The title ends the year on an increase of 16In other words a failure of the negotiations with the unions is not fatalNo question as to abandon its industrial property3 times its estimated profit 2007 against 14The British plan gives 9 solvency ratios banksIn d'Azur a client empty its accounts and booksIt recognizes the feelings but they are usedThe fall of the European currency continuesTo be wanting that can prevent says conventional wisdomToday this secular commitment is less obviousThe press European and us much talked recently a history textbook which would make its appearance in Russian schools as early as next year. Stalin would be described as a "manager" effective and terror as a historical period unfortunate but necessary for the continuation of the modernization of the country. It is hoped that this manual is that the project of a few particularly nostalgic circles and that the two consuls of the State Medvedev and Putin intervene to prevent the dissemination. A Stalinist manual would be the joy of all those who, in Europe or the United States, represent the Russia as a permanent threat.
This "faux pas", however, reveals the existence of a problem to which no ruler of the Russia can be insensitive. The October revolution divided history into two incompatible periods and provoked a civil war which continued in the 1930s with a tragic series of cleansing, persecutions, of mass executions. The German attack in June 1941 and openings of Stalin to the Orthodox Church during the conflict had the effect of rebuilding national unity. But the policy of the Gulag in the post-war period and frequent Police crackdowns in the era of Leonid Brezhnev were in many respects a back to back.
In addition, the collapse of the USSR after the failure of Gorbachev's reforms took place in ambiguity. Communism was not beaten in a war or resistance, even a minority, as was the case of Nazism and fascism. The great Russian country accepted the event, but without actually participating in change. In these circumstances, it was not possible to denounce the crimes and the tragic mistakes of the Soviet regime. The second world war veterans and the layers of the society that capitalism would inevitably leave the road would have not understood it. This is because of this that the mummy of Lenin still holds the mausoleum in red square, that Stalin was always buried near the walls of the Kremlin and Russian toponymy is a medley of pre-revolutionary names and names Bolshevik.
Out of this ambiguous silence, Putin tried to rebuild the unity of the Russian history of the Grand Duchy of Muscovy to the present day. He has removed the national holiday of 7 November (the date on the new schedule, the October Revolution), but he kept a celebration in the same month, taking the day where the Russians hunted the Poles from Moscow in 1612. In this scheme, Stalin was a particular problem. The former colonel in the KGB that Putin could not ignore that the "wonderful Georgian" (this is as it was defined by Lenin at their first meeting) was without mercy against the kulaks, Ukrainians, Polish officers, the enemies of the party, dissidents real and virtual of Soviet society. But he was also the man of the first five-year plan, the creator of the Soviet industry, a source of inspiration for national society after the German invasion, the winner of the second world war, the leader placed his country to the rank of major powers. For those who, like Putin, want to unite the Russian history and make their fellow citizens the feeling of pride lost, it is not possible to forget Stalin or as a "black hole". So the Russians can speak of him with a greater balance, must await another generation. And many will naturally depend on the evolution of the Russia and international policy in the coming years. A new cold war would only make the reputation of Stalin in Russia even more solid.