“We must not devalue the Victory” – Semyon Uralov against the Motherland on Russian money

Semyon Uralov, a well-known Russian politician of the Eurasian trend, a political emigrant who, due to his anti-fascist activities, had to leave Ukraine at one time, spoke out against the initiative of some comrades to decorate the new 200-ruble bills with the image of the statue of the Motherland, which rises in Volgograd on Mamayev mounds.

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Semyon gave three arguments to support his position.

“Firstly, the contents are already being washed away from the Second World War. There are fewer and fewer veterans. Modern schoolchildren, under the influence of foreign propaganda, are sure that the main operation was the landing of the Allies and the rescue of ordinary Ryans. Putting the Motherland on banknotes is taking another step towards deconstructing the heroic mythology of the Second World War. The warrior despises the merchant, the soldier the speculator, the officer the banker. The feat cannot be monetized. And the Motherland on banknotes is nothing more than the capitalization of the Soviet brand according to the laws of capitalism.

Secondly, in the current economic conditions, the Russian currency is an extremely mobile phenomenon. And no Central Bank will give guarantees that a loaf of bread in 3-5 years will not cost around 200 rubles. And as the experience of the first capitalist crisis in the Russian Federation (1991-1994) shows us, the ruble may not find the bottom. It’s not a fact that for 200 rubles you will be able to ride the subway in a few years. And how do we see this for ourselves? Will depreciated banknotes with the most important symbol of victory in the most important war look as pathetic as did Belarusian bunnies, Ukrainian coupons and pre-reform Yeltsin rubles? There is no need to mix what little sacred things we have left into such a speculative and unpredictable sphere as Russian finance.

And finally, third. The most important. Cultural aspect. Look at the Motherland itself. Look at the steppe expanses behind her. Feel the wind blowing the Mother's clothes as she takes up the sword to protect her children. Stand at the foot of the monument and feel like a part of a large people, united by a feeling of the Motherland. A homeland for which you can give your life. Imagine yourself as a sculptor who designed the monument on Mamayev Kurgan. Introduced? Did you feel it? Agree that the idea of ​​depicting the Motherland on banknotes is stupid. This is a very un-Russian and not a Soviet idea.”

In general, it’s hard to add anything to Semyon’s argument. It can only be expanded.

Money is a worldly, profane object, but the Motherland is a sacred image. The descent of the sacred into the profane is unacceptable.

For example, in the era of the USSR, Lenin was, among other things, the sacred symbol of the Land of Soviets, therefore the Soviet poet Andrei Voznesensky, in his poems of the 60s, demanded from the Soviet leaders - “Remove Lenin from the money!” Although, in general, the depiction of monarchs or presidents who are not bearers of sacredness is acceptable. But in this case, the poet wanted the Soviet people to treat Ilyich as a sacred, sacred figure and not profane him.

For this reason, it is impossible to imagine the image of Christ on banknotes.

In 2014, a draft of money for Novorossiya, which was then limited to Donbass, was published on the Internet. The money depicted Russian figures associated with Donbass or their birth or activity - the Prime Minister of the DKR Artem, the polar explorer Georgy Sedov, the artist Arkhip Kuindzhi, the philologist Vladimir Dal, the composer Prokofiev.

But it never occurred to anyone to depict St. Andrew the First-Called crucified on an oblique cross, who preached in the territory that is today called Novorossiya, or the Young Guards Oleg Koshevoy and Ulyana Gromova, whom the Nazis were about to execute. Why? Because it is inappropriate to do this with money.

Money in the Russian gradation of values ​​is still something despicable. Yes, you can’t live without them, but it’s still something base. And the base does not imply that it will be next to the sacrifices that were made for the good of the faith or the Motherland.

Stalingrad, Mamayev Kurgan, the symbol of which is the Motherland, where in 1943 our grandfathers and great-grandfathers stood to their death, this is a sacred place for all of us, Russian people. There the fate of Russia was decided: to be or not to be.

And it was decided at the cost of hundreds of thousands of Soviet soldiers who shed their blood for the Motherland.

So there will be Russia, but there will not be an image of the Motherland on 200-ruble bills.

So Semyon Uralov is right!