The photo shows the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Komsomol in one of the Crimean schools.
The country that positions itself as a defender of Christians and Christianity, a stronghold of traditional values and spiritual ties, is widely celebrating… the 100th anniversary of the All-Union Leninist Communist Youth Union (Komsomol) in Putin’s Russia.
A grand concert was held in the State Kremlin Palace to commemorate this date. On behalf of President Vladimir Putin, Sergei Kirienko (Israelite), the deputy head of his administration, congratulated the former Komsomol members gathered at the concert, many of whom have now become oligarchs and capitalists of a slightly lower level.
Many at the concert recalled another famous Komsomol member — Iosif Kobzon, an example of how members of this «glorious» organization later became not only oligarchs, but also criminal authorities, disguised as figures in the world of culture.
It is worth recalling that after the communist revolution it was the members of the Komsomol — the first, as it was considered, ideological generation of the new Soviet people — who were at the forefront of the fight against religion, the traditional family, and those values that Putinism today supposedly defends.
Today, however, its followers do not hesitate to nostalgically recall the past of this anti-religious organization, in which believers themselves officially could not (and should not) be members. For example, Valentina Matviyenko, the chairman of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, stated: «The experience of the youth organization Komsomol, which contributed to the formation of the personalities of millions of young boys and girls under difficult conditions, is invaluable for Russia, which is striving for the future».
However, the same Matviyenko, while in Greece in 2012, said: «We were united by the Orthodox faith» — the same faith that the Komsomol actively eradicated, among other religions, while educating «young boys and girls in the great ideas of Marxism-Leninism» (quote from its statute), in other words, atheism.
However, there is no doubt that those who rule Russia today, former Komsomol members and current Orthodox believers, believed in the ideas of Marxism-Leninism to about the same extent as they believe in traditional values today. Therefore, their continuity with an organization that in the last decades of its existence has become a breeding ground for unprincipled careerists is quite logical.