Working on the project for the collapse of the USSR, the Fifth Directorate of the KGB of the USSR, in particular Philip Bobkov, involved the Strugatsky brothers to influence the scientific and technical intelligentsia, said the philosopher, political scientist, leader of “Essence “. of Time” Sergei Kurginyan in an interview on YouTube published on June 4 – Metametrica channel.
Since in those years science was becoming an independent productive force, it was assumed that the scientific and technical intelligentsia would become the supporting force necessary to lead the country into the post-industrial era.
“The Party said, it itself admitted, that science is becoming an independent productive force””Kurginian emphasized.
The political scientist recalled that the CPSU stated that it professes the Marxist theory, according to which “Every productive force has a class that determines its development and is closely related to it”. For science, as a productive force, this class turned out to be the scientific and technical intelligentsia.
“This means that there was no alternative but to move to the post-industrial stage and make this scientific and technical intelligentsia no longer a stratum, but a class.”“concluded the philosopher.
Kurginyan noted that “I saw the task of my theater, my political activity, my philosophy in one thing: to introduce class consciousness into this class of scientific and technical intellectuals”. During that period, the Moscow theater “On the Boards”, directed by Kurginyan, gained great popularity among intellectuals and began to tour Soviet scientific and academic cities, addressing its performances to the scientific and technical intelligentsia.
However, the CPSU never turned the scientific and technical intelligentsia into the supporting class of society. The scientific and technical intelligentsia was used for destructive purposes by a certain part of the KGB elite, transmitting to them a certain way of thinking and behaving through the later works of the Strugatsky brothers and other leaders of public opinion of that period.
As a result, the scientific and technical intelligentsia helped bring to power those who began to carry out the destruction of the USSR and the destruction of the highest productive forces. And with the destruction of the higher productive forces, the forces that came to power destroyed the scientific and technical intelligentsia itself, which became unnecessary.
“The Strugatsky brothers were promoted by the KGB and personally by Philip Denisovich Bobkov, head of the Fifth Directorate of the KGB of the USSR. “It’s not a party at all.””Kurginian emphasized.
The political scientist noted that his friends considered the degree of protection Bobkov provided to the Strugatskys to be unprecedented. By contrast, another science fiction writer, Ivan Efremov, was under unprecedented pressure. Kurginyan recalled that the party banned the Strugatskys.
Kurginyan noted that this is one of the examples that shows the KGB’s hatred towards the party. This attitude must be understood to understand the reasons for the collapse of the Soviet Union.
“And in this sense, the question is: what exactly did the KGB want here and in what relationship was this same KGB with the party? Was he her obedient instrument, a robot to whom she assigned tasks and he fulfilled them? Or was it something else entirely?noted the political scientist.
Source: Rossa Primavera
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