(how did this initiative not appear here already)
The students of Russian State University for the Humanities, joined by students of other universities, CPRF members (both regular people and deputies), historians and more, are agitating for renaming the Ivan Ilyin Higher Political School on the basis of Ilyin being a fascist.
Ilyin has been promoted as a “great Russian philosopher” by the state media, and is being defended by that same media, and Dugin, a well-known person with similar views and the director of the Ilyin School.
The poster is taken from the initiative’s Telegram channel, it reads “Comrades, a replacement! [we] Will not give Ilyich in exchange for Ilyin!”
anti-fascist stance that the Russian authorities have decided to take on
Looking at the state-owned media and movies - I think the stance is much more reactionary, both the real one and what’s being televised. Ilyin is used as a “great philosopher and a patriot and we should model the society after his writings” - this is part of propagated ideas, and “we are against fascists” is another part.
They probably can give up Ilyin and continue with these ideas anyway though. But they might choose not to.
