The author of this passage, Kirill Kleymenov, is not just the presenter of Channel One, he is also the deputy general director of Konstantin Ernst for information policy. That is, the person who actually defines the face of Channel One. Let me remind you that during the Yeltsin era, this channel was privatized by the notorious Berezovsky and became the so-called public television.
If you look at the programs of this TV channel, then today there is not a single normal educational program, not a single normal documentary film. It is often crammed with various shows that are aimed at "bombing" our society into the Stone Age. When I was undergoing inpatient treatment at the Oncology Center on Kashirka, the doctors and I accidentally raised the issue of Elena Malysheva's program. And all, without exception, specialists - and these are wonderful surgeons-oncologists who have saved hundreds, if not thousands, of lives - said that it is impossible, of course, to dull people in this way and call them to self-medicate, in fact dooming them to death.
The same show by Larisa Guzeeva "Let's Get Married", Borisov's show … Earlier this niche, I recall, was occupied by Malakhov's programs … And the crown of the outrage is, of course, the Novosti program performed by Kleymenov. It de facto provokes unnecessary nervousness in society.
There it is in the order of things to compare an outstanding figure in world and national history - a person who, in fact, at the head of the Soviet people saved the country, and not only the country, but the world from the brown plague of fascism; the person who brought our country to the rank of world superpowers - with some recidivist and drug addict … And put this funeral on the same level … In the first case, it was the funeral of a great citizen, a great leader, whom literally the whole country mourned, yes and many people in other countries of the world. Hundreds of millions at that time bowed their heads in memory of Stalin. And those riots, those pogroms that are now taking place in the United States, the clownery that the Democratic Party, led by out-of-mind Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden, staged around this funeral … I don't know who you have to be to say such things. And - not somewhere in a narrow circle of "friends", but for the whole country, for the whole world.
And about the fact that Stalin was a criminal … This bike was launched during the years of Gorbachev's "perestroika", including in the well-known story of Fazil Iskander "Sandro from Chegem". Let me remind you that back in the 1990s and 2000s, a number of scientific studies were published, including people who, well, frankly, are not sympathizers of the Soviet regime and the ideas of communism and socialism. For example, Zinaida Peregudova, Doctor of Historical Sciences, who studied in detail the history of the political investigation of tsarist Russia, or Olga Edelman, the author of the famous monograph "Stalin, Koba and Soso: Young Stalin in Historical Sources", who proved with documents in hand that Stalin had nothing to do to the so-called "exams" did not have. Yes, Stalin was persecuted by the tsarist secret police and was tried several times. Served a sentence according to court sentences, including twice,in 1909 and 1911, he was exiled to the Vologda province, then, in April 1912, to the Narym of the Tomsk province, and a year later, in 1913, he was exiled to the Turukhansk Territory, to the Yenisei province. If the tsarist secret police and the Ministry of Internal Affairs had at least a hint that Stalin was involved in some criminal offenses, in particular in these very "exes", I assure you that he would have been convicted for this, and not sent to prison and then exiled as a political prisoner.that he would be convicted for this, and not sent to prison and then exiled as a political prisoner.that he would be convicted for this, and not sent to prison and then exiled as a political prisoner.