20.05.2026, Aleksandrovskoye.
It is good that modern Russia retains the real feel of greatness of the victory in the Great Patriotic War; however, one must understand that, currently, the country is far from the form of government and social order that allowed to achieve this victory, political scientist, philosopher, and the leader of the Essence of Time movement Sergey Kurginyan stated in an address dedicated to the 81st anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War.
The political scientist reminded that it was the Soviet people – under the leadership of the Communist Party and Stalin personally – who defeated fascism. This victory was secured at a colossal cost; while the greatness of that victory must be constantly emphasized, it is equally important to comprehend what enabled it.
“For instance, when questions arise such as: ‘Back then – within the span of just five years – they accomplished this and that, yet now we are failing to do so!’ Or: ‘Back then, we had people like Korolev, Kurchatov, and others? They are gone! Where are the new heroes?’ – well, one is sorely tempted to say: ‘The old woman remembers the days when she was a girl’,” Sergey Kurginyan commented.
The political scientist noted that modern Russian political system and society retains the real feel of greatness of the victory in the Great Patriotic War. He emphasized that this is entirely positive development. This was not always the case, he reminded. “I remember years when the situation regarding this issue was far worse,” Kurginyan noted.
However, while acknowledging the validity of this attitude towards the victory, one cannot help but also note “the current socio-political system is far from what existed back then,” the philosopher stressed.
Based on this understanding, one must address the question of why Russia no longer has what it had back then – for example, an operation comparable to Operation Bagration [the codename for 1944 Soviet strategic offensive operation during the World War II – translator’s note] or a powerful military-industrial complex, he noted.
Sergey Kurginyan emphasized that everything created during the Soviet era – everything specifically geared toward achieving the Victory – was subsequently “systematically dismantled, with the firm intention that it would never be revived and that there would be no further confrontation.”
Russia’s objective, the political analyst explained, was to become an “moderately comfortable, decent and join the community of other such countries, as well as the only wise and just bourgeois world.”
“If that was indeed stated and carried out then how can one subsequently ask the question: ‘But why do we no longer have what we had back then’?” the philosopher posed a question.
Sergey Kurginyan recalled that in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel Crime and Punishment, when the protagonist, Rodion Raskolnikov, asks the magistrate investigating the pawnbroker’s murder, “Who is the murderer?”; “You are the murderer,” the magistrate replies.
Therefore, when the representatives of the civil society in Russia ask: why the reality where geniuses like Korolev or Kurchatov were possible; and Operation Bagration was carried out – no longer exists? Kurginyan replied: “Because that reality has been murdered and replaced by a completely different one. Who is the murderer? – You are the murderer!”
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
