This article is devoted to the issue of correlation between evolutionary and involutionary processes in the modern world. The severity of genocidal and culture-cidal tendencies, surpassing those in past centuries, is noted. The article discusses the question of whether the return of concentration camps, which became one of the semantic milestones in the development of humankind in the twentieth century, is possible. This experience left indelible traces in the history of the Earth, its cultural genesis and ethnogenesis. They can become both the basis for revising the strategy of human relations, and the basis for a new escalation of mutual violence and people’s self-destruction. Therefore, modern humanity is going through a difficult phase of its development. This phase shows that human formation is far from complete. Moreover, degradation and involutionary processes are taking place in modern human communities much more actively and widely than evolutionary ones, especially in countries and regions of the south and west. The regions of the northeast are the least affected, however, they have their own problems, including those associated with the “frozen history”: some communities of the north and east, including in Russia, practically do not develop in the absence of stimulating moments as the main resources are spent on resisting the difficulties of everyday life, survival, and attempts to preserve the national culture, which is clearly seen in the exampleof the indigenous peoples of Altai, while other communities are subjected to systemic discrimination, as, for example, the Pomors, which prompts them, on the one hand, to blur among other peoples of Russia, and on the other hand, to close themselves from the general process in order to preserve themselves and the culture of human relations at least for a while.