60 years ago, on December 21, 1954, Soviet newspapers opened with editorials dedicated to the 75th anniversary of I.V. Stalin. The leading article of Komsomolskaya Pravda stated that “the name of Stalin stands next to the names of the geniuses of humanity Marx, Engels and Lenin, who created the great revolutionary teaching of the working class.” The Izvestia editorial emphasized that during the Great Patriotic War, “Stalin was at the head of the country’s Armed Forces.”

In the same issue of Izvestia, a large article was published by corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences F.V. Konstantinov about Stalin under the title “The Great Successor of Lenin’s Work.” Having briefly traced Stalin's revolutionary activities since the end of the 19th century, the author of the article noted the significance of his theoretical heritage for the modern era. The press reported that on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of Stalin’s birth in Moscow and other cities of the country, “at enterprises, institutions, educational institutions, scientific institutes, and military units, conversations are being held about the life and work of I.V. Stalin."

All newspapers published the resolution of the Committee for International Stalin Prizes “For Strengthening Peace Between Nations.” Prizes were awarded to the English lawyer Denis Pritt, the Secretary General of the General Confederation of Labor of France Alain Le Leap, the Burmese writer Thakin Kodo Hmaing, the German poet and playwright Bertolt Brecht, the Finnish professor Felix Iversen, the Swiss scientist Andre Bonnard, the professor of the universities of Edinburgh and Bogota Baldomero Cano, the dean Literary Faculty of the University of Jakarta Priyono and Cuban poet Nicolas Guillen.

However, almost a year later, when drawing up plans for events to mark the 76th anniversary of the birth of I.V. Stalin at a meeting of the Presidium of the CPSU Central Committee on November 5, 1955, disagreements arose. The brief minutes of the meeting noted that N.S. Khrushchev made a proposal: “The date should be celebrated only in the press; no meetings." To this L.M. Kaganovich objected, proposing to hold meetings at the factories. He was supported by K.E. Voroshilov. N.A. spoke out against them. Bulganin and A.I. Mikoyan. At the same time, the latter remarked: “There are Stalin prizes, but there are no Lenin prizes.” After the disputes that arose, a compromise decision was made: “On Stalin’s birthday, I.V. – On December 21, highlight his life and work by publishing articles in print and on radio broadcasts. To coincide with December 21, the awarding of the International Stalin Prizes."

On December 31, 1955, members of the Presidium of the Central Committee again returned to the question of assessing Stalin’s activities. Unexpectedly, at a meeting of A.I. Mikoyan brought to the attention of those gathered a letter handed to him from O. Shatunovskaya, a friend of his from the Baku underground, who had been in prison for a long time, and in the mid-50s was undergoing treatment for a severe nervous disorder. In her letter, Shatunovskaya, referring to the facts of blatant connivance of the NKVD authorities with the actions of the murderer L. Nikolaev and the death of important witnesses to this murder, argued that Stalin organized the murder of Kirov. Commenting on this letter, Khrushchev said: “If you follow it, it smells bad...” (Subsequently, numerous government commissions created from the mid-50s to the late 80s to check Shatunovskaya’s version were unable to confirm it.)

Discussions about Stalin continued after the New Year. On February 1, 1956, at a meeting of the Presidium of the Central Committee during a discussion of the report of the Central Committee at the 20th Congress of the CPSU. In response to Khrushchev’s accusations of Stalin in organizing mass repressions, Molotov objected: “But Stalin must be recognized as a great leader. It is impossible not to say in the report that Stalin is the great successor of Lenin’s work.” Kaganovich supported him: “It is impossible to resolve the issue in such a situation. A lot can be revised, but Stalin was in charge for 30 years.” Voroshilov declared: “We led the country along the path of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin.” Molotov spoke again: “Restore the truth. It is also true that under the leadership of Stalin, socialism won. And balance the irregularities. And shameful deeds are also a fact.”

The majority of members of the Presidium supported Khrushchev. At the end of the discussion, Khrushchev stated: “Stalin is dedicated to the cause of socialism, but all in barbaric ways. He destroyed the party. He is not a Marxist. Subjected everything to his whims. Don't talk about terrorism at the congress. We need to draw a line - give Stalin his place (clean up posters, literature). Intensify the attack on the cult of personality.”

Thus, the launching pad was prepared for Khrushchev’s anti-Stalin report, which marked the beginning of the denigration of Stalin and his activities. The country is still reaping the fruits of decisions made on Khrushchev’s initiative.

In the last years of Gorbachev's perestroika and throughout post-Soviet history, the attack on Stalin did not stop. His entire activity was portrayed as a chain of gross mistakes and heinous crimes. Not only Stalin’s state activities, but also his life in his youth were depicted in the most repulsive way. This was initiated by Edward Radzinsky in his book “Stalin”.

In the two decades after the publication of Radzinsky's book, attacks on young Stalin multiplied. In September 2014, I was contacted on behalf of one TV channel due to the fact that the editors were preparing a film dedicated to his youth for the next anniversary of Stalin’s birth. I had a hard time figuring out what questions the journalist was going to ask me. This is what they were going to ask me about and then show it to TV viewers: “The secret of the origin of Stalin. Was Beso Dzhugashvili really his father? Nickname “Ryaboy”… Complexes.” From the list of questions it followed that the authors of the film were not going to mention the fact that Soso Dzhugashvili was the first in academic performance, diligence and behavior at the theological school. Stalin's former classmates recalled that in his studies he was “firm, persistent and energetic. He was always exceptionally well prepared and completed his homework meticulously. He was considered the best student not only in his class, but throughout the school. During class, he watched intently so as not to miss a single word or thought. He focused all his attention on the lesson - Soso is usually so active and lively.”

Soso’s ability to firmly memorize facts, figures, dates, and confidence in the correctness of book information was recognized by all his teachers. Not only in view of the difficult situation of his parents, but also, assessing his excellent academic performance, he was awarded a scholarship: he received three rubles a month. The “Spiritual Bulletin of the Georgian Exarchate” constantly published information about students of the Gori Theological School who moved from class to class “in the first category,” that is, with excellent grades. Joseph Dzhugashvili was invariably first on the list of such students.

Soso did not limit himself to reading school textbooks. He borrowed books from the private Gori library. Historian Evgeny Gromov in his book “Stalin: Power and Art” wrote that “probably the first art book he took there was Daniel Chonkadze’s story “The Sumar Fortress.” Written in the spirit of the American novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, it castigated serfdom and was imbued with sympathy for the suffering of the Georgian peasants." Gromov noted that “at the Gori School, Joseph reads books mainly by Georgian authors - poems and stories by I. Chavchavadze, A. Tsereteli, R. Eristavi.” Soso admired the Georgian writers whose books he read. According to the testimony of his childhood friend P. Kapanadze, Soso himself painted a portrait of Shota Rustaveli, and then portraits of other Georgian writers. The boy discovered the ability to draw.

But Soso read a lot of books in Russian. Talking with aircraft designer A. Yakovlev, Stalin recalled with pleasure the adventure books of Mine Reed, Fenimore Cooper and Gustav Emar, which he read in childhood.

Stalin's fellow student A. Gogebashvili recalled: “Soso was considered the best cleric, and at solemn prayers the main singer.” School teacher G.I. also speaks about Soso’s singing abilities. Elisabedashvili: “This very gifted boy had a pleasant high voice - a treble. In two years, he mastered the notes so well that he sang freely on them... We performed works by such composers as Bortnyansky, Turchaninov, Tchaikovsky... Soso sang well in the choir of theological school students. He usually performed duets and solos. He often replaced the choir director.”

However, all these wonderful qualities of the boy, which testified to his great abilities and talents, are not needed by the authors of the TV concoction, in which they were going to create a portrait of a young ghoul, flawed, evil and bitter for the whole world.

After graduating from the first class of the seminary and before leaving Tiflis for the holidays, Joseph went to the editorial office of the Iveria newspaper with his poems. He was received by the editor-in-chief of the newspaper, the leading poet of Georgia, Ilya Chavchavadze. He liked the poems of the young seminarian and suggested that the newspaper secretary G.F. Kipshidze selected the best of them. And already on June 17, 1895, the poem “Morning” by 16-year-old Joseph Dzhugashvili was published on the front page of the Iveria newspaper. Subsequently, the prominent Georgian teacher Y. Gogebashvili placed this short poem in the textbook for primary schools “Native Word”.

Joseph's other works were also accepted. His poems “When the moon with its radiance...”, “To the Moon”, “Raphael Eristani”, “He walked from house to house...” were published in the Iveria newspaper from September 22 to December 25, 1895. The poem “Raphael Eristani” received special recognition. It was included in the anniversary collection dedicated to this outstanding poet of Georgia along with speeches, congratulations and poems by the most prominent figures of Georgian culture I. Chavchavadze, A. Tsereteli and others.

Even earlier, M. Kelendzheridze published two poems by Joseph in his “Theory of Literature with Analysis of Exemplary Literary Samples.” The works of Joseph Dzhugashvili were used as examples of versification along with the works of classics of Georgian literature - Sh. Rustaveli, I. Chavchavadze, A. Tsereteli, G. Orbeliani, N. Baratashvili, A. Kazbegi. It seemed that a wide road to poetic creativity had opened before Joseph Dzhugashvili.

In 1907, M. Kelendzheridze placed a poem by Joseph Dzhugashvili in the book “Georgian Reader, or Collection of the best examples of Georgian literature.” When this collection was published, its compiler did not even suspect that the author of one of the “best examples of Georgian literature,” whose real name was hidden by a poetic pseudonym, was wanted by the country’s police. Now, as during the times of tsarism, Stalin’s poetic works are unknown to the overwhelming majority of the population of modern Russia.

The list of questions that interested the creators of the film about Stalin’s young years included: “Stalin is being sheltered from the secret police by aristocrats and entrepreneurs. In return they receive Stalin’s protection.” Here the version that Radzinsky composed long ago is repeated is that Stalin’s revolutionary activities were in fact ordinary extortion. According to E. Radzinsky, Stalin, “together with his militants... imposed “cash indemnities on the oil magnates” and threatened to set fire to the fields. Sometimes he set it on fire, and then a crimson glow and clouds of smoke stood over the fields for weeks. There were also strikes, which, by the way, were beneficial to the owners of the fields - they raised oil prices, for which they also paid..."

Contrary to Radzinsky's fantastic version, Stalin not only did not organize oil fires, but used the legal and illegal press to vigorously condemn spontaneous rebellion in the oil fields. In the article “Economic Terror and the Labor Movement,” published on March 30, 1908 in the Baku trade union newspaper “Gudok,” Stalin, mentioning the arson of a fireplace in the Baku suburb of Balakhani and the murder of the manager due to a labor conflict in another Baku suburb, Surakhani, decisively stated: “No, comrades! It is not appropriate for us to frighten the bourgeoisie with isolated raids from around the corner - we will leave such “affairs” to the well-known raiders. We must openly oppose the bourgeoisie, we must keep it under threat all the time, until the final victory! And this requires not economic terror, but a strong mass organization that can lead the workers into struggle.”

Of course, modern television channels do not intend to promote the current activities of the pre-revolutionary Bolsheviks, who advocated increasing wages for workers and defending their social rights.

At the same time, television channels hide the long-term goals of the revolutionary transformation of society that guided Stalin and other members of the Bolshevik Party. Having studied the method of Marxist knowledge of the world from a young age, Stalin, already in his first works, not only propagated the foundations of communist theory, but also showed in practice the importance of class analysis of social processes and the periodization of their development. Modern media prefer to portray Marxist theory as a utopia, divorced from real life.

Modern media are trying to discredit the nobility of the ideological principles of Stalin and other revolutionary Marxists. What attracted Stalin personally to the Marxist revolutionary party can be understood from the contents of a short article he wrote in 1907 and dedicated to the memory of party comrade Georgy Telia. In it, Dzhugashvili listed the qualities that his comrade possessed and which, according to the author, “most characterize the Social Democratic Party - thirst for knowledge, independence, steady movement forward, perseverance, hard work, moral strength.”

By joining the party banned by tsarism, the Bolsheviks doomed themselves to constant persecution and deprivation. Having first gone to prison at the age of 23, Joseph Dzhugashvili spent in prisons, exile or in an illegal situation until 38 years. In the 15 years that have passed since his first arrest, he has been imprisoned for most of them (8 years and 10 months). During these 15 years, only once did his stay at large (but in an illegal situation) last for four years and almost three months (from January 5, 1904 to March 25, 1908). Usually he was at large only for several months at a time (9 months from June 24, 1909 to March 23, 1910; 2 months from February 29, 1912 to April 22, 1912; 6 months from September 1, 1912 . to February 23, 1913). For 2.5 months from June 27 to September 9, 1911, after serving his exile in Solvychegodsk, he was allowed to live in Vologda, but even there he was under secret police surveillance.

The historian Alexander Ostrovsky spoke long ago and in detail about how Stalin lived and fought during the underground years in his 600-page study “Who stood behind Stalin?” (The title of the book is explained by the fact that the author used archival materials from the Tsarist police who monitored Stalin while he was underground or imprisoned.) I asked a journalist who was going to ask me questions for his film about Stalin's early life if he had read Alexander's book Ostrovsky. No, he had not read either this book or other books by this prominent historian of Russia, but the journalist had looked at some American little book about Stalin’s youth, translated and distributed in our country.

Meanwhile, rich in dates, numbers and containing a lot of references to documents, Ostrovsky’s monograph provides the reader with enormous and reliable material for understanding the everyday conditions that influenced the formation of the personality of the future leader of the Soviet country. Based on the data presented in this book, it is possible to create a deep, from a psychological point of view, feature film about the fate of the revolutionaries of Russia, who deliberately doomed themselves to everyday hardships and limited their personal lives to the limit for the sake of the common good, in the implementation of which they firmly believed.

At the same time, the documented research of A. Ostrovsky opens up enormous opportunities for creating fascinating television films about the underground revolutionary, for whom daily life consisted of constant avoidance of persecution, the use of a wide arsenal of conspiracy, risky escapes from places of detention, and sometimes a desperate struggle for physical survival . Such films would be no less exciting than adventure television works about the Gadfly or the Count of Monte Cristo, but unlike them they would be a copy of life. However, working on such television films is now not in honor of the destroyers of mass consciousness, and they prefer to feed television viewers with stories and scenes of violence or decay.

Without stopping anti-Stalinist propaganda for a single day, manipulators of public consciousness blatantly distort the truth about Stalin’s state activities after the victory of the Great October Socialist Revolution. Stalin's daily life at the time when he found himself at the head of the great Soviet power is portrayed no less falsely. One such series, shown recently on television, opens with a scene in which “Stalin” growls at his wife and children. In another scene in the same film, the actor who played Stalin strangles his son when he was still a teenage schoolboy. In the next episode, he beats his now grown-up son.

More than once a serial film was shown on television in which a famous actor in Stalin's makeup was in a state of alcoholic intoxication throughout all the episodes. He either wanders around the dacha with a bottle of chacha in his inner pocket, which he drinks from time to time, or gets drunk at the table with his entourage.

Meanwhile, documents are now available that characterize Stalin’s life and his relationships with his family and people close to him in a completely different way. Back in the early 90s, Stalin’s correspondence with his mother, wife Nadezhda Alliluyeva and children was published. More than two decades ago, a collection of documents “Joseph Stalin in the Embrace of His Family” was published. In addition to the above correspondence, this collection includes the diary entries of M.A. Svanidze, who was married to the brother of Stalin's first wife. In 1995, the Young Guard publishing house published a book of memoirs by Vladimir Alliluyev, Nadezhda Alliluyeva’s nephew, “Chronicle of a Family.” Using documentary materials, it described Stalin’s family life in detail and talked about the living conditions in which Stalin, his family members and relatives lived.

In 2006, the conversations between journalist Ekaterina Glushik and Artem Sergeev, who was raised in Stalin’s family along with his son Vasily, were published and then republished in an expanded version. In his memoirs, Artem Sergeev presented in detail the living conditions in which Stalin and his family lived, about Stalin’s wife Nadezhda Alliluyeva, and about how his children grew up.

True pictures from Stalin's daily life were also captured in various memoirs of members of the Soviet leadership and guests of the Soviet government, military leaders, scientists, production managers, and Stalin's guards.

In addition, on the Internet you can now find many documents extracted from archives about the material living conditions of Soviet leaders, including Stalin. Documentary studies have appeared about Stalin’s living conditions after 1917.

One of the most thorough studies of this kind is the 500-page book “Stalin’s Near Dacha. The experience of a historical guide." Its authors (S. Degtyarev, A. Shefov, Yu. Yuryev) covered in detail every corner of the dacha and summer cottage, it seems, without missing a single type of plant on its territory and not a single closet in the rooms. Their descriptions are accompanied by skillfully executed photographs and more than once successfully supplemented by memories of various events that happened here several decades ago.

The description of the dacha and the dacha plot, as well as stories about how Stalin managed this large farm, create the impression of his zeal. The book speaks more than once about Stalin's good relations with the service staff. Although the authors meticulously name the footage of each room of the residential and utility rooms of the dacha and do not hide a single hectare of the vast land plot in Volynskoye, it follows from their narrative that there were no expensive cutlery, no valuable carpets, or antique furniture in the dacha. The authors cited the story of the commandant of the “Near Dacha” I.M. Orlova: “One day, Stalin, it was at the beginning of 1951, called me and asked me to bring a hammer and nails. When I came to the Great Hall, Stalin said that I needed to hang several frames containing reproductions of famous paintings. I said that I would now call the workers and they would do this work. Stalin took a small ladder, which he used when he needed to get a particular book from a bookcase, and hammered a large nail into a wooden panel. Then he asked for one of the frames, hung it on a nail and, getting down from the stairs, said: “That’s how it should be!” When I asked why reproductions and not paintings were included, he replied: “I have no right to take paintings from museums where people should see them. If they hang here,” he showed with his hand where the frames were later hung, “people won’t see them. I’m quite happy with the reproductions.” All framed reproductions were nailed in the presence of Stalin according to his instructions.”

Stalin also decorated the walls of his home with color photographs, which he cut out from Ogonyok, and then asked them to be enlarged. On the wall of the Great Hall there was an enlarged copy of V. Marunin’s photo sketch “Young Skier”, which depicted a strong boy of about 10 years old, standing on skis and without a hat on a ski track illuminated by sunlight. Nearby was a copy of O. Knorring’s photograph “Sponsored lamb of the collective farm “Giant” of the Novosibirsk region.” A plump girl fed a curly-haired lamb from a horn. (In the last hours of his life, when Joseph Vissarionovich was being spoon-fed and he could no longer speak, Stalin pointed with difficulty at this photograph, as if trying to say that he was now like a lamb.)

A large photograph was also placed on the wall of the so-called Small Dining Room. It was an enlarged copy of the one that was published in the Ogonyok magazine dated May 28, 1950. In the photo with the caption “Today I was accepted into the pioneers!” the Moscow schoolboy G. Blinov was depicted, who enthusiastically told his friends about joining the ranks of the pioneer organization.

The authors of the guidebook described in detail the Small Dining Room of the Main House: “To the left of the front door, against the wall, there is a sofa with three pillows and bolsters, covered with a cover. On it are two feather pillows in white chiffon pillowcases. Near the sofa there is a round table covered with a dark green velvet tablecloth with fringe. While staying here, Stalin often wrote something. He set up a table lamp on the chairs moved towards the sofa, laid out books, documents and other necessary materials. Working at night, the leader, as a rule, did not call the servants, so there was always an electric kettle on the table.” It was this circumstance that Stalin’s guards later referred to, explaining why they did not enter the Small Dining Room, where Stalin was located from the first hours of March 1, 1953. They thought that Stalin most likely prepared his own food, as usual, and therefore did not leave the room for a long time.

The guide also talks about Stalin’s experiments in growing heat-loving fruitful crops at his dacha. They were undertaken following the example of the talented Soviet experimental breeder Ivan Michurin: “A vineyard was laid out on the south side of the house in 1951... “The first harvest amounted to approximately sixty to seventy kilograms of berries. Some of the grapes were used to make homemade wine.”

In addition to grapes, Stalin tried to grow melons and melons at his summer cottage. In 1943, melons and watermelons were planted on the site of the drained pond. In 1948, about 8 tons of watermelons were harvested. By order of Stalin, part of the harvest was sent to Moscow grocery stores.

The subject of Stalin's special pride was the limonarium. The first plants in it were ten seedlings of grafted Meyer lemons, eleven lemons of the Novogruzinsky variety, ten tangerine trees of the Unshu variety and nineteen bushes of laurel. Subsequently, oranges appeared in the greenhouse - the Italian variety “Jaffa”.

However, evidence of these simple human activities of Stalin, his unpretentiousness to his home environment, fundamentally contradicts what has been introduced into public consciousness since the late 80s. the idea of ​​a crazy and capricious, cruel and absurd owner of “Blizhnaya”. Apparently, trying to brush aside possible suspicions of “Stalinism,” the authors of the guidebook included in the text information about scandalous affairs of long ago that had nothing to do with either the dacha or its history. Otherwise, it is difficult to explain the lengthy stories about the disgrace of Marshal Zhukov, the “Leningrad case” and the “case of the Kremlin doctors”, which suddenly interrupt the listing of spoons in Stalin’s cupboards or stories about melons grown at Stalin’s dacha. At the same time, in the voluminous book there was no room for stories about the planning of the victorious operations of the Red Army at the meetings of Headquarters in the Great Hall of the Main House. The guidebook does not say how intense discussions took place at the dacha about the country’s five-year development plans. With condescending irony, the authors uttered only a couple of disparaging words about the fact that Stalin was working on his theoretical works at the dacha. The authors were too intimidated by possible accusations of Stalinism. And this testifies to how powerfully anti-Stalinist lies dominate in our country.

Evil fictions about Stalin the child, Stalin the youth not only contradict facts, but also logic. How could it happen that for 30 years at the head of a great country there was a man who, from childhood, as he was taught, was distinguished only by “pathological malice” and “vindictiveness”, and in his youth was prone to “unbridled debauchery” and “criminal acts”? This is only possible if the country moves along the path of moral and intellectual degradation, ultimately suffering a monumental defeat and falling apart, as happened with Hitler's Germany.

However, during the three decades of Stalin's tenure in the highest positions of the Soviet country, it achieved economic, social, political and cultural progress unprecedented in its history. The multiple growth of industrial production during the years of Stalin's five-year plans, the increase in agricultural production, which made it possible to feed the significantly increased urban population of the country, the increase in the country's population by 27 million people during 18 peaceful years from 1922 to 1940, the elimination of illiteracy, unemployment, lack of culture and lack of rights of many peoples, the expansion of the country's state borders, the creation of a belt of friendly states on its periphery, the transformation of the USSR into one of the leading powers in the world - such achievements provided Stalin with recognition from all thoughtful eyewitnesses of his activities, including abroad.

The makings of Stalin's successful government activities can be seen in his youth. Having been a diligent student in childhood, Stalin retained the same demands on himself when he became a statesman. He carefully prepared for the discussion of any issue important to the country, studying piles of materials, talking with specialists, memorizing a lot of various information, pondering various solutions. Stalin's thoughtful and balanced decisions formed the basis of the program for the accelerated transformation of the country, contributed to the Victory of our people in 1945, and then contributed to the creation of a powerful defensive shield that still reliably protects Russia from external enemies.

A capable child and talented young man, who fell in love with music, painting, literature and wrote poetry at a professional level, turning into the leader of the Soviet country, he led the implementation of the great cultural revolution, which enriched the spiritual life of millions of people.

Having been an irreconcilable enemy of tsarist despotism since his youth, Stalin, who is still branded as an enemy of democracy, achieved the establishment in our country of a stable system of secret, equal, direct elections to all government bodies. He also advocated the implementation of alternative elections, but was unable to overcome the resistance of opponents of this democratic principle. Stalin resolutely condemned arrogant officials, their clannishness and nepotism, and defended the expansion of criticism and self-criticism of all leaders from top to bottom.

Having begun studying Marxist theory from a young age, Stalin not only propagated the teachings of Marx–Engels–Lenin, but also continued to make a significant contribution to the development of scientific communism until the last years of his life, encouraging the development of science and the scientific approach to solving all issues of modern life.

Even Stalin’s daily life allows us to see how the attitudes he acquired from a young age manifested themselves in old age. Having experienced need and poverty from childhood, deprivation and persecution in his youth, Stalin categorically shunned luxury, having achieved the highest position in the country. It’s hard to imagine modern oligarchs content with cupronickel spoons and reproductions of paintings to decorate their homes or not wanting to disturb their servants or household to prepare food for them. It is even less likely that modern oligarchs would begin to grow fruits that would be useful for the country's population and would give them to neighboring peasants.

In the choice of decorations for your home you can also see a reflection of the values ​​that guided Stalin. Seeing images of “other people’s children” on the walls of Stalin’s dacha, his daughter Svetlana was offended that she did not find photographs of her children there. Meanwhile, the abundance of these photos on the walls of the dacha can be simply explained: Stalin wanted to see the faces of those for whom he and other Soviet people worked hard. Stalin always wanted to see these kids as cheerful and smiling as they were depicted in the photographs.

Of course, Stalin’s life was not cloudless, his activities were not error-free (which he himself spoke about publicly more than once). The grandiose transformations carried out during the Stalinist decades, as is usually the case during great social changes, were accompanied by major human losses, tragedies and dramas. Yet achievements were the predominant outcome of the Stalin years.

But what seems successful and worthy to the patriots of our Motherland is by no means so to its enemies. The achievements of the Soviet country have always aroused rage among enemies. The healthy Soviet way of life was the reason for their furious hatred. Therefore, they lose their sense of proportion and objectivity and fall into shameless lies.

Is it really surprising that people who specialize in our country in denigrating Stalin and his time receive all imaginable awards and prizes from foreign states that constantly pursue hostile policies towards our country? Is it surprising that organizations specializing in anti-Stalinist propaganda are foreign agents, although they are unwilling to admit it?

Stalin's birthday, as it was in the country until 1956, is an occasion to pay tribute to the great leader of our people, to remember the grandiose achievements that marked the Stalin years. Nowadays, turning to the memory of Stalin allows us to arm ourselves with valuable and still insufficiently sought-after experience in the struggle for the interests of our people and the continuation of the great socialist revolution.

Stalin's awards

Pre-war awards. Order of the Red Banner “for the defense of Tsaritsyn and its final capture by the Red troops” (1919). Order of the Red Star, 1st degree, of the Bukhara People's Soviet Republic "for the establishment of Soviet power in the fight against the Basmachi" as People's Commissar for Nationalities of the RSFSR (1922). Order of the Red Banner “at numerous requests from organizations, general meetings of workers, peasants and Red Army soldiers... for enormous services on the front of social construction” (1937). Awarded in 1938 the Gold Medal “Hammer and Sickle” of Hero of Socialist Labor No. 1 “for exceptional services in organizing the Bolshevik Party, building a socialist society in the USSR and strengthening friendship between the peoples of the Soviet Union” in connection with the 60th anniversary of his birth” with the presentation of the Order of Lenin (1939).

Wartime awards. Title "Marshal of the Soviet Union". Assigned on March 6, 1943 after the victory at Stalingrad. Order of Suvorov, 1st degree, “for the correct leadership of the operations of the Red Army in the Patriotic War against the German invaders and the successes achieved” (1943). Order of “Victory” No. 3 “for exceptional services in organizing and conducting offensive operations of the Red Army, which led to the largest defeat of the German army and to a radical change in the situation on the front of the fight against the German invaders in favor of the Red Army” - liberation of Right Bank Ukraine (1944) . Order of the Red Banner “for 20 years of impeccable service” (this position existed in the period 1944–1956) (1944). Medal "For the Defense of Moscow" (1944).

Awards after the Victory. Order of Victory No. 15 “for exceptional services in organizing all the armed forces of the Soviet Union and their skillful leadership in the Great Patriotic War, which ended in complete victory over Nazi Germany” (1945). Medal "Gold Star" of the Hero of the Soviet Union "for the leadership of the Red Army in the difficult days of our Motherland and its capital Moscow in the fight against Nazi Germany" with the award of the Order of Lenin (1945). Title of Generalissimo of the Soviet Union (1945). Medal "For victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" (1945). Medal “For Victory over Japan” (1945).

As well as a number of foreign awards and anniversary medals.

The leader treated his awards more than modestly. He wore his pre-war awards before the war. He sometimes wore awards received during the war. And he never wore those that were awarded to him for the great Victory. Just as he harshly refused to award him the title of Generalissimo, and forced him to agree to this only by the irrefutable argument of Marshal K. Rokossovsky: “Comrade Stalin, you are a marshal, and I am a marshal. You can’t punish me.” But the Generalissimo’s uniform with shoulder straps, specially made for him, was decisively rejected and only on special or solemn occasions did he wear a general’s jacket with marshal’s shoulder straps. Not only did he not wear the Star of the Hero of the Soviet Union, but he even refused to accept it, just as he refused the second Order of Victory. And he agreed to accept them only after his 70th birthday, and on the same day, August 28, 1950, 5 years later he was immediately awarded the “Victory”, the “Golden Star” of the Hero and 2 Orders of Lenin.

And about one more order - a failed one. In the post-war years, when Stalin had an outstanding, incomparable world authority, the question of establishing the Order of Stalin as an analogue of the Order of Lenin was repeatedly raised. First after the Victory, then after the leader’s 70th birthday, and prototypes of different options were even made. But Stalin looked, thought and appreciated this idea: “Now, it’s not necessary. I’ll die, do what you want.” True, in the “Soviet Military Encyclopedia” there is a portrait where Stalin is depicted with all his orders, but this is a generally accepted tradition: every officer is required to have a photographic portrait with all his awards. Sometimes on posters you could see Stalin with two Hero Stars, but this was only on posters, because he always wore only a single award, which he treasured and was very proud of - the Hammer and Sickle medal of the Hero of Socialist Labor. Obviously, it was in this that he saw the whole meaning of his life - peaceful work for the benefit of his great socialist Fatherland.

Yuri Emelyanov
Stalin was right

With each point in the fall of the ruble exchange rate, there is more and more understanding - Stalin was right. “What are you right about?” - they ask me on the Internet. In everything. For example, here: “We must build our economy so that our country does not turn into an appendage of the world capitalist system, so that it is not included in the general system of capitalist development as its auxiliary enterprise, so that our economy does not develop as an auxiliary enterprise of world capitalism , but as an independent economic unit, based mainly on the domestic market, based on the link between our industry and the peasant economy of our country.” (From the report at the XIV Congress of the CPSU(b).

Why not a program for today? Especially now, when it is clear that the capitalism of the raw materials appendage in our country, which miraculously lasted for 23 years, died at the very first very modest attempt by Russia to claim at least some rights to its own ancestral territories. Territories collected over centuries by the rulers of Russia, including Stalin.

Of course, for some, the advantages in the raw material appendage are very attractive: you don’t have to do almost anything - drive the raw materials that the Soviet raw materials complex produces over the hill, drink, walk and relax. True, this concerned only a narrow layer of citizens, so they renamed the police into the police, so that they would know who to protect and from whom. For some reason, I remembered Khodorkovsky, about whom they said that he “created the best oil company in Russia,” and Prokhorov, who in an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda assured that the capitalization of Norilsk Nickel increased from 2001 to 2007 from 1.8 billion dollars to 30 billion dollars, despite the fact that the deposits and production capacities remained the same, and the golden Tunguska meteorite certainly did not fall in Norilsk in those years. By the way, the Norilsk plant was built by the whole country during Stalin’s time, but who got it?

I remember how “perestroika” began. Unlike the Chinese or now Vietnamese, Cuban reforms, it began not with the economy, but with a total, rabid denigration of Stalin - read the magazines of those years, many of you probably still have the old “Ogonyki” edited by Korotich in their dacha. You can still look for such unbridled anti-Stalinist propaganda now. Now you can understand why this was done - it was necessary to catastrophically shake up a completely stable country with economic growth rates higher than in the United States, and for this there were not enough nuclear Chernobyls, ideological “Chernobyls” were also needed. And since then, and if we count from Khrushchev, then even earlier, Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin is the most slandered politician in our history. And what's interesting! Dirt does not stick to Stalin. For so many years, the same forces, insignificant in number, but very influential financially and informationally, have been rolling us over with a rollercoaster of “de-Stalinization,” and the result is exactly the opposite of what they want! And on the contrary, no matter how much you fool Yeltsin, no matter how many monuments you erect to him and libraries named after him, in my opinion, his name will cause nothing but contempt among the people.

If you read the current Western media, it turns out that we actually shot down a Malaysian Boeing and are shooting Donetsk and Lugansk at a time when they are not shooting themselves. This is how the Western machine of lies and propaganda works. Why should we believe them when they talk about Stalin and the USSR, which are still feared exclusively? After all, it was there, in the West, that all these “archipelagogulags” and other “horrors of Stalinism” were invented and then migrated into dissident mythology.

Please note how relatively few trials there were under Stalin in cases of so-called corruption. But there were simply extremely few such crimes. And not because the officials were afraid, although that was the case. But this was not the decisive factor. For example, in China, despite the most stringent anti-corruption practices, it is not possible to defeat this phenomenon; it is only possible to keep it within limits. I'm not talking about Western countries. But because it was not customary to steal in the Stalin years. As advised by A.G. Lukashenko - if you want to defeat corruption, don’t do it yourself. Stalin's French jacket still remains a symbol of the modesty of a government employee. Stalin asked the civil servant, setting an example for him in modesty, hard work, and patriotism. It is impossible to imagine that any of Stalin’s people’s commissars would be dependent on the West, our consistent and primordial enemy. “Falling ruble exchange rate”, “capital flight” - in relation to the Soviet economy, these words were simply gibberish. And simply no one would believe in Ukrainian shelling of Donetsk, in the center of Greater Russia.

Speaking about Stalin, in my opinion, there is no need to avoid the topic of so-called political repressions. As a lawyer, I don’t understand the meaning of this term at all. The USSR was a recognized subject of international law, a sovereign state in which bodies endowed with appropriate powers by law passed sentences in the name of the state in accordance with current legislation. This legislation was approved by the absolute majority of the people, it was publicly available, that is, everyone knew what could be done and what could not be done, and everyone had a choice - to do it or not to do it. There was the so-called principle of legal certainty. In general, it is a common practice of any state from ancient times to the present day. It is also important to remember about the number of acquittals, which were incomparably greater than in present-day Russia. And this with a much lower crime rate. What does this have to do with any “repressions”, and even “Stalinist ones”?

The fact that in 1937 the number of prisoners in the USSR was lower than in the USA is a well-known and accessible fact. But it is interesting that the number of prisoners in the USSR in the 30s was lower than in the current States. In general, prison statistics from the United States are an extremely confusing and closed thing. Human rights activists estimate the number of prisoners in the United States at two and a half million, and even at 5 million, since there are many unaccounted for prisons and there is no clarity on the status of the prisoner. According to official and open data, as Wikipedia claims, in 2011 there were 2,266,800 prisoners in the United States, or 716 per 100,000 people. And this number is growing every year. In the USSR in 1937 there were 1,194,400 prisoners or 583 per 100,000 people.
I won’t be original, remembering the “Name of Russia” competition - in the open part of it, Stalin won by a large margin. I am sure that now Stalin’s victory would be even more convincing.

But because, despite all the propaganda, the name of Stalin is firmly and inextricably linked with Victory. And not only with the Victory in the Great Patriotic War, which is, of course, recognized by all as the greatest achievement in the history of mankind. Yes, yes, gentlemen, “de-Stalinizers” and other Americanophiles. It was not the terminators and other heroes of American films you love, but it was Stalin who saved modern European and human civilization in general from destruction in the darkness of fascism. And unlike your beloved Americans, he did it for real.

But besides the most important Victory, the entire history of Stalin’s leadership is a chain of victories and achievements. Never in the history of Russia have we and our affairs been characterized as in the Stalin era by the word “the best” - the fastest, the strongest, the most correct, the healthiest, the most active, the most progressive and, what is important not to forget, the kindest. Just watch films and cartoons of those years - ours and American ones. There cannot be two opinions, who are good and who are evil.

Gagarin's flight was also conceived during the time of Stalin. And moreover, I was born much later than the Stalin era, but from childhood I remember this amazing, delightful feeling that your country, your Motherland stands at the head of all progressive humanity, brings goodness and development to the world, and you are part of this country and this common cause .

In modern propaganda, it is customary to associate any protest in the USSR with “dissidents” - people of whom there were one and a half people in the USSR and who saw the United States and the West in general as their ideal. But during the Brezhnev years there was another, less clearly expressed protest - the “Stalinist” protest. I’m sure everyone who is older remembers how it was fashionable for truck drivers in the early eighties to put a portrait of Stalin on the windshield, because Stalin was perceived as an honest and disinterested defender of the people.

The specificity of Russia and our people is that the basis of our survival is the state. Somewhere there is weather, somewhere there is nature, somewhere there is wealth, somewhere there is the opportunity to move to another country, but here we have the state. Perhaps because no country in the history of mankind has been subjected to as many attacks as Russia. Some will say that we lived behind the Iron Curtain. But I prefer what they say about the real father, the head of the family: “We are behind him, like behind a stone wall.” Not a single nation has it so ingrained in their flesh and blood that without a strong state they will simply slaughter us all. And current events in the country and in the world are another and clear confirmation of this. As soon as we, the Soviet people, relaxed, our native state was captured, eaten, set free and plundered.

Why are Alexander Nevsky, Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great and most of all Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin so respected and loved in our country? But because each of them was not thinking about wealth, not about how to find a place to earn money for their children, but about how to strengthen the State. And strengthened it! And each of them did not squander our lands, but increased them! And the common people did not give offense. And for this, people could forgive the ruler a lot.

The periods of denigration of Stalin, “de-Stalinization,” always coincided with the weakening of the state, with the activation of dark forces. De-Stalinization is the destruction of the Soviet Union, and in fact large, historical Russia, these are wars in Transnistria, Karabakh, Abkhazia, Fergana and many other parts of our homeland cut to pieces, this is torn apart Yugoslavia, these are hundreds of thousands of our comrades who died and simply not than innocent people since the beginning of “perestroika” in Russia and in the countries that are our allies. De-Stalinization means rockets falling on Donetsk and Lugansk, these are people burned alive in the House of Trade Unions in Odessa.

Now our country is again facing serious challenges, perhaps the most serious since 1941. In such times, the people always rallied around their state and sooner or later won. The honest, incorruptible, popular, sovereign image of Stalin can become exactly what will unite and is already uniting all patriots.

And Stalin was right.

Dmitry AGRANOVSKY

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While the communists are rallying and demanding that a bust of Stalin be installed in Novokuznetsk, although, God forbid, I don’t understand why - there is a bas-relief near the aluminum plant, let’s seriously consider Stalin’s role in the formation of our city.

In the mid-20s, a course was taken to industrialize the country. Industrialization was needed for several reasons. The Bolsheviks saw from their class point of view an ideological task - the formation of a powerful layer of the proletariat, which, according to Marxist views, was the vanguard of the revolution and the movement of the masses. The peasant is a small owner, thinking in terms of the inheritance of his garden. A proletarian is, in a broad sense, an educated person who knows how to work with complex equipment. But this is ideology.

There was also a texture. Firstly, there was a civil war, which swept away all the beginnings of industry in Russia. Secondly, the actual defeat of Russia in the First World War was caused not only by the collapse of control on the part of the ruling elite, but also by Russia’s inability to produce more or less complex military equipment. We made aircraft engines in dozens of pieces, while the Entente countries - in tens, but thousands, armored cars - hundreds of pieces, Europe was whittling them almost on an assembly line, the tank in Russia was not out of its infancy, heavy artillery had to be purchased in England, and so on. .

The Bolsheviks soberly understood that the main capitalist countries would not be satisfied with the results of the First World War and that the next one was coming. and with the carts and cavalry of Budyonny there was nothing to catch in this war.

Thus began industrialization. And the construction of KMK, Kuznetskstroy became one of the main construction projects in the country. They often say that they wanted to build KMK even under the Tsar, they say, there was “Kopikuz”, a joint-stock company. Was. But it didn't happen. It didn’t happen, just as it doesn’t happen with many of today’s projects that modern entrepreneurs are trying to implement. But here, the bank did not give a loan, the dollar rose, and no permission was given. Therefore, “Kopikuz” is nothing more than one of the projects of pre-revolutionary times.

The idea was even more interesting - the Ural-Kuznetsk plant and large-scale by today's standards. In principle, Kemerovo acquired more or less formalized features thanks to this idea, which included in a single economic complex the metallurgical plants of the Urals, coal and ore of Kuzbass, coke batteries in Kemerovo (the future "Coke"), a metallurgical plant in Stalinsk and Novosibirsk, as the administrative center of this a huge complex spread over thousands of kilometers.

Stalin liked the idea and work began to boil.

Some things have grown together in this regard, some have not. But the scale is amazing. Here Magnitogorsk, here KMK, there Shcheglovsk becomes a city with factories. Novosibirsk is turning into the center of Siberia. Time for large-scale changes and construction! “We will ignite Siberia with open-hearth furnaces in a thousand suns,” wrote Mayakovsky from Moscow, delighted with the stories about the construction of Kuznetsk. And here is a fragment from a propaganda book of the early 30s, “What is Kuznetskstroy?”

— Cast iron is the iron bread of our country. In 1930 we produced 5 million tons of pig iron. But this is not enough. To meet the needs of our construction in cast iron, it is necessary to increase its production by more than three times. That is why the Central Committee of our party decided to increase the output of pig iron by the end of the five-year plan to 17 million tons.
We are building a number of new metallurgical giants in addition to Magnitostroy and Kuznetskstroy. The construction of the Nizhny Tagil plant, Dneprostal and Mariupol plant has already begun.
But Kuznetskstroy and Magnitostroy are our firstborns. They will have to pass on their construction experience to the new giants.
We are building Kuznetskstroy in a remote and deserted corner of Siberia, where the railway ends and the foothills of Altai begin. Several hundred kilometers away are the borders of Western China and Mongolia. Why did we choose such a remote place for the construction of the Kuznetsk giant? There are rich reserves of excellent coal and ore here. That is why we are building our giant Kuznetskstroy in these places. In addition to direct industrial construction, a city is being built near Kuznetskstroy - it is named Novokuznetsk. In the new city, work is underway to build wooden and stone houses, canteens, clubs, schools, baths, shops, hospitals. To train plant personnel, a huge FZU building (factory apprenticeship school) was erected for almost two thousand people. A technical school and college building is also under construction. This is how widespread the construction of Kuznetskstroy is. Giant streams of coal, coke, and ore will move here, releasing energy, gases, and heat. A technical college is a higher technical educational institution. Cast iron, steel, beams, and rails will be born here every hour. The construction of such a giant is a great victory for socialist construction. A great future awaits the Kuznetsk plant. Kuznetskstroy will turn into the largest industrial center. It will become the richest breeding ground for cultural forces in Siberia. The Kuznetsk plant will become a production and political school for the Siberian peasantry and one of the major political centers of the region. In the future, Kuznetskstroy itself will supply qualified proletarian personnel to new factories that are already being established in Siberia.
And what about Stalin, whose name everyone here worked with? Stalin. alas, I didn’t visit Novokuznetsk. But in the complete collection of his works there is a telegram sent to the Kuznetskstroevites:

— Greetings to the drummers and drummers, the technical staff and the entire management staff of the Kuznetsk plant, who achieved high iron smelting at blast furnace No. 1 and showed Bolshevik pace in mastering the latest technology. I am confident that the Kuznetskstroy team will further develop the successes achieved, ensure no less success at blast furnace No. 2, commission open-hearth furnaces and rolled steel in the coming months, build and commission the third and fourth blast furnaces this year,- the leader wrote.

Some of the pioneer builders, such as Frankfurt or Khitarov, were soon accused of an anti-Soviet conspiracy and shot (by the way, today a significant part of historians already confidently say that there was more than one conspiracy), others, like Academician Bardin, successfully built more than one plant and lived a long and happy life.

It is very difficult, 60 years after Stalin’s death, to talk about his personality, methods of work, and repressions. It is better to judge by the facts - thanks to Kaemkovsky metal, we survived the Great Patriotic War, little Kuznetsk turned into the largest industrial center of the country, the center of an entire agglomeration, in which more than a million people live. Rails are still rolled on the territory of KMK, and their descendants live in the houses built by Kuznetskstroevites. And the city itself turned out to be beautiful. Let’s look through the book “What is Kuznetskstroy” again...

— Novokuznetsk will be rebuilt as a socialist city. Work on the creation of this socialist city has already begun.
The layout of the houses is made in such a way that the sun will illuminate all living spaces. The city will have a lot of green spaces. Central heating, running water, electricity, radio will be in every house.
Through nurseries and kindergartens, factories and kitchens, a socialist city will give women the opportunity to take part in socialist construction. In the socialist city, palaces of labor and culture, a house of councils, theaters, district cinemas, clubs, new schools and colleges, a hospital campus, a dispensary, medical centers, sanatoriums, mother and child homes will be built. A recreation park with a stadium will be built near the city , military town and airfield.
Novokuznetsk will be the largest railway point. From here there will be routes to Minusinsk - to the richest grain region, to Temir-Tau - to iron ore, to Barnaul - to Turkestan cotton and to Novosibirsk - to the Great Siberian Route and Ural ore. All railways in these sections will be electrified in the second five-year plan. This is the near future of Kuznetskstroy.”

Please note - it’s a fairly sober plan, New Vasyuki doesn’t smell and, in principle, everything worked out. And the park, and the airfield, and the Higher Technical Institution, the current SibGIU, and the theater and cinema. Enthusiasts, prisoners, and displaced peasants built this city. By the way, what is surprising in our post-Soviet history is the constant glance back to pre-revolutionary Kuznetsk. Yes, there was such a town. But it became a City with a capital C thanks to these Kuznetsk construction workers, to whom their descendants never bothered to erect a monument. It’s worth fighting for a monument to them, but it’s better for Stalin to remain a historical figure who still haunts many.

Rostislav BARDOKIN

December 21st is known to many as Stalin's birthday. According to official Soviet data, he was born on December 9/21, 1879. This day is celebrated by all Stalinists in Russia and the world. Red carnations are laid at the grave of the Soviet leader, and sites sympathetic to the Soviet leader post materials in his honor.

However, most Stalinists do not even suspect that Stalin was not born on this day or even this year. Stalin's real birthday is December 6/18, 1878. That is, the 135th anniversary of the Soviet leader has just passed. But the Stalinists did not note it. They marked the wrong date.

The date December 6/18, 1878 is the date of birth indicated in the official baptismal record of Joseph Dzhugashvili (see below for an extract from the metric book with the seal of the Stalin archive).
Is there some kind of mistake here? No. There is no mistake here. Stalin's archive even contains a photocopy of a page from the registry book itself with a record of Stalin's baptism. And even people unfamiliar with the Georgian language can see that under the name Joseph the date of birth is indicated - the 6th.

The birth register is not the only one that testifies to Stalin’s real birthday.
It is important to note that Joseph Dzhugashvili, during his studies both at the Gori Theological School and at the Tiflis Theological Seminary, was listed as born on December 6/18, 1878. There were no discrepancies here. And there are several documents confirming this. Many certificates indicated the only correct date of birth of Joseph Dzhugashvili - December 6/18, 1878.

Here we present one such supporting document. This is a certificate of completion of four classes at Joseph Dzhugashvili Seminary (see below). The certificate clearly reads “born on the sixth day of December in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight.”

Why was Stalin's date of birth changed later? There are two versions of the new date.

1. The new date was indicated in the falsified passport of citizen Ivanovich, which Stalin used to travel to London for the congress of the RSDLP. The convention was held at the Fellowship Church on Southroad. Along with members of the RSDLP, members of the Bund and socialists from separatist Polish groups also took part in it. After attending the London Congress, Stalin decided to maintain this falsified date of birth for the underground struggle and to confuse the police.

2. The new date of Stalin’s birth is actually the date of the beginning of the December Moscow armed uprising of 1905. Stalin decided to keep it as a symbolic date of birth of the revolution.

Thus, everything in the veneration of Stalin is distorted and confused. Nothing can be trusted. And even Stalin's birthday is distorted. And the Stalinists are actually celebrating the beginning of the December armed rebellion of 1905.

In the coming years, we should observe a process of some rethinking of this fact among the Stalinists. It is possible that they will continue the annual celebration of the December armed uprising in Moscow instead of Stalin's birthday. Then this will lead to discrediting Stalin himself and them. How can you celebrate a fake birthday? And is it really possible to celebrate the day of the beginning of an armed rebellion against the legitimate government instead of a real birthday?

Another way out is also possible. Maybe they will change the date of their leader’s birthday celebration after all. But then you will have to explain why this happened. We will have to explain why Stalin changed his date of birth and lied to the whole country.

We cannot now predict which path the Stalinists will take. However, one thing is clear. This is another evidence of the untruth of the enemy of God Stalin and the Stalinists themselves.

By the early 1950s, the political and economic literacy of workers and peasants was not only equal to, but even superior to, the level of education of workers and peasants in any developed country at that time. The population of the Soviet Union increased by 41 million people.

Under Stalin, more than 1,500 largest industrial facilities were built, including DneproGES, Uralmash, KhTZ, GAZ, ZIS, factories in Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk, Norilsk, Stalingrad. At the same time, over the past 20 years of democracy, not a single enterprise of this scale has been built.

Already in 1947, the industrial potential of the USSR was completely restored, and in 1950 it more than doubled compared to the pre-war 1940. None of the countries that suffered in the war had by this time reached even the pre-war level, despite powerful financial injections from USA.

Prices for basic food products, for 5 post-war years in USSR , decreased by more than 2 times, while in the largest capital countries these prices increased, and in some even 2 or more times.

This speaks of the tremendous success of a country in which just five years ago the most destructive war in the history of mankind ended and which suffered the most from this war!!

In 1945, bourgeois experts gave an official forecast that the USSR economy would be able to reach the level of 1940 only by 1965 - provided that it took out foreign loans. We reached this level in 1949 without any external help.

In 1947, the USSR, the first state on our planet after the war, abolished the card system. And from 1948, every year - until 1954 - he reduced prices for food and consumer goods. Infant mortality in 1950 decreased by more than 2 times compared to 1940. The number of doctors increased by 1.5 times. The number of scientific institutions increased by 40%. Number of students universities increased by 50%. Etc.

The stores had an abundance of various industrial and food products and there was no concept of shortage. The choice of products in grocery stores was much wider than in modern supermarkets. Now only in Finland you can try sausages reminiscent of the Soviet ones from those times. Cans of crabs were in all Soviet stores. The quality and variety of consumer goods and food products, exclusively domestically produced, were incommensurably higher than modern consumer goods and food. As soon as new trends in fashion appeared, they were instantly monitored, and within a couple of months fashion goods appeared in abundance on store shelves.

Workers' wages in 1953 ranged from 800 to 3,000 rubles and more. Miners and metallurgists received up to 8,000 rubles. Young engineering specialists up to 1300 rubles. District Committee Secretary CPSU received 1,500 rubles, and the salary of professors and academicians was often above 10,000 rubles.

A Moskvich car cost 9,000 rubles, white bread (1 kg) - 3 rubles, black bread (1 kg) - 1 ruble, beef meat (1 kg) - 12.5 rubles, pike perch fish - 8 ,3 rubles, milk (1 l.) - 2.2 rubles, potatoes (1 kg.) - 0.45 rubles, chintz (1 m.) - 6.1 rubles. A set lunch in the dining room cost 2 rubles. Evening in a restaurant for two, with a good dinner and a bottle of wine - 25 rubles.

And all this abundance and comfortable life was achieved despite maintaining a 5.5 million strong army, armed to the teeth with the most modern weapons, the best army in the world!

Since 1946, work has been launched in the USSR: on atomic weapons and energy; on rocket technology; on automation of technological processes; on the introduction of the latest computer technology and electronics; on space flights; on gasification of the country; on household appliances.

The world's first nuclear power plant was put into operation in the USSR a year earlier than in England, and 2 years earlier than in the USA. Only in the USSR were nuclear icebreakers created.

Thus, in the USSR during one five-year period - from 1946 to 1950 - in conditions of tough military-political confrontation with the richest capitalist power in the world, without any external assistance, at least three socio-economic problems were solved: 1) the national economy was restored; 2) sustainable growth in the standard of living of the population is ensured; 3) an economic breakthrough has been made into the future.

And even now we exist only due to the Stalinist legacy. In science, industry, in almost all spheres of life.

Presidential Candidate USA Stevenson assessed the situation in such a way that if the growth rate of production in Stalinist Russia continues, then by 1970 the volume of Russian production will be 3-4 times higher than the American one.

In the September 1953 issue of National Business magazine, Herbert Harris's article "The Russians Are Catching Up" noted that the USSR is ahead of any country in terms of growth in economic power and that currently the growth rate in the USSR is 2-3 times higher than in USA.

In 1991, at the Soviet-American symposium, when our " democrats "they began to squeal about the “Japanese economic miracle”; the Japanese billionaire Heroshi Terawama gave them a wonderful “slap in the face”: “You don’t talk about the main thing, about your leading role in the world. In 1939, you, Russians, were smart, and we, the Japanese, fools. In 1949, you became even smarter, and we were still fools. And in 1955, we became wiser, and you turned into five-year-old children. Our entire economic system almost completely copied from yours, with the only difference that we have capitalism, private producers, and we have never achieved more than 15% growth, while you, with public ownership of the means of production, reached 30% or more. All our companies display your slogans from the Stalin era.”


One of the best representatives of the believing working people, revered by the saint, Luke, Archbishop of Simferopol and Crimea, wrote: “Stalin preserved Russia . He showed what Russia means to the rest of the world. And therefore, as an Orthodox Christian and a Russian patriot, I bow deeply to Comrade Stalin.”

The Yakuts are already installing the 4th monument to Stalin on their territory, which is infuriating the liberals

The first monument to I.V. Stalin was erected in the city of Mirny in 2005.
The second one was installed in 2009 by residents using their own money in the village of Amga, Amginsky district.
The third in 2012, people also collected money and installed it in the village of Tellei, Churapcha district.
The fourth was installed in 2013 in Yakutsk itself on the territory of the Almazy Anabara company, because The city administration strongly opposed the installation of the monument.

I congratulate all Soviet people on the birthday of Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (Dzhugashvili), the man who led our country during the years of its greatest rise and prosperity!

There were years, years of fighting
The Motherland was burning with fire,
We went on hot hikes
Follow your teacher - the leader!
Comrade Stalin led us into battle,
First Marshal - Klim Voroshimov
And we drove our enemies far away
To the border of Stalin's land.

In your own country, free and beautiful
We breathe freely, we live joyfully,
And people's love and gratitude
We bring it to our dear Stalin...

Our peaceful work in the fields and factories
We give back to the fatherland dear
Cities and villages destroyed by war
Our working people have risen again.

Let the enemies threaten a cold war -
Our people are walking along the road of friendship
In foreign lands, ordinary people know -
The great Stalin calls everyone to peace.

Raise your banners over the world,
After all, he is with us, comrades,
Whose name is in the hearts of millions
How the best song lives.

Everyone in the world is stronger and freer,
Happy Soviet people.
Your fiery voice today
He is serving for Stalin!

If only Stalin was dear
I would have met in my life
I would like to dear Stalin,
He said to our friend:

Dear Comrade Stalin,
Great Leader of October,
It was you who gave me happiness,
They brought me out into the public!

Never my native country
I haven't loved so much
I never fight
I didn't serve like that.

Never songs like this
I didn’t sing on the hikes,
Never more wonderful
I didn’t meet the commanders.

Never seen it in my life
I have such happy faces
Do not take care of such a homeland.
Didn't guard such boundaries.

You gave the country protection,
The lines have been strengthened.
Dear Comrade Stalin,
Allow me to report:

If only it happens
Say the word to the army
We have something to fight for
There is someone to protect!

This is what is dear to Stalin,
I told my friend,
If only Stalin was dear
I would have met you in my life.

If they meet us in their homeland
A few old friends
Everything that we remember dearly
The song sounds more fun.

Come on, comrades, let's break out the feast
Glasses of wine higher
Let's drink to our free Motherland,
Let's drink and pour again.

Let's drink to the ebullient Russian prowess,
For the heroic people!
Let's drink to our mighty army,
Let's drink to the valiant fleet!

Let's stand up, comrades, let's drink to the guards,
She has no equal in courage.
Our toast to Stalin! Our toast to the Party!
Our toast to the banner of victories!

The indestructible union of free republics
Great Rus' united forever.
Long live the one created by the will of the peoples
United, mighty Soviet Union!

Friendship and peoples are a reliable stronghold!

Let it lead from victory to victory!

Through the storms the sun of freedom shone for us,
And the great Lenin illuminated the path for us.
Stalin raised us to be loyal to the people
He inspired us to work and to deeds.

Hail, our Fatherland is free,
The happiness of peoples is a reliable bastion!
Soviet banner, people's banner

We raised our army in battles,
Let's sweep the vile invaders out of the way!
In battles we decide the fate of generations,
We will lead our Fatherland to glory!

Hail, our Fatherland is free,
The glory of nations is a reliable stronghold!
Soviet banner, people's banner
Let it lead from victory to victory!

Long live Stalin,
Long live the one
Who leads us from victory to victory!
His majestic law guides us,
Lead to our eleven sides!

For all ages with great deeds
Stalin glorified our native people.
Lenin's banner flies over the world,
Calls you on the path of struggle and exploits.

The sunny distances are open to us,
The fires of victory are burning over the country,
Comrade Stalin lives for our joy -
Our wise leader, dear teacher.

In the fire of labor and in the flames of battles
Stalin hardened the hearts of heroes.
Like a ray of light, his mighty genius
He illuminated the path to communism for us.

We build happiness with an unyielding will,
The road has been shown to us by the Leader;
Raising red banners high,
We are following Stalin into communism.

In the lucky republics of our country
The peoples are full of fun and happiness;
They speak in different dialects
But everywhere the same thoughts burn:

The country is you!
The country is me!
In battle and in work you and I are friends.
Worthy of the glory of great victories,
I elect you to the Supreme Council!

My beloved teacher and friend, Stalin
Millions of hands are stretched out to you,
You are the first of the first in labor and struggle,
We bring all the best feelings to you!

You are a fearless fighter of the Red Army,
And you always keep lead ready,
You guard my happiness like a brother,
You are my best and devoted deputy!

If there is war tomorrow, if the enemy attacks,
If the dark force comes,
Like one person, the entire Soviet people
He will stand up for a free homeland.

On earth, in heaven and on sea
Our chanting is both powerful and harsh:
If there is war tomorrow,
If the hike is tomorrow,
Get ready for a hike today!

If there is a war tomorrow, the country will be shaken
From Kronstadt to Vladivostovk.
The country, great and strong, will stir up,
And we will crush the enemy cruelly.

The plane will fly, the machine gun will fire,
Mighty tanks will rumble,
And the battleships will go, and the infantry will go,
And the dashing carts will rush off.

We don’t want war, but we will defend ourselves,
It’s not for nothing that we strengthen our defense,
And on enemy soil we will defeat the enemy
Little blood, mighty blow!

There is nowhere in the whole world such a force,
To crush our country,
Stalin is with us, dear, and with an iron hand
Voroshilov is leading us to victory!

Get up people, get ready for a hike!
Drums, drum harder!
Musicians, go ahead! Lead singers, forward!
Sound our victory song!

Sing a sonorous song,
Sing a song more cheerfully.
For my dear side,
About your mighty strength.

Let us destroy with a stern hand,
Let's defeat all the fascists in battle.
We are at the call of our dear Stalin
We are going into battle for our Motherland.

Where the mountain eagle takes flight,

The people compose a wonderful song.

This song flies faster than a bird
And the world of the oppressors trembles angrily
Posts and borders will not hold her
No one's boundaries will hold her back.

She is not afraid of either whips or bullets
This song sounds in the fire of the barricades,
Both the rickshaw and the coolies sing this song,
A Chinese soldier sings this song.

And raising a song about him like a banner
The united front marches in ranks;
They are burning, a terrible flame is flaring up,
The peoples rise for the final struggle.

And we sing this song proudly
And we praise the greatness of the Stalin years,
We sing about life, beautiful, happy,
About the joy of our great victories!

From edge to edge, along mountain peaks
Where do planes talk?
About Stalin, wise, dear and beloved
the people sing a beautiful song.

Accept, Great Stalin, our Father,
Love for the fatherland of devoted hearts,
Take the bow of your people
On your happy birthday!

We all sing praises to your deeds,
Live our Leader, live for our joy!

You illuminated our century with a clear light,
You are the closest person to all of us,
You and I have walked a glorious, difficult path,
Fighting for the honor of his native land.

You are leading us along Lenin's road,
You call us all to new exploits,
You and I entered into sunny life,
Fighting for peace and building communism!

The armor is strong, and our tanks are fast,
And our people are full of courage:
Soviet tank crews are standing in formation -
Sons of their great Motherland.

Thundering with fire, sparkling with the brilliance of steel
The cars will go on a furious march,
When Comrade Stalin sends us into battle
And Voroshilov will lead us into battle!

Factory labor and collective farm labor
We will protect our country,
Impact force of gun turrets
And the speed and onslaught of fire.

Let the enemy who hid in ambush remember
We are on alert, we are watching the enemy.
We don’t want an inch of foreign land,
But we won’t give up even an inch of ours.

And if a seasoned enemy comes to us,
He will be beaten everywhere and everywhere!
Then the drivers will press the starters
And through the forests, through the hills, along the water.

Love for our native land burns in our hearts,
We are going into mortal combat for the honor of our native country.
Cities are burning, engulfed in smoke.
The stern god of war thunders in the dense forests.

Artillerymen! Stalin gave the order!
Artillerymen, the Fatherland is calling us.
From many thousands of batteries
For the tears of our mothers,
For our Motherland - Fire! Fire!

Find out your own mother, find out your wife - friend,
Find out the distant house and my whole family,
That our steel blizzard still beats the enemy,
What freedom we bring to our native lands!

The hour will strike, the end of the campaign will come.
But before you go to your family's homes,
In honor of our Leader, in honor of our people,
We will give a joyful fireworks at the midnight hour.

There are many stars shining in the sky,
And one crystal;
Lots of thoughts in mind
At the home of Stalin.

The spring garden is blooming
Our glorious land;
Beloved Stalin spoke
It's about happiness from the Kremlin.

Across rivers, across distances,
On a quiet golden evening,
Dear Comrade Stalin,
I heard your voice.

Songs flow in streams,
The songs have cheerful words.
The constitution gives
We all have great rights.

We would like to see Stalin
We should talk to him
I would like to tell you how it was on a collective farm
It became fun for us to live.

Oh my gardens, little gardens,
In spring they bloom all around.
Oh, we are happy on the collective farm
and we live prosperously.

Oh my gardens are blooming,
Songs flow over the village.
Dear Comrade Stalin,
We thank you helmet.

May the sun shine brighter
Let the gardens and fields bloom,
To be even more beautiful
Our glorious land.

My native country is wide,
There are many forests, fields and rivers in it!
I don't know any other country like this
Where a person breathes so freely.

No one is superfluous at our table,
Each one is rewarded according to his merits,
We write in golden letters
National Stalinist law.

The morning is painted with gentle light
The walls of the ancient Kremlin,
Wakes up at dawn
All Soviet land.

A chill runs through the gate,
The noise on the streets is louder.
Good morning, dear city,
The heart of my Motherland!

Effervescent, mighty,
Invincible by anyone
My country, my Moscow,
You are the most beloved!

May sun, brighter
Light up the blue sky.
To the tower of the Mausoleum
To convey our joy.

To shine brighter
Our slogans of victory,
For Stalin to raise his hand,
Sending us hello.

We grow, we sing, we play,
We live in happy times,
With a friendly song we open
Pioneer is our joyful home.

You trams, ring quietly,
By the river, on the Boulevard Ring,
So that my beloved Stalin can hear
Our song in the Kremlin Palace.

On the green oak,
Yes, over that space
Two clear falcons
We had conversations.

And these falcons
People found out everything:
The first falcon - Lenin,
The second falcon is Stalin.
And they flew around
Falcons flock...

Oh like the first falcon
I said goodbye to the second one,
He has a dying word
I was talking to a friend.

You are my gray falcon,
The time has come to part,
All the work and worries
They fall on you.

And the other replied:
Forget your worries
We swear to you -
Let's not turn off the road!

And he kept his oath,
Battle oath.
He made me happy
The whole native country!

In the vastness of the wonderful Motherland,
Tempered in battles and labor,
We composed a joyful song
about the great Friend and Leader.

The sunny and brightest land
The entire Soviet land has become.
Stalin's bountiful harvest.
Collective farm fields are expanding.

We have been given sparkling wings,
We have been given great courage.
Songs of love and abundance
The Soviet Country is famous.

Stalin is our military glory!
Stalin - the flight of our youth!
With songs, fighting and winning,
Our people are following Stalin!