A few days ago I had a dispute about who started the war in Korea in 1950. "Stalin started the war to turn it (Korea) into a scoop," - wrote in the FB someone Sergei Fedulov (Sergej Fedulow). I clarified that Kim Il Sung started the war with the consent of Stalin, which he gave after a long hesitation and not the first time. He added that this fact of Stalin himself does not whitewash him. Briefly told Mr. Fedulov how in 1945 the USSR and the United States divided Korea into zones of occupation and what came out of it. In passing, he corrected two more of his factual errors.
By ignorance he called Kim Il Sung "a major of the Red Army, a native of our Koreans". Meanwhile, in the Soviet Army, Kim Il Sung had the title of captain, and was commander of the Korean battalion of a special purpose brigade, formed from Chinese and Korean partisans. In the battles the brigade did not participate, having stood for the rest of the war at its base near Khabarovsk. For brevity, I called this compound an "interbrigade". Kim Il Sung himself was born in Korea, partisan during the years of the Sino-Japanese War, and in 1941, escaping from the Japanese, took refuge in the USSR. Simply put, "our", that is, the Soviet Korean has never been. ("Soviet Koreans" is a term applied to citizens of the USSR of Korean origin. ) Unlike estimates, facts are known to not argue, for they are facts. But Mr. Fedulov argued. "Not with the consent, but at the direction of Stalin, and the interbrigadovets - and there is" Soviet "" - he wrote passionately.
And then he made another mistake, explaining Stalin's hesitation of his intention to attract "the Chinese comrades" to help the North Koreans,. In fact, nothing is known about Stalin's intentions at the initial stage of the Korean War. On the contrary, as suggested, in particular, by American and British authors, in Beijing they learned about the North Korean invasion of the South only when it began. To which I pointed out to my unexpected opponent.
I do not know which demon afterwards moved to Mr. Fedulov, but he gave me a whole lecture. About the fact that as a "Soviet correspondent there" (?), That is, "an interested person", I only know the "Soviet version" of the story, while he is familiar with the "Korean, Japanese and American versions". Stressed that "it debunks the Soviet paradigm and the Soviet values ??in which I live," why I do not understand anything, no matter what facts. Mr. Fedulov concluded his hint with a hint that I do not speak any foreign languages, generously promising to "weave" my details into my "uncompromisingly anti-Soviet" assessment of events.
I confess, I answered this stream of consciousness of a person who was not quite a competent person in the same tone, that is, quite sharply. There followed an exchange of remarks, from which I learned that I belonged to the "Soviet nomenclature", that Mr. Fedulov had done me "a favor, having descended to communicate". That he knows the story "an order of magnitude better than me," and I belong to a "co-host school" where I could teach my "boys", because "the scoop is the freak by default". The rest will be omitted, I will only note that the word "Soviet" Mr. Fedulov diligently wrote in the old way - "SOVITSKY", quite like emigrants of the very first wave.
Having recovered from astonishment, I tried to understand the reasons for this nervous insolence of Mr. Fedulov. To this end, I looked at his page in the FB. And I found there a lot of enthusiastic assessments of Mr. Fedulov by Mr. Fedulov.
I do not know what can be said about a man who calls himself an "international scientist," "King," "the founder of two sciences-Civilizology and Travel Science," "a free metaphysical wanderer," and so on and so forth and so forth.. From the seemingly puzzling question: "And what about Napoleon in our ward?", I will refrain. Well, a man loves himself to a loss of consciousness, well, he considers himself a genius and coryphaeus of all sciences, has the right. Personally, in this absurd list of the merits of Mr. Fedulov before mankind, it was only the fact that he calls himself a "whiteguard", which, in my opinion, has no right.
The White Guards, if anyone forgot, struggled to the very end and died for their country - Russia. But the self-proclaimed "White Guard" Mr. Fedulov from his country faded as soon as possible in the summer of 1989, that is, precisely when everything in it was set in motion, when the changes literally hovered in the air. Perhaps, it was precisely his efforts that did not suffice to put an end to the so-called "shovel". I wonder what he said to the German immigration authorities when he applied for asylum in Germany? Something like "I'm an old professor who fled the Moscow Cheka" (And. Ilf, E. Petrov, "The Golden Calf")?.
Please understand me correctly: I do not in any way condemn Mr. Fedulov for such an early departure from Russia. He, I believe, had their own reasons for this. Moreover, I am glad that today everything is fine with him. But I categorically deny him the moral right to look down on those who stayed in Russia and, to the best of their ability and ability, struggles with Soviet routine and soviet order.
In general, as I have noticed, many of my ex-compatriots who have moved abroad have recently become bearers of the very opposite, but, I'm sorry, almost equally flawed views on Russia. Some - enthusiastically watching our zombayaschik, approve the neo-Soviet foreign and domestic policies of the Putin regime, identify him with Russia and condemn all those who do not accept this regime. Bearers of such views, for brevity, I would call "Soviet".
Others, and among them Mr.
Fedulov, on the contrary, can not tolerate the Putin regime, but, likewise identifying him with Russia, defiantly despise all those who still live in it. Bearers of such views, I would call "anti-Soviet".
How can one not remember the attributed to Sergei Dovlatov, then Joseph Brodsky phrase: "After the Soviet, I most do not like anti-Soviet".
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