More recently, the next anniversary of the death of the one to whom, without exaggeration, the entire vast country owes its modern history has passed. But everyone treats this date differently. Someone does not perceive it at all, someone carries flowers to the monument to Stalin, there are also those who celebrate a holiday on this date. For example, in Yekaterinburg, fireworks were staged on this occasion, timed to coincide with the date of the liberation of the country from it is unclear from whom. And they did not just arrange, but bothered to make a commendable comment about the governor on a well-known social network. What does this mean? At least that insanity in the ruling circles is already getting stronger than ever. There is a strong opinion on the Internet that now, thanks to the current state of affairs, even those who hated him before have fallen in love with Stalin. Actually, who hated him from that generation, who caught that very time at a conscious age? Except for former GULAG prisoners and party functionaries who vacillated without reflection along with the party line. During the perestroika period, for example, two leading TV channels provided daily television to such people (and there were no others, if anyone remembers). And everyone said with one voice that Stalin was so vain, bloodthirsty, wasteful and others like him that there were abandoned, sometimes unfinished, grandiose monuments to these qualities and his entire epoch as a whole all over the country. Well, now we will look at one of these monuments, or rather what is left of it, and try to figure out for ourselves what's what. However, let's return to the title.

The Soviet-Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn, I believe, is known by the vast majority of readers and it is not necessary to introduce him. It seems that he was even included in the school curriculum for the study of literature. What can I say here? He looks great as a writer. But here we must not forget that this man experienced all the delights of the Soviet penitentiary system of those years, or, speaking in Russian, he was in prison. And not even for one year. Whether he was in charge or not, you can't ask him anymore. However, as practice shows, no matter who you ask, everyone seems to be sitting for nothing. But that's not really the point here. Do you think he would really have started praising the socialist system in his writings after his release, even if he had been in charge? Or maybe other GULAG prisoners who were released after 1953 and began to produce their works in a frenzied printer mode would have started doing this? The answer, in my opinion, is obvious. By definition, they could not write anything good about that system. In this case, Solzhenitsyn stood out from all those writers only by the quality of the artistic word, and he stood out very much. The man had a talent for what to do. But now all the romanticism of the 90s era, based on protest sentiments, is gone. Naturally, literate people began to take a new look at Solzhenitsyn's work and re-evaluate it anew. Even with vandalism on his monuments.

One of Solzhenitsyn's best works is the novel "In the First Circle", written by him in 1955-58. In his memoirs, the author did not hide that all the events and characters were copied from real life. They are taken by the author from his biography, when he himself was serving time in a special purpose prison - sharashka. Solzhenitsyn even described himself as one of the heroes there. The idea of the title of this novel was that Solzhenitsyn himself imagined "sharashka" as the easiest and most sparing form of punishment. Or the first circle of hell. Subsequently, he was transferred from such a "sharashka" to a full-fledged camp with all its attributes, where there was already a qualitatively different circle. That's what he wanted to call the novel at first - "Circle".

The storyline of the novel is as follows:

The action takes place in Moscow during three December days in 1949. A Soviet diplomat, an employee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR, Innokenty Volodin, calls the US embassy and informs that Soviet intelligence is preparing to steal information related to the production of an atomic bomb. The MGB employees listening to the embassy's phones record the conversation on magnetic tape. To establish the identity of the caller, the tape is transferred to the "sharashka" Marfino — a secret institute where imprisoned engineers work. The main topic of the Marfa Institute is the development of a "secret telephony apparatus", which is conducted in Sharashka on Stalin's personal instructions. A side research topic is human voice recognition. The laboratories where prisoners Lev Rubin and Gleb Nerzhin work are instructed to find out who owns the voice of the caller to the embassy. On the same day, it turns out that the development of secret telephony is on the verge of failure, Abakumov sets critical deadlines for the leadership of the institute to obtain the first practical results. The director of the institute summons Nerzhin and demands that he switch from abstract linguistic research to the development of a mathematical apparatus for secret telephony. Nerzhin faces a difficult choice — to work for a system that is repugnant to his spirit, or to leave the hearty charashka and go to the periphery of the GULAG.

In more detail, according to the plot, the MGB recorded this phone call, calculated all the people who had access to this information (there were five of them), and eventually imprisoned all these five until clarification. But for some reason they did not shoot them all (and at that time, if they told us the truth in 1980-90, they could have done it once or twice), but decided to identify the guilty person. To do this, in a special prison ("sharashka"), on Stalin's instructions, they began to develop a special device for speech identification. In that very "sharashka", as you understand, they gathered engineers in different profiles, and kept them in conditions much better than existed at that time in ordinary camps. And this practice was widespread in the USSR. "Sharashki" solved problems of any complexity, from agricultural to space. Recently, by the way, our modern government praised this way of conducting scientific and technical developments. Indeed, the best minds behind bars did not require large overhead costs, were well motivated to work by the expectation of freedom and at the same time isolated from all spies and pests hunting for Soviet technical secrets. I believe that this method of scientific work has not been invented anywhere else.

How many such "sharashkas" were there in the USSR?

Well, this concludes the prologue and moves on to one of those most majestic monuments of the Stalin era. This is his pantheon at the place of his exile, in the village of Kureika in the Turukhansky district of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, in the period 1914-16. Actually, only locals called it the Pantheon, officially it was called the Stalin Museum everywhere, and of the entire exposition there was only one house in which Stalin once lived in this exile. But this house was housed in a newly built huge sarcophagus building, very unusual for the local climate.

This house was unusual not only for the local climate, but also for that place in general. According to reports, those places along the banks of the Yenisei were practically uninhabited. Very rarely there were villages of several houses. As a rule, they were located at the confluence of other Siberian rivers with the Yenisei. Each such village had a marina, or as they were called there, 'stanok'. There was such a 'stanok' at the Kureika.

Presumably, Stalin arrived in Kureika on his own, obviously, the exiles at that time were given the right to choose the place of exile. Before that, he had already lived for some time in other cities and villages of the Krasnoyarsk Territory. In Kureik, he rented a room in some peasant hut, where many other people lived besides him. Stalin began to cohabit with one of the women who lived in this hut, Lydia Pereprygina, and she gave birth to two sons for him. One of them died in infancy, the other lived to old age, fearing the fact of his paternity all his life. Stalin left Kureika suddenly, officially he was called up for the Patriotic (World War I) War. He never returned there again, although already in power he made attempts to find his son. Attempts were unsuccessful, because his son, when such information appeared, went to the taiga. It is difficult to judge how true this was now. However, more recently, one of Stalin's grandchildren along that line proved his genetic affiliation with the Leader.

Stalin did not even try to get to Kureika, despite the fact that this Museum was built there during his lifetime. And not just lined up. All ships passing along the Yenisei made a stop at that place, and passengers were voluntarily and forcibly forced to go to this museum for an excursion. Why was such a Museum needed in this sparsely populated place? Is this really the monument to Stalin's vanity?

The Stalin House Museum was officially opened on November 7, 1938 in the fishing hut where Stalin lived during his stay in exile in Kureika. Attempts to enclose the building with a pavilion to preserve it were unsuccessful, and for several years after the opening of the museum, the house itself was in a deplorable state. In the winter of 1944/1945, a closed competition was held for a draft design of the Stalin House museum. 30 projects were presented, even prisoners participated in it. The project of the volunteer S. K. Cornet was recognized as the best. In 1949, it was decided to begin construction of the museum pavilion. The construction was carried out by prisoners. In 1952, the work was completed.
After Stalin's death in 1953, visits to the museum were stopped on a mandatory, "by order" basis. In December 1961, in the process of debunking the "cult of personality" of Stalin, Stalin's fishing lodge was dismantled, and the sculpture in the park was demolished and dumped into an ice hole on the Yenisei.
By the 1990s, the pavilion was in a dilapidated state. The windows were broken, the parquet was dismantled, and the walls were covered with various phrases. In 1996, the pavilion finally burned down as a result of arson.

Few people know now, but very close to Kureika, a few dozen kilometers away (for Siberia this is not a distance), the construction of the "object 503" took place, it is also a Transpolar highway. I should probably add a few words here.

By Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the USSR No. 384-135-ss of January 29, 1949, the construction site of the port was moved to Igarka, which caused a new direction of the road: "Salekhard-Igarka". January 29, 1949 can be considered the beginning of the second stage of the construction of the Chum-Salekhard-Igarka railway, since the road took a different direction from the original plan. By a resolution of the Council of Ministers of the USSR dated January 29, 1949, the Main Directorate of the Northern Sea Route (GUSMP) under the Council of Ministers of the USSR was entrusted with the exploration and design of the seaport in Igarka and the complex of structures at it. The builders' communication with the departments was maintained first by radio, and then by a telephone and telegraph pole line stretched by convicts from Salekhard to Igarka along the proposed route.

Please note that the decision to build the Chum-Salekhard-Igarka railway was also made in 1949, the same year as the construction of the Pantheon. Is this a coincidence? The construction of this line was carried out from two directions. The direction from Igarka was precisely that "object 503". This road itself was a very unusual object. There is still no consensus, and therefore Stalin decided to make Igarka the final destination in this case. Stalin made such decisions alone and marked the road line on the map himself. Several versions have been put forward, from quite reasonable to conspiracy theories. For example, the Second World War showed the complete insecurity of the Arctic coast, and the Germans felt at home there. The only way to solve this problem was to create a large military base, which at first they wanted to do on the Yamal Peninsula, then because of the shallow depth of the Gulf of Ob, it was moved to the mouth of the Yenisei. It was for this base that a new railway was hastily launched.

Another version from the category of extravagant was that there were some traces of an ancient civilization in Igarka and the notorious Golden Woman was hidden there. According to legend, while living in Kureika, Stalin went to the tundra many times to local shamans, and they gave him some sacred knowledge about these places. It was because of them that Igarka was made the final destination of the branch. But at the same time, no passage of the branch under construction through the Kureika was planned at all.

An even more mysterious fact is the construction of the "object 503" itself. It was a completely classified facility, from beginning to end. No, of course, it would hardly have been possible to hide the fact of the construction of the branch in those days. But everything else was completely covered in darkness. And despite the fact that this branch was supposedly built by GULAG prisoners, none of the self-publishers subsequently mentioned this fact in their literary works (experts, correct). Who built this branch anyway? And quite unusual is the end of this construction, which was made by a strong-willed decision literally immediately after Stalin's death, when Comrade Malenkov was temporarily imprisoned before Khrushchev was appointed head of state.

A few years ago, we managed to talk with a construction participant at the very "object 503", who got there as a freelancer in his youth, almost before the work on this mysterious object was curtailed. Here is his short story.

The construction of the railway line from Igarka began in the village of Ermakovo, which arose almost from scratch. Previously, there was a machine there - Cape Ermak on the Yenisei. During the construction of the branch line to Salekhard, there was a main transshipment base in this village. All materials and equipment were delivered by water. In a very short time, a settlement for several thousand residents with all the infrastructure was built. There was even a cultural center with a theater there. Almost all the builders of the road were freelancers, from BAM (at that time it was already under construction-ed.). There were special commissariats too, but their contingent was not involved in any serious or responsible work. Their tasks were mainly to perform ancillary work, such as housing construction. Those who were released after serving their sentence remained there to work as freelancers. The construction took place in very difficult conditions. There were indeed facts that people drowned or froze on the line along with equipment. The quality of the work was low, but it was not hidden, the task was to launch the facility in principle, its completion was planned already during operation. Sometime in the spring of 1953, a command came in to stop all work completely. After some time, another command arrived - to dismantle everything that can and cannot be destroyed. All the station buildings were dismantled, and the capital ones were blown up. All the rails were completely removed and transported by water to no one knows where. The entire rolling stock is sunk. In Ermakovo, near the main station, some kind of atomic charge was detonated by the military (as announced), and everyone hastily left this village. Now there are only ruins left. A lot of people are currently posting photos of that very polar railway. These pictures have nothing to do with the Ermakovo-Salekhard site. There was an order not to throw anything on that branch, literally not to leave a stone unturned. Even later, when a new branch line was built along the old embankment from Novy Urengoy station to Korotchaevo station, only one sleeper was found there. And these stations were built where stations were planned in the polar branch in the same place, but with different names. Even the old design names were not given to these stations.

What kind of mysterious road is this, the construction of which, after Stalin's death, increasingly resembled an escape from the battlefield? There is another interesting detail, repeatedly mentioned on the forums of history lovers - rails and rolling stock for this construction were collected from all over the country, and it was the royal ones. This seems to be despite the fact that rail production was in full swing in Novokuznetsk at that time. And there are even many supporting photos. Really, why would I?

Now, after the incomprehensible shallowing of the rivers, all this drowned equipment got out, and even some tried to extract it. This photo is not an isolated one, there are a lot of them on local history resources. What kind of secret did that transpolar highway have? It turned out to be simple. Even the Memorial Society, which publishes such photos, probably had no idea about it (and also a "foreign agent", you know).

Soooo... Why are there three rails in that very Transpolar Highway, at a time when the whole country needed iron? At first glance, this is completely absurd, for such wastefulness, designers could have been sent to build barracks on the same branch at that time. But if you look at what railways used to be in Switzerland, everything becomes clear. It was not at all a monument to Stalin's vanity and it was not demolished in vain. Obviously, Stalin decided to simply recreate and test those railway lines that had been operating all over the world about a hundred years ago. Of course, without firewood and coal. And the place was chosen perfectly. Wild animals in the forests guarded this branch better than NKVD special regiments. According to some accounts, the dead people were not buried there, they were simply left in the forest. To make everyone understand where it is, take a look at the map. Almost strictly on the Arctic Circle.

Stalin learned a good lesson during World War II, and apparently decided to move away from the "precepts of Ilyich" and quietly take his muzzle out of his pocket, just on the eve of the Cold War. This is despite the fact that the counterparts already seemed to own an atomic bomb and even threatened to drop it on the USSR. A very bold and competent move was made in the form of this road by Stalin. I wonder if any of the rulers are capable of such a thing now? I suppose many readers start laughing homerically. The location, by the way, was chosen very carefully for this road. If an atomic charge had been sent there, the USSR would not have lost much. And the place itself... It's high up to God, it's far from the Washington Regional Committee, and he definitely wouldn't have scouted the technical details. However, Stalin was least afraid of the latter. There was a strategic task - to implement this project, so that later, using its example, it could be replicated throughout the Union. I suppose they were very much afraid of this overseas. And they did as much harm as they could with the hands of agents. It was such pests that Stalin was afraid of. Their own, homegrown ones, the ones who handed over information to embassies (as according to Solzhenitsyn). And they were in reality, and not at all the paranoia attributed to Stalin by those very "prisoners"-writers.

However, let's return to the highlight of the program - the Pantheon.

Siberia has such a property that it would be a very wasteful undertaking to build a Pantheon in that geographical location without building that very railway line. Judging by the fact that chronologically the construction of the Pantheon and the branch line coincides, they were most likely built by the same people and equipment. There were simply no other resources to be found there at that time. Well, of course, both objects were equally classified. If Stalin's vanity and narcissism, which were attributed to him, had played a role in this case, this railway line would definitely have gone through Kureika to ensure passenger traffic to the Pantheon. An extra forty kilometers of travel with a total road length of fifteen hundred would not have been noticed by anyone. So the personal qualities of the Leader obviously have nothing to do with it.

From the memories of those who witnessed the construction of the Pantheon with their own eyes, it can be understood that more than one single Pantheon was built. The whole village was rebuilt, along with other infrastructure, including the school. Indeed, do not show the dilapidated shacks next to such splendor to visiting tourists. But the housing, of course, was made from improvised local materials, which can not be said about the Pantheon (more on this below).

The street was rebuilt, the logical conclusion of which was our Museum. I wonder why poles were mounted up on wooden houses, as in the photo? It was 1959, and there was definitely no television there. There is even a power line, which was obviously completed at the photographer's place of standing. And somewhere at the end of the street near the Pantheon, on the left, a new school was built.

What kind of riddles does the Pantheon throw at us? Let's delve into the match. Although this Pantheon looks beautiful from the outside, for some reason only photos from the main and side facades have been publicly available. There are practically none from the inside and from the back in their full form, and those that are there do not give us any information about the technical structure of the building at all. This is a very strange fact. I remember my youth, when one of the buildings of the "mailbox" was forbidden to take pictures from some sides only for the reason that the windows of a secret service that does not exist now looked out there. Were there any secrets here too?

In general, it is very interesting. Of course, there is no project documentation for this facility in the public domain. It is not surprising if it is not available in non-free access. Once a well-known politician Viktor Ilyukhin made a video message that he had revealed the facts of total forgery of documents from the Stalin era in state archives. I think everything in terms of cleaning up the history has already been done, so let's reconstruct it because it is, and not bother with an in-depth search. And we have the heads of engineers, and this, you must agree, is not bad. So let's get started.

This is about how the Pantheon was when the facility was put into operation. This can be judged by the height of the planted fir trees, which, according to legend, were brought from Moscow. Actually, almost all the available high-quality panoramic photos of the Pantheon were taken from this angle. From the general description, we know that this building had a length and width of 21 m x 21 m, the height of the building was 13 m. How was the necessary climate maintained inside the building, especially since it was located in the most unfavorable area according to the gradation of domestic construction climatology? A mystery, however. No chimneys are visible on the building, and no suitable heating mains are visible either.

On one of the local history resources, we managed to find the following:

The new museum is a large grey building. Trenches and underground passages were laid under the building. A boiler room for heating the museum and a power plant were specially built. Therefore, the pantheon and the surrounding area were illuminated by hundreds of different types of lighting devices, which, against the background of the lightless Kureika, really caused awe and worship. Absolutely all steamships stopped for 2 hours without fail, and all passengers traveling to Dudinka or Krasnoyarsk visited the museum and got acquainted with the life of Stalin. Nikofor Sergeevich Lukyanov was the first director of the museum. In 1956, at the twentieth Congress of the CPSU, they began to talk about the cult of Stalin's personality, but the museum was not closed and continued to receive visitors. Steamboats still stopped, flowers were laid at the monument, flower beds were broken, the guards and the director were, as before, the library was replenished with rare publications. From 1956 to 1961, everything gradually began to come to naught. In December 1961, Vitaly Petrovich Ostapenko, the 2nd secretary of the Igara City Party Committee, arrived in Kureika and said that a decision had been made to liquidate the Stalin Museum. Peter Alexandrovich Samoilov was the secretary of the village council. And Nikifor Sergeevich Lukyanov, former director of the museum, chairman of the village council. In the pantheon itself, a hut was dismantled and burned, and the sculpture was dragged off with cables for a long time. Two C-100 and C-80 tractors were busy for two or three hours, Dubin and Gusar were the tractor drivers. Somehow they pulled it off and dragged it to the Yenisei, where the worker Sakharov cut down an ice hole. That's where the sculpture was pushed. So the fate of the museum was decided overnight.

This is already interesting. What hundreds of lights were we talking about if we see less than a dozen ordinary street lights outside? What is this, a grotesque from journalists? It could very well be. It's also interesting about the boiler room, but the school stands without incoming heating mains (we'll omit the missing chimneys). How did they even learn how to make insulated heating mains in the Arctic, in 1952, even if the roofing at the school is made of boards? Very interesting. And as for the second part of this material, in European Russia, many monuments to Stalin were sent as early as 1953 (there is documentary evidence), all museums on Stalinist themes or thematic departments in museums disappeared around the same time. How is it with the Chicken? Indeed, God is high, the Secretary General is far away. Or maybe no one really knows what was there at all? The Communists of those times have always been distinguished by the fact that they very sensitively fluctuated along with the general line of the Party. They were chosen for leadership positions based on the presence of this competitive advantage. Did something go wrong here? I can't believe it at all. This museum existed exactly at the time that was determined by navigation along the Yenisei. No navigation, no traffic (as modern marketers say). If you ban the stopping of motor ships, the museum will remain completely without visitors. And if you stop its operation at least in one heating season, then that's it. According to legend, the same house stood inside the Pantheon in a clearing with natural grass, and there was a parquet floor for tourists around the perimeter. Without heating in those frosts, both the interior decoration of the building and the exhibit would have collapsed after the first freezing. Or did the building have its own autonomous boiler room of a tricky design?

According to legend, the windows of the Pantheon were designed so that Stalin's house standing inside could be seen from all sides, even from the outside. There were people who confirmed that it was possible to enter this wooden house during excursions. The windows of the Pantheon were made of three layers of glass, between which hot air streamed, and the windows never froze. The ceiling above was made in the form of a circle, in which dozens of lamps burned, depicting the northern lights. The clearing where Stalin's house stood inside the Pantheon grew all year round, was watered and trimmed even on polar nights. It couldn't have been any other way. Very big people of that time came to that place. They even accepted me as a pioneer, which in general was a great honor.

And where are the hundreds of lighting devices mentioned above? Nevertheless, in terms of engineering, this building was provided from and to. There was even a possibility of watering the grass there in winter. And the hot air between the panes. Stop. If there was still an influx of air from the outside, even for heating, where was this supply chamber? With such a volume of the building, it would be quite large, and it would be visible from afar. But she's... gone.

Maybe the whole secret was in that very old house of Stalin? For example, some powerful boiler was disguised under it. There is a reason that the photo of this house is missing everywhere. Maybe not only for ideological reasons.

This is probably the only photo where this house is somehow visible. More precisely, his silhouette. And most likely, he had no secrets in the form of built-in boilers. An ordinary wooden house, covered from above with a giant sarcophagus. Apparently, this is the case when the photo of this house was destroyed only to hide the story. If a pipe to the ceiling could be seen from the silhouette of this house, then the secret of the Pantheon would be clear. But this version, alas, is not confirmed. Let's go to the next one.

Judging by the height of the fir trees, not many years have passed since the opening of the Pantheon, and it is still active. The windows are still intact, the round stained glass above the door is also intact. Most likely, it was glowing (I wonder how?). And you can see the same light bulbs on the ceiling, imitating the northern lights. And what is the object in the corner? If this is an ordinary column supporting the ceiling, then it should not be standing here. And there were no such columns in the building at all, with a length-width ceiling of 21 m, it was self-supporting. The ceiling rested on the capital walls on all four sides. So it's in our corner... not a column. And what is it? In its appearance, this object very much resembles the same ancient steam boiler without a furnace, which was heating for some unknown reason. The picture is beginning to clear up. But here, sorry, what are the times in general? The second half of the 20th century. Did the Pantheon decide to apply such seditious technical ideas? Obviously, yes. Indeed, if you mentioned a boiler house and a power plant, where to get enough fuel for such a large building? Nowhere. Moreover, the forest there is visible in the photo only now. In the early 1950s, the forest was just beginning to grow there. Coal and firewood for heating such a building in the manner indicated above should be measured in wagons for one heating season. And navigation does not save here in any way.

But how did antediluvian technologies work in this building if it was originally made without a dome and vases with spires?

It seems that the above descriptors were not lying, there is indeed a perforation above the windows. This suggests that the exchange of hot air between the double-glazed windows really took place. Where the air infiltration into this building came from, we can only guess now. But we'll get to that later. And now let's look at the columns (or false columns) that cover the window frames. Why were they marked with five-pointed stars there?

Many people, even those who have seen that historical period, will surely say that these stars are a symbol of communist ideology. They were sculpted in many places where the design artists considered it necessary. But why, in this case, are the stars located exactly there, on the columns? In this case, the building was designed clearly not by the head of the committee's design artist, and nothing here is simply attached anywhere. A very narrow circle of people knew why these stars were hanging here. Probably, even the builders did not know everything about the meaning of these stars. To understand what it is all about, we need to make another lyrical digression.

The socialist system in the territory of the former Russian Empire was a very unique phenomenon. How it originated, we are unlikely to know for sure, despite the seemingly detailed description in history textbooks, starting with the prerequisites from the 19th century. Let's just assume that it originated as an objective reality. The basic ideology of the socialist state was universal equality and fraternity. Accordingly, all means of production and natural resources were nationalized. All those who disagreed with this ideology were destroyed or exiled to free labor for the benefit of society. A new type of man arose, which in the West was called homo sovieticus. But absolutely no one from the population of the USSR knew that their country was in someone's hands at the time of its formation. It's like a factory that has managers, engineers and workers. They theoretically know or may know each other. And there are also owners of the plant, whom not all of the plant's employees may know (and, as a rule, only a few). Moreover, the owners and the factory may generally be located on different continents.

If you imagine that at the time of the formation of the USSR it was like one big factory, much becomes clear. The owners were interested in the successful development of the plant, the management was interested in the absence of parasites, in improving the skills of workers, their health, etc. The interests of all parties were balanced. The owners got the profit, everyone else got the ideology, a little money for development and the listed advantages of the socialist system, especially the social elevator. The plant was developing intensively, rapidly solving problems that seemed unsolvable in the rest of the world. The economic model of this plant was worked out by the smartest people, popularly called the "troika" (Marx-Engels-Lenin). At this factory, as the famous Soviet rock band sang, the former were similar to the latter. Everything would be fine, but the owners of another plant, getting a little carried away, decided to set another equally interesting plant on this plant, according to the principle of an iron in the refrigerator ("who's who"). It is possible that the two factories had the same owner, he just decided to have fun or pursued other goals. It doesn't matter, the fact has happened - Germany and the USSR locked in a deadly battle. And then the director of one factory, which was called the USSR, after sitting for several days in almost occupied Moscow, saw the light. He realized that a little more, and he was finished, and he had to, like Ilyich in his time, start going the other way. And he decided to do something that, in general, none of his descendants appreciated - he decided to "throw" his master. As you have already understood, we are talking about the Leader.

Naturally, the owner of the plant called the USSR did not like such a demarche very much. Moreover, Stalin uncovered the most dangerous weapon - he began to revive technologies for obtaining free energy resources, putting at risk the holy of holies - the oil economy. Actually, due to the need to destroy those very technologies of the past, a factory called the USSR was built at one time. Industrial enterprises evacuated during the war, located in an open field, began to produce products for the front in full in a few months. This is in the absence of boiler rooms and access roads for them. Actually, on the other side of the front, they also kept up and did something similar. The powerful of the world were in turmoil, they probably did not expect such a turn themselves. The war ended, the world was redistributed, but Stalin did not even think about returning to the origins of socialism. Moreover, he began to prepare for war with his former allies, which generally scared them. Stalin had an unkillable trump card - he was ready to return all the destroyed technologies of the past. Houses were built in all cities, which, with a simple modification, could turn into autonomous sources of energy supply. Military facilities also did not lag behind. Along with all this, nuclear weapons have also appeared. The probability of a direct collision in this war was rapidly decreasing

The plant called the USSR was developing rapidly and uncontrollably for its former owners and overgrown with new zones of influence in the world. At the same time, the threat to all other powerful people of the world began, which required non-trivial measures on their part. After the use of hybrid warfare technologies in the Korean War, Stalin was poisoned, the right person was put in his place, and the situation with the return of the plant to its former ownership was successfully implemented. But they were afraid to roll back the situation to the beginning right away. If it had suddenly started, the veterans who worshipped the Leader and were still full of strength would have demolished everything in their path. They would have staged such an "August putsch" that it would not have seemed enough to anyone. Those criminals who successfully returned the situation to the right place in 1993 would have thundered like the Swedes near Poltava. And a reasonable decision was made to wait a bit. Well, after 1990, this plant called the USSR was safely and painlessly dismantled. Obviously, that model of the USSR posed a certain danger to the owners, and they decided not to experiment anymore, but to switch to the old proven methods of "managing".

In 1953, all the iconic objects using the technologies of the past, reanimated by Stalin, were destroyed under the guise of fighting the cult of personality. And they did it with cosmic speed, reaching the point of absurdity in places. But at the same time, defense products and their manufacturing enterprises were not touched, just in case. Well, when the economic model of the USSR was dismantled in 1990, everything was destroyed. No one is afraid of modern Russia anymore. She no longer has the same weapon that kept the whole world at bay ( not at all). People walk and sing songs about their invincibility, dresses are a huge tribute every day. Here, as they say, who was taught what. Stalin would have known this in his time...

However, we digress. Let's return to the very military products mentioned above. The best minds in the USSR worked on it. Before the elimination of those "sharashkas", these best minds were concentrated there. Military products were understandably surrounded by state secrets. It's only now that individual ashes pop up in bloggers' videos, such as this one.

What's it? It is somewhat similar to a battery, only it has an unusual shape. And oddly enough, it is marked with the same star. It is the same star that is affixed to the columns of the Pantheon. So maybe this is the thing that was placed on the columns and gave warm air?

Probably, in this video, some individuals abroad are selling some randomly found trophies from Soviet weapons during the Afghan war, demonstrating their tactical and technical data on the video. Why does touching this, if I may say so, an antique razor blade start to burn? Where does the electric current come from?

As you can see, this device is not a battery at all. He demonstrates this to a large extent. Its capabilities are much greater. What is this device and what was it intended for? However, we will not pull state secrets and intrigue the reader. This is one of the Soviet developments that most terrified the overseas owners. Probably even stronger than an atomic bomb. And it was just a remake of an old thing that was called differently in different languages. It was a vase, a gherkin, a hiding place and had many other names. In Russian, such a small thing was called "blaginya" (now this word has a slightly different meaning). Its application has always been the same - obtaining energy from the air (although this eventually manifested itself in different ways).

Such products were marked with an ordinary five-pointed star, and such products were produced by a defunct defense enterprise in the near Moscow region. Now imagine why there were such stars on the columns of the Pantheon? Is it really for beauty or ideology? Not at all, they pointed out to knowledgeable people where those mysterious good ones are located. And if so, then let's try to make a reconstruction.

To do this, let's look at the modern look of the Pantheon.

Why is there a circled detail on all former temples? It does not carry any power functions at all. And it is clear that the structures of the self-supporting ceiling were made of iron. Naturally, for a construction of this kind, the occurrence of a fire or collapse would be the end of a career (to put it mildly) for all involved persons, and combustible materials in load-bearing structures were categorically not used here. Does it remind you of anything by any chance? What kind of force could burn this object to a state of twisted beams?

After Stalin's death in 1953, visits to the museum were stopped on a mandatory, "by order" basis. In December 1961, in the process of debunking the "cult of personality" of Stalin, Stalin's fishing lodge was dismantled, and the sculpture in the park was demolished and dumped into an ice hole on the Yenisei. By the 1990s, the pavilion was in a dilapidated state. The windows were broken, the parquet was dismantled, and the walls were covered with various phrases. In 1996, the pavilion finally burned down as a result of arson. In 2006, local businessman Mikhail Ponomarev decided to restore the museum and attract tourists to the region. Ponomarev produced at his own expense a five-meter plaster sculpture of Stalin, which was arbitrarily installed next to the site of the former museum. The Ponomarev museum itself was going to be restored from photographs of the 1940s. The project has found many opponents, including among representatives of local authorities. Already on the day of the installation of the sculpture on the pedestal, it was demolished.

M-yes... If forced visits to the museum were stopped after Stalin's death, who went to it at all? It was enough to dismantle and burn down that very exile house of Stalin, and there would be no need to walk. And why, and most importantly, than burn the Pantheon so that its beams are twisted as shown in the photo? Well, he was really bothering someone. Not Stalin, of course, but the Pantheon. Continue.

The corner of the ruins is empty, which suggests that our version with an air boiler in each corner of the building is correct. Why do all the brick walls of the building in its modern form not rise above the steel frames of the window frames (according to the red lines)?

Although no, from the side of the former main entrance, there are still remnants of walls towering over the frames in the corners. I wonder what the ceiling designs were based on?

However, everything is clear. Starting from the height of the frame, the wall of the Pantheon thinned, providing support for ceiling structures on the shelf formed. The building clearly had an attic.

If you look closely, there is a remnant of a raised panel hanging on the rear window frame, which in the original design contained a perforation to remove hot air. Here it is.

And if we now make a reconstruction, marking this very frame on the original appearance of the building, we get the following:

And we have an ordinary classical architectural portico, with the only difference that it has a slightly different shape and is closed by an outer thin wall. The contents of the dance of the portico, namely the very good ones, do not stick out, as was done, for example, with their upper tiers in classical porticos. The good of all tiers are completely inside. It was a very wise technical decision. In order for the tourists not to ask unnecessary questions, especially in connection with ideology, everything was hidden in niches or behind thin walls. Indeed, who cares where the heat came from? And on each side of the building, this portico was repeated, obviously for the purpose of reservation. Everything was thought out to the smallest detail.

Indeed, if we reconstruct everything in more detail, we get a unique engineering mechanism. And it was created (on paper) by ordinary engineers, it is possible that from the same "sharashka" in which Solzhenitsyn was sitting. This kind of engineering work was really worth it to reduce the time for it. Well, later they burned it so that no one would ever know what was inside this Pantheon. We must pay tribute, there are no analogues of such a design in the world. Generally. Indeed, where in the world would such a Pantheon come from? Only the Soviet people needed to conquer the Arctic.

I wonder what functionality the circled element had? Obviously, there was a heat curtain. The Arctic after all. And there is a strong suspicion that the hanging panel outside, as well as the stained glass inside this device, were luminous. And the large size here suggests that the goddess was hidden there too.

And here, by the way, is the answer to the question of how the outside air got into the building. There were two triangular dormer windows on the roof. The roof was not originally planned with a window in the middle, as indicated on some layouts. Indeed, in the conditions of the polar winter, such a skylight would cause more problems than benefits.

By the way, greenhouses around the Pantheon appeared for a reason. At the same time as the museum, according to the plan, a large training ground was to appear, demonstrating the victory of the Soviet man over the Arctic. That is, the cultivation of all possible crops in those latitudes, including southern ones. And according to some reports, they were actually grown there. And they even showed it to museum visitors, and even treated them. In the Arctic (the Arctic, Karl!). It's all working out strangely. The pantheon, the incomprehensible school, the incomprehensible greenhouses... However, there was nothing incomprehensible to those who lived there at that time. It was an experimental training ground for demonstrating the achievements of Soviet man in the Arctic, and a similar settlement was built to it. More precisely, it was a multifunctional object demonstrating the boundless capabilities of the Soviet man. Can anyone imagine something like this now? That's what I mean.

It turned out very well in the Kureik. And Stalin's vanity has nothing to do with it. We just combined the place of his exile with the very polygon. By modern standards, it's a completely harmless thing. The place was cut off from the Mainland, there were no enemies of the people there (oddly enough), and it was ideal to arrange practical seditious technical experiments there.

I wonder what is sewn up with boards above the windows of this school? By the way, it burned down in 1961, officially at the time when (according to the above descriptions) The statue of Stalin was thrown into the Yenisei River. And along with it, a greenhouse and other buildings. To break so to break, what's there.

Well, let's say everything is clear with the Pantheon. But how did the school and greenhouses work here?

We return to the panorama of the opening of the Pantheon and look carefully.

And, oddly enough, we find a very interesting artifact in the background. It is very difficult to explain its purpose. Judging by the perspective, it has a fairly high height, at least 20 meters.

Against a dark background, it looks even thicker and ominous. What is this all about? I hasten to please the reader, there is nothing supernatural there. This is an ordinary searchlight pole, obviously combined with a communication antenna. The Pantheon is still a difficult object, and for sure it was strictly guarded by a separate NKVD unit. It's like not a whole platoon. Tourists came there in different ways, there were quite high-ranking ones, and it was simply necessary to maintain strict public order there. In addition, there were such technical devices that would have been rewarded a lot for information about them overseas. There was something to guard. But why was that searchlight pole standing there? So there was something to cover. We look at the satellite map.

Wow... These are miracles. If we stand near the former pedestal and look in the direction of that very searchlight pole (along the blue line), we will unmistakably get to the place where this pole stood. What was he covering there? But that's not even the main thing. The trees on the bank of the Yenisei clearly give us that in their place there were two certain non-existent objects, which were connected by underground communications from the pedestal. What's it? Are the polar fountains illuminated?

In the lower part, the place where that searchlight pole once stood is circled. In place of the mysterious object at the back of the Pantheon there is a boiler room, clearly modern in appearance. Before her, there was something else there (it was mentioned on the forums of lovers of the history of the region that it was built already under Brezhnev). And the standing wooden building is the former NKVD guard post. Everything further inland, away from the shore, was probably a restricted area. If it was violated, they shot on the spot. There was the very boiler-power plant that powered the entire village. She worked, of course, not on firewood. And what was in place of the circled pieces of forest on the shore, we will no longer know. Here they are, the hundreds of lights mentioned above. The ones that will never be shown to us, and which were probably demolished back in 1953. They illuminated the Yenisei in such a way that awe was born in everyone who saw it. After all, the museum of the Leader and the training ground of the Soviet man - the winner of the Arctic. This is not a snap-snap...

I wonder why the sides of the pedestal were knocked off? What secrets did those Stalinist engineers stuff in there? Alas, it's impossible to find out now.

Or perhaps two incomprehensible objects that illuminated the Yenisei were controlled from there. And it was no worse than at the time at the exhibition PPIE (who remembers). Only photos of this splendor, alas, have been destroyed.

Well, as you probably already understood, Stalin had to come up with an even higher title for such objects. No one in the world has ever done this, or even tried. He's the only one who's created anything. For which, in general, he now receives fireworks on the day of his death. This generalissimo won the greatest war, but failed to stand in a hybrid one. And history does not like subjunctive moods. That very Cold War was ended not in 1989 with the fall of the famous wall in Berlin, but in 1953, on March 5. This is how the first round ended, which began so well after the Second World War, without having existed for 10 years. And what kind of circle is going on now? Everything is according to Solzhenitsyn, the end of the second or third, however, it does not matter.

As one wise man said, pension reform in Russia is the answer to those who, in their youth, sang about 30 years ago how they were waiting for changes. As they say, get it, sign it. No one can understand that any changes in this system can only go in one direction - for the worse. And here they waited on purpose so as not to upset the people. What should I do? Probably, the distressed people will deliberately break into the movement "Back to the USSR" (I will not give a link, I think everyone understands what we are talking about). In case something suddenly goes wrong, thanks to such people, the powerful of this world will decide to roll back the system, and again, on a wave of protest sentiments, put everyone in a hole even deeper. And if suddenly 1/6 starts to get off the hook (I admit this thought somewhere very deep), they will arrange a war. If they see fit, then nuclear. Only the Leader is no longer there and is unlikely to be.

P.S. Wanted to write this article without politics, but without it it looks like it's not clear what. In the same way, Russian speech without a mat becomes similar to a report. In terms of politics, you can disagree, but you don't need to dissuade, it won't work. I apologize in advance to those who find something offensive in these lines. This is completely unintentional.