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). The main inspirer of the campaign against Christmas trees and the initiator of the abolition of the Christmas holiday and the persecution of New Year trees in the USSR in 1929-1935. as part of an anti-religious campaign.

Emelyan Yaroslavsky

Name at birth	Minei Izrailevich Gubelman
Date of Birth	February 19 (March 3)(1878-03-03 )
Place of Birth	Chita, Zabaikalskaya Oblast, Russian Empire
Date of death	December 4(1943-12-04 ) (65 years old)
A place of death	Moscow, USSR
Citizenship	Russian empire Russian empire USSR USSR
Occupation	anti-religious propaganda
Religion	absent (atheist)
The consignment	VKP(b)
Awards
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Biography

In 1902 he was a member of the Chita Committee of the RSDLP.

In 1907, he was arrested and sent to hard labor (he served in Gorny Zerentui, Nerchinsk penal servitude), then lived in a settlement in Eastern Siberia.

In 1915-1917 he was in charge of the Yakut Museum of Local Lore.

Yaroslavsky was one of the editors of the Moscow newspapers Social Democrat and Derevenskaya Pravda. In 1918, he joined the group of "Left Communists" on the question of the Brest Peace.

In 1918-1919, Yaroslavsky was authorized by the Central Committee of the RCP (b) to conduct mobilization into the Red Army, commissar of the Moscow Military District.

In 1919-1921 he was a candidate member of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks.

In 1919-1922 - Secretary of the Perm Gubernia Committee, member of the Siberian Regional Bureau of the Central Committee of the RCP (b). In 1921-1923 he was a member of the Central Committee of the RCP(b). In 1921 - Secretary of the Central Committee and member of the Organizing Bureau of the Central Committee of the RCP (b). In 1921 he was a public prosecutor at the trial of Roman Ungern. One of the initiators of the creation of the Siberian Lights magazine.

Yaroslavsky was the head of the Society of Former Political Prisoners, and since 1931 - Chairman of the All-Union Society of Old Bolsheviks and the Society of Former Political Prisoners and Exiles (1929-1935). He was a member of the editorial board of Pravda, the Bolshevik and Marxist Historian magazines, the Bezbozhnik newspaper, and the editor of the Historical Journal.

From 1939 until his death, he was a member of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks.

From January 28, 1939 - Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences, specialization: history. He headed the Department of History of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks at the Higher Party School under the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks and the lecture group of the Central Committee.

Since the early 1930s, Yaroslavsky has been an active supporter of Stalin.

godless

In the late 1920s, Yaroslavsky advocated a ban on the performance of church music, including Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Sergei Rachmaninov, Mozart, Bach, Handel and other composers. "AT this moment- wrote Yaroslavsky, - church music, even in its best works, has an actual reactionary value.

In particular, Yaroslavsky said: "Religion is where there is no knowledge, religion is against science."

A family

Awards and prizes

In 1974, a motor ship of the Far Eastern Shipping Company was named after Yaroslavsky.

In popular culture

Yaroslavsky (Gubelman) and his work "How Gods Are Born, Live and Die" is mentioned in the series "National Security Agent" (Season 3, film 1 - "The Enchanted City")

Compositions

List of works

Why are there no goods in the countryside, no bread in the cities. - M.: Wave, 1917.
N. G. Chernyshevsky. - M., 1919.
How gods and goddesses are born, live and die, - M., Krasnaya nov, 1923
Bible for believers and non-believers. Ch. 1-5. - M., 1923-1925.
About partetics. Report at the II Plenum of the Central Control Commission of the RCP (b) October 5, 1924 - L., 1925
Agitation and propaganda work of R.K.P. (between the XIth and XIIth congresses). - M.: Krasnaya nov, 1923.
What is "Working Truth"? - [Kharkov], "Proletary", 1924. - 29 p., 3,000 copies.
The leader of the workers and peasants. L.: GIZ, 1924 - 92 p.
Life and work of V. I. Lenin. M.: GIZ, 1924 - 296 p.
Life and work of V. I. Lenin. L.: GIZ, 1924 - 360 p.
How to conduct anti-religious propaganda. M., Bezbozhnik, 1925
The New Opposition and Trotskyism. L., "Surf", 1926. 160 p.
Armed uprising in December 1905 in Moscow. M., 1926.
Completed circle. Leningrad: Surf, 1926
The Bolshevik Party in 1917. M.-L., GIZ, 1927. - 108 p., 65,000 + 30,000 copies.
"Workers' Opposition". " Working group". "Working Truth". M.-L.: "Young Guard", 1927. 80 p., 10,000 copies; 2nd ed. M.-L.: Young Guard, 1927. - 80 p., 5,000 copies.
against the opposition. Digest of articles. - M.-L.: GIZ, 1928.
On the results of the VI Congress of the Comintern. [Kharkov], "Proletary", 1928. - 53 p. 20,000 copies
5 years on the path of Lenin. M.: GIZ, 1929
Beyond the last line. Trotskyist opposition after the XV Congress. M.-L.: GIZ, 1930 - 196 p.
Brief history of the CPSU (b). M.-L.: GIZ, 1930
Third force. Articles of 1917-1931 directed against the Socialist-Revolutionary and Menshevik parties. - M.: Partizdat, 1932.
Against religion and the church. T. 5: The Bible for believers and unbelievers / Yaroslavsky Em. - M.: GAIZ. - 1933. - 420 p.
Thirty years of the CPSU(b) and our tasks / Yaroslavsky Em. - M.: Partizdat, 1933.
Karl Marx and revolutionary populism. - M., 1933
Against religion and the church. In 4 volumes - M., 1935.
Biography of Lenin. - M.: Partizdat, 1934. - 128 p.
international significance October revolution. - M., 1934
What does the party demand from a communist. - M.: Partizdat, 1935
The Stalinist constitution and the question of religion. - M., 1936.
Anti-religious propaganda and trade unions. - M.: Profizdat, 1937.
Essays on the history of the CPSU (b). 3rd ed. Part 1. - M., 1937.
Pushkin's atheism. - M.: Gaiz, 1937.
About religious survivals and tasks of anti-religious propaganda and agitation. - M.: Gaiz, 1937.
Bible for believers and non-believers. - M.: Gaiz, 1933., 420 p., 25,000 copies.
Bible for believers and non-believers. - M.: Gaiz, 1934., 420 p., 30,200 copies.
Bible for believers and non-believers. - M.: Gaiz, 1936., 420 p., 20,200 copies.
Bible for believers and non-believers. - M.: Anti-religious publishing house. - 1937. - 406 p., 25,200 copies.
Bible for believers and non-believers. M.: Gaiz, 1938. - 388 p., 20,000 copies.
- Gospolitizdat. - 1958. - 408 p.
- The Bible for believers and unbelievers / Yaroslavsky Emelyan Mikhailovich. - M.: Gospolitizdat. - 1959. - 408 p., 150,000 copies.
- Bible for believers and non-believers. - M.:

] Career

Minei Izrailevich Gubelman was born on February 19 (March 3), 1878 in Chita. His brother is a revolutionary Moses Izrailevich Gubelman.

In 1898 he joined the RSDLP, organized a social democratic circle on the Trans-Baikal Railway.

In 1899-1901 he served in the Russian army.

In 1901-1902 he was abroad, a correspondent for Iskra.

In 1903, in an illegal position, a member of the St. Petersburg Committee of the RSDLP. He became one of the leaders of the Combat Center of the RSDLP. The combat center created well-armed formations that were engaged in so-called expropriations - robberies of banks and individuals, the funds from which were directed, among other things, to party needs. The organizer of the strike of textile workers in Yaroslavl (hence the pseudonym).

In 1903 he was arrested, but then released. In April 1904 he was again arrested, but released in December of the same year. In February 1905 he was arrested, and on June 11 (June 24), 1905 he was released.

Member of the Revolution of 1905-1907. The bride of Yaroslavsky, also a revolutionary Olga Mikhailovna Genkina, was killed by the Black Hundreds while trying to transport a shipment of weapons for the revolutionaries. He also carried out party work in Yekaterinoslav and St. Petersburg (editor of the newspaper "Kazarma"); participated in the 1st conference of military and combat organizations of the RSDLP in Tammerfors, was a member of the Moscow Committee of the RSDLP and the military organization of the Bolsheviks, a delegate to the 4th and 5th congresses of the RSDLP.

In March 1906 he was again arrested, but in April of the same 1906 he escaped. In 1907 he was again arrested.

In 1908 he was sentenced to 7 years of hard labor, replaced by 5 years of hard labor (Petersburg transit prison, Butyrka prison (Moscow), Gorny Zerentui (Nerchinsk)).

From 1913 to March 1917 he was in a settlement in Yakutsk. In 1915-1917, he was in charge of the Yakut Museum of Local Lore (curator of the Yakut Museum), head of the Yakut meteorological station.

Since March 1917 - a member of the Yakut Committee of Public Security.

From May 1917 - Chairman of the Yakut Soviet.

In November 1917 - a member of the Moscow Military Revolutionary Committee.

Then - the commissar of the Kremlin (ran from the Kremlin during the uprising of the junkers), the military commissar of the Moscow military district. He was one of the editors of the Moscow newspapers Social Democrat and Derevenskaya Pravda.

In 1918, he joined the group of "Left Communists" on the issue of Brest world.

In 1918-1919, he was authorized by the Central Committee of the RCP (b) to conduct mobilization in the Red Army, commissar of the Moscow Military District.

From October 25, 1919 to March 1920 - Chairman of the Perm Provincial Committee of the RCP (b).

From April 1920 to 1921 - a member of the Siberian Bureau of the Central Committee of the RCP (b).

In 1921-1923 he was a member of the Siberian Bureau of the Central Committee of the RCP(b).

From April 25, 1923 to January 26, 1934 - member of the Central Control Commission of the RCP (b) - VKP (b).

From April 25, 1923 to January 26, 1934 - Member of the Presidium of the Central Control Commission of the RCP (b) - VKP (b).

From April 25, 1923 to December 2, 1927 - Member of the Secretariat of the Central Control Commission of the RCP (b) - VKP (b).

In 1923-1934 he was a member of the collegium People's Commissariat Workers' and Peasants' Inspectorate of the USSR.

From June 1924 to January 26, 1934 - Member of the Party Collegium of the Central Control Commission of the RCP (b) - VKP (b).

In 1925-1943 he was chairman of the Central Council of the Union of Militant Atheists.

From September 1928 to July 1935 - candidate member of the Executive Committee of the Communist International.

Since 1931 - Chairman of the All-Union Society of Old Bolsheviks, then - editor of the Historical Journal.

From February 10, 1934 to March 10, 1939, he was a member of the Party Control Commission under the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks.

From February 10, 1934 to March 10, 1939, he was a member of the Bureau of the Party Control Commission under the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks.

From February 10, 1934 to March 10, 1939 - Secretary of the Party Collegium of the Party Control Commission under the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks.

Since 1937 - Chairman of the Council of Militant Atheists.

From 1939 to December 4, 1943 - Head of the Department of History of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks of the Higher Party School under the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks.

From 1939 to December 4, 1943, he was the head of the lecture group of the Propaganda and Agitation Directorate of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks.

From 1941 to December 4, 1943, he was a member of the Military-Political Propaganda Council under the Main Political Directorate of the Red Army.

In 1943 - the winner of the Stalin Prize.

He led an uncompromising struggle against obscurantism, demanded a complete ban on the Orthodox Church, but Stalin sabotaged this activity. He was one of the ideologists of the personality cult of Stalin, demanded a merciless fight against "enemies of the people."

Bride - Olga Mikhailovna Genkina (deceased).

His wife, Klavdia Ivanovna Kirsanova (1888-1947), was a professional revolutionary and a member of the RSDLP since 1904. She was an assistant to Ya. M. Sverdlov in Perm in 1906.

Emelyan Mikhailovich Yaroslavsky(real name - Miney Izrailevich Gubelman), (1878‑1943), was born in Chita, in the family of a political exile. Jew. Received home education. He became interested in politics very early, in 1898 he joined the RSDLP, created an underground social democratic circle, and in 1901 he emigrated. In 1903 he returned to Russia, joined the underground Combat Center of the St. Petersburg organization of the Bolshevik Party, was one of the organizers of a series of bank robberies, weapons and ammunition were stored in Yaroslavsky's apartment, which were transported by his fiancee, O. M. Genkina. Active participant in the December 1905 uprising in Moscow: organized several attacks on the police and troops. He was in an illegal position, lived on forged documents, but in 1907 he was arrested and exiled to Yakutsk, where he was until the overthrow of the monarchy: he was in charge of the local history museum.

In February-July 1917, Yaroslavsky was a member of the Yakut "committee of public security": on his behalf, he organized unauthorized searches, arrested officials of the previous administration, initiated the arrests of everyone "who does not like the revolution", so that after the Bolshevik coup, some of them had to release: even from the point of view of the Bolsheviks, Yaroslavsky "overdid it."

In October 1917 - a member of the Military Revolutionary Committee in Moscow, the first commissar of the Kremlin. Once in a real combat situation, Yaroslavsky fled the Kremlin and disappeared, believing that the Bolsheviks had lost.

In 1918-1919 - Commissioner of the Central Committee of the Party for mobilization in the Red Army, Commissioner of the Moscow Military District. He ordered to carry out mobilization forcibly, allowed the families of officers mobilized in the Red Army to be taken hostage. Yaroslavsky saw “counter-revolutionary conspiracies” everywhere, so he constantly kept armored vehicles on the streets of Moscow, ordered the execution of everyone who refused to present documents, and arrested everyone who violated the curfew. In this way, a lot of completely random people suffered. Even formally, Yaroslavsky exceeded his authority, and Lenin had to transfer him to Perm. Lenin did not send him to the front, remembering his flight from the Kremlin in the October days.

Since 1919 - a candidate member of the Central Committee of the RCP (b).

In 1921, E. M. Yaroslavsky was a “public prosecutor” at the trial of R. Ungern, the leader of the peasant rebels in Altai, insisted on the death penalty of Ungern, and sought to bring other participants in the uprising to trial.

In 1923, E. Yaroslavsky joined I.V. Stalin, but Stalin did not trust him with major posts, and the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks elected him only in 1939.

One of the organizers of repressions against representatives of non-Bolshevik parties - Socialist-Revolutionaries and Mensheviks, anarchists: he was engaged in the ideological "justification" for the need to destroy these parties.

Yaroslavsky was one of the organizers of the persecution of the Bukharin opposition in the late 1920s: he was the first to propose expelling its members from the party. One of the "authors" of Stalin's personality cult: he was the editor of the infamous " short course History of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks”, and in 1939 he wrote the book “On Comrade Stalin”, one of the chapters of which is called: “The Leader of the Peoples”. Iosif Vissarionovich disapproved of such servility, and did not recommend this book for distribution.

Since 1925, E. M. Yaroslavsky was the chairman of the Union of Militant Atheists. In 1923 he wrote the book "On Religion", in which he argued that "the struggle against religion is the struggle for socialism." The initiator of all anti-religious campaigns in the mid-1920s - early 1930s. On his initiative, dozens of churches were demolished, monasteries were closed. Church literature was burned, the relics of saints were defiled, and "museums of scientific atheism" were created. In fact, the ROC was subjected to a real pogrom with his direct participation. Yaroslavsky's anti-religious fanaticism caused a surge of anti-Semitic sentiments in the country: many were sure that Yaroslavsky was persecuting Orthodoxy as a Jew by nationality. Dozens of anti-religious magazines and newspapers were published at his direction, which in any democratic country would be considered extremist; The import of the Bezbozhnik magazine into a number of European countries was banned.

Yaroslavsky in 1929 demanded a ban on church music; Stalin, however, reacted negatively to such an undertaking, and the proposal was rejected. But Yaroslavsky "recouped" by compiling indexes of banned books: at his suggestion, many books by Dostoevsky, L. N. Tolstoy were banned, and all - by Vladimir Solovyov, V. Rozanov, S. N. Bulgakov, even Plato and Kant. Lists of banned books were sent to them in libraries, and these books were subject to transfer to special stores. In 1934, JV Stalin lifted the ban on Kant and Plato, realizing all its absurdity, a little later he allowed other authors banned by Yaroslavsky. Then Yaroslavsky achieved a ban on bell ringing; Stalin canceled it - June 22, 1941

He was a "public prosecutor" in almost all trials of clergy, in all cases he demanded execution. He considered it necessary by the 25th anniversary of the Bolshevik coup to completely eliminate Orthodox Church; The outbreak of war prevented the implementation of these plans.

In 1929, E. Yaroslavsky initiated the introduction of an article into the Criminal Code of the USSR on the criminal prosecution of homosexuals and lesbians; the author of many articles in Pravda stigmatizing them as "class enemies". The author of the definition of onanism as a "counter-revolutionary disease" - a term unheard of in world practice - despite the fact that Yaroslavsky had nothing to do with medicine. Persons convicted of masturbation were forcibly "treated", and hundreds of denunciations about such "atrocities" poured into the NKVD bodies. The saddest thing is that they “reacted” to such denunciations and imprisoned people, although the Criminal Code did not say anything on this subject.

The name of E. M. Yaroslavsky is immortalized in the names of the streets of a number of Russian cities. So, in Chelyabinsk Cathedral Square, after the demolition of the main city cathedral, was named after this figure. This fact is also noteworthy: in Leningrad, all metro stations were built on the site of demolished churches; the author of this "idea" was Emelyan Yaroslavsky.

E. M. Yaroslavsky died in 1943 from cancer. His ashes were buried in the Kremlin wall. Stalin did not come to his funeral.

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Emelyan Yaroslavsky

(Meney Izrailevich Gubelman)

Permanent leader Union of Militant Atheists and editor of his printed publications Emelyan Yaroslavsky.

Minei Izrailevich Gubelman (this is the real name of Yaroslavsky) was born on February 19 (March 3), 1878 in Chita in a family of exiled settlers. In 1898 he joined the RSDLP, organized the first Marxist circle among the workers of the Trans-Baikal railway, as well as a circle of students. He was a member of the Chita Committee of the RSDLP. In 1903 he was arrested, released under police supervision, went into hiding. After moving to St. Petersburg, he became a member of the St. Petersburg Committee, led party work at enterprises outside the Narva Zastava. In April 1904, during the preparation of the May Day demonstration, he was again arrested, and, being released on bail in December of the same year, he returned to party work again. After January 9, 1905, he conducted party work in Tver, Nizhny Novgorod, Kyiv and Odessa. On February 13, 1905, he was arrested for the third time in Odessa and was in prison until the Potemkin uprising. In the summer of 1905, after a ten-day hunger strike, he was released and returned to party work, first in Odessa, then in Tula. From October to December 1905 he was one of the leaders of the labor movement in Yaroslavl (hence the pseudonym Yaroslavsky). After the Tammerfors Conference of the Bolshevik Party (December 1905), at which he represented the Yaroslavl organization. Yaroslavsky moved to Moscow, joined the MK, worked in its military organization, and participated in the editorial board of the magazine Life of a Soldier. In the spring of 1906 he was arrested for the fourth time at a conference of the Moscow Bolshevik military organization. Having escaped from the Sushchev Prison, Yaroslavsky went as a delegate from Yaroslavl to the IV Congress of the RSDLP. After the congress, he conducted party work in Yekaterinoslav, Moscow and St. Petersburg, where he edited the underground military newspaper "Kazarma". At the end of 1906, he took part in the first military-combat conference of the RSDLP in Tammerfors, which created the "Provisional Bureau of Military and Combat Organizations". In the spring of 1907, he participated in the work of the V (London) Congress of the RSDLP as a delegate from the military organizations of St. Petersburg and Kronstadt. After returning to St. Petersburg, he was arrested for the fifth time and sentenced to 7 years hard labor. February revolution met at a settlement in the Yakutsk region.

In July 1917, Emelyan Yaroslavsky returned to Moscow, created the military organization of the party, was one of the leaders of the Bolshevik newspaper Social Democrat, and in the fall of 1917 edited the newspaper Derevenskaya Pravda. He was a delegate to the VI Congress of the RSDLP (b), a member of the Moscow Military Revolutionary Committee, one of the leaders of the armed uprising in Moscow. From the Bolsheviks of Moscow, he was a deputy of the Constituent Assembly. In 1918 he was Commissar of the Moscow Military District, then he worked in Perm and Omsk. At the 8th and 9th Party Congresses he was elected a candidate, and at the 10th and 11th Congresses - a member of the Central Committee of the RCP (b), in 1921 he worked as secretary of the Central Committee. At the 12th-16th party congresses, Yaroslavsky was elected a member of the Central Control Commission of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, since 1923 - secretary of the party collegium of the Central Control Commission. He was a member of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR, the editorial board of the Pravda newspaper and the Bolshevik magazine, since 1931 - chairman of the Society of Old Bolsheviks, since 1937 - deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, since 1939 - academician and member of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks.

Attention should be paid to Comrade Yaroslavsky's party biography, if only because "communist" defenders of religion periodically like to speak out about "Trotskyists like Yaroslavsky-Gubelman." Although Yaroslavsky was indeed Gubelman, what he never was was a Trotskyist. He waged an uncompromising struggle against Trotskyism.

Peru Yaroslavsky owns a number of political works: "Essays on the history of the CPSU (b)", "Anarchism in Russia", "Biography V.I. Lenin". The main anti-religious work of Emelyan Yaroslavsky is" The Bible for believers and non-believers. "It is necessary to tell about this book in more detail. The fact is that educated person It would not hurt to know the content of the Bible for the general outlook. But it is very difficult to read it in the original version. Therefore, the genre of popular expositions of religious literature is widespread - such as, for example, the gospel of Leo Tolstoy or the book "Funny Bible" or "Funny Gospel" by Leo Taxil ( late XIX century), which sets out the content of the Old and New Testaments from a materialistic position, emphasizing with humor all the absurdities that the priests make people believe. Yaroslavsky's book "The Bible for Believers and Unbelievers" is similar to Taxil's work, with the difference that if Taxil criticized the Bible from an enlightenment point of view, Yaroslavsky writes from consistently class, dialectical-materialist positions. In addition, in his criticism of religious dogmas, Yaroslavsky already relies on the level of development of science in the 20th century.

In the summer of 1941, after the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, publications of the Union of Militant Atheists were closed, and the Union practically ceased to exist (in 1947 its functions were transferred to the Knowledge society). The clerics explain this by the fact that in the face of the danger hanging over the country, Stalin turned to religion. Of course, it wasn't. Just in connection with the restructuring of the country's life on a military footing, many organizations and publications that had nothing to do with defense were liquidated.

Emelyan Yaroslavsky: terrorist, atheist, academician and founder of the "cult of personality"

27.03.2018

Emelyan Yaroslavsky: terrorist, atheist, academician and founder of the "cult of personality"

Joseph Brodsky has amazing lines:

“There is a mystic. There is faith. There is a Lord.
There is a difference between them. And there is unity.
It harms one, the flesh saves the other.
Disbelief - blindness, and more often - disgusting.

God is looking down. And people are looking up.

And man must be limited.

Man has his own ceiling
holding generally not too firmly.
But in the heart the flatterer will find a corner,
and life is already visible no further than the line.

Such was Doctor Faust. These are
Marlo and Goethe, Thomas Mann and Mass
singers, intellectuals und, alas,
readers in another class.

One stream sweeps away their traces,
their flasks are donnerwetter! thoughts, bonds...
And God give them time to ask: “Where?!” -
and hear that the Muses will cry after them.

And the honest German himself der veg tsuriuk,
won't wait to be asked.
He pulls Walter out of warm trousers
and forever goes to the Walter Closet.

Emelyan Yaroslavsky (1878-1943) in his life is unlikely to have stood out from his class, the semi-peasant intelligentsia, without a revolution. A man gifted enough, he would certainly have become famous at the provincial level, as a devout lover of botany and organizer of museums. And this would bring undoubted benefits both for the state and for Russian society. But what happened happened - Yaroslavsky saw life "no further than the devil" and waved revolutionary movement, obeying the pointing tail of the unclean. Meanwhile, initially there were no prerequisites for such an act.

Miney Izrailevich Gubelman (future Emelyan Yaroslavsky) grew up in a religious family. He himself recalled this: “After all, we revolutionaries were not born anti-religious either. I personally was brought up in a very religious family, my parents were extremely religious people who were very painful about the fact that I began to waver in matters of faith ... "
Be that as it may, but in 1898 Miney Gubelman joined the RSDLP and gradually gained fame as an agitator and organizer of illegal activities. He began to use the pseudonym Yaroslavsky only from 1905, for he participated in organizing labor unrest in Yaroslavl. Namely, during the years of the revolution of 1905-1907. he becomes a militant and one of the organizers of "expropriations" (that is, robberies in favor of the party fund).

In November 1906, Emelyan Yaroslavsky actively participated in the conference of terrorist organizations of the RSDLP in Tammerfors. Then he was instructed to lead the Provisional Bureau of Military and Combat Organizations of the RSDLP.
Yaroslavsky in 1907 created a special school for the training of terrorist performers with a laboratory for the production of explosives. But the police managed to stop the activities of this "institution" in time.
Emelyan Yaroslavsky was arrested and received 5 years of hard labor for terrorism. After hard labor, he left for a settlement in Yakutsk and here he studied the local flora, fauna and mineral resources. He successfully worked in the field of the curator of the Yakut Museum of Local Lore. Along the way, Comrade Yemelyan creates a circle "Young Social Democrat" for the revolutionary corruption of local youth: the party needs "meat" for terrorist attacks and revolution.

After the Bolshevik coup in 1917, Yaroslavsky finally finds his true calling. He is involved in anti-religious work, although he does not lead it. Soviet authority instructed Krasikov to wage war against the Church, but Emelyan Yaroslavsky stubbornly moves up and becomes the founder (albeit not the most senior in the Bolshevik hierarchy) of the "cult of Lenin." Namely, Yaroslavsky wrote a number of propaganda opuses about the "brilliant" leader: "The Great Leader of the Workers' Revolution Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov-Lenin" (1918), "The Life and Work of V.I. Lenin" (1924) and "Lenin, theorist and practitioner of armed insurrection" (1924). Thus, it becomes clear that Emelyan Yaroslavsky is involved in the creation of the Leninist myth during Ilyich's lifetime.

In 1919, Yaroslavsky was among the leaders of the suppression of Cherdynsky peasant uprising(Permian). True, he commands not punishers, but punitive propaganda.

In 1922, Yemelyan Yaroslavsky unleashes psychological terror against believers in Russia. He edits the newspaper "The Bezbozhnik". Later he became the chairman of the "Union of Militant Atheists" and the inspirer of atheistic repressions from the Anti-Religious Commission under the Central Committee of the RCP (b) - the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks.

Yaroslavsky was also noted as a censor in the field of Russian music and literature. At his insistence, the books of Dostoevsky and Gogol, Tolstoy and Zhukovsky, the great musical works of Tchaikovsky and Mozart, Bach and Rachmaninov are banned. In addition, as a sign of religious dope, Comrade Yemelyan ostracizes the Christmas tree.
The “militant atheist” Yaroslavsky openly wrote and said: “The struggle against religion is the struggle for socialism,” and therefore he persecuted the holy Patriarch Tikhon and unleashed an unbridled campaign where, under the guise of an anti-religious struggle, churches, relics, icons were desecrated and the Russian spirit itself was desecrated.

However, his unbelief as "swinishness" did not really weigh on the "anti-religious" Yaroslavsky himself. The atheist Emelyan is worried about something else, which is determined from his own handwritten note: “Personal. Commissariat of Defense. Comrade E.A. Shchadenko. Dear comrade Shchadenko! If it is possible to plant 3-4 trucks of good horse manure for my garden, then I ask you to do it. I send a plan of the road on which to go to the car. Gardening hello.

A kind of careerist Yaroslavsky, when Joseph Stalin gets to the heights of power, begins to sing the praise of the latter. Most likely, it was E. Yaroslavsky who widely disseminated the title of "leader of the peoples."
It is not known for certain whether E. Yaroslavsky was the first to say: "Stalin is Lenin today." Maybe he did not distinguish himself, but the “anti-religious” repeated this phrase more than once.

Yaroslavsky successfully composed and published his "historical" opuses, glorifying Stalin. For which he was awarded both the Stalin Prize and the election as an academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences.

Now the 21st century is walking on the planet Earth. Archives are open. Hundreds of truthful books have been written about what happened in post-revolutionary Russia. And the unseemly role of Yemelyan Yaroslavsky in the history of our Fatherland became obvious. But in Russian cities(Tula, Izhevsk, Yakutsk, etc.) there are streets bearing the name and surname of this terrorist and atheist, an open ill-wisher of our identity. And on Yaroslavsky Square (the former Cathedral Square, because here the Church of the Nativity of Christ towered before the demolition by the “proletariat!”) in Chelyabinsk is the State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater. M. I. Glinka. But Emelyan Yaroslavsky, in the midst of his godless activities, and Glinka's work advocated a ban.

Imagine a picture for five seconds. A father with a boy of seven or eight years old walks past the monument to Glinka, past the opera house, to Yaroslavsky Square. The child asks the question: “Daddy, who were these uncles: Glinka and Yaroslavsky?” And what should an honest father answer: “Glinka is a great Russian composer who glorified our state, and Yaroslavsky is the uncle who did not want temples to be built and New Year and Christmas trees to be!”

And then what will the boy think about Russia about all of us adults? ..
You can come up with a hundred thousand programs for the patriotic education of young generations, but Yaroslavsky Square will kill them all at once!
Sorry, but this is historical schizophrenia, gentlemen...

“God is looking down. And people are looking up.
However, everyone's interest is different.
God is organic. Yes. And the man?
And man must be limited.

15.02.2019