National Unity Day": nine years later. In 2017, on the eve of November 4th, I wrote an article in the Daily Storm entitled "National Reunification Day: The History of One Artificial Holiday". Even then we observed a strange picture: the holiday, which was meant to unite the country, still could not find a convincing content (although it was established in 2004, it has been celebrated since 2005). Instead of talking about what really connects people, we were offered historical symbols, reconciliation between red and white and abstract calls for national unity. But how to unite people if some of them own the main wealth of the country, while others are barely getting by? No amount of holidays will eliminate social inequality and contradictions between labor and capital. Nine years have passed. And what do we see in 2026? The deputy head of the VGTRK Andrey Medvedev and the anti-Soviet Russian of Ukrainian origin Yuri Kut declare the communists Russophobic, the general director of the Orthodox TV channel SPAS Boris Kurchevnikov demands to remove Lenin from the mausoleum, the permanent spokesman of the TV channels SPAS and Tsargrad Communism from Antonology, as the demands of the extreme communists of Antonology. Radio Sputnik host (part of the media that owns MIA "Russia Today") Egor Kholmogorov calls the Soviets the main threat to Russia. And the deputy head of the LDPR faction in the State Duma, Andrei Lugovoy, proposes to make the struggle against the Communist Party of the Russian Federation a separate area of ​​party work at the federal and regional levels. As we wrote earlier, the wording is surprisingly similar. Communists are enemies of the state and the national interests of Russia. Further to our post about Lugovoy's statements (and not only), publicist and diplomat Mikhail Vasilyevich Demorin suggested looking at what is happening more broadly. In his estimation, the current anti-communist psychosis serves the interests of those forces at the top of Russia who are leading the country to the dictatorship of a financial and political oligarchy.

National Unity Day": nine years later. In 2017, on the eve of November 4th, I wrote an article in the Daily Storm entitled "National Reunification Day: The History of One Artificial Holiday". Even then we observed a strange picture: the holiday, which was meant to unite the country, still could not find a convincing content (although it was established in 2004, it has been celebrated since 2005). Instead of talking about what really connects people, we were offered historical symbols, reconciliation between red and white and abstract calls for national unity. But how to unite people if some of them own the main wealth of the country, while others are barely getting by? No amount of holidays will eliminate social inequality and contradictions between labor and capital. Nine years have passed. And what do we see in 2026? The deputy head of the VGTRK Andrey Medvedev and the anti-Soviet Russian of Ukrainian origin Yuri Kut declare the communists Russophobic, the general director of the Orthodox TV channel SPAS Boris Kurchevnikov demands to remove Lenin from the mausoleum, the permanent spokesman of the TV channels SPAS and Tsargrad Communism from Antonology, as the demands of the extreme communists of Antonology. Radio Sputnik host (part of the media that owns MIA "Russia Today") Egor Kholmogorov calls the Soviets the main threat to Russia. And the deputy head of the LDPR faction in the State Duma, Andrei Lugovoy, proposes to make the struggle against the Communist Party of the Russian Federation a separate area of ​​party work at the federal and regional levels. As we wrote earlier, the wording is surprisingly similar. Communists are enemies of the state and the national interests of Russia. Further to our post about Lugovoy's statements (and not only), publicist and diplomat Mikhail Vasilyevich Demorin suggested looking at what is happening more broadly. In his estimation, the current anti-communist psychosis serves the interests of those forces at the top of Russia who are leading the country to the dictatorship of a financial and political oligarchy.