27.01.2023, Moscow, Russia
The main thing humanity has been doing since the end of World War Two is expelling the Hero, or Great Man, about whom Vadim Roshchin from Aleksey Tolstoy’s trilogy The Road to Calvary spoke, the leader of the Essence of Time movement Sergey Kurginyan said on January 14 at a conference of the organization in Moscow.
The political scientist reminded that immediately after the end of Word War Two and the victory over Nazism, tremendous effort was made to destroy heroism at large. This destruction was openly called de-heroification.
“Of course, we cannot equate de-heroification and de-Nazification. But we should understand that de-Nazification was used as a guise specifically for de-heroification in the European culture. And that this de-heroification was supposed to nullify not only the Nazi dark heroism, but heroism at large,” Kurginyan told.
According to Kurginyan, this expulsion took place both in the West and in the post-war USSR, “While, for example, Vysotsky was glorifying the heroism of the Soviet soldiers saying that ‘our replacement companies revolve the Earth where they want as they march,’ others glorified ‘the small-time man’ with his solely important little truth.”
Kurginyan pointed out that the most blasphemous thing in this was the equation of the ordinary man and the “little” one. “This was an absolutely false equation. The hero of Tvardovsky’s poem Vasily Terkin was an absolutely ordinary person, but he was not a small-time man, he was definitely a hero,” the philosopher explained.
He added that during the Great Patriotic War a heroic ordinary man, Vasily Terkin, faced a little man outraged with his littleness, whom Hitler offered a revenge for the defeat in World War One. “An outraged burgher who went mad after humiliation in Weimar Germany was told that Fuhrer would make him Siegfried, i.e. a hero. And the burgher believed that,” Kurginyan said.
After World War Two those who were terrified with such an emergence of a heroic darkness from the substance of the burgher human misery were offered to remove any basis for any kind of heroism. “Then there will be no Hitler, no Stalin, no Communists, no Nazis, no Churchill, no Roosevelt, no de Gaulle. There will only be the small-time man. He will become the manure that we (the designers of the global future that Kurginyan describes – Rossa Primavera News Agency) will put in the soil to grow a post-human reality,” the political scientist said.
Speaking about heroism, Kurginyan explained that both Hitler and Bandera had a demand for a pathological hero. However, a demand for a hero – of course, an absolutely different hero, but still a hero – is an essential part of the Communist worldview, the communist way of life.
“The Soviet Union successfully defeated Nazism solely because it confronted the Nazi dark heroism with an absolutely different idea of heroism. Although absolutely different, that was an idea of the same thing, heroism,” Kurginyan said.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
