Is it true that Mikhail Zhvanetsky is the author of the essay "On the Soviet Motherland"?

In recent years, the Internet has passed a nostalgic essay in which the positive aspects of life in the Soviet Union have been highlighted. We checked whether the satirist Mikhail Zhvanetsky was really written as the author.

In the issue of the publication "Fifth newspaper" For March 30, 2021, the text was printed with the following preface: “Dear editors! I direct the last thoughts of the relatively recently known satirist M. M. Zhvanetsky for the possible use of the last use. He was a vivid representative and somewhere the leader of the so-called eligibility in the Russian Federation. It becomes more important that before leaving life [he], it considered it necessary to publish his thoughts about the Soviet homeland. As they say, it dawned on them. <...> Sincerely, your long -standing subscriber and author Yu. O. Dmitriev. "

Then went the essay itself, entitled "On the Soviet Motherland." In it, the Fatherland appears to a woman - lean, hard and caring, albeit imperfect. The text ends with the words: “Are we happy? Don't know. But I know exactly what words many of us did not tell her then. We paid in full for our teenage impudence. Now we understood everything that we could not realize an immature mind in those years of our serene spoiled childhood. Thank you! Do not remember us badly. And forgive. For everything! Soviet homeland. "

Both after and before the publication in the Fifth Newspaper, this text, signed by Zhvanetsky, appeared on such resources as a magazine "Samizdat", "YaPlakal", Noi.md, "Poems.ru" , "Little", "Myrtesen"as well as in social networks: Facebook (there are publications with 3300, 245 And 105 reposts) and VKontakte (27,000 views).

Outstanding Soviet and Russian satirist Mikhail Zhvanetsky He died November 6, 2020 at the age of 86. About a year before, he Closed his transfer “on duty in the country”, and since March, after the introduction of quarantine, Not took place Not a single of his concert. It was precisely for the period after the death of Zhvanetsky (end of 2020 - the beginning of 2021) that the peak of publications of the essay “On the Soviet Motherland” for his signature. Such an attribution was incredibly familiar with the work of readers who were well acquainted with the work of readers - for many decades, Zhvanetsky ridiculed the shortcomings of the Soviet state. No wonder after his death some communists They wrotethat "the contribution of Zhvanetsky to the destruction of the USSR is difficult to overestimate." And in the post -Soviet time, the satirist was remembered by the upholding of democratic ideals - for example, signed A letter in support of Pussy Riot.

And the doubts of the readers were not groundless. In September 2021, at the forum of the newspaper "Tomorrow", for some time collaborating with the Fifth Gazeta, it was published Appeal To the editorial office of the latter from the reader Alexander Ermoshin. He is still in May Placed In his blog, the aforementioned article by Yu. O. Dmitriev from the Fifth Newspaper and encountered numerous comments on the fact that the essay had nothing to do with Zhvanetsky. As Ermoshin now noted, "this text Dmitriev most likely took from the" all -knowing "the Internet, unnecessarily trusting him." The reader quite rightly remarked that in different years the text appeared almost unchanged on different resources under different names, such as Alexander Mudrik, Alexey Red, Sinelnikov-Orishak, Bizzarogist, VLADISLAV SURKOV. You can add more to this list Petra Voikova.

However, none of these real and fictional personalities was the first, and some later denied their authorship. Earlier of all, February 21, 2017, text Published The user of the resource Cont.ws under the nickname is a malicious Douglas. Some time passed, and the essay began to be assigned, and then attribute Zhvanetsky. On some resources The malicious Douglas has its own page where you can familiarize yourself with others work, making sure that this is his original style. In 2020, shortly after the text began to be massively attributed to Zhvanetsky, the real author even Placed The next preface to my work: “Once, already in order for a long time, I wrote a post that almost instantly went into the people and gained a strange popularity for me. It was probably read by the whole of Russia or at least a significant part of it. Several people unknown to me even declared his rights to him, but it only pleases. So, the text turned out to be correct, important and necessary. ”

Thus, the essay “On the Soviet Motherland” has nothing to do with Mikhail Mikhailovich Zhvanetsky and belongs to the authorship of an anonymous user, known as the malicious Douglas.

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