Sandarmokh has long become for some people a place of worship and commemoration of their innocently murdered relatives, of whom more than 6,000 souls now rest in peace, and for others it is a painful historical thorn in the eye, discrediting their political reputation Soviet Union(and Russian Federation, as the successor of the "scoop"), metastases that call into question all the moral foundations and values of the "red era": Leninism, Stalinism and all subsequent "isms", up to 1991.
And in the last year, Sandarmokh has also become a place of political bargaining. An expedition of the Military Historical Society is equipped in the tract, whose task is to find (if you are standing, it is better to sit down) ... the remains of Soviet prisoners of war shot by the Finns during the Continuation War of 1941-1944.
A thorn in the eye of empire
“Well, what… What if?” - a Russian layman will say, already accustomed to the fact that in the last decade all historical heritage has been turned upside down in Russia - from Batu to the Second Chechen, here and there more and more new "historical bonds" appear, amphorae rise from the bottom of the sea and redraw the boundaries of the continents. Just then it turns out that even before the Vikings and before Columbus, America was discovered by the ancient Rus, who founded the great Mayan civilization, and only then its damned Spanish “gayropians” seduced and destroyed it.
So Sandarmokh in the canvas of the latest historical "discoveries" is just a reference point. Yes, it is very painful, because it is not located somewhere beyond the Urals, not lost in the distant Siberian taiga or on the Kolyma hills, but lies right here - close to the borders of sparkling and civilized Europe, which so zealously defends human rights and is so suspicious related to either Stalinism or Putinism.
And this is what pisses the Russian government off. Enrage annual visits of pilgrims from different countries - from Poland to the United States. The constant requests (not demands) of historians to finally open everything are infuriating secret archives USSR, to fully understand the history of the country. Articles and discussions on the topic of political repression are infuriating, everything that in one way or another casts a shadow on the new “leader of the peoples”, brought up on the very “values” of the execution office, the results of which are buried in Sandarmokh, is infuriating.
At the broken trough
If you believe that they sincerely believe in the integrity of socialism and the Soviet Union, in the infallibility of the "great" Stalin, then you are deeply mistaken. They do not believe, because they know better than we do that the hands of the Soviet regime are not up to the elbows in blood (as we think), but up to the very nostrils. If you think that they sincerely believe in the legend about the executed Soviet prisoners of war, then you are also deeply mistaken. For for them, in Sandarmokh, everyone has long been known and everyone has been counted: unlike you and me, they have completely unhindered access to the archives and “secret knowledge” of the Cheka-NKVD-KGB.
And it is precisely this “secret knowledge” that frightens them incredibly. Because in the event of a leak and publication of these, such an ecumenical and nationwide the cognitive dissonance, which will set in motion the entire seventh part of the land. But the worst thing is that it will bring down the entire system of today's new bonds and new historical prospects for the empire, devalue all the propaganda work of the last decade and lead the many millions of people to what they will come to later one way or another - to a broken trough. In our case - to a pig trough, from which Russian people for more than a century they have been fed historical slops and the dregs of human civilization.
In the story of the organization of the expedition of the military, I apologize for the expression, historians are stunned not so much by the fact that they are trying to find the remains of the Red Army soldiers shot by the Finns in the mass grave of the victims of Stalinist repressions, but by the fact that the reason for it was ... the testimony of former prisoners of Finnish concentration camps.
There is an interrogation protocol!
The first question is why testimonies? Yes, because the captured Red Army soldiers from the Finnish camps went straight to the Soviet Gulag in trains, where the caring Smershevites prepared for each "traitor" at least "five", and, as a rule, "dvenashka" or "fifteen". And now the testimony of the "traitors" (about what the prisoners of war were wearing) becomes the reason for the expedition.
Photo: Alexey Vladimirov By the way, if you notice, we have the whole story for a hundred recent years written solely on the testimony. One against the other. And it is always possible to refute some evidence with other evidence. Because the country is like this: there is an interrogation protocol for any historical moment! Our whole history is, in fact, one big prison story. From the first Leninist concentration camps, to the GULAG, and then from the penal battalions, through the same GULAG - to the psychiatric hospitals of the Brezhnev era. Protocols, interrogations, face-to-face confrontations... The whole history of the country rests on them.
hysterical conjuncture
The second question is why exactly the Finns are being held accountable for Sandarmokh? Well, everything is simple here: such a historical moment has come. The Finns are out, they are looking more and more towards NATO, they support sanctions, and in general ... they got out of hand. They forgot that they were once part of the empire. All the same, Finland is, in fact, the face, not the ass of Europe. The ass of Europe is a little to the east.
Here, suppose there would be a different historical conjuncture now, in Sandarmokh, any evidence (read - testimony) would certainly be dug up: from the victims of the invasion of Genghis Khan, to Soviet guys shot by Afghan Mujahideen. It will be necessary - they will dig up at least the victims of the Bandera "UkrofOshists" who executed boys in panties en masse. And if there is a feud with China tomorrow, they will find the victims of the massacre on the Chinese Eastern Railway there. There would be a conjuncture, but the interrogation protocol for it will always be found! Moreover, today the historical conjuncture is more and more reminiscent of a hysterical one - everything is in a hurry, impudently, with impudence and audacity.
red retribution
My grandfather, Vasily Maksimovich Lipponen, who was shot on January 20, 1938, also rests in Sandarmokh. I will not tire of repeating this. Because this is not a testimony, not an interrogation protocol, it is historical fact, historical truth, the bearer of which I am. I am a living bearer of history, and, in prison terms, its witness. I did not see my grandfather alive and from the words of my grandmother and mother I know that the Reds shot him. And this is the objective historical truth. Not archival, but alive. Not according to the protocol of interrogation, but according to family stories. And this is the main danger for the regime. The fact that there are living carriers of history.
Digressing from the topic, I’ll tell you that my grandfather was in the 20s a “terry separatist and counter-revolutionary”, took part in the emergence and formation of the Ukhta Republic. After its defeat by parts of the Red Army, he fled with his family to Finland, where he lived for several years, until the announcement of an amnesty by the Soviet authorities. Yes, the Finns warmed and sheltered him, gave him bread and shelter. But the call of the ancestors turned out to be stronger, and the grandfather decided to return with his family to his native Karelian land, to the village of Pongagubu, where a large house, land and household remained.
Kohl returned and decided to live under the Soviets, which means that he had to build his life in a new way. He joined the party, by his work showed remarkable organizational skills and grew in the Soviet rural nomenclature to the chairman of the Luusalm village council, where he was overtaken by red retribution for the Ukhta Republic.
Life after death?
Shot, buried and forgotten. Found, rehabilitated, perpetuated the memory. Now, all of a sudden, his bones will be pulled out of the ground, dressed in green English cloth and his grandfather will be declared a Red Army soldier shot by the Finns. Paradoxically, he, who fought in the ranks of the North Karelian Republican Army against the Red Army, will be declared a Red Army soldier, and the Finns, who gave him shelter with his family in their country in 1922, will be declared executioners and guilty of his death. Will he, whose interrogation protocol says that he was preparing terrorist acts against the Soviet regime, now be made a new martyr for "our cause is just - victory will be ours"?
monument on memorial cemetery"Sandarmokh" in Karelia. Photo: Valery Potashov It would be funny if it weren't so sad. If grandfather could have known in advance about the adventures and conversions of his bones after death, he would hardly have risked returning to the USSR ... I don’t know how it is with the Russians, but the Karelians disturb, and even more so - overestimate the remains of their ancestors - it’s outrageous. Beyond the human. Beyond understanding, beyond perception, and beyond all justification. It is somewhere far beyond good and evil.
However, the dead have no shame. The current government can go much further and declare, for example, that all the many hundreds of thousands of Red Army soldiers whose remains still lie abandoned in the forests, fields and roadsides on the battlefields are not just remains, but unarmed Soviet prisoners of war, whom the adversary ruthlessly shot and scattered it so that it would be more difficult after the war to find and collect all this. Why not? You look - and a new Russian bond is being formed in place of the old national shame ...
Occupation and liberation
By the way, about the Finns, the Finnish army and the notorious Finnish "occupation". My father bypassed the sad fate of remaining in the Finnish occupation. Together with his mother and two brothers, he was lucky enough to get into the Arkhangelsk evacuation in 1941, where they all almost died of starvation during the first military winter. Somehow they got out only due to the fact that the Karelian boys, in the presence of reservoirs and forests, were able to get food on their own.
And when in 1944 they returned to the liberated Voknavolok, they were surprised to find that during the occupation the Finns built a lot of things in the village. And half of the current Kalevala after that war was built up with solid Finnish houses, which were simply dismantled in one place, transported and assembled in another. To this day, dozens of such houses stand in the village, faithfully serving their owners.
So my father then, and now I am constantly tormented by the question and gnawed by doubts - when, after all, on ancient land my Vienan Karjala was the occupation, and when - the liberation? Because if we start from the current interpretation of history, then dissonance arises. And if we assume that the occupation of our region began just in 1922, and then there was liberation in the period from 1941 to 1944, followed by a long occupation again, then there is no dissonance. And everything falls into place, acquires meaning and an inextricable logical connection. But then responsibility arises under Article 280, paragraph 2 (in our case) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation for separatism.
And that's where the salt is. Because even the application of Article 280, 2, say, in relation to me, will be a continuation of the meaning and inextricable logical connection of my assumption in the issue of "occupation-liberation". For only the occupying power in the occupied territory can apply Article 280 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. And only in relation to the enslaved national minority. This is an axiom. In all other cases, Article 280 does not have the slightest legal meaning.
Here, by the way, is a curious photograph from the Finnish military archive. On it, Ukrainians dispossessed by the Soviet government, liberated by the Finns in Medvezhyegorsk, are looking forward to being sent home - to Ukraine occupied by the Germans. This is December 1941. I will leave the reader tempted in politics to independently figure out who in the life of these Ukrainian peasants was the occupier and who was the liberator. And to which Ukraine they (in terms of their life experience) are returning - occupied or liberated.
Photo: sa-kuva.fi One thing is certain in this shot: all these people could also lay their bones in the land of Sandarmokh, where at that moment hundreds of their brothers were already lying.
Go and see
A little more about openness and accessibility of information. Not so long ago, we learned that Putin extended the secrecy of a huge part of the military archives until 2040. For the NKVD-KGB archives, the period of secrecy has been completely extended until 2044. Meanwhile, on site National Archives Finland has been posting digitized military archives for several years in a row. In open access. In an exhaustive form - go, look, read, leaf through, download. By divisions and units. According to the daily combat logs. A lot of information on the scene of action, by date, by hour, by the consumption of cartridges and grenades, by the number of people killed on both sides, wounded and captured. With maps and explanatory notes of those years. Go and see. No vultures and no restrictions. Even to information about the executions of Russian saboteurs and partisans caught in punitive actions against the civilian population of Finland.
A separate huge layer - thousands and thousands of military photos in the public domain. By years and directions, by villages and villages, by keywords and simply by a shaft. Go and see. In these photos - the whole history of the war in Karelia - from the first to the last day. I dug up two such archives up and down and saw a lot of photographs of Soviet prisoners of war. And captured in battle, and defectors. And indeed, on some prisoners of war overcoats of a clearly English type are visible.
Here is a whole selection of Finnish military photographs from the period 1941-42, relating to Medvezhyegorsk prisoners of the Red Army. They capture moments of their life and everyday life: a march in a column (no guards are visible), work on repairing roads, resting in a barracks, etc. In one of the photographs, two prisoners support a third, drunken soldier in a smoke, as the caption says. He was taken prisoner in this form or got drunk already in the conditions of the camp - I can’t presume to say, but all four characters do not look like they just left the battlefield. And it is certainly impossible to conclude from these photographs that the Finns treated the prisoners inhumanely and kept them only in order to mass shoot them in Sandarmokh.
I made this selection from the Finnish military archive sa-kuva.fi There are a lot of such photos on the site, anyone can go and see how and how the prisoners lived soviet soldiers. It is enough to enter a keyword in the search bar: Karhumäki. Go and see.
By the way, in these photos you can see a fairly large number of "non-formatted" uniforms of the Red Army - both overcoats and tunics, clearly of European design. But let's find out once and for all the origin of these notorious overcoats and put an end to the issue of their appearance (still possible) in the execution pits of Sandarmokh.
Evidence
The Finns during the Continuation War 1941-1944 lived quite poorly. Having a first-class and efficient army, hardened in the battles of the Winter War, the Finns had a very meager property support for this army. The Finnish veterans themselves laughed at the uniform of the Finnish soldier, saying that all we have the same is a cockade and a belt. Everything else is different versions of tunics and trousers purchased in different countries at different times. And even captured in battle. Suffice it to say that the Finns did not have their own steel helmet, they used German helmets of the Kaiser model of 1918 (the same “horned” helmet), less often later models, as well as Italian and Czechoslovak helmets in large numbers.
Photo: Sergey Markelov As a prudent and economic people, the Finns did not pass by the military property and uniforms abandoned by the retreating Red Army. And this applied not only to weapons (the regular Mosin rifle cartridge and the Finnish rifle cartridge are completely interchangeable). Everything went to work. The burial of the Red Army soldiers who died in battles was carried out by their captured brother-soldiers. Naturally, they also removed shoes and overcoats suitable for wearing from the dead, because the dead did not need clothes, but they still came in handy for the survivors.
So where did these English overcoats come from? It can, of course, be assumed that these overcoats were supplied by Great Britain during the Winter War as military assistance to Finland in the war against the USSR. But that war was painfully fleeting - only six months. And military deliveries are not a matter of one month. How many English overcoats could have come to Finland in 1939-40? And most importantly - did the Finns need them?
Hardly! In 1939, the Finns asked for machine guns, tanks and planes, not overcoats and footcloths. The British government supplied the Finns with 75 aircraft. Among them were 24 Bristol Blenheim bombers (one of them crashed while en route to Finland, another was damaged), 30 Gloster Gladiator fighters, 11 Hawker Hurricane I fighters and 11 Westland Lysander reconnaissance aircraft. Another 10 American-made Brewster F2A Buffalo fighters were also transported. From other military assistance, the supply of infantry weapons prevailed: 124 units of automatic small arms and 70 Beuys anti-tank rifles mod. 1937. The British also transported 114 field guns, 200 anti-tank guns, 185,000 artillery shells, 17,700 aerial bombs and 10,000 anti-tank mines.
As you can see - no overcoats, no helmets, no bowlers. And the rest is not much. For Great Britain at that time, if anyone has forgotten, declared war on Germany and quite realistically imagined with what power it would have to fight. That is why they themselves prepared for the war and did not burn with special desire to share military property with the Finns.
What did they fly and what did they wear
And now, let's go back to 1941 and cross over to the other side - through the line of the Karelian front. As you know, Lend-Lease deliveries to the USSR began in October 1941. UK supplied military aid USSR Arctic convoys; later, in December of the same year, the United States of America also joined Lend-Lease.
Naturally, the Karelian Front became the first target recipient of British military aid. It is a fact. For example, the famous fighter pilot Boris Safonov, who fought in the Arctic, flew the I-16 only in the first months of the war, then he switched to the American Kittyhawk, which, together with the British Hurricanes and the American Aircobras, formed the basis of the combat power of the Soviet fighter aviation. Of the four Soviet aircraft that I know of downed during the war years in the Ukhta direction, two Hurricanes, one Airacobra and another Soviet SB bomber, shot down, however, during the Winter War.
So by December 5, 1941, when Medvezhyegorsk fell under the onslaught of the Finns, the Red Army fighting on the Karelian front already fully felt the military assistance of Great Britain. Including, the deliveries included the desired English overcoats, which by the winter of 1941 were, oh, how the Red Army was needed! So not only captured Red Army soldiers were wearing them, but also soldiers who were quite involved in the defense of the city.
Familiar path and old memory
One acquaintance, long dead, a border guard veteran, talking about the beginning of the war in the Ukhta direction, said, lamenting the unwillingness to repel the enemy’s blow, that the first victim of the war in the border area was ... our soldier, who reported on July 1 to the command that the Finnish army crosses the border. The commander or political instructor of the outpost shot the soldier for alarmism.
So, if on the outskirts of Sandarmokh there really are soldiers in English overcoats with characteristic holes in the backs of their heads, I will undertake to assume that these are all the same “deserters” and “alarmists” whom the Chekists and Smershevites actively shot during the entire war, and in 1941-42 and did their best to roll up their sleeves. They probably found quite a few of them in December 1941, before the surrender of Medvezhyegorsk to the Finns. They were taken, according to old memory, to the same place where they worked out their bloody bread before the war and slammed on the EDGE of a mass grave. On the edge, because THEY and only THEY knew where Sandarmokh began and where it ended. And where you need to dig a new execution pit, so as not to fall into the old one. Due to the cold and the haste of the retreat, the executed were not provided with a deep grave, but they compensated for the costs, leaving them solid English overcoats received under Lend-Lease.
If the Soviet Chekists and Smershevites were really so drawn to the crime scene, I think they brought all the same “cowards” and “deserters” there in 1944 to sprinkle the land of Sandarmokh with the fresh blood of “enemies of the people”. Or maybe later they used the path trodden back in 1937, because before the cold summer of 1953 they shed a lot of blood, they sent a lot of people “for waste”. Once untwisted bloody flywheel stopped slowly and reluctantly. We can only confirm anything for sure when the archives of the firing squad are opened.
Seek and you will find
So here you are, gentlemen, "cleaners of history", another version - I give it, take it into service, do not be shy. But I'm afraid it will spoil all your raspberries and another spiritual bond that has barely arisen from the land of Sandarmokh will bury, in figs, far and for a long time. Because in this version, the same blood is on the hands of the same executioners.
Photo: Sergey Markelov And you have a different order: wash the hands of Stalin's executioners and come up with new ones. Understand. Work. And you will turn. You will be damned along with those who muzzled and shot our grandfathers there. And if you believe in eternal life, consider for yourself those circles that will appear before you after your death.
In the end, “Everyone chooses for himself a woman, religion, road. Serve the devil or the prophet - everyone chooses for himself.
And I wish you patience and faith to Yuri Dmitriev, slandered by our "law enforcement officers", perhaps just in time for these events. If faith in higher powers dries up, let there be faith in decent people, of whom there are still many in Karelia and Russia. We cannot change the course of history, and we do not want to interfere in it, if only for the reason that both for Yuri and for us, history is not a corrupt girl that can be put under every new power and strength. But we can remember, know and pass on the course of history from generation to generation. And then the truth of Sandarmokh will remain the truth that once appeared before us in all its terrifying nakedness. And no cleaners and diggers from court history will ever take away this truth from us.
THE USSR. Pistols of the Mauser C96 system were used by the Red Army during the Civil War, the main part was Mauser pistols 7.63x25 mod. 1912. After the end of the Civil War in the Weimar Republic, about 30 thousand more Mauser Bolo pistols chambered for the same caliber were ordered for the Red Army, which remained in service. commanders The Red Army at least until the end of 1939, under the index GAU RKKA A-6131. During the Soviet-Finnish war, the Mausers (in addition to the three-line carbine) were rearmed with soldiers of the Red Army ski reconnaissance groups. After the start of the Great Patriotic War a number of pistols were transferred to service Soviet partisans, they were armed with the commanders of a number of partisan detachments.
FINLAND. In 1917-1918, over 1000 Mauser pistols were delivered from Germany to Finland, they were used by the Finnish armed forces during civil war in the country and in battles against Soviet Russia, were later officially adopted by the Finnish army under the names "7.63 pist / Mauser" and "9.00 pist / Mauser". Later, they were transferred to auxiliary units. In the summer of 1940, 614 pistols remained in service, they were used in World War II. Thirty thousand against 614 pistols. So from whose Mauser was the found bullet fired?
Prince Svyatoslav entered our history as a major commander who glorified Russia with his deeds. Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin wrote about him like this: “The ancient chronicle preserved for posterity a beautiful trait of his character: he did not want to take advantage of an accidental attack, but he always declared war on the peoples in advance, ordering them to say: I’m coming at you! In these times of general barbarism, proud Svyatoslav observed rules of true chivalry." One of the exploits of the ancient Russian prince was the battle with the Byzantines near the Bulgarian fortress Dorostol...Military campaigns of Svyatoslav in Bulgaria and in the Black Sea region are usually called the Russian-Byzantine war. Thanks to the swiftness and military courage of the Russian army, this war began quite successfully for Russia, and the first major defeat of the Byzantines took place in the battle of Adrianople in 970. The Byzantine emperor, stunned by the defeat, promised Svyatoslav peace.
In Constantinople, the Rus were considered "barbarians" who could, if not, be defeated military force, then bribe with expensive gifts and assurances of "eternal friendship." However, fidelity to the treaty has long been trampled in Roman politics, which valued more the right of the strong at the moment.
Having trusted, the Rus left the mouth of the Danube open, giving the Byzantine emperor a pretext for deceit. And he was not slow to take advantage of the chance, speaking out against the Russian squad with a strong fleet of three hundred ships equipped with "Greek fire", with cavalry and personal guards of the "immortals". The main forces of the Rus were under siege in the fortress of Dorostol.
Emperor John Tzimiskes approached the fortress in the spring of 971, taking it into a complete encirclement. From the land, the Russian army was blocked by the superior number of Byzantine troops, and from the river - by Byzantine ships. However, the Russians not only bravely repulsed all attacks, but also made sorties themselves. One night, on boats, they passed the Byzantine fleet unnoticed and, having defeated a large detachment of the besiegers and captured a large number of trophies, returned back to the fortress. But hunger and disease began in Dorostol, many were injured, and Svyatoslav was forced to urgently take decisive action.
A major battle to lift the siege began on 20 July. Russian soldiers left the fortress to give a decisive battle. At first, everything went well on the battlefield, but after one of the Russian military leaders was killed, the combatants retreated. After this unsuccessful breakthrough, Svyatoslav gathered a council at which he uttered words that became the embodiment of Russian military prowess: “We have nothing to choose from.
On July 22, the Russians decided on the last fight and again left Dorostol. But the Byzantines went to the trick. John Tzimiskes divided his army into two parts, one of which was supposed to lure the Russians away from the fortress to the open plain with a feigned flight, and the other to go in from the rear and cut off their way back. Svyatoslav's squad formed a "wall" and fiercely attacked the Byzantine phalanx - the Russian soldiers had nothing to lose!
From the flanks, powerful blows of the cavalry fell upon the Russian soldiers. In the battle, Prince Svyatoslav himself was wounded, but did not leave the line, inspiring the combatants with his example. The Rus fought, surrounded on all sides, with an enemy that outnumbered them more than twice. And fate marked their courage - the encirclement was broken, and the Russians went back to the Dorostol fortress. The battle died down by itself in the evening.
Emperor John was struck by the will to victory shown by the Russian army. The next day, negotiations for a truce began.
So the war between Svyatoslav and Byzantium ended with the conclusion of a peace treaty, approved after a personal meeting between the Russian prince and the Byzantine emperor on the banks of the Danube. The Byzantine chronicler and one of the associates of John Tzimisces Leo the Deacon was a witness to the negotiations. He described Svyatoslav as a man of medium height, with blue eyes, no beard, but with a long hanging mustache and a shaved head. The appearance and look of the Russian prince seemed very severe to the Byzantines. In one ear he wore a gold earring adorned with precious stones. "Sitting in a boat on a bench for rowers," the chronicler wrote, "he talked a little with the sovereign about the conditions of peace and left. Thus ended the war of the Romans with the Scythians."
But Byzantium and this time violated the agreement. As soon as Svyatoslav sailed from Bulgaria to Russia, John Tzimiskes ordered to send an ambassador to the Pechenegs and inform them that the Russians were returning home with a small army and rich booty. The nomads blocked the Dnieper rapids, on which the last battle in the life of the great Russian prince Svyatoslav, who received the nickname "Brave" in the written tradition, took place.
The military campaigns of Svyatoslav made Russia the largest power of its time. The defeat of Khazaria, the conquest of Eastern Bulgaria, victories from the Volga region to the Caspian Sea, the creation of Russian military and trade outposts in the Black Sea region - all this ensured the further development of Russia, which became a world empire in the next millennium.
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The dead have no shame
The dead have no shame
As follows from the chronicle (“Reverend Nestor the Russian Chronicler”, St. Petersburg 1863), with these words the outstanding ancient Russian commander, Prince of Kyiv (from 955 to 972) Svyatoslav I Igorevich addressed his soldiers before the battle with the Byzantines (970) near the city of Dorostol ( now the Bulgarian city of Silistria): Let us not disgrace the Russian land, but lie down with the bones of that: the dead have no shame.
And Svyatoslav won, although the army of Byzantium under the command of Emperor Tzimisces outnumbered the army of Svyatoslav by two and a half times.
The Byzantine historian Leo Deacon, calling the Russians “Scythians”, and the Byzantines, according to tradition, “Romans”, wrote about this battle: “So, on the sixth day of the week, July 22, at sunset, the Scythians left the city, lined up in a solid phalanx and, stretching out their spears, they decided to go on a feat ... The Scythians strongly attacked the Romans; they stabbed them with spears, hit the horses with arrows and knocked down the riders to the ground ... The horse of Anemas (Byzantine commander. - Comp.) Was struck to the ground with frequent blows of spears; then, surrounded by a phalanx of Scythians, this man fell, surpassing all his peers in military exploits.
And so the Scythians, encouraged by his fall, rushed at the Romans with a loud and wild cry. Frightened by their extraordinary onslaught, the Romans began to retreat.
The meaning of the expression: even in the event of a lost battle, the descendants have nothing to reproach the dead, for they did everything they could - they fought with dignity and died with weapons in their hands
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- The dead have no shame..., Andrey Serba. For the first time in one book are collected the works of A. I. Serba, dedicated to the turbulent events in the history of the eternally warring Russia. Courageous, warlike princes, wise beauties, intrigues, dynamic…
The Internet is noisy. The collection of signatures for a petition demanding to deprive the “secular” journalist Bozena Rynska of Russian citizenship is gaining momentum. After the news of the crash of the Tu-154 airliner, Bozena Rynska published a message on the social network Facebook insulting those who died in this disaster. " The whole ensemble of Alexandrov ... the whole! No, the entire board of NTV ... well, why musicians in particular ?! Why a great ensemble? Thank you, of course, God for the bonus in the form of a film crew from NTVoshek, but why the rest?”Rynska wrote on her page. Later, she hid this entry, but the Russian public managed to get acquainted with it. One of the sites reported that “Russian law enforcement agencies arrested Bozena Rynska, who. tried to leave the territory of the country of residence, and is being held in one of the pre-trial detention centers in Moscow. Allegedly, according to unconfirmed reports, Russian lawyer Mark Feigin will defend her.
The Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation joined in. She will check Bozena Rynska's post. Artem Kiryanov, a member of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation, addressed the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation with a request to check Rynski's publications for violations of the law. Even in the Kremlin, they called Rynski's words about the crash of the Tu-154 crazy. " This is complete madness, insanity, and the most severe reaction is absolutely understandable and justified. public opinion ”, - concluded the press secretary of the head of state Dmitry Peskov. From this point I would like more details. Of course, the trick of the Russian journalist is the height of cynicism. Definitely, Peskov is right. But the assessments given by the Kremlin and its high-ranking persons to this or that passage of liberal-powerful persons are too selective, thereby veiledly throwing "wood" into the fires of the indignant public.
Selectively, it is worth noting, tossing up. What do we see? A petition demanding the President to deprive Bozhen Rynska of Russian citizenship was signed by more than 800 thousand people in a couple of days. Just an unthinkable number, given that the petition, for example, in support of the writer Kungurov, the father of two small children accused of justifying terrorism, received only a few thousand. And what was the Kremlin's reaction to the insane statements and actions of other Russian cynics? Let's recall some of them.
Anatoly Chubais:« What are you worried about these people? Well, thirty million will die. They didn't fit into the market. Don't think about it - new ones will grow».
Arkady Babchenko: « The action "Immortal Regiment" horrifies me. Tens of thousands of people walking along the river with photographs of the dead. Well, once again, you can understand it. To visually imagine the number of deaths that the war took. But from year to year... I don't want to look at it. I have so many photographs of people who are no longer alive, collected in one place, that cause an extremely negative physiological reaction.».
Andrey Bilzho: « historical truth is as follows: Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya more than once lay in psychiatric hospital them. P.P. Kashchenko experienced another attack against the backdrop of a severe, powerful shock associated with the war. But it was a clinic, and not the feat of Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, who had been ill with schizophrenia for a long time.».
Alexey Venediktov: « Return of Crimea and possible merger with South Ossetia - this is a kind of return of the humiliation that Russian citizens experienced as imperials».
Igor Shuvalov: « We were shown apartments of 20 square meters today, it seems ridiculous, but people buy such housing ...».
Alexey Lebedinsky: « I consider people only those Russian politicians and journalists who answer the question “what to do with Crimea” unequivocally and without hesitation: “Immediately return Ukraine and apologize».
Yulia Latynina: « If Russia were divided into parts, normal life would begin in a certain number of parts».
Alfred Koch:« The Russian man has degraded and turned into an uninteresting scum of civilization - into a narcissistic, touchy, cowardly bastard. I can say firmly, based on my own observations: the Russian man is the most vile, most disgusting and worthless type of man on Earth ...».
Sergey Ivanov:« If you call a spade a spade, General Mannerheim was a Soviet military pensioner».
Valery Panyushkin: « It would be easier for everyone in the world if the Russian nation ceased. The logic that guides my people now is like that of a rabid dog. A mad dog runs, not knowing where, emits poisonous saliva and pounces on anyone he meets.».
Tina Kandelaki: « Why do you always talk about Russia as a country of Russians? Russians, no you! This is a fact that has long been proven by everyone that the Russian ethnic group does not consist of Russians!».
Ksenia Sobchak:« Such people are called cattle - who envy, hate me ... And this trait, by the way, is characteristic of Russians ...».
Artemy Troitsky:« I consider Russian men for the most part animals, creatures not even of the second, but of the third grade».
Mikhail Zhvanetsky: « My dream is to level the place where Russia used to be and build something new. It's just to smooth it out...».
Dmitry Bykov: « Russian population inefficient. It is necessary to give him the opportunity to sleep peacefully or die of old age, stuffing them with appropriate spectacles.».
Reading such statements, a normal, not crazy person will simply be horrified. And the reaction of the normal authorities should be no less harsh than to the statements of Rynskaya. It's not just talking in kitchens or comments from teenagers in social networks. These are the words of public figures who, thanks to Russian legislation, have access to the authorities and the media. Silence…
And only the dead, who have no shame, look at us and this power from the other world and are horrified.
The dead have no shame - the dead do not care what they think of them later. The expression is taken from the eighth chapter of the Book of the Prophet Jeremiah (Jeremiah) “Are they ashamed, committing an abomination? And they are not ashamed and have no shame. For this they will fall among the fallen, they will stumble on the day of reckoning,” said the Lord.”
In the Book, the prophet denounces the Jews for their deviation from the Covenant, demands that all efforts be concentrated on moral perfection, the implementation of justice and true justice.
Phraseologism became known thanks to the annals "Reverend Nestor the Russian chronicler", considered one of the authors of The Tale of Bygone Years. In the annals, Nestor cited Svyatoslav's speech before the battle with the Byzantines at the walls of the fortress of Arcadiopol (today the Turkish city of Luleburgaz, 60 kilometers southeast of Edirne, on the road to Istanbul). There, in 970, the squads of Svyatoslav (Russians, Bulgarians, Pechenegs and Hungarians) and the Byzantine commander Varda Sklir met. Since there were more Greeks, Svyatoslav told his soldiers something like the following:
“We have nowhere to go, we have to fight, whether we like it or not. Let us not disgrace the Russian land, but let us lay our bones here, for the dead have no disgrace. If we run, we will be disgraced. So let's not run, but stand strong. I will be ahead of you. If I fall, prepare for yourself too.”
To which they replied: "Where your head lies, there we will lay our heads"
How the matter ended is unknown, since the Kievan and Byzantine chronicles tell the opposite. Karamzin says this about it:
“In the description of this bloody war, Nestor and Byzantine Historians do not agree. Grand Duke(they say), adding the Bulgarians to the Russian squad, his new subjects - the Hungarians and the Pechenegs, his then allies, entered Thrace and devastated its villages to the very Adrianople. Varda Sklir, the General of the Empire, seeing the multitude of enemies, was confined in this city and for a long time could not dare to fight. Finally, he managed to defeat the Pechenegs by cunning: then the Greeks, encouraged by success, fought with Prince Svyatoslav. The Russians showed ardent courage; but Varda Sklir and his brother, Constantine Patricius, forced them to retreat, killing in single combat some two famous Scythian heroes. Nestor describes this battle in this way: ... The Greeks did not resist: they turned the rear, scattered - and Svyatoslav went to Constantinople, signifying his path with all the horrors of devastation ... "