Issue #35

Abstract: S. S. Neretina defined the time interval between 1917 and 1991 as “Soviet dirt” [Neretina S., 2012, p. 373], and the internal politics of today’s Russia as an attempt to construct a neo-Soviet state on a truncated neo-Russian space [Neretina S., 2012, p. 492]. This approach to assessing the situation in the country coincides with one of the general statements of Ernst Jünger: Governments replace each other, like segments of a tapeworm; but their head, their intelligible character, remains the same. Each new one adds a number of new cells to the existing prison. The art of public administration is increasingly reduced to the ability, with all that, to create the illusion of freedom, and, therefore, along with the police, propaganda becomes the main tool [Yunger E., 2007, p. 202]. Hence, the identification and description of the entire variety of forms of intellectual support for the relationship of the illusion of freedom with police and propaganda activities becomes an important task of humanitarian knowledge. In this article I will try to load the given definitions and statements with my own experience of comprehending them passed through the reflections of some contemporaries.