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 absolute disregard for all age-old ethnic taboos.
V.A. Khanevich's hero is a kind of "little man" of the 1930s, who wanted not only to survive, but also to receive some "respect" from the authorities. He failed: the little man thought that he was accepted into the game by the rules, but there were no rules, no game. It just so happened that the authorities mowed down "strangers" and "their own" equally, with enviable disregard for any "merits". Pushnin's fate was completely trivial - and it is unlikely that the consoling thoughts that he who has done evil will wash himself in evil are appropriate here. No, before us is an ordinary story from the recent past: if it were not covered in blood, it could even be called a drawn-out joke.
The essay was published in the literary and artistic almanac "Stone Bridge". Tomsk. 2004 .
