Abstract
The author reflects on the fate of his generation – the generation of graduates of the Faculty of Philosophy in 1976, against the background of his personal history, trying to understand and explain why almost 30 years after the collapse of the Soviet power, after discovering the monstrous truth about its crimes, after the fall of the Iron Curtain and liberation from the “only right” ideology, people of different generations who lived under the USSR, and even very young people born after the collapse of the USSR, nostalgic for the Soviet system? How is it possible to know about the gulag and still erect monuments to Stalin? Why is it that after the experience of freedom and of a short but still normal human life, one must defend one’s freedom and human dignity again? And how is it that the country failed to seize the unique opportunity to change and become part of the world and returned to the rails of isolation and xenophobia? The author considers one of the important reasons of the incident that prevailed in modern Russia social infantilism, which was the consequence of the genetic heritage of serfdom, and “wild” individualism, which does not involve responsibility towards “others”.
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