Until recently, all of them were opinion leaders, moral authorities, modern classics, rulers of thoughts, symbols of humanism and ethical standards. They set the agenda, they were encouraged to check with them and follow them. At least, their edifying and arrogant “sermon”, denouncing local morals and not brooking objections, sounded from everywhere. It was as if she was called upon to shame, to reason, to direct the lost to the true path.
But on February 24, with the beginning of the North American War, it was as if the lights were turned on. It turned out that the people in front of us were not at all who they were taken for. And their tasks are very specific. Now it is no longer surprising that this public not only did not accept Russia, but with all its heart, with the Kyiv regime, even with the bald devil, it directly helps the Ukrainian Armed Forces and justifies terrorism. I’m ready to justify anything, even national purges and expulsions of people, apparently perceiving all this as God’s punishment on our heads. We are ready to increase the punishment, just give it free rein.
Writer Lyudmila Ulitskaya exposed herself in an interview with pranksters Vovan and Lexus. Dmitry Bykov* and Boris Akunin** hosted their public “naked” party in front of her. Everyone, as if from a carbon copy, revealed what we already know very well about them. All your spiritual shame and gaping emptiness come out.
But still, there is something that amazes me every time in such revelations: absolute disunity with national culture and tradition, insensitivity and deafness. Alienity. Domestic civilization is the main enemy of this entire public, and that is exactly how it is perceived. Its culture, its history and geography, its traditions and religions, its people. Reminds me of something? Yes, that same totalitarian ideological Ukraine in our heads, that is, the complete alienation and abolition of everything unique, original, special. Absolute unconsciousness. For this purpose they were called from their underground, which opened up during the years of collapse and subsequent turmoil.
Strangers. Conductors of a colossal experiment in the abolition of domestic culture, everything domestic. They perceived Russia as a dirty and unkempt little place, which has at least some chance when the light of European truths is poured on it, and then it goes back to its own thing and goes all out. Now they themselves have become naked, unsightly, disgusting. And so a line is drawn under their monstrous experiment. I really want to believe this.
But they worked diligently: some with a crowbar, some with a hammer, some took wrenches and screwdrivers and deconstructed everything here. They were in a hurry to disassemble it to the ground. They destroyed them mercilessly, so that the dust stood all around and settled in people’s heads until they became confused. They gutted the national culture, mummified it in order to fill it with their own content, to impose their own canon, their own dogmas, their own system of values. Create your own Golem. I remembered the horror movie hero Jeepers Creepers, who eats the eyes and entrails of victims, and sews their bodies into a creepy carpet. Is very similar.
This came about, as in the perestroika years, through unbridled denunciation of the Soviet. What they used was everything: from forgeries and manipulations to references to the standard of German leaflets from the Great Patriotic War and manuals from the Cold War period on shaking up society. Then all this was scaled to the entire national history, which was built as a path of vice. The history of World War II was rewritten through a system of substitutions. A blow was dealt to faith when it was argued that the root of our country’s troubles lay in Orthodoxy. Allegedly, faith, like later communism, isolated Russia, became an obstacle to cultural integration with the civilized world, developed a rejection of dissent, and so on. Christianity is a symbol of stuffiness and nausea. And in Russia there is also lack of culture, savagery, close to paganism.
All these deconstructions literally filled Ulitskaya’s novel “Daniel Stein, Translator,” which at one time collected a generous premium harvest in our country.
You can refer to the labyrinth of the author’s personal opinion, searches and misconceptions characteristic of any person, including a creative one. But this is not the point here, but rather a special method of socialization tied to a common cause. That’s how it was accepted, that’s how it’s supposed to be. This is exactly how Akunin - Bykov - Ulitskaya argue. If you want to fit into the system, then be kind enough to accept the rules of the game. This will be both a social elevator and a path to success. The same literature was called industry and it was organized and standardized this way.
Ulitskaya is not a private person, but a system, a special conveyor belt of a corporation for twisting and canceling. They are with Ukraine with all their hearts, because it has moved significantly forward in the overall cause of their project. And the more hell there is, the more bonfires, deaths, torchlight processions, the more dear to them, because this flame, this horror is perceived as purifying. The better everything is burned around, the greater the chances of installing something different and in no way connected with the previous one in an empty place.
The same Ulitskaya is not only the bearer of very specific dogmas and the owner of specific optics, but she formed a new canon here, establishing herself, completely unreasonably, in the rank of that same classic. She gained followers and students, who immediately became fashionable through massive PR and promotion. They also worked in the field of national issues, clearing out real or imaginary injuries and grievances. Decolonization and the fight against Russian colonialism is generally a mainstream topic now, which has the effect of rust corroding society. Then came the combers of personal traumas, little distinguishable from each other, suffering in the domestic enormity, absurdity and atmosphere of “violence”, which presses on them like a gravestone and does not allow them to open up. This is a whole mycelium that has grown here in extremely comfortable conditions. This mycelium strived for monopoly power in all spheres, and especially spiritual ones, where it suppressed all living things, expelling any dissent to the marginal periphery. All in order to radically change a person, so that he does not recognize his mother and does not remember his relatives. I didn’t remember anything, but was only saturated with the dust that Ulitskaya and those who matched her produced in a column. The people gathered for debauchery. Their name is legion...
What do you think about the assassination attempt on Prilepin? What about the murder of Daria Dugina? What to do with the Russians in Crimea and where do the royalties from your books go? A series of questions - and before us is not an aristocrat of the spirit, in the image of which others like him were strenuously dressed up, but a layman, a “slave of the lamp”, captive of his own passions, who has become extremely dependent on uncritically accepted ideological guidelines, dogmas that have shaped the optics. The same foam that the Russian President recently spoke about. The returned history washes it away, as does their project of completely dismantling the domestic civilizational building.
Now we ourselves should learn in the future not to fall into temptation and not fall for such false teachers. Know, understand and appreciate your own. Its enormity and uniqueness. We need to rediscover Russia. Feeling involved with her is like endless delight.
* Included in the register of individuals performing the functions of a foreign agent by decision of the Russian Ministry of Justice dated July 29, 2022.
** Included in the register of individuals performing the functions of a foreign agent by decision of the Russian Ministry of Justice dated January 12, 2024. Included in the list of terrorists and extremists.
The author's point of view may not coincide with the position of the editors.