whole of Russian history, and we have only our own mistakes, and they must be counted.

It turns out that it is difficult to accept and understand.

It is hardly possible in a sober mind to assume that the young Red commanders Zhukov, Rokossovsky, Vasilevsky, Bagramyan fought in the Civil War against the Fatherland.

As well as suggesting that Anatoly Pepelyaev and Vasily Chernetsov did not love their homeland.

The most intelligent people of the Russian emigration understood this, accepting the fact that Soviet Russia is also Russia.

This was understood by Stalin, who returned home Yakov Slashchev and the White Guard Alexander Kuprin and returned the Cossack troops.

It would seem that the Civil War at the level of meanings was ended once again after the Great Patriotic War - for example, in 1968, when the entire Soviet country was equally fascinated by both the hero of Oleg Yankovsky and the hero of Vladimir Vysotsky in the film Two Comrades Were Serving.

The country understood: both this red and this white are her favorite children.

What a tremendous inner work our president did by saying these words not just on the next anniversary of Russian statehood, but on the day the mobilization was announced.

This is my president.

He chose the side of the whole people, and not the side of purely political offices, forces and sects, speaking on behalf of the whole people.

Thanks to him.

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