“Solzhenitsyn’s dreams collapsed - the Russian man did not repent” - Tsipko
There are no political forces in Russia capable of carrying out decommunization against the backdrop of the growing popularity of communist ideas in the country.
The chief researcher at the Institute of International Economic and Political Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Alexander Tsipko, known for his support of Maidan activists and criticism of the Russian government, writes about this on the pages of Moskovsky Komsomolets.
He criticizes Boris Yeltsin’s team from “Democratic Russia”, who, having come to power, did not condemn the Soviet regime at the legislative level.
According to him, anti-communist ideology is alien not only to the leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Gennady Zyuganov, but also to the liberal writer Dmitry Bykov.
“And the most amazing thing is that American “Freedom” is actively engaged in the propaganda of Marxism in post-communist Russia! Sergei Medvedev, radio host on Svoboda, creator of the program “Archaeology of the Past,” actively promotes the Marxist idea of revolution. He recently said that he regrets that modern Russia has consigned to oblivion the revolutionary “spirit of October,” the author writes.
He is also indignant that “the young Marxists invited to this program argued that Marx was alive, that for Marxism freedom was the main value.”
“This raises the question: is there at least one political force in Russia that is capable of starting the decommunization of the country? Most likely, what Solzhenitsyn spoke about will never happen: the Russian people will never be able to let into their soul the terrible truth about the senseless Russian twentieth century, they will not be able to repent either for the fact that they followed the Bolsheviks in 1917, much less for the fact that our state forcibly imposed Soviet totalitarian slavery on the countries of Eastern Europe.
I, of course, am aware that the “sixties” of our liberal intelligentsia is much less dangerous than national Bolshevism and national communism, which are gaining strength and popularity every day. But still, it scares me that even our intellectuals, who consider themselves Western liberals, are doing very little to revive the values of human life in our society, to condemn the crimes not only of Stalin, but of Bolshevism in general,” Tsipko is indignant.
Let us note that after the reunification of Crimea with Russia in 2014, Tsipko accused the Russian government of restoring “neo-Stalinism and neo-Sovietism,” and during the Ukrainian presidential elections of 2019 he described opponents of then-President Poroshenko as “neo-Marxist-Leninist populists.” Tsipko called Zelensky’s victory “an actual rejection of the ideals of the “revolution of dignity” and a betrayal of the idea of European integration and de-Sovietization of Ukraine.
It is noteworthy that the current anti-Soviet and anti-communist Tsipko in Soviet times defended his candidate’s dissertation on the topic “Methodological problems of studying the criterion of social progress of a socialist society”, and then his doctorate – “Philosophical prerequisites for the formation and development of Karl Marx’s teaching on the first phase of the communist formation.”
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