Vladimir, 27 years old, Sergiev Posad:
I learned about sex at the age of 8 from my mother's novels for women. My parents never talked to me about this.
From the very beginning, I was unlucky in my personal life. The first girl I fell in love with did not pay attention to me at all. I was in love unrequitedly for four years, and then she died of cancer. The second girl mocked me: in the presence of a friend, she began to shame that I was still a boy, she was playing me on the phone that she was tumbling with another. Suffered from her!
Relatives tried to help by hiring a girl of easy virtue. But my heart was then busy, and I am faithful to the person I love.
Until the age of 25, I had no libido. I thought about having sex without sexual desire, in the hope that it would somehow stir me up. But the idea failed miserably: I met a virgin, offered her sex, she did not want to fornicate before the wedding. And I am by nature a domineering person, a leader who does not tolerate rejections.
One day I wondered why I didn't have sex, what prevents me from living a sex life and having fun? Neither shyness, nor timidity, nor religiosity suited me, there was only a lack of libido. I came across an article about asexuality, then I found a site where these people gather, and I caught myself thinking that I was reading about myself. I think I'm asexual due to lack of testosterone. I have no hair on my back and chest, the bristles grow very slowly. When I took up yoga, the attraction appeared, the growth of the mustache and beard also accelerated, now I have to shave every four days.
Friends do not know that I am a virgin. I successfully hide this: I have a lot of theoretical knowledge, I am not shy, you cannot tell me that there was no girl, you might think that I have been having sex for 12 years. Only my current girlfriend knows about my peculiarity. We met on the Internet and have not seen each other yet, she lives far away. We plan to have sex as soon as possible. She reacted normally to my innocence, she is pleased to be the first.
I was glad at first that she was not a virgin, I like that the girl is more experienced. But then he became jealous.
I asked for advice on this in various religious groups. I believe that there is hell, heaven and God - this is where my faith ends. I don't even know what prompted me to contact these groups, I just thought that knowledgeable people would give good advice. And they only told me to find a virgin and marry her. This is not my option. Then I found a good psychologist, and he helped me cope with jealousy and become a man who does not focus on the virginity of the chosen one.
Imagine a situation: a wife goes to church on Sunday to praise God, and a husband goes to drink with friends. And what kind of family it will be!
Svetlana, 32 years old, Samara:
I believe in God, in Jesus Christ, I walk in Protestant Church... For me, as for all true Christians, sex before marriage is a sin. God originally intended sex for husband and wife to enjoy on the family bed. It's so wonderful when you know that your spouse belongs only to you. This is called loyalty! This is what God intended, and this is the beauty of the relationship between a man and a woman. But there is also Satan who distorts what God has created. He convinces people that premarital sex and cheating on a spouse is a pleasure, although in fact it always brings pain and suffering.
I didn’t come across misunderstanding and ridicule: it’s not written on my forehead that I’m a virgin, I don’t talk about it too much. In addition, my circle of friends is from church with the same convictions. Why do you need a relationship that does not lead to the creation of a family? Just to be? Toss and toss? I do not get the point of it. You need to meet with the one you are going to marry and who has the same values as yours. How else to live? Imagine a situation: a wife goes to church on Sunday to praise God, and a husband goes to drink with friends. And what kind of family it will be!
If you constantly think about sex and wind yourself up, then, of course, the body will rekindle, and if you think about values, everything is calm. It's like a fire: if you throw up firewood, it will flare up, if not, just burn slowly.
Who among us can be sure that he will live to old age? And how weak will we be so that water-carrying children with glasses would run to us?
Alexey, 28 years old, Moscow:
My parents never interfered with my personal life. They worked, I studied. They didn't talk to me about sex, and I didn't ask them.
I never met a girl whom I would love, and I did not look for her especially. The girls didn’t pay attention to me, and I didn’t follow them. I am a techie in life, a circuit engineer: in the university there were no girls in general, at work there was an exclusively male team.
Some friends know that I am a virgin, some guess, but no one condemns. And once there were problems at work. One of my colleagues, a family man, a fat one, a lover to rummage in someone else's underwear, crammed into my friends, and when he was refused, he began to hang signs on the door "virgin's office", "masturbator's locker." I went up to the boss and said: "He or I." And this fat one - a fellow countryman and a friend of the chief, he chose him. At my current job, my colleagues are not very interested in my personal life, for which I thank them.
It's easy to be a virgin - nobody canceled masturbation! In general, the further, the easier: with age, girls are needed less and less. I don't feel lonely. I have parents who need help, acquaintances with whom I communicate. Business must be dealt with!
Raising a child, giving an education is a minimum of 25 years. This is a feat that not everyone is capable of. We alone come to this world, alone and we will leave. Who among us can be sure that he will live to old age? And how weak will we be so that water-carrying children with glasses would run to us? Five years maximum, then death. And why should a child carry water for you in old age? Or to a nursing home, or to Ibiza, as for me.
Only my parents and my aunt know about my chastity, and they approve of it. Although they constantly bother me with questions about when I will give birth to their grandchildren
Maria, 29 years old, Orenburg:
I learned about sex from magazines that I read secretly from my parents when I was a teenager. My parents didn’t talk about sex with me, because they thought I was still little. When I became an adult, my mother said that sex is allowed only after the wedding. And I still adhere to this principle.
I have remained celibate because I have not yet met my soul mate, my handsome prince. And I am also very afraid of the first time and in general I think sex is dirty and vulgar.
I can easily do without sex, but I really want to caress, hugs and kisses. Unfortunately, I have never kissed anyone yet: the guys do not pay attention to me at all, probably because I dress too simply and don’t wear makeup. No one ever tried to seduce me, there was no one, I did not meet with anyone.
I'm very lonely. I used to work as a seamstress in a factory, but I was laid off. The only thing that saves me from loneliness is communication with my virtual friends and with my beloved penpal. I've been texting with him for two years now, and he loves me too. But he lives very far away - in another country, and we can never be together. I only hope for our meeting, but he cannot come to visit me yet, or maybe he doesn’t really want to come. He is not asexual and sooner or later would want an intimate relationship with me, but I am not ready for this and I only want hugs, caresses and kisses with him, without sex. If he began to pester me with closeness, then I probably would be disappointed in him and we would have parted with him.
Only my parents and my aunt know about my chastity, and they approve of it. Although they constantly bother me with questions about when I will get married and give birth to their grandchildren. But it is very difficult for me to find a good, understanding guy for whom sex will not be important, but true, pure love will be important. My ideal relationship is a legal marriage with an asexual or antisexual guy, with whom we will only have hugs, caresses and kisses, without sexual relations. I want children, but only adopted ones.
Sometimes there is a very lack of real, real communication and a real loved one!
Most people like sex, but this is the majority - what to take from it!
Kirill, 24 years old, Yekaterinburg:
My parents never talked to me about sex. When I was in the first grade, my peers told me everything. And I didn't like it. Years have passed, but I have not changed my opinion. I am antisexual and I intend to adhere to my principles. I believe that sex is overrated and not created for pleasure: it is disgusting to poke into a person what you use to go to the toilet! This is illogical, so there is a catch in it. It's not just that because of sex, there are a lot of diseases and problems. Anyway, 5 minutes is not a pleasure! Most people like sex, but this is the majority - what to take from it!
I didn't have a girlfriend. If she wanted intimacy and put the question bluntly, I would have parted without regrets right there.
I get lonely, but not because of sex, but because there is no girlfriend nearby. But if you do not take it to heart, think about your daily affairs, after 10 minutes everything comes back to normal.
Relatives do not know. Some of my friends know that I am a virgin and antisexual, but they are calm - not to say that directly with full understanding, but normal. I've come across ridicule, but it's okay if anti-sexuality is your choice and principle.
I planned to have children through, but now I changed my mind: children are a waste of time and energy.
Now I'm thinking about saving money and buying a wife from Asia through an agency. It will be much cheaper than ours with a show off
Artem, 27 years old, Krasnodar:
I didn't have a father, and I hardly saw my mother, she worked all day. I'm used to loneliness - always alone. From childhood I had to survive alone. He raised himself by himself: he read books, watched films. I learned about sex in kindergarten.
I believe that you need to marry a virgin. The exception is widowers and widows. A second-hand girl is like a used condom, everyone has finished in it and now I have to put it on! Plus these are viral infections, abortions, complaints about penis size and memories of past relationships.
Friends and colleagues know that I am a virgin, sometimes they scoff. But I'm not weak, I can wash the floors with each of them, so this happens very rarely. They tell me that it’s impossible, that you have to fuck someone and look for a used one, but no. I tried to build relationships, but all the girls need only loot, and before I did not have it. Now I do a lot of physical work to pay off my mortgage. It takes all of my energy.
The only sad thing is that when I move to my house, I will have to cook myself, and this takes time. The older I get, the less I want a girl. Now I'm thinking about saving money and buying a wife from Asia through an agency. It will be much cheaper than ours and show off.
Mother has long ceased to tell me something. Sometimes we swear when she watches TV shows, and there are only betrayals. I answer everything, if you want a daughter-in-law - look for a normal one, but I don't know such.
No one died of abstinence. Unrealized energy can be successfully sublimated into creativity
Ivan, 23 years old, Moscow:
My parents taught me kindness, accuracy, politeness, tact. They didn't talk about sex in plain text. When I was 14, my dad asked if I was aware of all this? I replied that yes, although I imagined everything only approximately. More detailed information I received after 18 years, mainly from the Internet.
I'm an introvert. I've always liked being alone. I preferred a computer, cinema, TV, books to parties. From 8 to 18 he studied chess, went to a music school, so there was essentially no time for communication. I was not very sociable, I frankly avoided beautiful girls, I had no idea how to talk to them, and even if they themselves offered friendship, I closed myself or gave them a turn from the gate.
As a result, by the age of 23 I have a clear problem with informal communication and the absence of any relationship. I do not know how to communicate with the opposite sex. Now, sensibly assessing the situation, I am rather pleased that I am a virgin. I do not consider it necessary to get rid of this on purpose or spontaneously, because I still have the opportunity to find my one and only and make her happy with this fact.
Parents, I think, guess, but do not go in with questions: either they are afraid of hurting my feelings, or they consider me independent and an adult. I have few friends. To know - they know, but they rarely joke. Once they gave me a framed condom for my birthday. I see no reason to be offended by the truth, I am ready to laugh with them.
No one died of abstinence. Unrealized energy can be successfully sublimated into creativity. True, in such a situation, loneliness is inevitable, you can't get away from it. But for me it is not something negative, I am already used to it. From time to time the blues rolls over, I fall into apathy, but this happens to everyone. A life.
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Blagaj, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Blagaj is a small village in which, among small waterfalls and azure waters, under a sheer cliff, there are small white houses, and in the middle there is a monastery. This is a holy place for the dervishes and Sufis, who built the village in this paradise.
Huacachina, Peru
Huacachina is an oasis city in the middle of a vast desert, which takes about 5 hours south of the capital of Peru, Lima. The population there is only about 200 people, therefore, getting there, you can fully feel cut off from the whole world. There you can also go sandboarding on the sandy Peruvian hills.
Lake Hillier, Australia
Just imagine white sand surrounded by a eucalyptus forest by the pinkest lake in the world. Lake Hillier is located in southwestern Australia, on Middle Island, and was discovered back in 1802. It is remarkable in that it has a pink color and does not change its color for a whole year. It was assumed that special algae and microorganisms give it a pink color, but subsequent studies have not confirmed this. Therefore, until now, no one knows why the reservoir has such an unusual color. The only real way to get to Hillier is by air.
Marieta Island, Hidden Beach, Mexico
"Hidden Beach" (Playa de Amor) is a secret beach with crystal clear waters and an abundance of various birds. This secluded paradise can only be reached by water. After a few minutes of sailing through the labyrinths of underwater caves, you will discover a wonderful view of the beach lost in the bowels of the island.
Silfra cleft, Iceland
The Silfra Fault is located in Iceland in the Thingvellir National Park. This is the most amazing place - a favorite with divers and adventure lovers. Swimming here, it is easy to lose the sense of depth, since the purest cold drinking water is so transparent that the visibility in it is as much as 300 meters.
Isola Bella, Italy
There is no doubt that the Italian island of Isola Bella on Lake Maggiore is one of the most beautiful in the world. Almost all of this tiny piece of land is occupied by the luxurious Borromeo Palace and a multi-level blooming garden with grottoes, terraces and fountains. A harmonious addition to all this splendor are royal birds, white peacocks, slowly wandering around the garden.
Popeye Village, Malta
Popeye village are wooden houses originally built for the filming of the musical Popeye in the 1980s. And now it's a resort area with an amusement park, bay cruises and stunning views. In some houses, the furnishings have been preserved from the time of filming and are related to the film.
Dongchuan Red Lands, China
Dongchuan Red Soil is a mountain valley southwest of Kunming City, the capital of Yunnan Province. Due to the remoteness from the infrastructure, this place is not in the tourist map of China. It was opened in the mid-1990s. The patchwork-like undulating landscapes have brownish-red hues due to their high mineral and fossil content.
Floris Island, Portugal
Flores island is not in vain on the UNESCO list, because there is a national park with unique flora and fauna. It is located at the westernmost point of the Azores off the coast of Portugal. Translated from Portuguese, this is "the cape of flowers", because almost all of its territory is dotted with flowers of various colors and types. There are also natural hot springs and lagoons, paddy fields, unique villages, lakes, as well as volcanoes and world famous caves.
Darvaza "Door to the underworld", Turkmenistan
Darvaza is a giant burning crater about 60 meters in diameter and 20 meters deep. Locals call this place "the gates of hell". Once, geologists accidentally found a cave here with huge reserves of natural gas. The gas was set on fire to avoid harmful effects on people and livestock. But the fire, which was supposed to go out in a few days, has been burning for 45 years. This is a unique and mesmerizing spectacle that people from all over the world come to see.
Lencois Maranhensis, Brazil
Lençóis Maranhenses National Park is located off the Atlantic coast in northeastern Brazil. During the rainy season, it is simply an unforgettable sight. Every year at this time, thousands of lagoons with turquoise water and living creatures form among the sand dunes. It remains a mystery how fish and crabs get here after a drought, but the scale of such a spectacle simply cannot but amaze. The best time to visit Lençois Maranhensis is from July to September when the pools reach their full capacity.
Hello! I want to tell you a story. I do not have any oratorical skills, so I will tell it as it is. Let's start ...
Almost every teenager spends summer mainly in the country, mine went the same way. The place was not very good, and the rumors that circulated there did not inspire confidence. That in one of the houses on the outskirts there lived a man who killed 6 people and burned their corpses in his oven. What they saw silhouettes in abandoned houses. And that one person died of a heart attack after seeing something that cannot be explained. Well, now my story. We had a place where we sat, one might say, almost in the forest. The place was unremarkable: everywhere there were trees, bushes and an iron bridge nearby. I will not lie, it was towards the end of the summer. We were sitting as always: a fire, night, fun, all things ... And suddenly we hear, on the way, a sound, strange enough for one in the morning. The sound sounded like a cart - as if someone was running very fast with a cart along a rocky road. Everyone laughed, supposedly the grandmother was late for the bus, and wanted to forget. But the sound was getting closer and closer, everything became more intense. Suddenly the sound stopped very abruptly. And then something happened that made us leave our place. A very strong stamping was heard from the side of the iron bridge (when you walk across this bridge, it rattles, grinds). Then, after the bridge, already in the distance, the sound of this cart was heard again. But what's the problem: there was no one on the bridge during the noise. I thought it seemed to me, but the faces of everyone who sat with me said that it was not a hallucination. We all ran as long as we could. After running enough, we all laughed very stupidly, mistaking it for someone's cool joke, and went home.
The next day, forgetting about what happened at night, everyone, including me, of course, went back to that place. Night fell, no one remembered the cart and steps on the bridge. But then I began to listen attentively to what was happening around us. I don’t know why I did it at all - it would be better if I didn’t do it. Namely: I began to hear someone's footsteps. Well, think, what kind of normal person would go mushroom picking at night? Everyone started to make fun of them, supposedly mutant mice will attack and eat you. But the steps were getting closer and closer, the shuffling on the grass was already distinctly audible. I was already at the limit! And suddenly we hear a stick breaking with a crash almost behind us. Here all the humor was already deeply hidden. Again, all of our gallant company rushed towards their homes. This time we were no longer so cheerful, we just shook hands and went home.
Another day at this place began already with the expectation of something supernatural. They joked: like, take out a mirror and see what or who is behind you, go check - what if a devil is waiting for you there, and everything like that ... But no matter how strange, day passed very calmly.
Finally the day came when I was leaving home. The weather was terribly lousy, although the promised sun and heat. However, by 5 pm the sky was black, a very strong wind was blowing and bright lightning was visible. Having said goodbye to everyone, I went home, forgetting about what happened to us. When I was already in Moscow, they wrote to me in ICQ a message of something like this: “Lech, you won’t believe it, we took a picture of this ..“. When friends arrived in Moscow, they sent me this photo. It brought me into a complete stupor and fear. The photo showed my friend, all over the photo there were balls of a strange color, as they are called - ectoplasm, and against the background of his face there was a clot of smoke. And in this clot one could see 3 faces: a woman with a strongly open mouth and big eyes, and on both sides - the faces of children, 3-5 years old. At the time of shooting, there was no fog on the street, no one smoked and the camera was absolutely functional. Fortunately or unfortunately, I no longer went to the dacha, but as my friend, who was in the photo, says, it seems to him that someone is following him ..
10 years ago, on August 3, 2008, the famous slanderer of Soviet civilization, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, passed away. Interestingly, this writer is loved both in the West and by the Russian authorities and the pro-government media. The fact is that Solzhenitsyn portrayed the USSR as an "evil empire", which was beneficial to both the masters of the West, who were waging a thousand-year war against the Russian people, and the Westerners-liberals who led Russia in the 1990s and who needed to blacken and smear them in every possible way. Union. Therefore, a rather mediocre writer was promoted, his name was raised as a banner of the struggle against Soviet totalitarianism, and everything that he wrote was declared pure truth.
Alexander Isaevich Solzhenitsyn was born on December 11, 1918 in Kislovodsk, into a peasant family. In 1924, the Solzhenitsyn family moved to Rostov-on-Don, where the boy went to school. He began to get involved in literature in high school, tried his hand at essays and poetry. However, after school he entered the Russian State University at the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics. But, as a student, he did not give up his passion for writing and wrote the first chapters of "August the Fourteenth".
At the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, he left for distribution with his wife to Morozovsk, where he worked as a teacher (for health reasons, he was declared unfit for military service). But Private Solzhenitsyn, unsuitable for combat service, in some mysterious way, about which history is silent, ended up in an artillery school. Lieutenant Solzhenitsyn got to the front in the spring of 1943. He did not take direct part in battles and battles, as he commanded a sound reconnaissance battery. At the front, apparently, Alexander Isaevich felt good: he read and wrote a lot, ate well. One fine day, the orderly of Alexander Isaevich, using false documents, brought his wife, Captain Solzhenitsyn, from evacuation in Kazakhstan. Natalya Reshetovskaya warmly recalls the time spent with her husband at the front: they walked a lot, read, took pictures, he taught her to shoot. Received awards: the Order of the Patriotic War and the Order of the Red Star.
Shortly before the victory in 1945, Solzhenitsyn was arrested for correspondence - the captain was engaged in sending letters to acquaintances criticizing the commander-in-chief and the Soviet system and proposing to create conspiratorial "fives". Captain Solzhenitsyn could not have been unaware of the existence of military censorship and counterintelligence. In addition, Kirill Simonyan and Lydia Ezherets, friends of Alexander Isaevich's childhood and adolescence, spoke about the epistolary activity of their friend as follows: “These letters did not correspond to the eternal cowardice of our friend - and Solzhenitsyn is the most cowardly person whom they have ever known - nor his caution , not even his worldview ... "Professor KS Simonyan made a simple conclusion:" He clearly saw, like each of us, that in conditions when victory was already a foregone conclusion, there was still a lot to go through, and it was not excluded the possibility of death at the very target. The only way was to get to the rear. But how? ... To become a moral crossbow was in this case for Solzhenitsyn the best way out of the situation. And hence this stream of letters, stupid political chatter. "
From the end of 1945 to 1953, he was imprisoned. "Bloody Stalinist torture chambers" for Solzhenitsyn were quite bearable. Aleksandr Isaevich himself describes his stay in the central political prison: “Ah, what a sweet life! Chess, books, box-spring beds, down pillows, solid mattresses, shiny linoleum, clean linen. Yes, I have long forgotten that I also slept like this before the war ... ”Enjoying the sweet life, Alexander Isaevich willingly testified against his friends and even against his wife. However, only ND Vitkevich was seriously injured. Later, the rehabilitated Vitkevich was able to familiarize himself with his case and at the same time learned that his childhood friend, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, had planted him, who wrote that Vitkevich "plotted to create an underground subversive group, prepared violent changes in the policy of the party and government, viciously inked Stalin ..."
After the Lubyanka there was New Jerusalem, then a construction project in Moscow, then Rybinsk, Zagorsk and, finally, Marfino, that is, again, Moscow. And in Marfin - a pound of white bread a day, in Marfin - butter, any books, volleyball, music on the radio and work in an acoustic laboratory. In conclusion, the writer, according to a number of researchers, became an informant and provocateur named Vetrov. From Marfin he went to the Ekibastuz camp, where he was a foreman, worked as a bricklayer, then as a librarian. All this time he composed and kept poems in his memory in order to later transfer them to paper. He described the camp life in the novel "The First Circle" and the story "One Day in Ivan Denisovich".
After his release, the writer was sent to live in southern Kazakhstan without the right to leave the village of Berlik. There Solzhenitsyn worked as a teacher of mathematics and physics. In 1956, the writer was rehabilitated, he was allowed to return from exile. He settled in the Vladimir region, then in Ryazan. For the first time, Solzhenitsyn's works were published in 1962 in the magazine "New World" - it was the story "One Day in Ivan Denisovich." It is important to remember that just a few years ago the famous XX Congress of the CPSU was held, where NS Khrushchev debunked the personality cult of Stalin. The debunking was accompanied by a big lie: Khrushchev, knowing that at the time of the death of his predecessor, there were about two million prisoners in the camps, publicly said about ten million. Since then, the topic of repressions, great and bloody, has become an official weapon in the hands of all anti-Sovietists, and the West has received an excellent information weapon against Soviet civilization. And as soon as it was said about the advantages of the Soviet system, about how much the USSR gave to its citizens, the lament about "one hundred million shot" began immediately. Khrushchev began with ten million prisoners, and Solzhenitsyn went further and offered one hundred million, and not just prisoners, but destroyed (although there were simply not so many people in the USSR to calmly destroy 70-100 million, and the population continued to grow). Thus, Khrushchev and Solzhenitsyn repeated the propaganda materials that Hitler's ideologists had invented.
The theme of repression, which inspired many Soviet people with aversion to their own state and a guilt complex, began to be actively used in the Cold War. Both those who considered Khrushchev a renegade and a traitor (in China, Albania) and those leftists in the West who still supported the Soviet system and the communist idea began to turn away from the USSR. In the USSR itself, rejection of the Soviet system also gradually became fashionable, especially taking into account Khrushchev's "excesses" in the field of national security, national economy, culture, etc. Alexander Isaevich got into this "wave", and he was noticed by the enemies of Soviet civilization inside Union and in the West. After that, Solzhenitsyn set to work on the GULAG Archipelago. Solzhenitsyn, both in the USSR and in the West, is becoming the most fashionable, the most famous writer.
However, the writer soon loses favor with the authorities (under Brezhnev, criticism of the Stalinist period was generally curtailed), he was forbidden to publish. But the deed has already been done, the author was promoted, and he is supported in the West. So, in 1970, a large group of French writers, scientists and artists nominated Alexander Isaevich for the Nobel Prize. Soon the prize was awarded. The novels "In the First Circle", "Cancer Ward", "The Gulag Archipelago" were published abroad. For this, in 1974, Solzhenitsyn was deprived of Soviet citizenship and sent abroad. The author settled down comfortably first in Switzerland, then in Canada, and then in the USA, in an estate behind a high fence. And the Americans were so able to promote the image of the GULAG that many ordinary people around the world associate Russia to this day with some kind of bloody horrors, mass arrests and general executions of millions of people. "Archipelago ..." has become one of the most prominent images of the USSR.
Russian schoolchildren are forced to study the "Gulag Archipelago" for the purpose of fooling around (although the book has neither literary merit, nor historical truth). In this book, Stalin is credited with terrible atrocities that surpass all the atrocities of the German Nazis. Solzhenitsyn launched the myth of tens of millions of repressed under Stalin (as many as 70 or even 100 million people!). The Americans, who sheltered Solzhenitsyn, did not dispute this lie, since they were waging a cold war (informational, ideological) against the USSR. The United States had to present the USSR as an "evil empire", which Solzhenitsyn helped.
Although one of the "think tanks" of the American empire, the CIA analytical center "Rand Corporation", relying on demographic data and archival documents, calculated the number of repressed in the Stalin era. It turned out that for the entire time when Stalin was at the head of the country, 700 thousand people were shot. The same data are cited in other studies of the Stalinist era, the authors of which are not interested in denigrating Stalin and the USSR personally. At the same time, no more than a quarter of cases are sentenced to political article 58. The same proportion was observed among inmates in labor camps. Thus, the number of repressed during the Stalinist period is one hundred times less than he was credited with. This is confirmed by the data of demographic statistics, according to which, with the exception of the failure during the war, the population of the USSR has been steadily increasing during Stalin's rule. For comparison: during the years of liberal-democratic rulers (Yeltsin, Putin and Medvedev), the population of Russia has been steadily declining, if not to say: it is dying out (the so-called depopulation). The situation with demography is even worse in another "independent" fragment of the USSR (Great Russia) - Ukraine-Little Russia, which is dying out rapidly.
The second important conclusion from real statistics: only a quarter of the repressed and prisoners can be considered victims of political repression, and the remaining three quarters received what they deserved for criminal offenses (it is worth remembering that even now most of the people are in favor of the death penalty against murderers, rapists, drug dealers and other degenerates). And admirers of Solzhenitsyn and those like him cast everyone up as innocent victims.
Not everything is so simple with the "political" ones. Among them were real "enemies of the people" who worked for the Western special services; Trotskyists-saboteurs dreaming of destroying the Soviet project; former executioners, workers of the Cheka-NKVD, whose hands were covered in blood up to the elbows and who had been "cleaned" from their organs; all sorts of Vlasovites, Bandera, Basmachi, "forest brothers", that is, people who deliberately fought against Soviet power. At the same time, one should not forget about the era that was fundamentally different, say, from the peaceful and stable period of Brezhnev's rule. A terrible geopolitical catastrophe has just ended - the death of the Russian Empire, turmoil and civil war. The Soviet project had many enemies both in Russia itself and abroad. Our external enemies tried to prepare the "fifth column" so that it would make a new "February" at the decisive moment. So, one of the main reasons for the defeat of Hitler's Third Reich was a fatal miscalculation: in Berlin, the USSR was considered a colossus with feet of clay, modeled on the Russian Empire of 1914-1917. or Soviet Russia in the 1920s. The war was supposed to lead to the collapse of the USSR - a military mutiny, a palace coup and numerous uprisings in Ukraine, the Baltic States, the Caucasus and Central Asia. However, our enemies miscalculated, in the USSR they managed to withdraw most of the heterogeneous "fifth column". During the years of "perestroika" and reforms "all those who were repressed en masse (both innocent and real enemies of the people) were recorded as" innocent victims "of Stalinism.
In 1991-1993. In Russia, the counter-revolution won, power was seized by opponents of the Soviet project, supporters of the Western "matrix" - predatory capitalism, caste neo-feudalism, liberal social Darwinism with the division of people into "successful and chosen" and "losers", into "two-legged weapons." The Soviet project, which sought to build an ideal society of the future - a society of knowledge, service and creation with the dominance of the ethics of conscience, was destroyed. The Western society of the "golden calf", a society of consumption and self-destruction, received complete domination.
It is not surprising that shape-shifters like Solzhenitsyn received the green light in the new Russian society. In the name of Solzhenitsyn, contrary to the wishes of the majority of the people, they name the streets, erect monuments or memorial plaques to him in the streets; his works are included in the compulsory school curriculum, and the press speaks of him with aspiration as a genius writer, a thinker of all times and peoples, a prophet and a brave truth-teller.
The great provocateur and the collapse of the USSR took part. On September 18, 1990, at the same time in Literaturnaya Gazeta and Komsomolskaya Pravda, Solzhenitsyn's article "How We Can Equip Russia" was published. It contains both “Russia, which we have lost”, and pseudo-rusophilia (false “return to the roots”, false Great Russian nationalism), and getting rid of the “ballast” in the form of the republics of the USSR, and breaking ties with the former socialist camp, and aggravating national relations, and so on. In the same year, Solzhenitsyn was restored to Soviet citizenship with the subsequent termination of the criminal case, in December he was awarded the State Prize of the RSFSR for the "GULAG Archipelago".
The mysterious disappearance of Rudolf Diesel in September 1913 is still considered one of the most intriguing mysteries of the twentieth century. It is known that the inventor boarded the next ferry "Dresden" to England, and ... no one else saw him. What actually happened on the rainy night of the last peaceful year before the First World War?
Among the people, without whose discoveries and developments, scientific and technological progress in the last century would have been impossible, a special place is occupied by the German engineer and inventor Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel, the author of an efficient and economical internal combustion engine. Now it is difficult to imagine what the modern world would be like if this talented inventor had not presented a model of his engine back in 1894.
And it is especially offensive that people living in the modern world cannot personally express their gratitude to one of its creators, even posthumous. The fact is that no one knows how Rudolph Diesel ended his days and where his ashes rest. It is only known that on September 29, 1913, the inventor boarded the Dresden ferry going from Antwerp to London, after which he disappeared without a trace.
It was like this: not long before this incident, Diesel received an invitation to come to England in order to inaugurate a new plant by one of the British companies that produced his engines. Those who saw him before leaving claimed that the engineer was in high spirits - the great inventor, although he possessed many patents, was not a good businessman, and by 1913 he was on the verge of ruin (which, by the way, was facilitated by the incipient economic crisis) ... The opening of a new plant in England could improve his financial affairs.
Moreover, some of Diesel's acquaintances later recalled that he allegedly told them that the invitation had been sent to him personally by Winston Churchill, who at that time was already head of the Admiralty. The energetic Duke of Marlborough was about to rebuild the entire English fleet, and he allegedly needed the inventor as a technical consultant. It is difficult to say whether this is true or not, since Churchill never told anyone about his desire to meet with Diesel.
Another oddity is that ... there is still no reliable evidence that it was Rudolf Diesel, and not a man like him, who ascended that day on the ramp of the Dresden ferry. Strange as it may seem, but the inventor's name was not included in the lists of his passengers. Therefore, the version that it was after all he is based only on the testimony of engineers Georg Grace and Alfred Lukman, who were heading to England with Diesel, as well as the ship's steward.
Grace and Lucman said that after sailing, Diesel invited them to take a walk on the deck, and after all three went down to the wardroom for dinner. During the meal, the inventor was very lively, constantly talking about new proposed modifications to his engine, as well as the bright prospects for cooperation with the British.
At about 10 o'clock in the evening, Rudolf Diesel finally bowed to his colleagues, after which he went down to his cabin. Before opening the door, he stopped the steward and asked to wake him up in the morning at exactly 6.15. Nobody else saw the inventor. In the morning, when they missed him and broke down the cabin door, it turned out that Diesel took out his pajamas from the suitcase and laid them on the bed, and also took out a watch from his pocket, wound it and hung it on the wall next to the bed.
Further polls showed that no one had seen the inventor leave his cabin that night. The porthole was also closed. This circumstance made the initial version of the police about suicide very vulnerable - the servants of the law suggested that the psyche of Diesel, who was a suspicious person, could not stand the heavy premonitions of imminent bankruptcy, and he simply drowned himself. However, how the suicide, getting out of the window, was able to close it behind him, and from the inside?
Also, the investigators found it very strange that a person who was about to commit suicide prudently winds the clock, and also asks the steward to wake him up exactly at the specified time. By the way, the suicide note was not found in the cabin either. Moreover, the testimony of Grace and Lucman indicated that the inventor was in a good mood all evening. And after dinner, as it was established, Diesel did not communicate with anyone except the steward.
Another version put forward by the investigation said that, perhaps, Diesel went out for a walk at night, stood at the side, and then he suddenly had a heart attack. The unfortunate man was overboard and could not even call for help. This version was supported by the fact that the inventor's cloak and hat were found on the deck in the morning. However, the arguments against were much more weighty: the height of the sides of the "Dresden" was more than one and a half meters, and even a healthy person could hardly climb over them. In addition, Diesel's family, friends and personal physician as one stated that the inventor never had heart problems.
It was also suggested that the inventor could have been killed - for example, on the instructions of competing firms that produced gasoline carburetor engines (Diesel's invention, which ran on cheap fuel oil and diesel fuel and was safer, took away a significant segment of the market from them). Or the special services of imperial Germany had a hand in the murder, which did not want the British, their potential opponents, to modernize the fleet on the eve of a possible war. But who, then, was the killer?
Recall that Diesel talked that evening with only three people - Grace and Lucman and the steward. All of them had one hundred percent alibis, confirmed by many other people. And more about the fact that the great inventor was traveling on the ferry, as it turned out later, none of the passengers and crew members knew - the name was not on the lists! In addition, it was necessary to find the body and examine it for the possibility of a violent death, since an examination of the cabin, corridor and deck did not give any evidence on which one could suspect murder.
Looking ahead, let's say that the body was never found. True, a little later, several Belgian fishermen told the police that in the early morning of September 30, 1913, they went fishing and caught the body of a well-dressed gentleman at the mouth of the Scheldt River. After consulting, the fishermen decided to take him to Ghent, but they were prevented by a sudden storm. Deciding that the spirits of the sea were angry because they took away from the element its legal prey, the fishermen threw the body back into the waves.
However, before that, two rings were removed from the drowned man's finger, which the skipper handed over to the police. These rings were presented to the inventor's son, who admitted that they were very similar to those worn by his father. However, they did not have any engravings by which it was possible to accurately identify the owner (one was a wedding, the other was a ring with a stone, but without the name of the owner). The jeweler from whom Diesel bought this ring acknowledged his work, but noticed that many ordered similar rings from him.
So, as you can see, it is impossible to say for sure that the drowned man caught by Belgian fishermen during his lifetime was the inventor of the diesel engine. Therefore, until now, no one knows where the remains of Rudolf Diesel are buried. And the circumstances of his disappearance over the past nearly a hundred years have not become clearer. In the German police, the inventor is still listed as missing.
As for the version of Diesel's murder by competitors or special services, it, like all hypotheses relating to the so-called "conspiracy theory", has one typical flaw. It is completely incomprehensible why it was necessary to kill the inventor, whose "brainchild" has long been produced in all factories in the world, including British ones. The engine device was known to thousands of engineers and technicians, who could assemble it themselves and, if necessary, improve it (by the way, it was with their help that Churchill was still able to modernize the British fleet). It only made sense to kill Diesel before the engine went into mass production.
In addition, it is difficult to suspect hired killers or special services employees of such blatant unprofessionalism - after all, it turns out that the person was eliminated so that the next day the whole world learned about it. Why was it necessary to act out this whole ridiculous performance? It was much easier to kill Diesel before boarding the "Dresden" and have his body found in the port slums with signs of a robbery. Then no one would have doubted that the inventor had become a victim of his own indiscretion - after all, the most notorious was about the robbers of the Antwerp port.
In general, if you carefully study some of the details of this story, it becomes clear that the disappearance of Diesel was primarily beneficial ... to Diesel himself. His financial affairs at that moment were really in a deplorable state, everything went to court and debt prison. Maybe the brilliant inventor just decided to hide from creditors in such an interesting way? That is, in fact, he did not take any ferry (which is why his name was not on the lists), did not have dinner with friends, and did not ask the steward to wake him up. He had previously discussed the testimony with friends, and the steward could well have been bribed.
This explains both the fact that, apart from these three, no one remembered that Diesel was present on the ferry (the same steward was serving at dinner) - and one more incomprehensible thing. The fact is that not a single item was found in the inventor's cabin, about which it could be said with certainty that it belonged to Rudolf Diesel - no documents, no wallet, no notebook, no drawings. The found watch was without the name of the owner, the cloak and hat - too. The fact that these are Diesel's things is known only from the testimony of Grace and Lukman - well, their price, if you follow this version, is very low.
There is another interesting point - after the disappearance of the inventor, his family was able to cope with financial difficulties and pay off debts. Afterwards, his family said that they had sold some of the inventor's patents. However, if you remember that a fierce judicial war was going on for them at that time, hardly anyone would have bought them for a high price. So where did the family get their money from the survivor?
So, if you put all the facts together, it turns out that the great inventor could well stage his own disappearance. He spread rumors that he was going to England, instructed two of his acquaintances, who really went there, on how to behave, and they, in turn, bribed the steward. The latter brought several things into an empty cabin, left his hat and raincoat on the deck, and then announced the disappearance of the passenger.
And although later many said that in the evening they saw a third passenger in the company of Grace and Lucman, no one (except, again, the steward) knew who it was. That is, perhaps, on the ship there was some third acquaintance of the inventor who "played" the role of Diesel, and then simply went to the bottom and did not give evidence to the police. As for the find of the Belgian fishermen, the ring was identified by Diesel's son - and he was obviously privy to his father's plans. In fact, they could have belonged to anyone - and it is not at all a fact that their owner was fished out of the sea on September 30, and not earlier.
It is also possible that later Diesel, under a false name, left for some country and got a job as an engineer at one of his factories. Perhaps he settled in Russia - the inventor had a long-standing business relationship with our country. And when he helped his family pay off debts, he most likely continued to work on improving his engine - but under a different name.
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