There is a common idea: the veterans of the Northern Military District will create a new Russian culture.
This morning I once again read about this in the blog of Modest Kolerov.
“The new Russian culture will be created by our soldiers after the victory in our war of liberation.
Their calling is not only to defeat the external and internal enemy, but also to give birth to a new Russia,” he wrote.
Modest Kolerov is a great thinker, but in this case, by too shortening his generally correct thought, he supports a general error.
Yes, our modern culture in Russia is permeated not just with Westernism and liberalism, but with imitation, colonial feeling, and most importantly, secret hostility towards the Russian people and certainly towards the Russian army.
But will soldiers and officers returning from the front create a new culture?
I’ll say right away, sorry for the harshness: they won’t create it.
If everything remains as it is, if all institutions remain in place, no one will create any new culture.
Saying this is the same as writing: "The warriors will come and build a spaceship, because they are good men, and we will all fly to Mars."
Here is Modest Kolerov, a historian and even a philosopher.
Can he seriously say that the returned warriors will create a new historical science and philosophy?
No, he won't say that - he knows that it takes a lifetime to learn this.
Here we have the virtuoso violinist Pyotr Lundstrem and the world-famous pianist Valentina Lisitsa, who constantly perform in the NWO zone.
We have a world-class violinist, a researcher of medieval Russian music Andrey Reshetin, who volunteered for the front.
All of them love and support their army, but, alas, they are strangers in their musical environment.
But it would never occur to them to say: “When the SVO ends, the warriors will create new symphonic music and compose new famous orchestras, become virtuosos and glorify the Fatherland.”
To write music and poetry, to make films and create the philosophy of new times, one must learn this.
Warriors have a different profession.
They trained to be warriors.
The mobilized studied for their civilian professions, and not for philosophers, artists, musicians.
Look, the simplest example: the militias fought for eight years, but not a single poet from their number ever came out.
Or rather, like this: from among the militias there was a wonderful poet Grigory Yegorkin, and from among the military correspondents - a magnificent poet Semyon Pegov.
But this is because Yegorkin is in fact a professional playwright who joined the militia, and Pegov is a professional journalist.
They had basic philological skills!
And they with these skills remained single examples - firstly, not indicative, and secondly, they did not affect, alas, the general situation in literature, where total pacifists still rule the ball.
You will say: “But what about the prose of the Great Patriotic War?”
And now I will tell you about the officers of the Patriotic War, who wrote the great "lieutenant's prose."
Yuri Bondarev: graduated from the Literary Institute (1945-1951) and only then began to write.
Grigory Baklanov?
In 1951 he graduated from Lit.
Viktor Astafiev?
In 1959-1961 he studied at the Higher Literary Courses in Moscow.
Viktor Kurochkin?
In 1959 he graduated from the correspondence department of the Literary Institute.
Front line poets?
Konstantin Simonov and Evgeny Dolmatovsky graduated from the Literary Institute before the war.
Paratrooper Konstantin Vanshenkin graduated from Lit.
Artilleryman Yevgeny Vinokurov - the same one who wrote poems about Seryozhka with Malaya Bronnaya and Vitka with Mokhova - graduated from the same Literary Institute in 1951.
And the music for this song was written by another front-line soldier - Andrey Eshpay.
But he wrote the music not because he volunteered for the war and bravely fought, but because after he met him in Berlin on May 9, he went to study as a composer and in 1953 graduated from the Moscow Conservatory in the composition class.
And another front-line soldier, Yan Frenkel, who was seriously wounded in 1942 and after the war wrote music for the great song "Cranes", graduated from the Kyiv Conservatory back in 1941.
I will not continue to multiply these endless examples, but I will only say: that great culture was created by professionals of the highest level.
Either composers, musicians, poets, already having an education, went to the front, or without fail studied after the front - including cinema, painting, philosophy, literature.
It was a gigantic system that Lenin began to create, and Stalin made it incredibly ramified, efficient, penetrating the entire society.
Our situation is radically different today.
Firstly, artists and poets do not go to the front in any capacity - even as volunteers.
Secondly, the Ministry of Defense does not create artistic brigades - for some reason they do not need it.
Thirdly, we do not have a system of literary military correspondents under the Ministry of Defense - similar to the one that Stalin created, attributing almost the entire Union of Writers to military publications, giving military ranks to writers and, as a result, having received a whole layer of brilliant war correspondents who went through the entire Patriotic War.
Finally, can you seriously assume that thousands of veterans will go after the war to study as poets and painters?
Of course not.
In Russia, it is not very clear how to live on it and who needs it at all.
But most importantly, these institutions are controlled by completely different people.
Which, as a rule, all these CTOs and NWOs saw in the coffin.
I keep imagining how a veteran of this war will come to the Union, say, of filmmakers or, for example, the Union of Journalists and ask: "Teach me."
For starters, he won't show up.
And if he comes, they will look at him there from under shaggy eyebrows in such a way that he would prefer to take Mariupol again, but never have anything to do with these people again.
They will now tell me: “We need to shake up these institutions and put other people there.”
Well shake it up.
I'll tell you a secret: it's called the Cultural Revolution.
Nobody will do it.
You will say: "Something too pessimistic you painted everything."
Well, it's an objective picture.
Remember, we had a war in the North Caucasus?
Lasted eight years.
Hundreds of thousands of people went through this war.
And what, they created a new culture?
New painting, new poetry, new cinema?
No, while they fought there, liberal and mass culture frolicked and intensified here - all these laughers and jokers.
And the veterans - they returned from the front and went home.
And not for the Literary Institutes and Conservatories.
Therefore, no one wrote a song about Seryozhka with Malaya Bronnaya and a song about cranes.
And if we don’t change everything here, he won’t write.
Don't get your hopes up.
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