Introduction MODERN societies have long sought to marginalize, control, and even deny the experience of death. In contrast, the conditions of socialist modernity in the USSR gave rise to an internal tendency to intensify this experience. In the process of creation and expansion, as well as during the stable existence of the USSR, the presence of death in the everyday life of its citizens was very noticeable. Many have pointed out that before the 1917 Revolution, St. Petersburg experienced an "epidemic of death" that was in tune with the" zeitgeist " of that era and that inspired the search for eternal life and a way to overcome death; it was these ideas that permeated Soviet ideology 1. The cult of death, coupled with victimhood (the image of one's own sacrifice) he also began to characterize the Ukrainian nation. The national anthem of the Ukrainian People's Republic, an independent state that existed until 1920, began with the words " Ukraine has not died out yet." Although 1.In addition to the losses caused by the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905 and the Revolution of 1905, Mark Steinberg notes a surge in everyday forms of violence in imperial Russia in the early twentieth century, such as violent crimes, executions, murders, and epidemics, as a result of which, according to the general opinion, "human life has lost its value." Steinberg M.D. Petersburg: Fin de Siecle. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011. P. 147. См. также Masing-Delic I. Abolishing Death: A Salvation Myth of Russian Twentieth-Century Literature, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992. page 464the song was banned in the USSR, and in 1992 it was again made the Ukrainian national anthem2. In 1939, Transcarpathia, Bukovina and Galicia, territories that were part of other European states, became part of Soviet Ukraine. These border regions were seen in the XX century. so much violence and death that the historian T. Snyder called them the "bloodlands"3. Death, and in particular the "bad death" w ... Читать далее