Do you know who is most difficult to look into the eyes?
Thinking about it? But people have long believed that the most difficult thing is to face the truth.
In 1930, for example, the USSR drew attention to the fact that Adolf Hitler adopted the idea of creating the Third Reich, which he borrowed from the book of the same name, extremely popular among Germans nostalgic for pre-war times.
Soviet propaganda mocked the fantasies of the head of the German Nazis in every possible way until they had to face the truth and realize that the shameless exploitation of this slogan helped the Nazi party and its leader gain additional millions of votes in the elections, and then complete power over Germany. All the details of the story, which had horrific consequences, are in the text “Cloaking your dictatorship in apparent constitutionality.”
And 160 years ago, on April 17, 1863*, Emperor Alexander II abolished severe corporal punishment, and ordinary people expected that after this, executioners would also disappear from Russian life. However, soon enough I had to face the truth. About where they searched for and found master craftsmen, see the selection “A murder was committed in a private apartment by an executioner.”
High-ranking citizens of the country often had to face the truth. For example, the fact that V. I. Lenin’s comrade-in-arms, the leader of the creation of the plan for the electrification of Russia, the first chairman of the State Planning Committee G. M. Krzhizhanovsky, was actually accused of sabotage, was to a large extent his own fault. What the friend of the leader of the world proletariat was accused of and how he was able to avoid a sad ending – in the material “Actually slowed down the development of this problem.”
It also happened that it was difficult for Soviet leaders to even look at the pages “Truth.” And so much so that in the files of the main newspaper of the country accessible to ordinary readers, unpleasant publications turned out to be neatly cut out. This happened, for example, with one congratulation sent to I.V. Stalin in 1948. Why – in the publication “To the detriment of the interests of the communist movement of Palestine.”
Often pain when looking at the truth was mixed with amazement. This happened 50 years ago, in 1973, when in Leningrad the Soviet people were shown at an exhibition how varied and interesting the most beloved Russian sweet had previously been. An article is dedicated to her in our regular column “Forgotten Life” – “Dessert finds its own on all the streets.”
This issue of the monthly “Kommersant-History” is about these and other difficult events of the long and recent past “.
Contents
“And if what was stolen is lost” /How the Cossacks were weaned from taking everything that was bad
“A murder was committed in private apartment as an executioner” /Where did the executioners come from in Russia
“A small scale of immigration may be acceptable” /The return of which relocants has always been welcomed
“Cloaking your dictatorship in apparent constitutionality” /What details of the scheme for Hitler’s rise to power were stubbornly hushed up
“In fact slowed down the development of this problem” /To whom did the frenzied search for enemies lead?
“To the detriment of the interests of the communist movement of Palestine” /What subtleties of Israeli politics are not always delved into Moscow
“Dessert is found on all the streets” /Without what sweetness it was impossible to imagine Russian life
*All dates before February 1, 1918 are given according to the old style.
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