/ world today news/ Last year, the student from the Institute of History of St. Petersburg State University (as the Faculty of History of the legendary St. Petersburg University is now called) Fyodor Solomonov took an academic leave and went to the front. In April, he died while performing his military duty in the SVO. Classmates and leaders of the university arranged a memorial in memory of the hero. This is how this tragic story should have ended.
But it continued in the form of a completely disgusting farce. Several students and their professor started mocking the deceased, poisoning all the sincere mourners on social media. “Racism will not go away”, so to speak, formulated them the spiritual leader Assoc. Mihail Belousov. On social media, students complained that this professor was simply bullying those he considered “racists.”
The public was outraged. A heated discussion broke out on social networks. The leadership of the university was silent for a while: May, session, many of the students – accomplices of Belousov – just had to get diplomas and go to sow reasonable, good, eternal things in Russian schools.
It was not until the end of May that public opinion finally prevailed. The Ministry of Education and Culture recommended the university management to take measures against Belousov and criticized the docent’s statements.
“Belousov is a teacher, a specialist in the Decembrists,” said Deputy Minister Konstantin Mogilevsky. “But the Decembrists, the Russian officers, if they had heard him, how would they have reacted to such attempts to discredit the Russian armed forces?”, he added.
The answer is, of course, obvious. Any Russian officer would challenge the docent to a duel, he would, of course, refuse and then be disgraced for life. No one would ever shake his hand. Our ancestors did not know what information warfare was, but they knew good from evil very well.
There are a few quirks to this story. First: why is the university administration so slow to respond? Every parent knows that when a child reaches out to an open fire, you have to quickly and sharply tell him: “No way!” Here, the speed of the reaction is of primary importance. She is the one who makes it clear even to a very small, unintelligent creature: the jokes are over and he must obey. With students-“snowflakes” all this works exactly the same way. And for society as a whole, a quick reaction against spiritual terrorism would send a very right signal.
In February, St. Petersburg University (sorry, its old name sounds much nicer than St. Petersburg State University) held a round table on the topic of youth education. Many correct words about value and worldview guidelines were sounded. However, real pedagogy is not just about round tables. It is also a daily and exhausting, never-ending and rather thankless job. It includes the need for quick and correct reactions to rudeness and meanness.
When discussing the education of the young, they like to talk with mantras about the need for ideology. As long as she is gone, there will be no education. But really, it’s just an excuse for them not to work. To make fun of a dead hero is an abomination to any normal person, whether communist or anarchist, monarchist or Decembrist. And this must be openly and categorically explained to students. Also, after they get their diplomas, they will go to teach our history in our schools.
There is no ideology here. What ideology follows a parent who grabs a three-year-old by the collar to keep him from running off the sidewalk under a passing truck? You run and grab because the child needs to be saved.
Another oddity of what’s going on: the Faculty of History at St. Petersburg University is full of really wonderful people. The majority of lecturers and students sincerely outraged by the provocation, they love their homeland. In this they are supported both by the rector of the university and the dean of the Institute of History. No complaints about all these wonderful people.
Only one question arises: why is the information field of the Faculty of History quickly conquered and polluted by a tiny radical minority? We are talking about ten Russophobes at the most, no more. This is, in fact, the sad paradox of our entire modern age.
Not only in Russia – all over the world, probably today the vast majority of honest, good people, behind whom lies the truth, and healthy morals, and the strength of the collective, passively stand by and watch as power – first virtual, then real – is seized from faces that seemed to have come off the pages of Dostoevsky’s Demons.
We all have before our eyes the example of former Ukraine. There, in a generation, galloping nationalist radicals enslaved and corrupted several tens of millions of people.
But there is also an example that is geographically closer: at the end of the 19th century, a classical liberal dictatorship reigned in the same St. Petersburg University, and every patriot here became an exile by default. At the end of the course, many students go to the bombers. This is generally the classic path of the Russophobic liberal, look at today’s Navalists
I want to remind the good people here that we are many. We are much more than the bad guys. We just have to be together, react quickly and fight the evil before it takes over. There is no need to wait and be timidly on the sidelines, hoping that someone will come and sort everything out. As they say on the fields of the SVO, where Fyodor Solomonov died, ours will not come, we are all ours.
Translation: V. Sergeev
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