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RUSSIAN COSMISM: HISTORICAL PAST, PRESENT and FUTURE Karina S Periódico do Núcleo de Estudos e Pesquisas sobre Gênero e Direito Centro de Ciências Jurídicas - Universidade Federal da Paraíba V. 9 - Nº 04 - Ano 2020 ISSN | 2179-7137 | http://periodicos.ufpb.br/ojs2/index.php/ged/index 860 RUSSIAN COSMISM: HISTORICAL PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE Karina S. Chikaeva1 Galina I. Davydova2 Sergey G. Voskoboynikov3 Tatyana V. Schukina4 Angelina V. Mueva5 Sergey I. Samygin6 Abstract: The article presents a today’s If there is power, there will be some spatio-temporal panorama ahead of the weal” [12]. A retrospective look at the great date of Cosmonautics Day and the “zero” years allows us to understand the events of 20 years ago in the context of pain points of the national and spiritual the significance of spiritual and cosmic interests of Russia, the importance of values for Russian people. Russian reviving Russia's space stronghold, philosopher K.N. Leontiev, diplomat and preserving the political and ethical publicist, emphasized the danger of attitudes that meet the goals and liberalism and the philistinism of life in objectives for which future generations Russia and other Orthodox countries: will continue the cosmic achievements “You need to strengthen yourself, think of the previous century. less about weal and more about strength. 1 Doctor of historical sciences, associate professor, of the Department of sociology and cultural studies of FSBEI HE Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education «Kuban State Agrarian University named after I.T. Trubilin», Russia, Email: [email protected] 2 Doctor of Pedagogical sciences, Professor, Department of social pedagogy and technologies of deviant behavior, V.I. Vernadsky Crimean Federal University, (CUH), Republic of Crimea, Russia, Email: [email protected] 3 Ph.D. in Historical Sciences, Associate Professor, Department of History and cultural science, Don State Technical University (DSTU), Russia, Email: [email protected] 4 Ph.D. in Historical Sciences, Associate Professor, Department of Document science and the language communications, Don State Technical University (DSTU), Russia, Email: [email protected] 5 PhD in Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor, Faculty of engineering and technology Department of technology and management of professional education, Kalmyk State State University named after B. B. Gorodovikov, Email: [email protected] 6 6Doctor of sociological sciences, Professor, Personnel management and sociology Department, of Rostov state economic university «RINH», Rostov-on-Don, Russia, Email: [email protected] Periódico do Núcleo de Estudos e Pesquisas sobre Gênero e Direito Centro de Ciências Jurídicas - Universidade Federal da Paraíba V. 9 - Nº 04 - Ano 2020 ISSN | 2179-7137 | http://periodicos.ufpb.br/ojs2/index.php/ged/index 861 Keywords: cosmonautics and security and will be happening in Russia as a of Russia, revival of national priorities, great space power, has become a gesture Russian cosmism, cosmonautics of "good will" of one of today's leaders, infrastructure, tribal memory, Mir orbital who arranged the distribution of money station, Russia. to walking citizens (... "slaves" ... "serfs" ...) on Red Square. 1. INTRODUCTION It is legitimate to ask, “What In the 20th year of the third was that?” On the one hand, is it the loss millennium, it is appropriate to speak of of moral principles, a sense of the problem dictated by dramatic bewilderment among the people who contradictions for Russia: “100 cannot arrange their livelihoods and are centuries” The Russian state gathered its “ahead of the rest” in speed of ruining lands and its peoples into a single body their own country? Is it a miracle of of the “Supernarod”, and now it is dying waiting for the “coming of the messiah”, and is losing its cosmic stronghold in a post human person with the face of a ideological (or mental?) war. Today it is State Duma deputy, on the other hand? evident that all the priorities and Perhaps this is a postmodern achievements in space beginning with phenomenon. First, they “canceled” God the launch of the first Soviet Sputnik, are (“God died!” Nietzsche said), then we systematically and consciously buried art, admiring Malevich’s creative destroyed assuming a permissive hope ecstasy (“Black Square”). Is this further for "maybe" that everything would so to “maturing” of the post-man against the speak, "synergistically" be settled. background of de-intellectualization, de- However, the adoption of such a strategy esthetization, dehumanization, for the future generation, does not only expressed in the denial of the essential loose "quotas" for our contemporaries, certainty of things, the propaganda of a but also calls into question the very defeatist ideology? existence metaphysically implementing The strategy of the their transformation from homosapiens decomposition and destruction of in homo mosahisticus. Russia, adopted at the end of 1945 The event caused existential according to the report of Alain Dulles, splash of thoughts in relation to what is implied far-reaching plans for an Periódico do Núcleo de Estudos e Pesquisas sobre Gênero e Direito Centro de Ciências Jurídicas - Universidade Federal da Paraíba V. 9 - Nº 04 - Ano 2020 ISSN | 2179-7137 | http://periodicos.ufpb.br/ojs2/index.php/ged/index 862 inconspicuous substitution of Russian information war that is being waged values, contributing to the dying out of against Russia, we should take into people's self-awareness, the imposition account the foreign practice of using of "all immorality", the transformation of ethno-state myths in the competition of people into mankurts who lost their tribal national-cultural civilizations. memory. Undoubtedly, we have Turning to the history of Russia, committed sins and mistakes. it is necessary to clearly understand that Nevertheless, let us recall the words of since ancient times the Russian people Christ: "Who among you is not without had a saving principle, full of spirituality, sin, let him throw a stone at Me." myths the instinct of self-preservation and can also be different: useful and harmful. survival, moral stamina and collective At the beginning of 2000, the conference mutual assistance: a tribal memory that "History as an Object and Subject of permeated all areas of life - religion, Myth-Making" was held at the Faculty of ideology, economy, politics, culture, Economics of Moscow State University. ethical and natural connections (the In his plenary report I.V. Bestuzhev- words «народ» (people), «родина» Lada, a sociologist and historian, (homeland), «родник» (spring), thoroughly criticized sensational works «природа» (nature), «родинка» of Fomenko-Nosovsky published in (birthmark), «родной» (native) ‒ have large editions even for our time. “It turns the same root «род» (family, clan)). By out,” Bestuzhev-Lada said, “that the way, in the Czech Republic, Fomenko`s Taras Bulba is almost Baty Slovakia, Poland, the "family" is himself!” Such attempts to reduce capaciously called the “rodzina" Russian history to the beneficial effects (homeland). of the Tatar-Mongol yoke are not new However, life showed that the (although the positive Eurasian aspects Russian people weakly resisted the of Russian history have not been troubles of anti-Russian chimeras, canceled). weakly defended the ideology of Holy Unfortunately, during the years Russia, Uvarov`s triad of “Orthodoxy, of perestroika and reforms, anti-Russian Autocracy, Nationality” and others. In myths rained down like a cornucopia. asserting our national position in the Take, for example, “Icebreaker”, a Periódico do Núcleo de Estudos e Pesquisas sobre Gênero e Direito Centro de Ciências Jurídicas - Universidade Federal da Paraíba V. 9 - Nº 04 - Ano 2020 ISSN | 2179-7137 | http://periodicos.ufpb.br/ojs2/index.php/ged/index 863 sensational work of London dweller V. Russian cosmism is inherent in Suvorov-Rezun, in which he cites the the situation of the combination of “evidence base” of the version that the anthropological and biological, socio- Soviet Union was preparing alleged cultural factors in the formation of a aggression against Nazi Germany, by single humanity as a subject of virtue of which the latter was forced to transformation and the rational commit preventive attack. organization of the cosmos. These One of the characteristics of the factors are also applicable to the Russian people is their credulity. In technical aspects of human life. The many ways, this is the tragedy of the substantiation of the cosmic future of ethnic group of Russians of the 20th mankind, the exploration of the Universe century - the beginning of the 21st are cross-cutting themes of all the works century: a long false orientation towards of Russian cosmists, beginning with N.F. the fulfillment of the “world revolution”, Fedorov, that so keenly test today: “voucherization”, privatization, fabulous Homeland cannot overcome the most “enrichment with the help of financial acute crisis in the great practice of space pyramids” and other intentions that are activities of the Soviet Union - Russia, chimerical in nature. It is enough to cite Russian Theoanthropocosmism. the statements of the famous The default of reforms and philosopher, author of the book "perestroika" of the 90s in Russia, the “Byzantism and Slavism” K.N. crisis of Russian society, the drain of Leontiev, who argued, “You need to impressive funds abroad made a strengthen yourself, think less about devastating break in the scientific weal and more about strength. If there is prospects for the development
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