28.09.2022, Aleksadrovskoye.
Any speculation about “occupation” of Russia by the West in 1990s is intended to hide the bitter truth that the Russian citizens voluntarily granted Yeltsin and his team a mandate to the destruction of the productive forces under the guise of privatization, said philosopher, political scientist and the leader of the Essence of Time movement Sergey Kurginyan on September 20 in a new issue of the Destiny broadcast published on the movement’s YouTube channel.
Kurginyan believes that the essence of the privatization in post-Soviet Russia can be comprehended based on the concept of “productive forces.” Thus we can avoid “idle talks” about thievery of certain persons, their rapid enrichment, or negative aspects of the Soviet system.
“The issue of productive forces reveals certain definiteness, according to which, during the de-Sovietization, we suffered something unprecedented, unheard of: we allowed our advanced productive forces, which had been difficult to obtain, to be stolen,” the analyst said.
The point is not at what cost and in what a “fierce manner” Bolsheviks created these productive forces, but the point is that they were stolen, he stressed.
According to Kurginyan, the people voluntarily granted the mandate to blatant thievery followed by the destruction of the productive forces when they elected Yeltsin as president of Russia on June 12, 1991, and when they reiterated their choice at the All-Russian referendum on April 25, 1993. “And regardless of any allegations, this [the privatization] was done not by a gauleiter directly using Nazi troops to implement Generalplan Ost, but by a legitimately elected president of Russia who proposed certain program and who received support from the voters at democratic election,” the political scientist explained.
The people were not forced to “report to commandant’s offices,” the Communist Party operated legally, opposition newspapers were issued, Sergey Kurginyan reminded. The removal of the productive forces took place in an absolutely democratic manner. “Any creams that Yeltsin was a protege of the West that indirectly occupied us are not worth a dime,” he believes.
The expert also reminded that the Congress of the People’s Deputies of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Russian: RSFSR), then the supreme governing authority in the country, as well Vice President of the RSFSR Aleksandr Rutskoy and Chairman of the Constitutional Court of the RSFSR Valery Zorkin spoke against the “terrible program of the removal of advanced productive forces for the sake of no one knows what.”
According to Kurginyan, there was no occupation, and “the words about occupation are used to hide the really terrible thing that happened,” i.e. that the people mandated the destruction of the productive forces under the guise of privatization. The political scientist calls the people’s agreement to destroy everything that had been achieved by a titanic work of the preceding generations “a trade for the pottage of lentiles.”
The reason why the people traded their past and future “for the pottage of lentiles” Kurginyan finds in “a mass dementation” of the majority of the population, and especially the intelligentsia. “The mass dementation resulted from a triumph of idle talk. And this triumph itself stemmed from a total removal (which is also known as alienation) of the means of understanding of the essence of what was taking place from those driven insane,” he explained.
As an example, the analyst referred to a slogan that was popular during the perestroika, “We are waiting for a change!” Kurginyan points out that reasonable people can only wait for a positive change, not any.
“If your hands are cut off, this will be a change, but are you waiting for it? Indeed, are you so bored with your hands that you would welcome cutting them off? Well, this is exactly what happened!” the leader of the Essence of Time movement concluded.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
