Re: The Soviet Union
Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2021 2:12 pm
Travel to communism
11/18/2021
For the anniversary of V.A. Petsukha
November 18, 2021 marks the 75th anniversary of the birth of the outstanding Russian writer Vyacheslav Alekseevich Petsukh (1946 - 2019).
![Image](https://www.rotfront.su/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/20211111_Pyezukh.jpg)
V.A. Petsukh graduated from the History Department of the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute. He worked as a teacher in high school, then in the editorial offices of magazines. He began publishing in 1978 .
In the works of V.A. Petsukh had two main themes: comprehending Russian history and researching the character of the Russian person. Both themes allowed the author to show his main strength - dialectical thinking. He saw the merits and demerits of our compatriots and understood that our merits are a continuation of our demerits, and our demerits are a continuation of our merits. And, unlike gentlemen liberals, he considered our compatriots, with all their shortcomings, a great people.
The purpose of this article does not include a detailed analysis of the work of V.A. Petsukha. I will dwell only on the most interesting work for the communists: a small, only four pages, story " Novy Zavod ". It was published in the 6th issue of the Novy Mir magazine in 1987 .
The modern Russian man in the street, a citizen of Rooms, quarreled with his wife and rode the train aimlessly. In the morning, when he felt completely sick at heart, he got off the train at the Novy Zavod station and found himself ... in a communist society.
![Image](https://www.rotfront.su/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/20211112_Reshetnikov-Malchishki-fragment-1971.png)
Fragment of F. Reshetnikov's painting "Boys", 1971
And the journey began.
At first, the boys showed the sights traditional for the regional center: the grave of the actual state councilor Chekhmodurov, a chapel where, according to rumors, ghosts are found, a monument to a woman who threw herself under a train out of unhappy love. But then miracles began.
![Image](https://www.rotfront.su/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/20211115_Na-terrase.jpg)
I.V. Shevandronova "On the Terrace", 1973
It's another matter that boys don't go to school. For children in a modern school do not study so much as suffer from foolishness. This is clearly evidenced by the example of the aforementioned Alisa Teplyakova. If a girl, even a very capable one, can pass exams for a high school course at the age of eight, then such a school is worthless.
The boys showed the house where the retired former minister settled.
When Komnatov asked why the former minister settled here, the first boy said:
![Image](https://www.rotfront.su/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/20211116_Otez-i-syn-1024x683.jpg)
When work is like a hobby
Generally speaking, communism is a socio-economic system in which the production process is carried out by public organizations in which only those who want to work and only as long as they want. As is well known, nowhere in the world is money paid for work in public organizations.
In 1986 , a new CPSU Program was adopted, which stated that communism presupposes the voluntary participation of the entire population in the production process. The fact that the concepts "voluntary" and "the whole population" are mutually exclusive did not bother the compilers of the Program. For the simple reason that they themselves did not believe in what they wrote about. This Program was made up by lively guys from the department of Academician Alexander Nikolaevich Yakovlev (1923 - 2004), who saw the ideas of communism in a coffin and in white slippers.
As far as I can judge, in Russian literature (both fiction and social science) the idea that communism does not imply the participation of the entire population in the process of social production was first expressed in Novy Zavod. Therefore, we have the right to consider its author not only an outstanding writer, but also a major Marxist theoretician.
In the 1950s and 1960s, Soviet science fiction writers often described the future communist society. Let us recall, for example, "The Andromeda Nebula" by Ivan Antonovich Efremov (1907 - 1972). However, with the adoption of the concept of "developed socialism", this topic went out of fashion. But she resurrected again in the 1980s, although the word "communism" itself was not mentioned. But it meant ...
In the mid-1980s, Soviet authors produced two super-outstanding works on the communist future. These are the film "Guest from the Future" (1985) and the story "New Plant". Both works were based on the same idea - to show the Society of the Future through its children.
![Image](https://www.rotfront.su/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/20211116_Gostya-iz-budushego-2-1024x768.jpg)
Still from the film "Guest from the Future", 1984
The film "Guest from the Future" has gained immense popularity, especially among adolescents and young people. The leading role in this film, Moscow schoolgirl Natasha Guseva (born 1972), became one of the national symbols of the Soviet Union. And the story of Vyacheslav Petsukh passed almost unnoticed. Although Alisa Selezneva and the boys from the New Factory are clearly the same character, only of a different gender.
The story of V.A. The Petsukha ends with a citizen of Rooms waking up on a train that has stopped at a station called Novy Zavod. The journey to communism turned out to be a dream he had. Just like Vera Pavlovna in her time.
![Image](https://www.rotfront.su/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/20211111_Pyezukh-3.jpg)
Vyacheslav Alekseevich Petsukh (1946 - 2019)
The story "Novy Zavod" clearly opposed the anti-communism that was gaining strength in the second half of the 1980s. V.A. Petsukh decisively went against the dominant trend of thought. But liberal literary critics came up with a clever move: they began to interpret the story ... as a satire on communist ideology. But of course, there is no such satire in Novy Zavod. Everything is exactly the opposite. The story of V.A. Petsukha is on a par with the dreams of Vera Pavlovna described by Nikolai Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky (1828 - 1889), the Andromeda Nebula novel and the film Guest from the Future. For this, the communists should say to its author "Thank you very much!"
S.V. Bagotsky
https://www.rotfront.su/puteshestvie-v-kommunizm/
Google Translator
11/18/2021
For the anniversary of V.A. Petsukha
November 18, 2021 marks the 75th anniversary of the birth of the outstanding Russian writer Vyacheslav Alekseevich Petsukh (1946 - 2019).
![Image](https://www.rotfront.su/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/20211111_Pyezukh.jpg)
V.A. Petsukh graduated from the History Department of the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute. He worked as a teacher in high school, then in the editorial offices of magazines. He began publishing in 1978 .
In the works of V.A. Petsukh had two main themes: comprehending Russian history and researching the character of the Russian person. Both themes allowed the author to show his main strength - dialectical thinking. He saw the merits and demerits of our compatriots and understood that our merits are a continuation of our demerits, and our demerits are a continuation of our merits. And, unlike gentlemen liberals, he considered our compatriots, with all their shortcomings, a great people.
The purpose of this article does not include a detailed analysis of the work of V.A. Petsukha. I will dwell only on the most interesting work for the communists: a small, only four pages, story " Novy Zavod ". It was published in the 6th issue of the Novy Mir magazine in 1987 .
The modern Russian man in the street, a citizen of Rooms, quarreled with his wife and rode the train aimlessly. In the morning, when he felt completely sick at heart, he got off the train at the Novy Zavod station and found himself ... in a communist society.
Immediately behind the station building, a large square opened up to him, paved with cobblestones that glistened with dew, as if the square had been wet cleaned. In general, it was clean and somehow decent around it was extraordinary. But the most remarkable thing to him seemed to him that, despite the early hour, the square was already alive: like a horse, clinking horseshoes, peasants walked up and down, women smiled at everyone they met, in some places old women were ceremoniously talking, from behind the windows a cheerful morning cough. Mostly Komnatov was amazed that what he saw on this side of the station building did not in the least resemble what he had seen on that side, as if he had accidentally walked through a magic door and suddenly found himself in some wonderful world. This world immediately came to his liking, the melancholy vanished, and an exciting expectation of surprises fell upon him.
Indeed, before he had time to enter the square, one man treated him to a cigarette, another begged for a matchbox, two called for a drink of kvass, and someone even offered to exchange shoes.
Then he was stopped by three boys. One took him by the sleeve and said:
- You, comrade, to whom did you come?
Rooms replied that he was here by accident. Then he answered the question of another boy, konopatenky, what city he was from, then to the question of who he worked for, then to the question of whether he was a celebrity, and finally had to give his honest party word that he had no habit of lying. In conclusion, the freckled one said:
- Well, since this is the case, then let us show you our sights ...
Komnatov shrugged his shoulders and agreed.
![Image](https://www.rotfront.su/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/20211112_Reshetnikov-Malchishki-fragment-1971.png)
Fragment of F. Reshetnikov's painting "Boys", 1971
And the journey began.
At first, the boys showed the sights traditional for the regional center: the grave of the actual state councilor Chekhmodurov, a chapel where, according to rumors, ghosts are found, a monument to a woman who threw herself under a train out of unhappy love. But then miracles began.
The boys, of course, are cunning. They study and study very seriously. The book "An Introduction to Latin Epitaph" (which clearly refers to the novel by the American writer Edgar Lee Masters (1868 - 1950) "The Spoon River Anthology") in 1987 had not yet been translated into Russian. The boy reads it in English! The level of education of the boys brings to mind the famous Alisa Teplyakova , who, at the age of eight (!!!), passed the exams for the secondary school course. Or another Alice; the one from the movie "Guest from the Future".- Guys, why aren't you at school? - Rooms suddenly caught himself.
“We don’t study,” said the first.
“Well, you fill it in,” said Komnatov.
“No, we really don’t study,” confirmed the konopatenky. - We don’t want to and we don’t learn, it’s free with us. Of course, whoever wants to learn, but we do not want to.
- To tell the truth, I was taken aback by the rooms.
- Well, what are you doing then? He asked after a short pause.
- And who with what, - answered the first boy. - I, for example, read books, it's just horror, how I adore them! I am now finishing my Introduction to Latin Epitaph.
“But I don’t adore books,” said the konopatenky. - It hurts a lot of lies in them. I love all kinds of craftsmanship. My father and I know what kind of good guys ?! We will build what you want ...
- And what is your father's job? - Room interrupted him.
- He does not work as anyone, he just works - that is, you know, a specialty. Now, for example, he is building a hydrogen reactor for our power plant.
“His father is definitely a workman,” the first boy confirmed. - He, read, works for the whole plant. In the last five-year plan, he built a water supply system - in Moscow there is not even such a water supply system, but without pipes.
- Interesting! - Rooms were surprised. - But how does the water flow?
- It does not flow, - answered the caulk, - it condenses. At the same time, the salinity coefficient is practically zero.
![Image](https://www.rotfront.su/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/20211115_Na-terrase.jpg)
I.V. Shevandronova "On the Terrace", 1973
It's another matter that boys don't go to school. For children in a modern school do not study so much as suffer from foolishness. This is clearly evidenced by the example of the aforementioned Alisa Teplyakova. If a girl, even a very capable one, can pass exams for a high school course at the age of eight, then such a school is worthless.
The boys showed the house where the retired former minister settled.
When Komnatov asked why the former minister settled here, the first boy said:
A fundamental idea is expressed here, which, unfortunately, many communists do not understand. The concept of "labor" in communist society does not exist in principle. Those who work are those who enjoy the work itself. Work is not work, but something like a hobby. And, probably, not all work, which, generally speaking, does not bother anyone. Perhaps only a former minister who is being laughed at.- I took it and settled down. Says, I want to finally live among happy people. He says he has never met so many happy people as in the New Factory.
“Only he’s sick and tired of him,” added the konopatenky, “on every occasion he speaks:“ We must work, comrades, work for conscience, not for fear! ” Of course, they laugh at him. Well, sometimes they interrupt: they say, why bother, comrade former minister? “How why,” he says, “to create material wealth ...”. Ours are laughing again.
- Wait, - said Komnatov, - but your father is also working, so he is being ridiculed too? ...
- My father works for his own pleasure, what's so funny ... The
room felt uncomfortable. That is, he had felt uncomfortable before, but then somehow it became very uncomfortable.
![Image](https://www.rotfront.su/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/20211116_Otez-i-syn-1024x683.jpg)
When work is like a hobby
Generally speaking, communism is a socio-economic system in which the production process is carried out by public organizations in which only those who want to work and only as long as they want. As is well known, nowhere in the world is money paid for work in public organizations.
In 1986 , a new CPSU Program was adopted, which stated that communism presupposes the voluntary participation of the entire population in the production process. The fact that the concepts "voluntary" and "the whole population" are mutually exclusive did not bother the compilers of the Program. For the simple reason that they themselves did not believe in what they wrote about. This Program was made up by lively guys from the department of Academician Alexander Nikolaevich Yakovlev (1923 - 2004), who saw the ideas of communism in a coffin and in white slippers.
As far as I can judge, in Russian literature (both fiction and social science) the idea that communism does not imply the participation of the entire population in the process of social production was first expressed in Novy Zavod. Therefore, we have the right to consider its author not only an outstanding writer, but also a major Marxist theoretician.
In the 1950s and 1960s, Soviet science fiction writers often described the future communist society. Let us recall, for example, "The Andromeda Nebula" by Ivan Antonovich Efremov (1907 - 1972). However, with the adoption of the concept of "developed socialism", this topic went out of fashion. But she resurrected again in the 1980s, although the word "communism" itself was not mentioned. But it meant ...
In the mid-1980s, Soviet authors produced two super-outstanding works on the communist future. These are the film "Guest from the Future" (1985) and the story "New Plant". Both works were based on the same idea - to show the Society of the Future through its children.
![Image](https://www.rotfront.su/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/20211116_Gostya-iz-budushego-2-1024x768.jpg)
Still from the film "Guest from the Future", 1984
The film "Guest from the Future" has gained immense popularity, especially among adolescents and young people. The leading role in this film, Moscow schoolgirl Natasha Guseva (born 1972), became one of the national symbols of the Soviet Union. And the story of Vyacheslav Petsukh passed almost unnoticed. Although Alisa Selezneva and the boys from the New Factory are clearly the same character, only of a different gender.
The story of V.A. The Petsukha ends with a citizen of Rooms waking up on a train that has stopped at a station called Novy Zavod. The journey to communism turned out to be a dream he had. Just like Vera Pavlovna in her time.
![Image](https://www.rotfront.su/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/20211111_Pyezukh-3.jpg)
Vyacheslav Alekseevich Petsukh (1946 - 2019)
The story "Novy Zavod" clearly opposed the anti-communism that was gaining strength in the second half of the 1980s. V.A. Petsukh decisively went against the dominant trend of thought. But liberal literary critics came up with a clever move: they began to interpret the story ... as a satire on communist ideology. But of course, there is no such satire in Novy Zavod. Everything is exactly the opposite. The story of V.A. Petsukha is on a par with the dreams of Vera Pavlovna described by Nikolai Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky (1828 - 1889), the Andromeda Nebula novel and the film Guest from the Future. For this, the communists should say to its author "Thank you very much!"
S.V. Bagotsky
https://www.rotfront.su/puteshestvie-v-kommunizm/
Google Translator