December 21 is the official date of birth of Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili (Stalin) (1879) and Marshal of the Soviet Union Konstantin Konstantinovich Rokossovsky (1896).

Scan from the newspaper "Udarnik Kuzbass". Congratulations to Comrade Stalin on his sixtieth birthday.

For reference: Happy birthday in the Soviet press comrade. Stalin was not congratulated every year, but only in 1929, 1939 and 1949. In other years, this day was treated as an ordinary day in the newspapers and there were no congratulations to the leader on his birthday. The cult of personality, however.

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But in his youth, young Joseph Dzhugashvili wrote poetry...

The famous Georgian poet and revolutionary democrat Ilya Chavchavadze (1837-1907), who published the newspaper “Iveria” in Tiflis, in 1895 published five poems he liked by the then unknown 16-year-old Joseph Dzhugashvili. The poems were about awakening the beauty of nature and the Motherland; about the poet’s hopes for life, despite all its hardships, about a lyrical conversation with the moon; about the people's suffering and the appointment of a singer and poet in Georgia; about the tragedy of a man who brought good to people, and about human ingratitude that destroyed this man; and, finally, about how old age comes and how the old man does not want to surrender to the hands of death. These poems amazed the classic of Georgian literature Ilya Chavchavadze. So on June 14, 1895, in issue No. 123 of the Iveria newspaper, the first poem by I.V. Stalin appeared, which later became known as “Dila” (“Morning”). It was this poem that in 1912, a prominent person in Georgia, Jacob Gogebashvili, included in the textbook “Native Language” (“Deda Ena”) for primary school:

The wind smells of violets,
The grass glows with dew,
Everything around is waking up
Lit up with roses.

And the singer from under the cloud
Everything is livelier and sweeter,
Nightingale endlessly
Sharing joy with the world:

"How you make me happy, Motherland,
Beauty with your rainbow,
So everyone works
I must please my homeland."

This poem was published in Georgian in 1948 in Tbilisi as a separate book, well illustrated in color, with a circulation of 10,100 copies at a price of 7 rubles per book.
Nikolai Dobryukha (translated the poem “Morning” into Russian), laureate of the Moscow Komsomol literary prize, spoke about this.
Another translator of Joseph Dzhugashvili’s poems, Lev Kotyukov, wrote several years ago in the Moscow newspaper “Zavtra”:
“In their youth, many dream of becoming poets, but, having lost their passion in the desire to be published and become famous, they resign themselves to defeat - and in their mature years they remember their home-grown verses with a smile. Joseph Dzhugashvili was not a failed poet, he did not dream of poetic recognition: he was a poet , was recognized and noted as a poet at the dawn of his foggy youth. Georgian newspapers and magazines willingly provided their pages to him. So why does the proud, ambitious young Dzhugashvili not follow his recognition? Why, having been born a poet and like Arthur Rimbaud, having become famous at the very beginning, goes into revolution and forgets about himself as a poet until the end of his days? Let's try to answer this as best we can.
The end of the 19th century in Russia was marked by the rapid development of capitalism. The 1880-90s were truly anti-poetic times. Forgetting about eternity, people turned time into money, despising poetry, they did business. This fact speaks for itself: the brilliant book “Evening Lights” by Afanasy Fet (who once served as an officer in Novogeorgievsk, now flooded by the Kremenchug reservoir), published by the author at his own expense, was practically not sold out. Let us recall the then popular disparaging statement about the poetry of Leo Tolstoy: “Writing poetry is like dancing behind a plow...”
Young, wise beyond his years, Joseph Dzhugashvili knew perfectly well that the poetic path promises not only glory, but also humiliation, and did not want to put up with this, because since childhood he was more than full of bitter knowledge. He leaves poetry.
In 1949, on the initiative of L.P. Beria, an attempt was made, secretly from Stalin, to publish poems in gift format in Russian for his 70th birthday. For this purpose, under the strictest secrecy, the best poets-translators were brought in, among whom were the future Nobel Prize winner in literature Boris Pasternak, author of the famous novel “Doctor Zhivago” and Arseny Tarkovsky (father of the world famous film director who directed the films “Ivan’s Childhood”, “Andrei Rublev", "Solaris", "Mirror", "Nostalgia" by Andrei Tarkovsky). Having become acquainted with the nameless interlinear translations, without knowing their authorship, one of the masters of poetic translation innocently said: “They are up for the Stalin Prize of the first degree...”
The poetic activity of Joseph Dzhugashvili lasted only four years - from 1893 to 1896. The manuscripts of his poems are irretrievably (?) lost, the search for his lifetime publications is limited for objective reasons. Today we are publishing several poems by a poet undeservedly forgotten by us and ourselves.

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He walked from house to house,
Knocked on strangers' doors.
Under the old oak panduri
A simple motive sounded.

In his tune and in his song,
Like a ray of sunshine, pure
There lived a great truth -
Divine dream.

Hearts turned to stone
A lonely chant woke me up.
A flame dormant in the darkness
Soared higher than the trees.

But people who have forgotten God
Keeping darkness in the heart,
I'll use poison instead of wine
They poured it into his cup.
They told him: “Damn you!
Drink the cup to the bottom!..
And your song is alien to us,
And your truth is not needed! "

* *
When the moon shines
Suddenly the world below lights up,
And her shadow beyond the distant distance
It emits blue into the air.

When above the serene grove
The nightingale soars with song,
And the salamuri voice is gentle
It sounds all night in my soul.

When the oppressive darkness of the abyss
He will disperse in his native land.
And to the heart with a heavenly voice
He will give his message of hope.

I know that this hope
my soul is forever pure.
The soul of the poet strives upward
And beauty matures in the heart.

Float majestically in space
Above the hidden abyss of the earth
Spread a silver glow
The fog is gloomy, the darkness is thick.

Bow down to the ground lying in your sleep,
Bow down with a gentle smile.
Sing a lullaby to Kazbek,
whose ice, glowing, strives upward.

But know for sure who was once
Humiliated and thrown into dust,
Still on par with Mtatsminda
And it will revive faith in hearts.

Soar on the dark sky!
Play with rays and kings...
And the land born with quiet light,
Illuminate with heavenly light.

I will open my whole soul, I will open myself,
I will extend my hand to you!..
Shine, Moon - the soul of the Universe,
Shine on, Moon, in my destiny.

To the poet, singer of peasant labor, Prince Rafael Eristavi

Once upon a time the oppression of the peasant share
You, singer, were shocked to tears.
But, God, how much evil and pain
Since then I had a chance to see it.

But protected by my homeland all my life,
You haven't forgotten your songs.
One with her dream all my life,
You are young again with love.

Singer of the Fatherland works hard
The people will also reward.
The seed has already taken root
And a difficult harvest is coming.

It’s not for nothing that people like Eristavi
My beloved region gave birth.
And may you have earthly glory!..
You conquered eternity with a song.

Translated from Georgian by L. Kotyukov.

Stalin's birthday is considered to be December 21 (9), 1879. And according to the entry in the metric book of the Gori Assumption Cathedral Church, Joseph Dzhugashvili was born (according to the old style) on December 6, 1878, and on December 17 he was baptized according to the Orthodox rite. The reasons that forced Stalin to change his date of birth are explained by the recommendations of astrologers and occultists (almost Gurdjieff himself). Whether this is so is difficult to say. Like any cult figure, Stalin is surrounded by many myths.

There are also less exotic myths. The “patriotic” myth puts Stalin on a par with Archpriest Avvakum, St. Seraphim of Sarov, Karamzin, Pushkin, and even—it’s funny to say! - with Dostoevsky. And then he declares him a holy martyr. No better is the “liberal” myth, according to which Stalin is a seminarian-dropout, with mental disabilities, an anti-Semite and, in the words of Trotsky, “the most outstanding mediocrity” of their party.

The “patriotic” myth is vicious, because it calls to Russia the shadow of this tough and cruel politician. The “liberal” myth is vicious because it distorts history, as if saying: if Stalin had been educated and smart, we would not have had a Gulag, etc. And Stalin, meanwhile, was gifted, smart, and educated.

He grew up a bookish boy. I read my first book at the age of six - it was the Bible. Almost all classes at the Gori Theological School were held in Georgian, but then an order was received from Tiflis to switch to Russian. As a result, Joseph mastered Russian as a native language.

Moreover, a liberal spirit reigned in the school, and Joseph became a regular visitor to Kalandadze’s private library. He was sensitive, sentimental, sensitive to the poetic word. Then he fell in love with the poems of Ilya Chavchavadze, Ignatius Ninoshvili, Akaki Tsereteli. The song “Suliko” based on Tsereteli’s verses will become a favorite: “I was looking for the grave of my beloved, / My heart was tormented by longing...” As if he had a presentiment of the future graves of his wives...

Soso was most impressed by the story of the oppression of Georgian peasants, “Gogia Upshvili” by Ninoshvili. And of course, the novel “The Patricide” by Kazbegi. His ideal was Koba, a romantic robber serving Shamil. According to Robert Tucker, the novel "not only gave Soso an idealized image of the hero as an avenger, but also convinced him that the act of triumph of vengeance was a worthy cause to which one could devote his life." One way or another, literature taught him a lot.

He graduated from the Gori Theological School with only two “B” grades (in Greek and arithmetic), the rest were “A” grades.

The theological seminary in Tiflis differed from the Gori School, like a barracks from a boy scout camp. There was a strict ban on Georgian literature and newspapers. Going to the theater was considered a mortal sin. The strict regulation of life, the system of denunciations and surveillance, the dogmatic manner of teaching - then Joseph Dzhugashvili did not like all this very much. He no longer strives to be the first student; he succeeds only in civil history and logic. And she enjoys singing in the choir.

Seminarians could only read secretly, which made this activity particularly attractive. Here is the inspector’s entry in the behavior log for November 1896: “Dzhugashvili, it turned out, has a subscription sheet from the Cheap Library... Today I confiscated op. V. Hugo “Toilers of the Sea”... Punish with a long punishment cell - I have already been warned about an unrelated book - “Year 93” by V. Hugo.” Soso ended up in a punishment cell for illegal reading more than once or twice. This is how the high price of literature was learned and this is how, perhaps, the work of art and the punishment for it were connected in his subconscious.

In his first year at the seminary, Soso joined a literary circle. Its participants analyze works of world, Russian and Georgian literature, and follow discussions in the Kvali newspaper. They passionately and biasedly discuss the ideas of the linguist Marr - about the dependent nature of the origin of the Georgian language. So, in 1950, Stalin will take up issues of linguistics and get involved in a discussion about Marrism not out of the blue - then the patterns of the folded carpet of life will coincide (“Language is the matter of the spirit,” he will write in the margins of the article about Marr in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia).

On June 14, 1895, on the front page of the Iveria newspaper, its editor, poet Ilya Chavchavadze, published the poem “Morning” signed “I. J-shvili.” By the end of the year, the young poet’s poems will appear here four more times - signed “Soseslo” and “I. J-shvili.”

In this country he was a shadow,

A guest who came without a message,

He touched the eternal strings,

Sang unusual songs.

(Translation by Nikolai Dobryukha)

The fact that he was very gifted poetically is confirmed by the further fate of his poems. Thus, “Morning” in 1912 included Jacob Gogebashvili in the textbook “Native Language”. A poem dedicated to Eristavi, a romantic poet, playwright and translator, was included in the anniversary collection in 1899, along with the works of Chavchavadze, Tsereteli, etc. in 1899, Kelendzheridze in his “Theory of Literature with Analysis of Exemplary Literary Samples” examines two poems young Soso - along with the works of Rustaveli, Chavchavadze, Baratashvili, Kazbegi.

Of the required six years, he studied at the seminary for five and was expelled during the transition from 5th to 6th grade with the wording “for failure to appear for exams” (Stalin himself in 1932 would explain this way: “Kicked out of the Orthodox theological seminary for promoting Marxism "). In addition to his disgust at lack of freedom, Joseph Dzhugashvili took away from the seminary a thorough reading and familiarity with Marxist ideas. He accepted Russian culture as his own. His favorite writers were Gogol and Chekhov... Especially Chekhov.

The conditions of tsarist prisons and exiles were luxurious compared to Soviet hard labor, and the revolutionaries recalled their “prison universities” with some special joy and pride. When the exiles read their poems, Koba acted as a critic, explaining: “... a writer, a poet, who relies only on his intuition, artistic intuition, does not work on himself, no matter how sonorous and beautiful his products are, it will leave nothing in the minds of people , is forgotten, and the author himself is thrown overboard.” He told his comrades about how Pushkin and Tolstoy worked on their works. In the 1920s, Stalin became interested in the works of Bret Harte and would advise gold mining workers to read him.

Stalin was proud of his daily reading norm—500 pages a day. And he sometimes showed greater taste than professional writers. Here, for example, is a wonderful scene. The first day of the New Year, 1923... Literary salon at the Kamenevs in the Kremlin. Among the guests are Stalin, Kuibyshev, Dzerzhinsky, Sokolnikov, as well as writers - Demyan Bedny, Voronsky and Pyotr Semenovich Kogan. Veresaev reads chapters from the novel “At a Dead End.” Epigraph from Dante - “And the angels in this despicable crowd / Are involved...”.

After the reading, Veresaev recalled, he was “furiously attacked.” Kamenev complained that “fiction writers do not depict exploits on the front of the Civil War, but prefer false fabrications about the alleged atrocities of the Cheka.” Demyan Bedny and Professor Kogan are equally categorical. Stalin “approvedly regarded the novel and said that it would, of course, be inconvenient for the State Publishing House to publish such a novel, but, generally speaking, it should be published.” Stalin is supported by Dzerzhinsky: “As for the reproach that he allegedly slandered the Cheka, then, comrades, it has happened between us or not”...

In May 1922, Stalin, already the general secretary of the party, intervened in the case of Isai Lezhnev in connection with the magazine “New Russia”. “Russian messianism, imperialism (from ocean to ocean), Russian messianism (light from the East), Russian Bolshevism (on a global scale) - all these are quantities of the same dimension,” Lezhnev wrote in the first issue (1922). It was these views that Zinoviev did not like in Petrograd, but were taken under the protection of the Politburo in Moscow - headed by Lenin and with the participation of Stalin. Lezhnev’s magazine features Andrei Bely and Voloshin, Alexander Green and Valentin Kataev, Mandelstam, Pasternak, Prishvin, Nikolai Tikhonov and Alexey Tolstoy... Here in 1923 Bulgakov’s “Notes on Cuffs” was published, and in 1926 the publication of “The White Guard” began " It seems that the views of these three - Lezhnev, Bulgakov and Stalin - coincided at some point. (In 1933, Stalin would give Lezhnev, who had just returned from exile to Estonia, a recommendation to the party.)

Everything else is well known. About, for example, why Mandelstam ended up in a camp (where he perished), but Pasternak did not. About how Stalin patronized Bulgakov and Sholokhov. And how Anatoly Rybakov received the Stalin Prize, II degree. It is also known what Stalin did with writers in general. And not only with writers...

So who and why decided that literature teaches good?

Photo at the opening of the article: I.V. Stalin reads while resting / Photo from the personal archive of E. Kovalenko / RIA Novosti

The myth that Stalin was born on December 21, 1879 is one of the most durable and harmless in all anti-Stalinism. Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was also personally involved in the emergence of the myth. It happened as follows. One of his assistants, filling out questionnaires and biographical information for him in 1921-1922, apparently made a mistake due to a misunderstanding. For some unknown reason, Stalin did not correct them. Although before that he always indicated that he was born in 1878. For example, when filling out a questionnaire with his own biography, addressed to him by the Swedish left-wing Social Democratic newspaper Folkets Dagblad Politikin in 1920, Stalin accurately indicated the year of his birth. By the way, this is the only document where the year of birth is written in Stalin’s hand. From that time on, the myth about December 21, 1879 as the date of Stalin’s birth began. The biographical chronicle of the first volume of Stalin's collected works indicates that he was born on December 9 (21), 1879. Considering that the collected works and biographical chronicle were compiled under the personal control of Stalin, therefore, ultimately, the author of the myth about this date of his birth should be considered himself Stalin. In the end, the collection of his works came out of print after the war, when more than a quarter of a century had passed since the mistake was first made and then uncorrected. Accordingly, if he himself did not want to correct these data, then one really has to consider him the author of this myth. Moreover, when this birthday was officially celebrated for the first time, and it happened on December 21, 1929, Stalin again did not react in any way to the obvious mistake.

To be completely precise, it should be pointed out that for the first time 1879 as the year of his birth appeared in the documents of the tsarist police back in 1910. Obviously, this was due to the fact that Stalin was then arrested with a false passport, in which this particular year was listed. Then, after serving his exile, when he received a real passport, the police again indicated this year of his birth. In principle, back then they didn’t pay much attention to such subtleties. It ended with the fact that after October 1917 it turned out to be easier to come to terms with this established inaccuracy than to correct all the documents again. And the revolutionaries did not have time for that. The Civil War was going on - did they have time to straighten their passports?!

The same should be said about his birthday. December 21, new style (December 9, old style) as Stalin's birthday has appeared in official documents since 1918. Who made a mistake in this case - made a typo - is even approximately impossible to determine.

But the entry in the metric book of the Gori Assumption Cathedral indicates that in fact Joseph Dzhugashvili was born December 6/18, 1878. He was baptized on December 17/29, 1878. This was first established in 1990 by historian L.M. Spirin.

The main thing in this whole myth is that Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, who entered world history under the pseudonym Stalin, was born on the day of remembrance of the most revered in Rus' and in general among all Orthodox Christians, Nicholas the Wonderworker (Nicholas the Winter, Nicholas the Saint)!

As a modern person, the author is far from mystic. Nevertheless, it is impossible not to pay attention to this coincidence, amazing in its mystical essence. It is impossible to imagine that it did not have its specific influence on Stalin. After all, how he stood guard over the interests of Russia! How he protected her! Yes, he made mistakes, perhaps considerable ones - there is no point in denying them. Only those who do nothing do not make mistakes. But the result of his activities is the Greatest Power of the World! He took over the state in smoking ruins and with a plow. And he left not just the Greatest Power in the World. His successors inherited an economically developed state, with strong industry, developed agriculture, powerful science that was already on the verge of a breakthrough into the space age, a flourishing culture, with powerful armed forces possessing nuclear weapons, with a treasury stuffed with real gold-backed rubles, a state . That's what's important! Moreover. It was he who put an end to the persecution of the Russian Orthodox Church even before the war!

So Stalin could not, could not help but feel the influence of the great saint! That's why the result is like this! Such outstanding representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church as the Patriarchal Locum Tenens Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna Sergius (Stragorodsky), Patriarch of All Rus' Alexy I (Simansky), Archbishop Luka (outstanding Soviet surgeon V.F. Voino-Yasenetsky) and others called Stalin "God-given leader", because he “preserved Russia, showed what it means for the world”.

Which jackal invented the myth that Stalin proved himself to be a villain because he was born on December 21st is now impossible to establish. However, jackals always bark at lions! This yapping itself is based on a belief widespread in the Persian area: those born on this day - children of evil.

However, as was already shown during the analysis of the previous myth, Stalin could not have been any evil on the day of his birth. Not to mention the fact that it is generally unclear what relation “a belief widespread in the Persian area” has to Stalin. However, why they invented this is not difficult to guess. This, so to speak, is supposedly a “scientific-mystical explanation” of the beginning of everything that is usually baselessly called “Stalin’s tyranny.” In politics, or more precisely, in political struggle, this is always the case. Usually everything is explained by “facts” that are supposedly very simple for the average person to perceive. If a man was born on the day of evil, that means he is evil! And period! After all, the average person never bothers himself with any thoughts, much less checks. This is what all anti-Stalinism is based on..

Commander Stalin

When Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union, Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was 62 years old. He, the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party, a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee and the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR, was entrusted by the highest party and state bodies of the country with the posts of Chairman of the State Defense Committee, People's Commissar of Defense, and Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces. He headed the Headquarters of the Supreme High Command.

Stalin gave this colossal power, all his strength, all his will and all his talent as a politician and statesman to the defense of the Union, the Soviet Socialist Republics, to winning victory over Nazi Germany and its allies. Stalin became one of the organizers of the anti-Hitler coalition. He decided to enter the USSR into the war with Japan in order to ensure the security of the country's Far Eastern borders and eliminate the source of aggression in Asia. With the defeat of militaristic Japan, the Second World War came to an end. Stalin, together with the leaders of the Allied powers, laid the foundations of the post-war world order.

In the turning point year of 1943, J.V. Stalin was awarded the military rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union, and in the year of Victory in the Great Patriotic War - the highest military rank - Generalissimo of the Soviet Union. Commander Stalin led all the Armed Forces of the country, daily directed and controlled the combat operations of all front-line and army formations of the active army.

In addition, his activities permeated all the most important aspects of the greatest war in history, in other words, in addition to the military problems themselves, they covered all areas of the domestic and foreign policy of the Soviet state - from military economics and ideology to diplomacy, and were closely connected with the intense work of the Communist Party on leadership of the country.

The memory of J.V. Stalin is associated with the greatest event in modern history. No amount of trickery or manipulation will allow the current subverters to overshadow the significance of our Great Victory, undermine the authority of Soviet military art, or belittle and distort the activities of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief and commander I.V. Stalin and his military comrades.

The feat of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War will serve as a powerful spiritual support for many generations, instilling confidence in their abilities at the sharpest and most severe turns in their historical destiny.

And it is no coincidence that the efforts of the enemies of our Fatherland are aimed at destroying this moral support of the people, at de-heroizing and belittling the feat of soldiers, generals and marshals of the Great Army, partisans, and home front workers.

A campaign of lies and slander against the Soviet Army was launched in foreign countries during the Second World War - during the liberation of Soviet territory from the Nazi invaders, during the great liberation campaign of the Soviet Army to rid the peoples of Europe and Asia from Hitler’s slavery and the aspirations of the Japanese militarists . This campaign especially flourished during the Cold War.

Through criticism of I.V. Stalin, the path was paved for criticism of the party, for debunking the achievements of Soviet power and our victory in the Great Patriotic War. The all-negating criticism of Stalin was the first stage and at the same time the most important means of the struggle against socialism. Through criticism of Stalin as the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, the path led to a total criticism of the Great Patriotic War. The followers of this line moved further along this path, increasingly trivializing the great national feat.

J.V. Stalin upon his return from the Tehran Conference in 1943, as the Air Chief Marshal recalled

A.E. Golovanov said: “I know that when I’m gone, more than one bucket of dirt will be poured on my head. But I am sure that the wind of history will dispel all this” (Commanders. M., 1995, p. 31).

It is appropriate to recall the story of the famous revolutionary, USSR Ambassador to Sweden Alexandra Mikhailovna Kollontai. In her archive, as Professor M.I. Trush testifies, there is a recording of a conversation with Stalin in November 1939, i.e. on the eve of the Soviet-Finnish war. “Many of the deeds of our party and people,” said Stalin, “will be distorted and spat upon, first of all abroad, and in our country too. Zionism, striving for world domination, will brutally take revenge on us for our successes and achievements. He still views Russia as a barbaric country, as a raw materials appendage. And my name will also be slandered and slandered. Many atrocities will be attributed to me.World Zionism will strive with all its might to destroy our Union so that Russia can never rise again. The strength of the USSR lies in the friendship of peoples. The spearhead of the struggle will be aimed primarily at breaking this friendship, at separating the border regions from Russia. Here, I must admit, we have not done everything yet. There is still a lot of room for work here.

Nationalism will raise its head with particular force. It will suppress internationalism and patriotism for a while, only for a while. National groups within nations and conflicts will arise. Many pygmy leaders will appear, traitors within their nations.

In general, in the future, development will take more complex and even frantic paths, the turns will be extremely sharp. Things are coming to a point where the East will become especially agitated. Sharp contradictions with the West will arise.

And yet, no matter how events develop, time will pass, and the eyes of new generations will be turned to the deeds and victories of our socialist Fatherland. New generations will come year after year. They will once again raise the banner of their fathers and grandfathers and give us full credit.

They will build their future on our past"(G. Kosolapov: “What is the truth about Stalin?”. "Pravda", 1998, N" 55, June 2-4).

The problem “Stalin during the Great Patriotic War” is relevant and fundamental in modern conditions. The debunking of Stalin as the Supreme Commander-in-Chief became one of the most important methods in the campaign to denigrate the Great Patriotic War, the feat of the Soviet people and its Army, the feat of partisans and home front workers.

Without unraveling this tangle of lies, it is impossible to restore the truth about the most important stage in the history of the Soviet state and world history - about the heroic and dramatic struggle of the Soviet Union against Nazi Germany and its satellites, against the Japanese militarists.

B. G. Soloviev, V. V. Sukhodeev

(From the book “Commander Stalin”)

Stalin - Supreme Commander-in-Chief

There are many important dates in world history that stirred up a specific time or turned back an entire era. More often than not, certain individuals stand behind these dates and events. That is why their birthdays also become large, important historical dates celebrated by their descendants. JV Stalin's birthday is one of those.

The contribution of Joseph Vissarionovich to the history of our socialist Motherland is invaluable. For almost 30 years he headed the Bolshevik Party, was the head of the Soviet government, and during the Great Patriotic War he was entrusted with leading the state. Under the leadership of Comrade Stalin, the Soviet people were able to achieve unprecedented results: the country's population and its prosperity grew, thousands of new factories were put into operation, scientific laboratories, educational institutions, kindergartens, museums, theaters were built and created, the most democratic constitution in history was adopted. and much more. Led by Stalin, the Soviet people were the first in the world to build socialism, carry out the most powerful industrialization and collectivization in world history, complete the cultural revolution, defeat Nazism and open the way for the peoples of the planet to peace and the struggle for justice.

Stalin was a faithful student and closest ally of V.I. Lenin.

He brilliantly continued the work and strengthened the teachings of Marx, Engels and Lenin. His works are still an important source of knowledge that feeds us on the path of difficult struggle. Having lost it, our forces will be weakened, and the struggle will become futile. For the Stalinist legacy is not only a revolutionary theory, but also a colossal practical experience of revolutionary transformations in the country of victorious socialism. That is why, on the day of his 138th birthday, we can safely say: Stalin’s cause is our business!

In memory of Stalin, grateful descendants erect monuments to him. In just two years (2015-2016), about 15 monuments depicting the leader appeared in Russia.

Today, the struggle against the desecration of Stalin is the work of every communist. Only by joining the struggle everywhere can we achieve victory in this matter. Someone will say - why? This is not something that communists should do in modern conditions. "No!" – we declare! The desecration of Stalin is a work begun by the enemies of socialism, taken up by the revisionists within the USSR and continued by their descendants today. Stopping the anti-Stalinism campaign, washing away the dirt and perpetuating the memory of Stalin is the matter of today. A task that must not be postponed!

So let's study Stalin's legacy, learn from Stalin and fight for Stalin! His cause is the cause of today’s generations, his memory is the struggle to cleanse socialism of myths and dirty lies!

“Why did my mother keep a portrait of Stalin? She was a peasant woman. Before collectivization, our family lived well. But at what cost did this come about? Hard work from dawn to dusk. And what prospects did her children have (she gave birth to eleven children!)? Become peasants, or, at best, artisans. Collectivization began. And the result of this in our family was that one person became a professor, another became a plant director, a third became a colonel, and three became engineers. I don’t want to use evaluative expressions “good” and “bad.” I just want to say that in that era there was an unprecedented rise in the history of mankind for many millions of people from the very bottom of society to become craftsmen, engineers, teachers, doctors, artists, officers, writers, directors, etc.”

A. Zinoviev,

social philosopher,

veteran of the Great Patriotic War

Stalin, get up!

Our Fatherland to the edge

Full of pain and anxiety,

She's bleeding

She suffers in agony.

The darkness does not melt over the country,

The demon tears her into pieces,

Rus' remembers Stalin

Stalin is calling louder.

Stood firmly through adversity

Forward towards cherished goals

In the best bright years

Proud Soviet people.

And a guiding star

In everyday life of struggle and labor

The leader's name is dear

It dawned on us then.

Stalin! On the right course

You led your State.

Stalin! When would you come back?

We wouldn't be crushed in battle.

Posters and songs floated

The vastness of colored squares,

The holidays were wonderful

People's faces are joyful.

And from Khiva to Taimyr,

And from the Carpathians to the Kuril Islands

Fortress of truth and peace

Our Union was gigantic.

Stalin! Millions of hearts

We fought with yours in unison,

And the columns were filled

The rustle of red banners.

Russian people, wake up -

We're at the last line

Don't hide in your holes,

Like blind moles

In the days of damnation, evil

An indestructible wall

Stand up for the wounds, dear ones,

Children of one Power.

Stand under the Red Banner

In the battle for your land -

Faith in victory and Stalin

They won't leave us in the fight.

Stalin! Calls you

Honest Soviet people.

Stalin! The country is dying!

Stalin! Lead us forward!

Stalin! Rise from the grave!

Stalin! Look at the country!

Stalin! Captivity is our strength!

Stalin! The Fatherland is in captivity!

She won the battles

She went on a daring campaign.

Stalin! You are our glory.

Stalin! Lead us forward!

Alexander Kharchikov

On December 21, 1879, Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (Dzhugashvili) was born. This is according to the official version. More than half a century has passed since his death, and the hatred of his enemies towards him does not subside. Tens of billions of dollars have been spent to discredit him, primarily in the USSR and Russia, thousands of pseudo-historical films have been made, mountains of lies have been piled up, thousands of “historians” are brainwashing people all over the world, making Stalin a “horror story” for children. And no wonder, the facts explain a lot.

Stalin saved Russia from destruction three times.

1. In 1927, the Zionist Trotsky, who wanted to use the Russian people in the struggle for world domination, was removed from power.
2. In 1939, the well-organized 5th Column was defeated, with the goal of overthrowing Stalin, curtailing socialism in the USSR, and transferring control of the country to Hitler.
3. In 1945, victory was won in the war that world imperialism unleashed against the Soviet people. Its goal was the physical destruction, first of all, of the Russians, and with it the other peoples of the USSR.

Rest in peace, Joseph Vissarionovich, the last real friend of the people and the responsible owner of Russia. Forgive us, foolish gullibles. Was it by chance that Stalin turned out to be the main target of propaganda for Russia’s enemies? Let's try to figure out what causes the particular rage of these spiteful critics...

1. He took the country with a plow and left it with nuclear weapons.
2. The USSR, under the leadership of Stalin, victoriously ended World War II, fought almost all of Europe and destroyed 75% of the armed forces of Germany and its allies.
3. The Great Patriotic War took away a third of the country's wealth, but the USSR abolished food cards in 1947 - two years after the war, France - in 1949, and England - in the early 50s.
4. In terms of economic growth rates, no one has ever surpassed Stalin's USSR.
1947 - monetary reform. Let's analyze the cost of living of the Soviet people at that time - before and after the post-war monetary reform.

Name of products and goods and prices in rubles 1947. /1953:

Black bread…………………………………...........……........ …. 3 rub. / 1 rub.
Beef………………………………………………………........……........ .…..… 30 rub. / 12.5 rub.
Milk (1l) …………………………………………….…….…… 3 rub. / 2.24 rub.
Butter ……………...........………………………....… 64 rub./ 27.8 rub.
Eggs (dozen)………………………...........………………....… 12 rub. / 8.35 rub.
Refined sugar……………………………………….……… 15 rub. / 9.4 rub.
Vegetable oil………………………............…….……… 30 rub. / 17 rub.
Vodka ……………………………………………………………….…….............… … 60 rub. / 22.8 rub.

Salaries in 1953 in rubles per month:

Worker - from 800 to 3,000
Miner, metallurgist - up to 8,000
Young specialist engineer – 900 - 1,000
Senior engineer - 1,200-1,300
Secretary of the district committee of the CPSU - 1,500
Minister - 5,000
Professor, academician - often above 10,000.

Khrushchev inherited a rich legacy from Stalin - 2,000 tons of bank gold in bullion, of which Khrushchev “lost” as much as 1,200 tons already in the early 60s. For comparison, as of March 2011. Russia's gold reserves barely exceeded 811 tons.

5. The number of Russians (Great Russians, Little Russians and Belarusians) during Stalin's reign increased, according to census data, by an average of 1.3-1.5 million per year.

1926 - 113.7 million (146.6 million - total population of the USSR)
1939 - 133 million (170.6 million)
1959 - 159.3 million (208.8 million)

For comparison: during Yeltsin’s reign, the number of Russians in Russia decreased by 4 million people; during Putin's reign - by 5 million people. And this is only according to official census data. In fact, the percentage of indigenous population loss is much higher.

6 . Alcohol consumption was:
-1.9 liters per capita per year - 1952;
- in Tsarist Russia - 4.7 l. - 1914;
- now - 20-25 l. Russia is the leader in the scale of childhood alcoholism.

8. Stalin did the incredible; he made the party and state nomenklatura controlled, replaceable and responsible to society for the results of their activities. It’s not surprising that even when he’s dead, he evokes such rage: you have to think of something like that, to outrage the celestials like that.
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My friends often ask me why I respect I.V. Stalin? I usually offer them the following introduction: You have come to power. Your country is deprived of large industrial production. You sent away all the debts of the previous regime.
You have a lot of minerals. You also sent those who made money from them.
This means there will be a war. There are constant provocations at your borders. There are no friends in the world. You don't know how old you are.

According to estimates, the most industrial power on the continent will be against you, and with it several more. The country experiences droughts and terrible famine every 10-15 years. The last time was literally 5-6 years ago. Yeah. There will be another one soon. Army? The army is armed with outdated weapons. Tanks? Well, rather a circle of skillful hands. Aircraft? You cannot yet produce a single aircraft engine. There are a couple of good artillery systems. Just a couple. In the army, some of the military are dissatisfied with their place and position. Most likely, a conspiracy is brewing. The intelligence service is inundated with unknown people.

There is no unity in the party and the government; each of your, as it were, comrades-in-arms, strives to take your place. Part of your government has relatives abroad who are members of incomprehensible organizations, which some call Satanists, and others call Freemasons. There will be no loans and new technologies; the majority of the population is illiterate.

NEP and speculation are flourishing. The public sector is a little less laughable than the army and navy. Well, a little detail: there are no roads, the fleet of locomotives is old, there are no light bulbs. They started to build a couple of power plants, but everything is going smoothly, neither shaky nor slow. On the outskirts, nationalists are slaughtering teachers. And soon there will be war. But they are driving absolutely nothing of oil. However, there are no motors. Just like cars.
But soon there will be war. The defeated opposition is constantly causing mischief. Well, and all sorts of cute little things about the constant threat of cholera, drought and other things... What are your actions? It was impossible to be in Berlin with such introductory notes! It's simply impossible. But there were...
Now let’s look at and refute some myths about the “bloody executioner and tyrant.”

Myth 1. Stalin was an illiterate and uneducated person.

a) Stalin graduated from Bursa, the most prestigious higher (spiritual) educational institution in Georgia. Contrary to popular belief, he was not expelled from there for poor academic performance and revolutionary activities. Joseph Dzhugashvili successfully graduated from Bursa, but did not receive a diploma for insulting the examination committee: he came to the exam in his hands.

b) Stalin read a lot. He read 200-500 pages a day. His personal library consisted of several tens of thousands of volumes and 90 percent of these books had pencil notes and comments made in his hand. These were books: from philosophy and natural sciences to fiction from different countries and eras.

c) Stalin himself wrote articles and books. His works have been published in different languages ​​in many countries around the world. After the death of Joseph Vissarionovich, 18 volumes of his works were withdrawn from circulation in the USSR. According to currently existing criteria, Stalin, based on the scientific results achieved, was a Doctor of Philosophy back in 1920.

Myth 2. Repressions in the USSR.

They grabbed every second one. They were shot without trial or investigation. Testimony was extracted under torture. Innocent people slandered themselves with everything they could: “Yes, I am a spy, yes, I was preparing a coup,” just to stop the beatings. Those who fell into the hands of the NKVD were either shot or sent to the Gulag. Let us refute this nonsense with documentation.

Number of repressed:

In 1956, Khrushchev announced a figure of 643,000 people;
- in our time, newly minted “historians” give figures of 20, 40, 60 and 110 million;
- apparently, tomorrow there will be 200,000,000, the entire population of the Stalinist USSR.

Now let’s take a look at the archival documents and figures, which is something good and honest “anti-Stalinists” really don’t like to do.

At the beginning of 1989, by decision of the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences, a commission of the Department of History of the USSR Academy of Sciences was created, headed by corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences Yu.A. Polyakov on determining population losses. The statistical reporting of the OGPU-NKVD-MVD-MGB of the USSR was checked. It was found that for the period 1921-1952. 4,051,903 people were convicted for political reasons, of which 799,257 people were sentenced to capital punishment.

It should be taken into account that on the territory of the USSR, in the thirties, there was a real war, a war for control of the country. Followers and henchmen of Trotsky, members of Zionist organizations were in all government bodies and structures of the Soviet Union. Starting from the Party Central Committee to the all-powerful NKVD. It is not surprising that, taking advantage of their power and official position, they imprisoned and killed honest communists, creating a climate of general mistrust and denunciation in the country. Only after the NKVD was headed by L.P. Beria, the situation was brought under control. The authorities were thoroughly cleaned: 7,372 people (22.9%) were dismissed from the rank and file, and 3,830 people (62%) from the management. At the same time, they began to verify complaints and review cases. In 1939 alone, 330 thousand people were released.

There are more than 2 million 200 thousand people in American prisons. This is now, in peacetime. It's a lot? Quite a lot. But this does not mean that most of them are innocent. The population of the United States is 260 million people, the number of prisoners is 2 million 200 thousand. The population of the USSR in 1940 was over 190 million, the number of prisoners was 1 million 850 thousand, that is, there is nothing extraordinary in such a number.

Myth 3. Stalin beheaded the army before the war.

From May 1937 to September 1939, 40 thousand people were repressed among the command staff of the Red Army. Which led the Red Army to the defeats of 1941. It was precisely this round number that was named for the first time by the magazine “Ogonyok” (No. 26, 1986).
Where did this figure come from? The fact is that for 1937-1939. 36,898 commanders were DISMISSED from the ranks of the Red Army.

The motives were as follows:

1) by age;
2) for health reasons;
3) for disciplinary offenses;
4) for moral instability;
5) dismissed for political reasons - 19,106 (of which, after complaints were filed and inspections were carried out, 9,247 were reinstated in 1938-1939);
6) 9,579 command personnel were arrested, that is, repressed (of which 1,457 were reinstated in 1938-1939).

Thus, the number of officers arrested in 1937-1939. is 8122 people. (only 3% of the total number of command personnel in 1939). Of these, about 70 were sentenced to death, 17 were shot - mostly the highest ones, for example, two of the five marshals (Tukhachevsky for organizing a Trotskyist military conspiracy, Egorov for participating in a conspiracy, preparing terrorist attacks and participating in the revolutionary organization).

Another Marshal Blucher was arrested for participation in a fascist military conspiracy, which led to unjustified losses and the deliberate failure of the operation on Lake Khasan, but died in prison. Also, for similar especially dangerous crimes, 5 of the 9 commanders of the 1st rank (Belov, Yakir, Uborevich, Fedko, Frinovsky) and other representatives of the “fifth column” were shot. the absolute majority are Zionist Jews.

Myth 4. Stalin is guilty of the 1941 disaster.

I will immediately move on to evidence to the contrary.

Stalin knew that an attack by Nazi Germany on the USSR was inevitable, he knew and was preparing for war. I prepared and delayed its start as best I could. It was expensive every year, every month. Factories were built and weapons, ammunition, and military equipment were produced. In the east of the country, reserve sites were created for the possible evacuation of industry from border areas. In 1941, the rearmament of the army began, and that’s where every day was precious!

The successes of Soviet diplomacy are also impressive. The Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact in 1939 made it possible to move the USSR border hundreds of kilometers to the West and gave much-needed time to increase the country's defense capability.

The balance of forces on the eve of the war. The combat and numerical strength of the armed forces of Germany, its allies and the USSR before the start of the Great Patriotic War at the western borders of the USSR:

Personnel (million people): Germany - 5.5; USSR - 2.9 (1.9:1)
Guns and mortars (thousand units): Germany - 47.2; USSR - 32.9 (1.4:1)
Tanks (thousand units): Germany - 4.3; USSR - 14.2 (0.3:1)
Combat aircraft (thousand units): Germany - 5.0; USSR - 9.2 (0.5:1)
Total (general) ratio of forces and means of Germany, its allies and the USSR (1.2: 1)
Thus, it cannot be said that Stalin allegedly did not prepare the country for war.

Directive No. 1 of June 21, 1941. I am transmitting the order of the People's Commissariat of Defense for immediate execution:

1. During June 22 - 23, 1941, a surprise attack by the Germans is possible on the fronts of LVO, PribOVO, ZAPOVO, KOVO, OdVO. An attack may begin with provocative actions.
2. The task of our troops is not to succumb to any provocative actions that could cause major complications.
At the same time, the troops of the Leningrad, Baltic, Western, Kyiv and Odessa military districts should be in full combat readiness to meet a possible surprise attack from the Germans or their allies.

I ORDER:

a) during the night of June 22, 1941, secretly occupy firing points of fortified areas on the state border;
b) before dawn on June 22, 1941, disperse all aviation, including military aviation, to field airfields, carefully camouflage it;
c) put all units on combat readiness. Keep troops dispersed and camouflaged;
d) bring air defense to combat readiness without additional increases in assigned personnel. Prepare all measures to darken cities and objects;
e) do not carry out any other activities without special orders.

The directive was received by all commanders of districts and fleets, but the order was communicated only to the troops of the Leningrad and Baltic military districts and to the personnel of the Baltic Fleet. This was a direct betrayal of the Motherland on the part of a number of military leaders, a betrayal that entailed catastrophic consequences.
On August 8, 1941, Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was appointed Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the USSR. From that moment on, he took personal control of EVERYTHING that happened at the front. Not a single major operation during the Second World War was planned without his participation.

19th Congress of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks

From October 5 to October 14, 1952, the Congress of the Communist Party was held in Moscow.
According to I.V. Stalin, this party congress was supposed to become a key moment in the reform of party and state building in the USSR, to divide the highest party and state leadership in the USSR, to lead to a qualitative change in ideological work, for which to free party bodies from economic and supervisory functions, and to concentrate the management of the national economy of the USSR exclusively in ministries and departments under the control of the Council of Ministers of the USSR.

Results of the congress:

1) The All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) was renamed the CPSU.
2) Changes were made to the Party Charter, the Politburo of the Central Committee (9 people) was abolished, and the Presidium of the Central Committee of 25 people was created.
3) The Directives of the Five-Year Development Plan of the USSR for 1951-1955 were approved.

In fact, as a result of the planned reform, the party nomenklatura was removed from power. But that did not happen. After the death of Stalin I.V., the decisions of the congress were changed, but no reform took place. The documents of the congress and the subsequent Plenum of the CPSU Central Committee were kept silent.

Never in its history has Russia known such majestic transformations as during the Stalin era! The whole world watched our successes in shock! That is why the devilish task is now being realized: to never again allow people to appear at the levers of power of the state who even remotely resemble Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, who devoted his entire life to the people. And for this, all you need to do is slander and slander the activities and life of a great man."

Stalin once said: “I know that after my death a heap of rubbish will be placed on my grave, but the wind of history will mercilessly scatter it!” His words became prophetic.

Stalin died on March 5, 1953 from a cerebral hemorrhage, during which he did not receive medical care for a long time. According to Yuri Mukhin’s investigation in the book “The Murder of Stalin and Beria,” Stalin was poisoned by Khrushchev and his entourage, and later they killed Stalin’s closest ally Lavrentiy Beria without trial. This was done in order to prevent the implementation of Stalin’s decisions adopted by the 19th Party Congress to transfer all power from the party to the state.

The version of poisoning was confirmed at the official level by Mikhail Poltoranin, who headed the commission to declassify the KGB archives. Stalin was killed, but he will forever live in the hearts of the honest people of Russia!