So says the legendary pilot Alexey MARESYEV Once Alexey Maresyev was an ideal for young and old, an example in everyday situations. He had fame, honor, and universal respect. Time changes a lot, and for the same youth, others now serve as idols. Alas, it is painful and bitter to see how in the last decade the bright image of the Soviet man, worker, warrior, and patriot is being erased from our history. "Have you really been touched by the black brush, Alexey Petrovich?" - Last year in Komsomolskaya Pravda there was an article " Maresyev is still alive!".. In another newspaper I meet: Maresyev, they say, has an apartment of 70 square meters and not a word about what kind of area it is, common or residential... People will read such an article and think: "Vo, Maresyev, fat!"And how do I "fatten up"? I live like everyone else... Another example from the same opera. Boris Polevoy died. We weren't exactly close friends, but we had a good relationship: together they participated in solemn meetings, traveled as part of delegations... When Boris Nikolaevich died, I was treated in a sanatorium, just arrived. I was told... I immediately called the widow. I called her by her first name and patronymic, and sincerely sympathized with her... I could not go to the funeral, so I said: I will return to Moscow, I will definitely visit the grave - I will put flowers... Which I did. After a while, they tell me that there was a TV show. A journalist speaks, shares "memories": he was visiting Maresyev, offered to write an obituary for Polevoy's death. And Maresyev, according to him, replies: "I won't write anything!" And in general, they say, it was not Polevoy who made Maresyev famous, but, on the contrary, Maresyev Polevoy!.. What kind of nonsense is this? But this bullshit was listened to by millions of viewers! I'm much more concerned about slandering the names of those who can't stand up for themselves. The best heroes... - "not heroes" already!.. They belittle the significanc ... Читать далее