The pernicious influence of the West.

02.03.2019

Corruption as a personality trait is a tendency to have a harmful, corrupting effect on someone or something.

At the New Year's light, Vladimir Volfovich Zhirinovsky turned to TV presenter Maxim Galkin: - Stop corrupting and corrupting our youth. And also grandmothers-old women! And set a bad example! And even at 37 we will take you into the army! He builds castles, you know. Surrogate mothers are paid. Children from him makes old women give birth. Shame on you, Galkin. And, by the way, it's indecent. What example are you setting for the youth?

Corruption is when an unworthy person wants to take revenge on the world for his depravity through the general dissipation of all the basest and vile that is in himself. Eighth graders, who have forgotten when they lost their virginity, peck and ridicule a classmate who is still chaste. Thieves, crooks, bandits, maniacs see the world as thievish and rogue. They would like everyone to live according to “concepts”, so that the UN (Organization of United Gunners), NATO ( national association terrorist organizations), EMU (European Union of Thieves), CIA (targeted destruction of foundations).

Come on, break up! Thus, perniciousness “hospitably” and affably meets the soul, in order to then cover it with an impenetrable veil of shamelessness, immorality and lack of conscience. Insidiously and treacherously she crushes the ramparts moral principles man destroys redoubts positive qualities personality, and then completely colonizes the soul and mind, making them obedient puppets of his swollen false ego.

Corruption by personal example, in a word, by conviction, stirs up passions, destroys the limitations of culture, leads to permissiveness, immorality and lack of conscience. It is not for nothing that “pernicious” means decay, decomposition that takes place inside, in the depths of something whole and valuable.

Corruption is insinuating and cautious. It slowly, step by step, beats the soul with incessant temptations, persuasion, debunking meanings, attractive aesthetic means. Everything starts small. There is such a common phrase: "Mom will not teach bad things." It turns out that this thesis needs to be questioned.

A young man says: - Once he asked his brother-in-law to help close the roof own house in the village. Had arrived. We climbed onto the roof, discussing a plan of action. At this time, a little girl (about four years old) runs out to the porch of the house in the neighbor's yard: - Mom, mommy, our pussy climbed onto the table and eats our sausage! - Daughter, Sunny, don't you know what needs to be done? Find a wand in the yard and give it right to the pussy on the head! Funny? Sad. The girl has already got acquainted with the phenomenon of how the mother's pernicious influence on the child's consciousness occurs.

Lethality is Trojan horse that penetrated into the soul of the enemy. Corruption is the desire to blow up the situation from the inside with the help of a "mishandled Cossack". Often, perniciousness becomes a quality of the personality of politicians who want to destroy the enemy through the gates of their souls opened by them.

In any society there are people who, having reached power, monopolize the means mass media and start spreading their pernicious the impact of anti-spirituality on all people who can be influenced. Revolutionary Mikhail Bakunin wrote: “Power acts just as corruptly on those who are invested with it as on those who are forced to submit to it. Under its pernicious influence, some become ambitious and greedy despots, others become slaves.

In Anatoly Ivanov's novel Eternal Call, a former gendarmerie officer, and at the time of his statement, SS Standartenführer Lakhnovsky says: - How to say, how to say ... Your head is not filled with what, say, mine. You didn't think about the future. The war will end - everything will somehow settle down, settle down. And we will throw everything that we have, what we have: all the gold, all the material power to fool and fool people! human brain, consciousness of people is capable to change. Having sowed chaos there, we will quietly replace their values ​​with false ones and force them to believe in these false values! How, you ask? How?! Lakhnovsky, as he spoke, began again, for the umpteenth time, to get excited, to run around the room. - We will find our like-minded people: our allies and assistants in Russia itself! - Breaking, shouted Lakhnovsky.

I, Pyotr Petrovich, only opened a corner of the curtain for you, and you saw only a tiny piece of the stage, on which, episode after episode, a grandiose tragedy will be played out in its scale about the death of the most recalcitrant people on earth, about the final, irreversible extinction of its self-consciousness ... We will pull out these spiritual roots of Bolshevism, to trivialize and destroy the main foundations folk morality. We will thus shake, generation after generation, weather this Leninist fanaticism. We will take on people from childhood, youthful years Let us always place our main stake on the youth, let us corrupt, corrupt, and corrupt it! - Lakhnovsky's wrinkled eyelids twitched quickly and often, his eyes became round, a furious fire splashed and flared in them, he began to speak louder and louder, and at the end he literally shouted: - Yes, to corrupt! Corrupt! We will make them cynics, vulgarities, cosmopolitans!”

Lakhnovsky's perniciousness is very similar to the same quality of personality in the mouth of Petrusha Verkhovensky from Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "Demons": “We will allow drunkenness, gossip, denunciation; we will unleash unheard-of debauchery ... "further in the text -" we will let unrest ... education is not needed ... one or two generations of debauchery is now necessary; debauchery unheard of, petty, when a person turns into a vile, cowardly, cruel, selfish scum ... ".

Lakhnovsky and Petrusha Verkhovensky were right: perniciousness was actively demanded in preparation for the destruction of the USSR. Everything happened exactly according to the plan allegedly developed by Allen Dulles - Director of the CIA (1953 -1961). It does not matter who was the author of this plan. It is important with what historical accuracy perniciousness appeared in the Russian expanses. You read and see: a 100% hit of corruption in the heart of the sixth part of the Earth with a short name "Rus":

- For example, we will gradually eradicate it from art and literature social entity; wean artists and writers - we discourage them from engaging in depiction and research of those processes that occur in the depths of the masses. Literature, theaters, cinema - everything will depict and glorify the basest human feelings.

We will in every possible way support and raise the so-called artists, who will plant and hammer into the human consciousness the cult of sex, violence, sadism, betrayal - in a word, any IMMORALITY. In the administration of the state, we will create chaos and confusion.

We will imperceptibly, but actively and constantly promote the tyranny of officials, the prosperity of bribe-takers and unscrupulousness. Bureaucracy and red tape will be elevated to virtue. Honesty and decency will be ridiculed and will not be needed by anyone, will turn into a relic of the past. Rudeness and arrogance, lies and deceit, drunkenness and drug addiction, animal fear of each other and shamelessness, betrayal, nationalism and enmity of peoples - first of all, enmity and hatred for the Russian people - we will cultivate all this deftly and imperceptibly, all this will flourish color.

And only a few, very few will guess or even understand what is happening. But we will put such people in a helpless position, turn them into a laughingstock, find a way to slander them and declare them the dregs of society. We will uproot spiritual roots, vulgarize and destroy the foundations of folk morality.

We will shatter thus, generation after generation. We will take on people from childhood, youthful years, and we will always place the main stake on YOUTH - we will begin to decompose, corrupt and corrupt it. We will make cynics, vulgarities and cosmopolitans out of her. This is how we do it!

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On March 21, the State Duma ethics commission found no violations in the behavior of the deputy. In response, a number of media outlets announced a complete or partial break in relations with the State Duma and Slutsky: RBC recalled journalists from the lower house of parliament, the Dozhd and RTVI TV channels, the Ekho Moskvy radio station and Znak.com completely stopped working with the State Duma. Kommersant, Lenta.ru and the radio station Moskva Speaks stopped contacts with Slutsky, and Lenta.ru announced that it had removed all materials about the deputy that were not related to the scandal. This scandal soon split society into two camps: some are not going to justify deputy Slutsky for anything, while others, on the contrary, are trying in every possible way to wash the black dog white. Meanwhile, no one tried to understand why the scythe found on the stone


A wave of confessions of harassment (in American law - a crime that violates the immunity privacy face harassment ( phone calls, letters, surveillance, etc.), annoying harassment, harassment. It is usually done with sexual motives) swept recently in the USA, and then spread to Europe.

The revelations of the unfortunate victims of the so-called sexual harassment, wore all the signs of a sensation. One of the first who got "under the distribution" was famous producer Harvey Weinstein. Aging Hollywood stars began to confess that Harvey not only touched them for intimate parts, but also entered into an intimate relationship with them. Following Weinstein, other prominent actors, directors, politicians and producers became guilty of harassment.

If the “epidemic of confessions” in harassment had not started in America, then there would be nothing like what happened to journalists and Slutsky in Russia. Not because there is no harassment in Russia, as well as sex, by the way (just both of them exist and in sufficient quantities), but because molestation of a woman (whoever she is by profession) in Russia is not considered as - something reprehensible.


To a certain extent, this is one of our “spiritual bonds” and I must say that this bond is quite thick and strong. Moreover, in Russia, a woman, if men do not show interest in her, is considered “spoiled” and will soon be the lot of an old maid.

Even if the harassment contained a certain set of obscenities, this was never a reason for a woman to go to court. Moreover, a powerful antidote against harassment in Russia was a man- husband, brother, fiancé, boyfriend - who was ready to stop harassment attempts to his woman what is called root. Therefore, our women, if they turned out to be the subject of harassment, did not go to court, but to a man. And he would not have been a man if he had not rebuffed the one who offended his woman. IN old days for this kind of insult, the ladies of the offender were challenged to a duel and even died due to the fact that someone said unflattering words to the lady.


These are our features, just as the features of attitudes towards women exist among those who profess Islam, there and with us. But if a faithful Muslim prefers to hide his woman from prying eyes, then the Orthodox, on the contrary, is ready to show her, especially if she is pretty, so that all the men envied.

What can you do, we have cultural stereotype . By the way, it did not appear yesterday, and Russian literature is full of examples of harassment, not to mention cinema, especially modern.

By the way, the feminist movement, which arose in the West, but did not take root in Russia, became the ancestor of this right. Perhaps because in Soviet Russia Since its inception, men and women have been equal in rights and Soviet women there was no need to defend their right to sit behind the levers of a tractor or a tank or go down into a mine. However, there was no pronounced movement of women in defense of their rights in Russia.


Perhaps that is why the legislation of the Russian Federation does not have a clear concept harassment and its definition. A separate article punishing harassment in Russian legislation does not exist exceptarticle 20.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation “Petty hooliganism”, which can be “sewn on” in cases of public and insulting harassment. True, for this act a fine of up to 1,000 rubles is imposed, or at best 15 days of arrest.

But harassers (especially high-ranking ones) rarely act in public, preferring to be left alone with the victim. By the way, Mr. Slutsky did the same, and if the journalists had not made an audio recording of this, so to speak, conversation, then no one would have known about such an incident. If everyone in Russia who has been harassed at least once would make a statement, then the scale of such revelations could take on the character of a tsunami. If so, then this is our national feature which we have already mentioned above. Whether it is good or bad is a matter of taste, but it exists and it fits into the so-called cultural genotype. But why, in this case, did she find a scythe on a stone? How did it happen that Mr. Slutsky's colleagues acquitted him on all counts, and even women stood up to defend him, neglecting the notorious female solidarity?


What is the current time in the yard? Harsh. The adversary took up arms against us. Our relations with the West, especially with the US, leave much to be desired. Most of our troubles are connected with the machinations of an external enemy. It affects us in every possible way, not only through sanctions, but also through the conduct of informational, psychological warfare against us, including on the cultural front. He seeks not only to strike at our material well-being(take away the Urals, Siberia from us, Far East), but also invades our highly spiritual culture. For example, he imposes his tolerance on us, angrily criticizes us for our contemptuous attitude towards sexual minorities, tries to impose his rule of law on us in the form of harassment, and a playful and light slap of a pretty secretary on the ass should be regarded only as a criminal offense.

Under such conditions, attempts to transfer “their morals” to our soil” cannot but evoke a rebuff. And such a rebuff was given when a scandal broke out around journalists and deputy Slutsky.

Therefore, those who tried to transfer the “ideology of harassment” to our monastery, like that scythe, ran into a stone. Any attempts to inflate this scandal using Western templates are doomed to failure. Probably, those who tried to prove that harassment is the norm in the Russian Federation simply did not understand that they were faced with the “core of culture”, which no one is allowed to destroy.


If, say, offended journalists, acting within the framework of tradition, complained about the actions of Mr. Slutsky to their men, and those, being men, sent seconds to the deputy, then the deputy would be in an awkward position, and not the journalists and their men. It was possible, of course, to do without seconds, but this is the business of men.

It was the harassment that ruined everything. Those observers who believe that offended media workers should not have resorted to analogies with the practice of harassment in the West, but publicly declare insulting, humiliating them, are right. human dignity actions of the deputy, then, you see, everything would have turned out differently. And so the deputies fought not with offended women, but with the pernicious influence of the West, the victims of which, by the way, were all the same journalists.

To offend and humiliate human dignity is unacceptable to anyone, including deputies. In the same way, how to use your official position to humiliate the dignity of a person who is below you in the ranks or social position. It is unacceptable to treat another person as a representative of the “vile class”. Such behavior should deserve public censure. But if you try to resort to concepts and analogies alien to us, then you will not succeed.


Bomb. Secrets and passions of the atomic underworld Stanislav Pestov

Corrupting Influence

Corrupting Influence

At a time when socialism was almost built and the then generation of people was going to live under communism, the class struggle reached its climax. And in the almost similarly built Center, its intensity became such that nothing but this struggle could be seen.

In Zelenograd, housing was built at an unprecedented pace, valuable workers were given a separate apartment immediately - with the beginning labor activity, and even before. The city had the status of a district of Moscow, it had Moscow supplies (you don’t need to go to the metropolis for sausage!) And a Moscow residence permit. There were vacancies for many leadership positions with decent salaries and solid bonuses for new technology and implementation.

An already well-known breed of people could not miss this, but "American upstarts" stood in their way. Here, too, Staros was demanding of his subordinates, he trained them in such a way that no one would dare to come to his reception without leafing through the latest foreign magazines. Journals, of course, technical, but, undoubtedly, pernicious.

And the spirit of his accomplice Berg, the American merchant spirit, was simply unbearable. At one time, he suggested setting up the production of microreceivers that LKB had developed and, while no one else in the world had yet produced them, sell them in millions abroad. And he thought, swindler, despite the fact that for the idea, for the invention, for organizing the release, he was entitled to a percentage of the profits. And this, if you count - millions of dollars. Tell me - is it possible for a person in the USSR to have millions, because everyone wants to become rich. There is no doubt that Berg will drag his Jews with him to Zelenograd, and even then the mercantile spirit will permeate everything.

True, Kolesnikov, Shokin's deputy, nailed the upstarts - he also screwed them with the production of calculators, first 10 pieces a month, then 100 ... And all this without the slightest hint of a production base. But then he called to Moscow, took it by the forelock and carried it with his nose on the table - where are the calculators? Where is the plan? But he was afraid to spoil on a large scale, he understood who could intercede. However, according to rumors, the intercessor himself did not have long to intercede. It was necessary to act decisively, but the party-government coup was already beginning to develop.

Suddenly, a man named Lukin arrives in Leningrad. He brought with him Shokin's order, in which he, Lukin, was appointed director of the Center.

It was as if the staros did not exist, he did not seem to offer anything, did not build, did not organize. Later it became known that the initiator of this intrigue was the "Tsek" apparatchik Serbin, together with the "young" General Secretary Brezhnev. a significant role some of the "vigilant" intriguers in the Center also played in this. Berg's colleague, Viktor Kukushkin, recalls one of them, Igor Bukreev. For the only time in his life, Staros changed his principle - he hired a person only because he had a relative in the party nomenclature. And then, at the beginning, writes Kukushkin, Staros could not immediately recognize "the kind of people who climbed into the party nomenklatura, and this goal justified any means for them."

Both Berg and Staros decided it was time to involve Khrushchev. They write him a letter in which they confirm that the ministers and their relatives turned out to be really swindlers and rogues-schemers. They decided to take the letter themselves. He was handed over to an assistant, since Khrushchev himself was not in Moscow - he was, on his last vacation, in Pitsunda.

The assistant soon informed them that Nikita Sergeevich was already in the know, in a couple of days he would be in Moscow and would properly deal with the crook. To celebrate, the "Americans" went to a restaurant, where they drank a bottle of cognac and had an excellent lunch. They even got ready to go to Zelenograd to see a place for their personal cottages - as true "bourgeois" they did not want to live in a communal apartment with sensitive (in the sense of hearing) neighbors and informers. But suddenly they read in a newspaper with the mocking title "Pravda" that Khrushchev had been removed from all posts "for health reasons."

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), populists (M. A. Bakunin, P. L. Lavrov, P. N. Tkachev), soil and Slavophiles (I. V. Kireevsky, A. S. Khomyakov, K. S. Aksakov) negatively regarding external influence on Russian life, often called it "pernicious".

Western influence in the USSR

Reflection in works of culture

  • In a negative way, the expression is used in the film " Diamond Hand": when drunk and arranged in a restaurant" Weeping willow» brawl Semyon Semyonovich Gorbunkov was brought home, the house manager Varvara Sergeevna Plyushch said to his wife: “After returning from there (from foreign trip) Your husband has changed. The pernicious influence of the West!”
  • In Soviet discourse, the phrase acquired an ironic connotation:

And in my moral image, I say, there is a corrupted influence of the West. But we live, I say, not on a cloud, It's just, I say, odorless salt!

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An excerpt characterizing the pernicious influence of the West

- Well, thank God, we stayed too long.

Kutuzov retreated to Vienna, destroying the bridges on the rivers Inn (in Braunau) and Traun (in Linz). On October 23, Russian troops crossed the Enns River. Russian carts, artillery and columns of troops in the middle of the day stretched through the city of Enns, along this and that side of the bridge.
The day was warm, autumnal and rainy. The expansive vista that opened up from the elevation where the Russian batteries stood defending the bridge was suddenly covered by a muslin curtain of slanting rain, then suddenly expanded, and in the light of the sun objects, as if covered with varnish, became far and clearly visible. You could see the town under your feet with its white houses and red roofs, the cathedral and the bridge, on both sides of which, crowding, the masses of Russian troops poured. One could see ships at the turn of the Danube, and the island, and the castle with a park, surrounded by the waters of the Enns confluence with the Danube, one could see the left rocky and covered pine forest the bank of the Danube with a mysterious distance of green peaks and blue gorges. The towers of the monastery could be seen, standing out from behind a pine tree that seemed untouched, wild forest; far ahead on the mountain, on the other side of the Enns, the enemy patrols could be seen.
Between the guns, at a height, stood in front the head of the rearguard, a general with a retinue officer, examining the terrain through a pipe. A little behind Nesvitsky was sitting on the trunk of the gun, sent from the commander-in-chief to the rear guard.
The Cossack accompanying Nesvitsky handed over a purse and a flask, and Nesvitsky treated the officers to pies and real doppelkumel. The officers joyfully surrounded him, some on their knees, some sitting in Turkish on the wet grass.
- Yes, this Austrian prince was not a fool that he built a castle here. Nice place. What don't you eat, gentlemen? Nesvitsky said.
“I humbly thank you, prince,” answered one of the officers, talking with pleasure to such an important staff official. - Beautiful place. We passed by the park itself, saw two deer, and what a wonderful house!
“Look, prince,” said another, who really wanted to take another pie, but was ashamed, and who therefore pretended to look around the area, “look, our infantrymen have already climbed there. Over there, on the meadow, behind the village, three people are dragging something. "They're going to take over this palace," he said with visible approval.
“This and that,” said Nesvitsky. “No, but what I would like,” he added, chewing the pie in his beautiful wet mouth, “is to climb up there.
He pointed to a monastery with towers, visible on the mountain. He smiled, his eyes narrowed and lit up.
“It would be nice, gentlemen!
The officers laughed.
- If only to scare these nuns. Italians, they say, are young. Really, I would give five years of my life!
"They're bored, after all," said the bolder officer, laughing.
Meanwhile, the retinue officer, who was standing in front, pointed out something to the general; the general looked through the telescope.
“Well, it’s true, it’s true,” the general said angrily, lowering the receiver from his eyes and shrugging his shoulders, “it’s true, they’ll start hitting the crossing. And what are they doing there?
On the other side with a simple eye the enemy and his battery were visible, from which a milky white smoke appeared. Following the smoke, a long-range shot rang out, and it was clear how our troops hurried at the crossing.
Nesvitsky, panting, got up and, smiling, approached the general.
“Would your Excellency want to have a bite to eat?” - he said.
- It's not good, - said the general, without answering him, - ours hesitated.
“Would you like to go, Your Excellency?” Nesvitsky said.
“Yes, please go,” said the general, repeating what had already been ordered in detail, “and tell the hussars to be the last to cross and light the bridge, as I ordered, and to inspect the combustible materials on the bridge.
“Very well,” answered Nesvitsky.
He called a Cossack with a horse, ordered him to put away his purse and flask, and easily threw his heavy body onto the saddle.
“Really, I’ll stop by the nuns,” he said to the officers, who looked at him with a smile, and drove along the winding path downhill.



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