"As you know," Stalin raised a toast on May 24 to the Great Russian people in commemoration of the victory over the plague of the West - fascism. It is less known that he addressed the theme of the greatness of the Russian people before. At least since 1917.
What I found in a collection of Stalin's works (not all volumes were available, unfortunately) and in other sources.

"On the Soviets of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies"
In order to smash the old regime, a temporary alliance of the insurgent workers and soldiers was enough. For it goes without saying that the strength of the Russian revolution lies in the alliance of workers and peasants dressed in soldier's greatcoats.<…>
For it is clear to all that the pledge final victory Russian revolution - in strengthening the alliance of the revolutionary worker with the revolutionary soldier.<…>
Soldiers! Organize in your unions and gatheraround the Russian people, the only true ally of the Russian revolutionary army! <…>
"Pravda" No. 8,
March 14, 1917
Signature: K. Stalin
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Back in March 1917, a few months before the October Revolution, Stalin wrote in one of his articles that the great Russian people are the most faithful and best ally of the progressive revolutionary forces, and only the Russian people can finally solve the question of Marxism. About the victory of Marxism.

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In 1933 at a meeting with the participants of the May Day military parade, he said:
« The Russians are the main nationality of the world, they were the first to raise the flag of the Soviets... The Russian nation is the most talented nation in the world.Russians used to be beaten by everyone - the Turks and even the Tatars, who attacked for 200 years, and they did not manage to take possession of the Russians, although they were poorly armed. If the Russians are armed with tanks, aircraft, navy“They are invincible.”

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1939 November From a conversation with Kollontai:
Basically, the conversation was about the situation with Finland. Stalin advised to intensify the work of the Soviet embassy in studying the situation in Scandinavian countries in connection with the penetration of Germany into these countries in order to attract the governments of Norway and Sweden and to influence Finland in order to prevent conflict. And, as if concluding, he said that
“if it is not possible to prevent it, then it will be short-lived and cost little blood. The time for "persuasions" and "negotiations" is over. We must practically prepare for a rebuff, for a war with Hitler.
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“All this will fall on the shoulders of the Russian people.For the Russian people - great people. The Russian people are a kind people. The Russian people have a clear mind. It is as if he was born to help other nations. The Russian people have great courage, especially in hard times, in dangerous times. He is proactive. He has a strong character. They are dreamy people. He has a purpose. That is why it is harder for him than for other nations. You can rely on him in any trouble. The Russian people are invincible, inexhaustible.

Stalin I.V. Works. - T. 18. - Tver: Informational
Soyuz Publishing Center, 2006, pp. 606-611 (Appendix).

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AND, May 24, 1945 at a reception in the Kremlin on the occasion of Great Victory. Stalin made the famous toast "For the health of the Russian people!"

“Comrades, allow me to raise one more, last toast.
I, as a representative of our Soviet government, would like to raise a toast to the health of our Soviet people and, above all, the Russian people.
I drink, first of all, for the health of the Russian people, because it is the most outstanding nation of all the nations that make up Soviet Union.
I raise a toast to the health of the Russian people because in this war they deserved and previously deserved the title, if you will, of the leading force of our Soviet Union among all the peoples of our country.
I raise a toast to the health of the Russian people, not only because they are the leading people, but also because they have common sense, general political common sense and patience.
Our government made many mistakes, we had moments of desperate situation in 1941-42, when our army retreated, left our native villages and cities of Ukraine, Belarus, Moldavia, Leningrad region, Karelian-Finnish Republic, left because there was no other way out. Some other people could say: you have not justified our hopes, we will put in another government that will make peace with Germany and ensure peace for us. It could happen, mind you.
But the Russian people did not agree to this, the Russian people did not compromise, they showed boundless confidence in our government. I repeat, we made mistakes, for the first two years our army was forced to retreat, it turned out that we did not master the events, did not cope with the situation that had arisen. However, the Russian people believed, endured, waited and hoped that we would still cope with the events.
For this trust in our government, which the Russian people have shown us, we thank him very much!
For the health of the Russian people!”

Booker Igor 05/24/2013 at 10:30

On May 24, 1945, at a reception in the Kremlin in honor of the commanders of the Red Army, Stalin delivered a speech. This speech is as enduring as Churchill's Fulton speech or Kennedy's speech in Berlin. It may seem strange, but certain circles fiercely hate Stalin for this speech even more than for his bloody crimes.

They don't give a damn about the blood of the Russian people shed by the tyrant, but the public tribute to the Russian people infuriates them.

The toast raised by Stalin to the Russian people is short. Here is its full text:

"Comrades, allow me to raise one more, last toast. I would like to raise a toast to the health of our Soviet people and, above all, the Russian people. I drink, first of all, to the health of the Russian people, because they are the most prominent of the nations, part of the Soviet Union. I raise a toast to the health of the Russian people because they deserved in this war general recognition as the leading force of the Soviet Union among all the peoples of our country. I raise a toast to the health of the Russian people, not only because they are the leading people, but also because they have a clear mind, steadfast character and patience.

Our government made quite a few mistakes, we had moments of desperate situation in 1941–1942, when our army retreated, left our native villages and cities in Ukraine, Belarus, Moldavia, the Leningrad Region, the Baltic States, the Karelian-Finnish Republic, left, because that there was no other way. Another people could say to the government: you have not lived up to our expectations, go away, we will install another government that will make peace with Germany and ensure peace for us. But the Russian people did not agree to this, because they believed in the correctness of the policy of their Government and made sacrifices in order to ensure the defeat of Germany. And this confidence of the Russian people in the Soviet government turned out to be the decisive force that ensured historic victory over the enemy of mankind - over fascism.

Thanks to him, the Russian people, for this trust!

For the health of the Russian people!"

To people who love their Fatherland, such high mark was always pleasant. Even those who remembered history well and knew that Joseph Vissarionovich, although he did not bluff, praising the Great Russians, but also tormented these people more than foreigners. Maybe you should have beaten your own people so that strangers would be afraid? But here we are entering the "terra incognita" of historical science. Despite the abundance historical material, much remains to be explored.

Modern American professor Robert Tucker, who wrote a recently published biography of Stalin in Russian translation, notes that serious "researchers have barely begun to analyze the personality of Stalin and those psychological motivations who urged him to achieve unlimited, autocratic power with the help of purges and terror. Not yet explored complex mechanism the interaction of these psychological motivations with political goals and ideas of Stalin.

Nor was due attention paid to the problem of shaping Stalin's political image in his youth, although numerous relevant facts had long been at hand. What made him a Marxist? Why did he leave the seminary at the age of twenty and choose the career of a revolutionary? Why did he become a Bolshevik, a supporter of Lenin, while the majority of Georgian Marxists preferred Menshevism? What were his personal goals in the revolutionary movement? All these questions remain open. But it is important to get an answer to them if we want to better understand the actions of the mature Stalin.

In 1888, young Soso entered a school where teaching was conducted in Georgian, and Russian was studied as a foreign language. A couple of years later, at the height of the policy of Russification of border lands pursued by the tsarist government, mandatory spoken language Russian became in the classes, and Georgian took the place of a foreign one. There are only two lessons per week. Naturally talkative Georgian guys spoke Russian with difficulty and constantly strayed into their own language. native language. Like medieval schoolchildren in Europe, so that they quickly mastered Latin, and did not stray into various barbaric dialects, Georgian boys were punished: they were beaten with a fist or a ruler, put their knees on small stones for one or two hours, or forced to stand in a corner. Or else the offender had to keep on outstretched hand a wooden stick, sometimes until dinner, if it did not go to another who was at fault.

Tucker further writes: "Some of the newly appointed government officials, who looked like the inspector of the Butyrsky school, further heated the situation by openly demonstrating their contempt for Georgian language and in general to everything Georgian. The rude methods by which the authorities tried to make Russian boys out of Georgian children only strengthened in them the feeling national pride. While studying the Russian language, many began to hate the Russians themselves. It is surprising that after this, the future Secretary General fell in love with the Russian language and the Great Russians themselves! In any case, the vast majority of his peers turned their backs on Russia for a long time.

That's just, carried away by the ideas of internationalism, Dzhugashvili, showed insight and adequately responded to the challenge of the time. An American historian and part-time psychoanalyst finds the following explanation for such a revolution in youthful souls: "Russia was the first to make a communist revolution and from an actual colony Western Europe became the center of a world movement that gave rise to a kind of "Russian red patriotism" among some Russian communists. They were not only proud of their belonging to the Russian nation, but also looked at themselves primarily as Russians and did not value so much Soviet power and Soviet federation, how many were drawn to "one, indivisible" Russia. "Notice that this is written by an author who expertly analyzes Russian history, and does not hysteria, like a huge part of Stalinophobes or Stalin-lovers. Leave emotions for your loved ones - there is nothing to climb into the region with your tastes recent past. Otherwise, scribbles from scientific research turns into a bad sense of journalism, now and then straying to the level of libel.

Unlike Lenin, the leader of the world revolution, deeply respected by Stalin (including Tucker writes about the reverence that Iosif Vissarionovich felt in front of his senior comrade, and only in front of him alone, sweeping aside all his other closest associates), who was alien to "Russian nationalism" , he is "deeply rooted in the character of Stalin." Here is another passage from the work of an American historian: “Stalin became Russified as a young revolutionary, considering the Bolsheviks a “true Russian faction” of the Marxist movement. Ironically, a man who, in Lenin’s opinion, was valuable to the party as a representative of small nations and who for a long time agreed with this definition of his main role in the party, was an emerging Russian nationalist even before they met and many years before the moment when, to his horror, Lenin discovered in him fully formed Russian nationalist views.

Stalin identified himself with Russia, this was his arrogant attitude towards the culture of small peoples, primarily Caucasians, which we discovered in the work "Marxism and national question"- this determined the zeal with which he took the side of Lenin and opposed the "national-cultural autonomy" in the party."

A very remarkable paragraph: “In Stalin’s view, there was no contradiction between the class category “true proletarian” and the national category “real Russian.” On the contrary, these concepts were combined. According to Stalin, Bolshevism, or Leninism, was truly Marxist, class revolutionary movement international character and at the same time thoroughly Russian. In April 1926, in one of the internal party memorandums addressed to Kaganovich and other members of the Bureau of the Communist Party of Ukraine, Stalin defined Leninism as " highest achievement"Russian culture".

Hence it is clear why the liberals of the Gorbachev perestroika model so zealously attacked everything connected with our revolution. They successfully survived more than one European revolution, in particular, the Great French, and after that they did not stop worshiping everything French, but the Muscovites became them across the throat. Along with revolutionary excesses, such "critics" tried to get rid of any manifestation of "Russianness". The Marquis de Custine vilified tsarist Russia, his current heirs continue to do this with today's Russia, in the interim they mocked the power of the Soviets. As a result, some do not like the Russian regime, but Great Russia itself.

Historians are still arguing what this toast, delivered by Stalin two years after the Victory in the Kremlin, really means. Moreover, there are three significantly different versions of this speech - recorded in a transcript, edited personally by the Supreme Commander-in-Chief and published in the central press in a newspaper report on the event, where a historical toast was pronounced.

Why did Stalin correct his text?

The famous speech for the health of the Russian people was made in the Grand Kremlin Palace during a reception in honor of the command of the Red Army. The very next day it was published in the Soviet press. For decades, only a printed version of Stalin's toast was available to historians, although its source existed all this time - only at the end of the 90s were declassified part of the archives of Stalin and Molotov, where, among other things, there were typewritten copies of the texts of this speech.

In the archive of I. V. Stalin, a typewritten version of his speech with Stalin's corrections was found - Iosif Vissarionovich threw out from the text the words about the forced retreat of the Red Army in the early years of World War II, about the temporary loss of control over the situation. The version edited by his hand was later published in print.

Only in the 90s domestic historians got the opportunity to compare and analyze three documents that contained Stalin's speech in the Kremlin on May 24, 1947 - a verbatim report on the event, a text edited by Joseph Vissarionovich himself, and the actual newspaper publications about that solemn reception. Researchers’ assessments of what Stalin wanted to say and said when he toasted “For the Russian people!” vary so much that today there are up to a dozen independent versions of the meaning of this toast.

Historians' opinions

The main stumbling block in the debate about the meaning of Stalin's historical toast is its mono-ethnicity - for some reason the head of state wanted to drink for the Russian people, although representatives of dozens of nationalities of the USSR fought in the Great Patriotic War. According to professor Faculty of History Saratov State University Grigory Burdey, the toast was still the Soviet Union as such. Bringing to the fore the long-suffering of the Russian people, Stalin thereby belittled the dignity of other ethnic groups. At that time, it had been abolished for three years Chechen-Ingush ASSR, and its population was deported - by official version, due to unreliability and collaborationism during the Great Patriotic War. Stalin also knew about the nationalist movements in the Baltic states, Western Ukraine and Western Belarus. According to Burdei, this toast was the beginning of a future policy to revive the nationalist Russian idea.

The historian William Pokhlebkin considered the Stalinist toast as an analogy to the manifesto of the Russian Emperor Alexander I, published in 1812 - thus, William Vasilyevich believed, Stalin drew parallels between the two Patriotic wars to emphasize their special significance. But this subtext, according to Pokhlebkin, no one discerned, mainly in the analysis of speech Supreme Commander limited themselves to the "packaging" of the Soviet people into the main (Russian) and secondary ones.

According to the doctor historical sciences Vladimir Nevezhin, Stalin needed serious editing of the text of the speech before sending it to print in order to again demonstrate their own infallibility in order to shift the blame for the catastrophic blunders of the first years of the war onto the Soviet government.

What do journalists and writers think about it?

Candidate philosophical sciences older Researcher Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences S. N. Zemlyanoy, in his article “The Past That Does Not Pass”, published in Literaturnaya Gazeta, expresses the opinion that Stalin, with his toast, was forced to acknowledge the victory in the Second World War of Russian patriotism (nationalism), and not communist ideology. Valery Ganichev, Chairman of the Board of the Union of Writers of Russia, agrees with this point of view. special role Russian people in Victory.

In his book The Russian People at the Turn of the Millennium, the scientist and publicist Igor Shafarevich expresses his opinion about Stalin's desire to stimulate the national feelings of the Russian people in this way. Although, as Igor Rostislavovich believed, this toast was nothing more than external effect that did not affect the foundations of the existing system.

For many, it will be a great discovery that these words about the false theory of Marxism, about the personal freedom of citizens, about the great Russian people, world Zionism and the future of Russia were spoken by Joseph Stalin ...

About how to live:

“It is necessary to achieve such a cultural growth of society that would provide all members of society comprehensive development their physical and mental capacity so that members of society have the opportunity to receive an education sufficient to become active agents of social development.

So that they have the opportunity to freely choose a profession, and not be chained for life, due to the existing division of labor in any profession.

What is required for this?

It would be wrong to think that it is possible to achieve such a serious cultural growth of the members of society without serious changes in current situation labor.

To do this, first of all, it is necessary to reduce the working day by at least to 6 and then to 5 o'clock. This is to ensure that members of the society have enough free time to receive a comprehensive education.

For this it is necessary, further, to radically improve living conditions and raise the real wages workers and employees at least twice, if not more, both through a direct increase in money wages, and, especially, through a further systematic reduction in the prices of consumer goods.

Source: I.V. Stalin" Economic problems socialism in the USSR. (Remarks on economic issues related to the November discussion of 1951) Gospolitizdat 1952

Also in this political testament a different understanding of socialism was expressed and guiding instructions were given to the Soviet economics abandon the conceptual terminological apparatus Marxism in political economy, first of all:

On the false theory of Marxism:

“Moreover, I think that it is necessary to discard some other concepts, taken from Marx's Capital, which are artificially glued to our socialist relations. I mean, among other things, such concepts as “necessary” and “surplus” labour, “necessary” and “surplus” product, “necessary” and “surplus” time.

I think that our economists must put an end to this discrepancy between the old concepts and the new state of affairs in our socialist country, replacing the old concepts with new ones corresponding to the new situation.

We could tolerate this discrepancy until a certain time, but now the time has come when we must finally eliminate this discrepancy”

On the future of Russia:

“Many deeds of our party and people will be perverted and spat on, primarily abroad, and in our country too. Zionism, striving for world domination, will cruelly take revenge on us for our successes and achievements.

He still views Russia as a barbarian country, as a raw material appendage. And my name will also be slandered, slandered. Many evil deeds will be attributed to me.

World Zionism will strive with all its might to destroy our Union so that Russia can never rise again. The strength of the USSR is in the friendship of peoples. The edge of the struggle will be directed primarily at breaking this friendship, at tearing the border regions away from Russia. Here, we must admit, we have not done everything yet. There is still a lot of work to be done here.

Nationalism will raise its head with particular force. It will crush internationalism and patriotism for a while, only for a while. There will be national groups within nations and conflicts. Many pygmy leaders will appear, traitors within their nations.

In general, in the future development will go more difficult and even frenzied paths, the turns will be extremely steep. The point is that the East will be especially agitated. There will be sharp contradictions with the West.

And yet, no matter how events unfold, time will pass and the eyes of new generations will be turned to the deeds and victories of our socialist Fatherland. Year after year new generations will come. They will once again raise the banner of their fathers and grandfathers and give us their due in full. They will build their future on our past.

All this will fall on the shoulders of the Russian people. For the Russian people are a great people. The Russian people are a kind people. The Russian people have a clear mind. It is as if he was born to help other nations. The Russian people have great courage, especially in difficult times, in dangerous times. He is proactive.

He has a strong character. They are dreamy people. He has a purpose. That is why it is harder for him than for other nations. You can rely on him in any trouble. The Russian people are invincible, inexhaustible.”

Conversation with A.M. Kollontai, November 1939

Source: Extracts from the diaries of A.M. Kollontai, stored in the Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, were produced by the historian M.I. We crush. (c. 611)

On the state monopoly on the production of vodka:

“Did we do the right thing by handing over the production of vodka to the hands of the state? I think that's right. If vodka were transferred to private hands, then this would lead to:

firstly, to the strengthening of private capital,

secondly, the government would lose the ability to properly regulate the production and consumption of vodka, and,

thirdly, it would make it difficult for itself to abolish the production and consumption of vodka in the future.

Now our policy is to gradually curtail the production of vodka. I think that in the future we will be able to completely abolish the vodka monopoly, reduce the production of alcohol to the minimum necessary for technical purposes, and then completely eliminate the sale of vodka.”

Source: Stalin I.V. Works. - T. 10. Gospolitizdat, 1949, pp. 206-238. Notes 58-60: Ibid. Page 386

About freedom:

“It is difficult for me to imagine what kind of “personal freedom” an unemployed person who goes hungry and does not find a use for his labor can have.

Real freedom exists only where exploitation has been abolished, where there is no oppression of some people by others, where there is no unemployment and begging, where a person does not tremble because tomorrow he may lose his job, home, bread. Only in such a society is real, and not paper, personal and any other freedom possible.

Conversation with the chairman of the American newspaper association "Scripps-Howard Newspapers" Roy Howard. March 1, 1936

Source: Stalin I.V. Works. - T. 14. Publishing house "Writer", 1997. S. 103–112.

“Under capitalism, there are no and cannot be real “freedoms” for the exploited, if only because the premises, printing houses, paper warehouses, etc., necessary for the use of “freedoms”, are the privilege of the exploiters.

Under capitalism, there is not and cannot be a real participation of the exploited masses in the government of the country, if only because under the most democratic conditions under capitalism, governments are not set up by the people, but by the Rothschilds and Stinneses, Rockefellers and Morgans.

Democracy under capitalism is a capitalist democracy, a democracy of an exploiting minority, based on restricting the rights of the exploited majority and directed against this majority.

Source: "On the Foundations of Leninism" Vol.6, p. 115

On nationalism in general and Ukrainian nationalism in particular:

“No, we are doing the right thing by punishing nationalists of all stripes and colors so severely. They are the best helpers our enemies and worst enemies own peoples.

After all cherished dream nationalists - to split the Soviet Union into separate "national" states, and then it will become an easy prey for enemies. The peoples inhabiting the Soviet Union, for the most part, will be physically exterminated, while the rest will turn into dumb and miserable slaves of the conquerors.

Not by chance despicable traitors Ukrainian people- leaders Ukrainian nationalists, all these millers, konovaltsy, bandera - have already received a task from German intelligence incite hatred for Russians among Ukrainians, who are also Russians, and seek the separation of Ukraine from the Soviet Union.

The same old song of ancient times from the period of the Roman Empire: divide and conquer.

The British were especially successful in inciting national hatred and inciting some peoples against others.

Through such tactics, bribing pathetic and corrupt leaders different peoples, capitalist island England - the first factory in the world, negligibly small in size

- managed to capture huge territories, to enslave and rob many peoples of the world, to create a “Great” british empire, in which, as the British boastfully declare, the Sun never sets.

With us, this number, while we are alive, will not work. So it is in vain that the Hitlerite fools call the Soviet Union a “house of cards”, which supposedly will fall apart at the first serious test, count on the fragility of friendship between the peoples inhabiting our country today, hope to quarrel them with each other.

In the event of a German attack on the Soviet Union, people different nationalities, who inhabit our country, will defend it, not sparing their lives, as their dearly beloved Motherland.

However, the nationalists should not be underestimated. If they are allowed to act with impunity, they will bring a lot of trouble. That's why they need to be kept iron bridle not to let them undermine the unity of the Soviet Union.”

Source: complete collection essays. V. 15, “Conversation with A. S. Yakovlev on March 26, 1941”, p. 17.

About abstract art:

“Today, under the guise of innovation in musical art trying to break into Soviet music formalist direction, and in artistic creativity- abstract painting.

Sometimes you can hear the question: “Do such great people as the Bolshevik-Leninists need to deal with trifles - spend time criticizing abstract painting and formalist music. Let the psychiatrists do it.”

In such questions, there is a lack of understanding of the role in ideological sabotage against our country and especially the youth that these phenomena play. After all, with their help, they are trying to oppose the principles of socialist realism in literature and art. It is impossible to do this openly, so they act undercover.

In the so-called abstract paintings, there are no real images of people whom one would like to imitate in the struggle for the happiness of the people, in the struggle for communism, along the path of which one would like to follow. This image has been replaced with an abstract mystic that obscures class struggle socialism versus capitalism.

How many people came during the war to be inspired by the exploits to the monument to Minin and Pozharsky on Red Square! And what can inspire a pile of rusty iron, given out by “innovators” from sculpture as a work of art? What can inspire abstract paintings of artists?

This is the reason why modern American financial tycoons, propagandizing modernism, pay fabulous fees for such “works”, which the great masters of realistic art never dreamed of”

Source: Complete Works, Volume 16.

About literature and art in modern society:

“Foreign agents have been given the task of promoting pessimism, every kind of decadence and moral decay in works of literature and art.

One zealous US senator said: “If we could show our horror films in Bolshevik Russia, we would certainly disrupt their communist construction.” No wonder Leo Tolstoy said that literature and art are the most powerful forms of suggestion.

We need to seriously think about who and what inspires us today with the help of literature and art, to put an end to ideological sabotage in this area, until the end it is time, in my opinion, to understand and assimilate that culture, being an important integral part dominant ideology in society, always class.

And it is used to protect the interests of the ruling class, in our country to protect the interests of the working people - the state of the dictatorship of the proletariat.

There is no art for the sake of art, there is not and cannot be any "free", independent of society, as if standing above this society of artists, writers, poets, playwrights, directors, journalists. They just don't need anyone. Yes, such people do not exist, cannot exist.

Speech at a meeting with the creative intelligentsia, 1946

Opened at the end of December how-be-historical exhibition about Russian history in Perm...

Stalin makes a toast: "For the Russian people!"

At the recently opened exhibition in Perm, Russia is My History, Stalin’s quote is presented as brief retelling, completely perverted the meaning of the saying. At the exposition dedicated to the 20th century, on the stand entitled “The Toast of Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin”, there is next text: “I drink to the great Russian people. Another people would have kicked us out."

However, in reality, the famous toast delivered by I. V. Stalin at the Kremlin reception on May 24, 1945 in honor of the commanders of the Red Army, sounded completely different:

“Comrades, allow me to raise one more, last toast. I, as a representative of our Soviet government, would like to raise a toast to the health of our Soviet people and, above all, the Russian people. I drink, first of all, to the health of the Russian people, because they are the most outstanding nation of all the nations that make up the Soviet Union. I raise a toast to the health of the Russian people because in this war they deserved and previously deserved the title, if you will, of the leading force of our Soviet Union among all the peoples of our country. I raise a toast to the health of the Russian people not only because they are the leading people, but also because they have common sense, general political common sense and patience. Our government made many mistakes, we had moments of a desperate situation in 1941-42, when our army retreated, left our native villages and cities in Ukraine, Belarus, Moldavia, the Leningrad Region, the Karelian-Finnish Republic, left because there was no another exit. Some other people could say: you have not justified our hopes, we will put in another government that will make peace with Germany and ensure peace for us. It could happen, mind you. But the Russian people did not agree to this, the Russian people did not compromise, they showed boundless confidence in our government. I repeat, we made mistakes, for the first two years our army was forced to retreat, it turned out that we did not master the events, did not cope with the situation that had arisen. However, the Russian people believed, endured, waited and hoped that we would still cope with the events. For this trust in our government, which the Russian people have shown us, we thank him very much! For the health of the Russian people!”

The words “would kick out”, which are indicated as a quote, are absent in Stalin’s real quote. The text, presented as Stalin's saying, is thus understood in a Russophobic vein: passive and the most narrow-minded of all peoples, the Russian people are ready to endure anything over themselves. In reality, however, Stalin extols the Russian people as leading, self-possessed, outstanding from other peoples.

Recall that earlier in Perm, at the exhibition “Russia is my history”, at the exposition dedicated to the 20th century, Lenin’s “quote” was found, which is fake, in which Lenin allegedly calls for the shooting of the clergy. In fact, the source of this “quote” is the white émigré Bulletin of the Russian Student Christian Movement for 1970, No. 98; such words are absent in the actual party archives and collected works of Lenin.

Here, some may think that they say, there was a mistake. Well, think about it, well, they quoted it incorrectly. However, this is not the case, this is clearly deliberate misinformation, simply a lie, with completely separate malicious intentions.

The war with our history, as part of the fight against Russia and the Russians, continues systematically. This is from the same series as the Urengoy Boy, or the myths of one rifle for six, and they threw corpses and won in spite of 60 million shot personally by Stalin and other things in the same vein ...

In fact, the people and the state draw strength, wisdom, experience from their history, and we have it - a clear success story. Centuries of progressive development, hundreds of victories over dozens of invaders and opponents from the West, South and East, economic, demographic, scientific development. Actually, the best witness to this, even the territory of Russia itself, is still even after two collapses of the remaining one-ninth territory all over the land of the planet.

Russia is the largest state in the world by area (17,075,400 km² or 11.46% (1/9) of the entire land area of ​​the Earth, or 12.65% (1/8) of the land inhabited by humans, which is almost twice as much as that of the second place of Canada).
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Considering a strong army with a mass of components, especially nuclear forces and we can be defeated not by military means, but by psychological special operations - including, first of all, instilling in us that all our leaders and leaders, especially great and successful ones, are exclusively negative personalities for the country and humanity in general, to pervert everything - declare white to be black, forgetting to exaggerate achievements and even come up with terrible shortcomings and etc. Make you repent, be ashamed of your history, great ancestors, in the end make you want to stop being Russian and, the damned "occupiers" and "imperialists" (though for some reason, on the contrary, they built factories and spaceports for the "colonies" and peripheries, at their own expense, and drove our resources to them, but they won't write this in textbooks.)

It is the achievements of such leaders of our state in various times, such as Grozny, Peter the Great, Catherine the Second, Stalin, especially enrage our external opponents, and therefore they are presented as complete madmen, cruel tyrants, perverts and maniacs, misinforming and mythologising their activities in every possible way. What do dozens and hundreds of all kinds of Svanidz, Nevzlinov, Solzhenitsyn and other "objective historians" help them with ...

Therefore, we must try to teach well and know our history. This is the basis for understanding and what is happening today, in our country and in the world as a whole, for the development of both the individual, the individual, and society as a whole...

And of course, in a good way the first important task for the state - precisely that the opposition to the corrosive foundation national consciousness pseudo-history, like Russophobic inclusions in the aforementioned exhibition, or n. n. images of fascist weapons on the monument to Kalashnikov in Moscow, and vice versa, enlightenment and cultivation of that more sane, positively objective history of Russia and the Russian people ...