06.05.2025, Moscow.
The USSR abandoned its mobilization path of development and began transitioning to a “consumer society” as early as 1945, and Joseph Stalin was unable to oppose this transition, philosopher and political scientist Sergey Kurginyan wrote in his article “War and Peace”, published in The Essence of Time newspaper on April 1.
Kurginyan quoted the poem written by the Soviet poetess Tatyana Glushkova dedicated to the Victory Parade of 1945. Glushkova draws attention to the fact that Stalin seemed detached from the entire event. The poem “Victory Parade” ends with the following lines:
He did not speak a single word –
As that befits the one,
Who looks clear and stern
From the heavens into a deep darkness
Of his, such lonely, death,
Of his, already estranged, nation…
And, believe me, he appeared to me,
As one who did not return from war.
“It’s 1945, the grand Victory Parade is taking place. There are 8 years left until Stalin’s death. That’s a long time. But Glushkova noticed that even then, in June 1945, Stalin was looking into the gaping darkness of his awfully lonely passing away… and into the darkness of his, already estranged country,” writes Kurginyan.
The philosopher recalled that after the victory over Nazi Germany, Stalin was literally idolized, and not only in the USSR. He was the leader of the peoples, the generalissimo, “father and teacher.”
“Could Glushkova really be right, and the country – not Beria, or Zhukov, or Molotov – but the country itself had become completely foreign to Stalin already in June of 1945?” Kurginyan posed a question.
According to the political scientist, there is truth to it. The country that defeated fascism wanted to return and did return to a “peaceful life“, no matter how just and righteous it may have been, as opposed to life in the West. But Stalin could not do this.
“And no matter how contradictory Stalin’s incredibly outstanding figure was, one thing is clear – he could return from the jihad of the sword only to that space of the jihad of the spirit, which I contrast with the realm of all-encompassing peaceful life…” Kurginyan concluded. “And he realized how lonely he was in this desire. And how much a country that rejects this path was, in a sense, no longer his country.”
The leader of the Essence of Time movement recalled that Stalin once again saved the country by creating an atomic bomb for the USSR. But in strategic terms, he could no longer influence the processes.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
