001. Articles about the "Party of People's Heroes" / V. A. Khanevich
Names (1)
Khanevich Vasily Antonovich, автор
Historian, teacher, public figure, member of the staff of the Tomsk Regional Museum of Local History. Member of the board of the Memorial Society. One of the initiators and founder of the Memorial Museum "Investigative Prison of the NKVD".
One of the initiators and founder of the Memorial Museum "NKVD Investigative Prison" (1989).
Head of the Museum (2002–2019).
Senior Researcher at the Center for the Study of Historical Memory at the M. B. Shatilov TOCM (2019–present).
Laureate of the Academician D.S. Likhachev Prize (2014).
Documents (2)
001. Vasily Khanevich. A terrible tale about the "Party of People's Heroes". Feature article
Stalin's "Gosstrakh" system crippled and broke human souls with incredible efficiency. It gave birth to an ugly and naive philosophy of survival, based on an absolute disregard for all age-old ethnic prohibitions.
Hero V.A. Khanevich is a kind of “little man” of the 1930s, who wanted not only to survive, but also to receive some “respect” from the authorities. Nothing worked out for him: the chip thought that it was accepted into the game according to the rules, but there were neither rules nor a game. It just so happened that the authorities equally mowed down both “strangers” and “our own” with enviable disdain for any “merits”. Pushnin’s fate was completely trivial - and the soul-comforting thoughts that he who has done evil will wash himself with evil are hardly appropriate here. No, before us is an ordinary story from the recent past: if it weren’t covered in blood, it could even be called a protracted anecdote.
The essay was published in the literary and artistic almanac "Stone Bridge". Tomsk 2004.
